THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES
OF GLASGOW
Four Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed.
LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW
BY
THOMAS MASON
Librarian of the Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library, Glasgow
' O for a Booke and a shadie nooke,
eyther in-a-doore or out.
With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede,
or the streete cryes all about.
Where I male Reade all at my ease,
both of the Newe and Olde ;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke
is better to me than Golde."
GLASGOW
printed for Subscribers and tor private Circulation
THOMAS D. MORISON
1885
TO
FRANCIS THORNTON BARRETT
LIBRAKIAN OF THE MITCHELL LIBRARY, GLASGOW
is
BY HIS AFORETIME ASSISTANT, GLAD OF THE OPPORTUNITY
TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS INDEBTEDNESS FOR MUCH
HELPFUL COUNSEL AND MANY OTHER
KINDLY SERVICES.
1 807289
PREFACE.
THE writer embraces the convenient opportunity which
a Preface affords to render acknowledgment of services
given, and to make several general remarks which would
have been out of place elsewhere. When the work was
projected, application was made for permission to in-
clude in it an account of the University Library, but
the request, for sufficient reasons, coukl not at the time
be granted. The University Library being out of the
volume, it was considered advisable to make a selection
of the other public libraries, and to give full and few
descriptions rather than many and meagre. But,
should the present volume meet with sufficient appre-
ciation, perhaps a second may see the light, and
possibly by that time the authorities at the Univer-
sity may have their catalogue so well forward as to
allow of an accurate and adequate description of their
treasures. It is almost needless to say that but for
the kindness of the respective owners of the libraries
described this volume could not have appeared. To
these gentlemen the writer begs to tender his most
cordial thanks. From each of them he has received
assistance most willingly and pleasantly given. To
Mr. Alexander Macdoriald he has further been in-
debted for many valuable suggestions which have
helped the accuracy and enhanced the value of the
book. To the kindness of his former chief, Mr. F. T.
Barrett, he owes the able, interesting, and suggestive
8 PREFACE.
history of the Mitchell Library which appears in these
pages, as well as much other help which he takes leave
to acknowledge in another place.
The writer would also express his indebtedness to a
musical friend whose wide and accurate knowledge of
musical literature is evident from the chapter on the
Euing Musical Library, and while doing so it will not
be out of place to express the hope that the account of
that valuable library given in these pages may call
attention to its unsatisfactory state and forward the
provision of arrangements in consonance with the
testator's wishes and the public service.
In his researches into the life of the founder of
Stirling's Library the writer has received willing
assistance from the Town-Clerk of Glasgow, Dr. J. D.
Marwick, and from W. H. Hill, Esq., Clerk to the
Merchants' House, Glasgow. He would also express
his indebtedness for kindly services in connection with
the work to Messrs John Ingram, A. C. M'Intyre,
William Hutton, and Robert Adams, the last of whom
is mainly responsible for the excellent index given at
the end of the volume. Free use has been made of
bibliographical handbooks, all of which are acknow-
ledged at various places throughout the book.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
Defence of the book collector Plan of the work Total number of books in the lib-
raries described Manuscripts Fifteenth-century printing Bibles, psalm-books,
and prayer-books Witchcraft Poetry and the drama Shakespeare, Byron,
Shelley, Tennyson Scottish poetry First edition of Burns's works Scottish
biography, history, and topography A bibliographical society for Scotland
Glasgow books Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule" Scottish Trials Chap-
books Broadsides Jerusalem and the Holy Land General history Fine Art
Angling Alchemy Philology Fiction , first editions Bibliography Proverbs
and Ana, - 13-31
CHAPTER I.
STIRLING'S AND GLASGOW PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The founder, his ancestors, personal appearance, will and death Beginning of the
library First board of directors, ... 31-44
CHAPTER II.
The number of volumes left by Mr. Stirling Early catalogues Reprint of the first
catalogue, ... . . 45-61
CHAPTER III.
Inadequacy of the Bequest Books to be lent out Opening of library First lib-
rarian- -Incidents of early years Mr. James Pate Library removed to Hutche-
sons' Hospital Affairs in confusion: inquiry and report John Struthers
Alterations on the constitution New buildings Amalgamation of Glasgow
Public Library Scouler Bequest- Decline of the library, - - 61-74
CHAPTER IV.
Appointment of new librarian Increase in membership and issue Stocktaking
Arrangement of the books Difficulty of classifying the library while in use
Want of room Scheme of classification Growth of the library Prominent
directors Viue-presidents Bailie Bogle William Euing Michael Connal
Treasurers Secretaries Robert Reid, " Senex " Interesting donation Present
board of directors Donors Manuscripts, - - 75-86
CHAPTER V.
Fifteenth-century printed books Valuable copy of the New Testament Dante's
"Divina Commedia," rare 1481 edition Professor Julianus Guzzlemus Bibles
and other rare and valuable books Summary, - - - 86-100
CHAPTER VI.
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY.
The founder Terms of the Bequest Constitution of the library First library com-
mittee Leading principles followed in the formation and management of the
library Purchase of the library of Professor Innes, of hooks from the library of
Professor Stevenson, and of Euing duplicates in the library of the University of
Glasgow Temporary premises secured, - - 101-112
CHAPTER VII.
Appointment of Mr. F. T. Barrett as librarian Other officers Catholicity and com-
prehensiveness aimed at in the purchase of books Gift of books from the Uni-
versity of Glasgow Arrangement of the books The catalogue, - 112-117
CHAPTER VIII.
Opening of the library First book issued Rapid increase of readers Magazine
room Donations, Chalmers Bequest Exchanges Gift of early Glasgow print-
ing from Mr. J. Wyllie Guild Moir Bequest Purchase of the Bums collection
10 CONTENTS.
formed by Mr. James Gibson More donations Improvement in trade, decrease
of attendance Further donations Valuable collection of Scottish poetry re-
ceived from Mr. Alexander Gardyne Acquisition of the Gould collection of
Burusiana Still further donations Growth of the library Use made of it by
the public Progress probably without precedent, - - 118-133
CHAPTER IX.
Description of the contents of the library Formation of the "Poets' Corner" Pur-
chase of the Jervise collection of Scottish poetry Burns collection The Burns
Centenary, unique memorials James Macfarlan Gardyne donation Descrip-
tion of the "Corner" Collection of Glasgow literature "Noctes Sma' Weftiana "
List of periodical publications The earliest West of Scotland newspaper
Glasgow Courant -Glasgow Mercury, - - - - 133-140
CHAPTER X.
Early Glasgow printing First printing in the city List of Glasgow printers The
brothers Foulis "Works on Scotland The national covenant Knox's History of
the Reformation in Scotland Scottish history, topography, and biography "The
Black Acts" Miscellaneous Scottish books, - - 146-159
CHAPTKR XL
The general contents of the library Theology and philosophy History, biography,
voyages, and travels Law, politics, etc. Arts, sciences, and natural history
Poetry and the drama Philology Fiction Miscellaneous works List of periodi-
cals and serials taken Financial position of the library Conclusion, - 159-175
CHAPTER XII.
THE EUING MUSICAL LIBRARY.
Intentions of the founder The manner in which they have been carried out Inac-
cessibility of the library Defects of the catalogue Service which the collection
might render to musical art Extent of the library Historical and biographical
works Great wealth of the library in didactic and theoretical works Sacred
vocal music, individual composers ; collections ; rich in psalters Secular vocal
music Instrumental music Miscellaneous works, - - 176-193
CHAPTER XIII.
LIBRARY OF PROFESSOR FERGUSON.
Character and growth of the collection Volumes from great libraries, by famous
printers and binders, and with the autographs of great men Fifteenth-century
books Volume from the press of Machliuia Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum, the
largest book printed in the fifteenth century English literature Foreign litera-
ture Gipsy books Scotland Darien tracts Scottish topography Scottish
prose writers Works from the press of Raban, Aberdeen's first printer Scottish
poets Copy of the first work printed in Glasgow Works of Glasgow men
Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule in Death " Early Scottish scientific writers-
Fine art Chemistry, manuscripts, histories and bibliographies Alchemy and early
chemistry Works on phosphorus, assaying and analysis, distillation, minerals
and metals Demonology, witchcraft, magic, mysticism Bibliography Classics
Conclusion, ... - ... 193-219
CHAPTER XIV.
LIBRARY OF GEORGE GRAY, ESQ.
Blairtum Park The library A rare catechism Witchcraft Poetry and the drama
Scottish poetry The production of Home's "Douglas" on the Edinburgh
stage First, second, and third editions of the works of Burns Splendid collec-
tions of Scottish family history and Scottish topography Other works on Scot-
land Proclamations, dying speeches, etc. Controversy regarding the election of
Professor Leslie to the mathematical chair in the University of Edinburgh Chap-
books Works relating to Glasgow Fleming v. the Magistrates of Glasgow
Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule in Death " Large collection of trials Burke
and Hare, Dr. Pritchard Collection of indictments, informations, etc. Fine art
Conclusion, - ..... 219-234
CONTENTS. 11
CHAPTER XV.
LIBRARY OF JAMES WYLLIE GUILD, ESQ.
Beauty of the library Its extent Books of hours Shakespeare Curious history of
a copy of the second folio Shakespeariana Spenser's "Faerie Queen" First
editions of Byron, Shelley, and Keats A book from the Queen's library Songs
and ballads Scottish poetry, biography, and history Extensive and valuable
collection of works on Marie Stuart Three hundred and fifteen portraits of the
Queen of Scots Some of the rare works A volume which belonged to the Queen ;
songs on her marriage with the Dauphin Vindication of Elizabeth Glasgow
books Rare and highly- interesting copy of Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule,"
printed before the hitherto supposed first edition Fine art : Ruskin, Bewick
Bibliography Splendid collection of autograph letters, - - 235-262
CHAPTER XVI.
LIBRARY OF GEORGE WINGATE HILL, ESQ.
Character of Mr. Hill's library Poetry and the drama Scottish poetry Scottish
biography, history, and topography Ruskin's works Other fine art books
Fiction Bibliography, etc., .... - 263-268
CHAPTER XVII.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ.
General remarks Psalters and Bibles Witchcraft, case of Christian Shaw Poetry
Scottish poetry Forbes's Cantus, Watson's Scots poems Illiterate Glasgow
printer Chap-books Symson's elegies Jean Adam, authoress of "There's Nae
Luck About the House " David Laing's copy of his edition of Dunbar's poems
First book printed in Stirling Robert Lekprevick the printer Gowrie Conspiracy
Scottish topography Graham of Killern and Rob Roy Scottish biography
Glasgow books Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule "The first book printed in
Glasgow First Glasgow directory, 1783 Maps of Glasgow Glasgow periodicals
Children's books one hundred years ago King James's " Counterblaste to
Tobacco " Broadsides and Proclamations Conclusion, - - 268-287
CHAPTER XVIII.
LIBRARY OF BERNAKD B. MACGEORGE, ESQ.
A library of fine art and first editions Fine collection of Blake's works Original
letter and poem by Blake, never before printed Extensive and fine collection of
the works of John Ruskin Magnificent collection of etchings by Meryon Other
fine art books First editions Byron, Moore's copy of the rare volume of Poems,
1807 ; lines on the birth of a son to Mr. Hoppner Shelley, Beckford on Queen
Mab Keats Tennyson Collier's works and reprints Gray's elegy Scott
Rogers, Amusing notes on "Human Life," by Beckford Boccaccio's Decameron
Swift, Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Johnson-
Goldsmith Beckford's Vathek Lamb Dickens Thackeray Undine, illus-
trated by Thackeray Scottish books Glasgow books Album containing letters
by Dickens, Dumas, and Reade Poems in autograph of Longfellow and Swin-
burne Conclusion,- - - 290-304
CHAPTER XIX.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER BENNETT M'GRIGOR, ESQ., LL.D.
Character of the library Arrangement and appearance Department of theology and
philosophy Some rare works by Luther Bassandyne Bible Poetry Proof copy
of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" Works on Scotland Glasgow almanacs
Switzerland and the ^Alps Jerusalem and the Holy Land, list of eighty-four
foreign works from 1502 to 1874 General history Biography Fine arts
Fiction Classical writers Almanacs Bibliography Pamphlets, - 305-322
CHAPTER XX.
LIBRARY OF THOMAS ADAM MATHIESON, ESQ.
Mr. Mathieson's connection with Hutchesons' Hospital General remarks on his
library Ruskin Poetry Scottish books Glasgow books Strang's Progress of
Glasgow Glasgow Locking-Glass Herald to the Trades' Advocate Wynd
Church case Interesting and amusing pamphlets Conclusion, - 323-332
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CHAPTER XXI.
LIBRARY OF JAMES BARCLAY MURDOCH, ESQ.
Mr. Murdoch Similarity and dissimilarity of Scottish libraries Poetry and the
drama The Muse's Welcome Scottish songs and ballads Works of Laing and
Maidment Important copy of the poems of Burns Scottish history, topography,
and biography Copy of Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule," with rare 1628 title-
page, once the property of Gabriel Neil, Boyd's biographer Glasgow books and
periodicals Chap-books, two highly interesting volumes Works illustrated by
Cruikshank George IV. pamphlets, extraordinary collection Hone's publica-
tions Bewick Zoology, geology, and general science Legends and fairy tales
Bibliography Conclusion,- - 333-348
CHAPTER XXII.
LIBRARY OF THOMAS RUSSELL, ESQ., M.P.
General remarks Printed catalogue of the collection "Ship of Fools" Chaucer's
works " Rede me," etc., no other copy Spenser's Fairy Queen Douglas's trans-
lation of Virgil Chapman's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey Shakespeare's
poems, first edition, 1640 First edition of "Paradise Lost" Autograph of
Milton Hannay's "Nightingale" "Vision of Piers Plowman" Lithgow's
travels Southwell's "St. Peter's Complaint " Gascoigne, Churchyard, and
other early writers Coleridge Life and acts of Bruce Burns Wallace
Songs Collier's reprints Nugae Derelictae First edition of Hollinshed's
Chronicle Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule in Death," with rare 1628
title-page Boyd's "Four Letters of Comfort" Glasgow books Ruskin Con-
clusion, - 349-362
CHAPTER XXIII.
LIBRARY OF MATHEW SHIELDS, ESQ.
Character of the collection Witchcraft Kirkcudbright case Bovet's "Panda.--
inonium" Scottish poetry Home's " Douglas "Burns Clark's version of the
Song of Solomon Defoe's "Caledonia" The Pockmanty sermon Knox's
"Historic of the Reformation," first edition Covenanting tracts "Terrible
Newes from Scotland " Patrick Walker Letter from a blacksmith on the
religious state of Scotland Biography Darien tracts Prince Charles's Account
of the battle of Falkirk Scottish topography Glasgow books Glasgow periodi-
cals Views of Glasgow Poems on Glasgow Paisley books Scottish trials
Tinclarian Doctor Chap-books Conclusion, - - 363-386
CHAPTER XXIV.
LIBRARY OF JOHN WORDIE, ESQ.
Nature of the collection General collections of proverbs Anecdote illustrating the
state of old Scottish inns Classical proverbs Eastern proverbs Proverbs of
modern European nations English, Scottish, and Gaelic proverbs Ana Scottish
books Works of T. S. Muir Orkney and Shetland Language John Grub
Conclusion, .... - 386-402
CHAPTER XXV.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER YOUNG, ESQ.
Size and character of the collection New Testament, Psalms, Paraphrases, and
Prayer-books Googe's "Popish Kingdome " Rogers's translation of "The Imita-
tion of Christ" Witchcraft Early English popular literature Chaucer "Piers
Plowman " "A Dicer's Opinion of the making of Dice and Cards " Spenser-
Entry of James I. into London Decker Rowlands Greene Overbury Shake-
speare Taylor, the water poet Anthony Munday Milton Beaumont and
Fletcher Herrick Suckling Byron Scottish books Sir W. Alexander, Earl
of Stirling Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule " Barbour's "Bruce "First edi-
tion of Burns's poems Hollinshed's chronicles M'Ure's View of Glasgow Glas-
gow books Printing by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, and Treveris Hakluyt's
voyages Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels Classical writers Douglas's
translation of Virgil's ^Eneid Chapman's Homer Dibdin's works, - 402-432
INDEX, - - - - - - 433-448
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
LIBEAEIES OF GLASGOW.
INTRODUCTION.
Defence of the Book-collector Plan of the Work Total
number of Books in the Libraries described Manu-
scripts Fifteenth Century Printing Bibles, Psalm-
books, and Prayer-books Witchcraft Poetry and
the Drama Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson
Scottish Poetry First edition of Burns s Works
Scottish Biography, History, and Topography A
Bibliographical Society for Scotland Glasgow Books
Boyds "Last Battellofthe Soule" Scottish Trials
Chap Books Broadsides Jerusalem, and the
Holy Land General history Fine A rt Angling
Alchemy Philology Fiction, Jirst editions Biblio-
graphy Proverbs and Ana.
As an ambassador into a strange and unknown coun-
try is usually granted an appreciative audience on
his return home, so the present writer, who has made
a pleasant voyage into some hitherto undescribed
regions, trusts he may be pardoned for thinking he has
a story to tell, and for hoping that he may be credited
with more than the average veracity of story-tellers
and travellers. Perhaps the plainness of his unvar-
nished tale may be forgotten in the interest of the
subject.
No apology need surely be necessary for this offer-
ing at the shrine of the bookhunter. Many a time
14 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
and oft have the praises of warriors strong in battle
been sung in triumphant strains, the charms of beauty
inspired the rapturous muse, great deeds of piety and
worth been celebrated in enduring lines, and still the
adulating strain rolls on. From sweet Izaak Walton
onwards the pliers of the wand have told the world of
their love for the gentle craft, and sports and pastimes
are many times outnumbered by the books about them.
Everything has now its faithful scribes, who differ
widely, some having something to say and others
nothing, but who agree unanimously in their desire to
say it in print. And why, therefore, should the book-
lover hide his head and have nothing to say for the
faith that is in him ? That there may be only an old
tale to retell should be no let, for it hinders not other
devotees from worshipping at their favourite shrines.
Few read old books, and therefore he who carries for-
ward the knowledge of the past to the living generation
does a service sometimes greater than his fellow who
strives to give them original thought.
The ardent love of books has been called madness,
and a word invented to describe it, and indeed if every
deviation from the beaten track be madness in degree,
as has been said, then is the love of books truly mad-
ness, for the ways of the bookhunter are eccentric, as
the pursuit of his study is delightful.
Of the genus book-collector there are many varieties.
The popular conception is an unpractical, ill-dressed,
somewhat rude being who is either prowling about old-
book shops turning over untitled volumes in search of bar-
gains or at home buried in his literary rubbish, utterly
heedless of the ways and wants of the outside world.
It need hardly be said that this is not the portrait of
any of the gentlemen whose names adorn our table of
contents. Book-collecting is compatible with any oc-
cupation, and many of its closest followers have been
connected with businesses having nothing in common
with literature. Intelligent and wary critics explain
INTRODUCTION. 15
away the contradiction of a bookhunter successfully
prosecuting his ordinary avocation by declaring him
sane on every other point. They deride his liking for
rare editions, large paper, thick paper, and other pecu-
liar copies. Very unfair and fallacious reasoning. A
large-paper copy makes a handsome book. An ample
margin sets off fine typography as a white mount or a
frame does a picture.
The miserly economy of paper evident in so many
modern books is a gross violation of proportion which
ought not to be tolerated by the true book-lover.
Plenty of breadth and length give an air of luxury
to a book which is delightful. Besides being a thing
of beauty, a large-paper copy might prove useful to the
utilitarian stickler, for the convenience of making com-
ments on the margin. The scribblings would doubt-
less detract from the immediate market worth of the
book, but if the comments were of any moment future
generations might think the book enhanced by the
markings, and give a larger price for it as a peculiar
copy, making the lover of cheap uniformity minister
to the taste he had jeered and scoffed at.
The purchaser of a rare edition invariably possesses
other editions of the same w r ork, and is laudably
desirous of making his collection as complete as may
be, and also of tracing the textual variations which
successive editors may have introduced. If a subse-
quent edition of a work is of value, surely it is of the
highest importance that the first edition should be
preserved, that there may be some means for testing
presumed inaccurate reprints. And the same reason
will apply, in less degree certainly, to every edition,
but particularly to those distinguished by editorial or
typographical excellence.
It has been said, and with some show of reason, that
a book shut up in a private library is of little value to
the world at large. This could only apply to the rare
case of a unique book, or one of which all the copies
16 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
were in private libraries, and surely would not apply
to even these.
For ordinary purposes there would doubtless be
ordinary editions, and the scholar who had need to
consult a copy not in any public library would hardly
have any difficulty in obtaining access to copies in
private possession.
And to whom do we owe the preservation of many
most important books but to the owners of private
libraries? There, touched only by reverential hands,
have remained books of which scarcely a single clean
and complete copy was in circulation. So long as the
world lasts there will doubtless be collectors of books,
and few of them will care to pause and defend their
favourite pursuit ; but, secure in the enjoyment of their
treasures, may even snap their fingers at their critics,
and perchance dismiss them as rich men excusing their
lack of culture by denying its existence in others, or
poor men depreciating what they do not possess.
It need hardly be said that the mystic number of
thirteen does not exhaust the list of Glasgow private
libraries. There are scores of libraries in the city
worthy of description, and had the object been to com-
pile a statistical report every private and public library
would have found a place in the volume. But blue-
books are seldom read, and rarely purchased, and an
author may be excused if he desire for his labours a
less inglorious end than that which befalls these publi-
cations, whether at the hands of a discerning public
or a tape-bound Comptroller-General. The libraries
described (sixteen in all) are representative collec-
tions, and fairly reflect the characteristics of the re-
mainder.
In each account prominence has been given to the
leading features of the collection, but for uniformity of
treatment the following rough classification has been
followed throughout the entire work :
INTRODUCTION. 17
Theology, Philosophy, and Ecclesiastical History.
Witchcraft.
Poetry and the Drama. (General.)
Poetry and the Drama. (Scottish.)
Theology, etc. (Scottish.)
Biography. (Scottish.)
History. (Scottish.)
Travel. (Scottish.)
Topography. (Scottish.)
Edinburgh.
Glasgow.
Law and Trials. (Scottish.)
Miscellaneous. (Scottish.)
Travel.
History.
Biography.
Art and Antiquities.
Sports and Pastimes.
Science (including Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
Medicine, Zoology, Botany, and everything
generally designated by the term).
Law and Trials.
Philology.
Fiction.
Classics.
Miscellaneous.
The number of the classes, and the elastic interpreta-
tion given them, have made it easy to include every-
thing in one or other of the divisions. They have
been arranged in the order given, not on any scientific
principle, but to afford easy transition from one sub-
ject to another. The same classification may for the
same reasons be followed in this summary view.
The total number of books in the private libraries
will not come far short of 70,000, and those in the
public libraries may safely be put down at 100,000,
giving an aggregate of 170,000 volumes. 170,000
2
18 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
would not be a large figure for so many libraries if
the special character and high value of the individual
books were left out of view ; as it is, it represents a
choice and extensive selection of rare and interesting
works in many departments of knowledge.
Manuscripts of interest are in several of the libraries,
notably in Stirling's Public Library and the Mitchell
Library. Incunabula, or books printed in the fifteenth
century, will be found in four of the libraries. Pro-
fessor Ferguson has about 70 volumes, Mr. J. Wyllie
Guild about 30, Stirling's Public Library 27, and the
Mitchell Library a few. Early sixteenth century books
are abundant, almost every library having some ex-
amples, and those of Messrs. Ferguson, Guild, Russell,
and Young containing many. There are some valuable
Bibles and New Testaments in Stirling's Library; the
Mitchell Library has versions in many languages;
and Messrs. Guild, Macdonald, M'Grigor, and Young
have copies possessing special interest.
Highly interesting copies of the Psalms are in the
possession of Messrs. Guild, Hill, Macdonald, and Young,
each of whom have one or more copies of the Scottish
Psalter, while Mr. Young has a copy which there seems
no reason to doubt had belonged to Andro Hart, the
Edinburgh printer. Catechisms, Paraphrases, Confes-
sions of Faith, and Prayer Books are in most of
the libraries, the Mitchell Library, Stirling's Library,
and Mr. Young each possessing a copy of the Prayer
Book associated inseparably with the name of Jenny
Geddes. Dr. M'Grigor has a rare work of Martin
Luther's, and several works by the Scottish Reformers
are noticed in this volume. Coming to modern theo-
logical works, it is worthy of special mention that Dr.
M'Grigor has no less than 77 volumes and pamphlets
written by, or relating to, Frederick Denison Maurice,
and similarly thorough sets of the works of Dr. Norman
Macleod, Rev. Charles Kingsley, Dr. Thomas Arnold,
Dean Stanley, Rev. William Hanna, Dr. John Kitto,
INTRODUCTION. 19
Dean Milman, and Baron Bunsen, and has also the
series known as the Theological Translation Fund
Library, and the Anti-Nicene Christian Library. The
Mitchell Library is very thoroughly equipped in general
theology, philosophy, and ecclesiastical history, and the
same department in Stirling's Library is large, although
not so modern.
Books on witchcraft occupy a considerable place in
Professor Ferguson's library, and numerous rare and
curious tracts on the subject are in the collections of
Messrs. Gray, Macdonald, Shields, and Young. The
kindred subjects of magic and sorcery have also en-
gaged the attention of Professor Ferguson, and he has
a large number of works on them. Next to Scotland,
poetry and the drama is the subject which has found
most favour with the Glasgow collectors. Messrs.
Hussell and Young have splendid collections of first
and early editions of the English dramatists, and
Messrs. Guild and Murdoch are strong in the same
department. These are so fully described in their re-
spective places that it is unnecessary to again notice
them at length. Shakespeare fills a larger place in this
volume than any other writer, not even excepting
Burns. Mr. J. Wyllie Guild has forty-eight editions
of his works, including two copies of the second folio,
the fourth folio, Steevens's fine folio edition, with extra
plates, J. Payne Collier's " purest text," and J. 0. Halli-
welFs great edition in sixteen volumes folio. Of Shake-
speariana he has fully a thousand items. Mr. Young
has the second, third, and fourth folios, and a number
of other editions.
Stirling's Library possesses the Halliwell edition
already mentioned, and Messrs. Gray, Hill, Mac-
george, M'Grigor, and Russell have each notable
editions. When Mr. J. Payne Collier issued his
edition with the " purest text and the briefest notes "
he found more than a third of his fifty-eight sub-
scribers in this neighbourhood, and a copy is in nearly
20 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
all the thirteen private libraries described. He also
found hearty support in Glasgow in connection with
his valuable reprints of early dramatic literature, and
full sets of the costly series are in the Guild, Mac-
george, Murdoch, Russell, and Young libraries, and the
same collections, increased by those of Messrs. Gray and
Hill, contain the greater number of the other works
edited or written by Mr. Collier, and those edited
or written by Mr. J. O. Halliwell. A first edition of
great value is Spenser's " Faerie Queene." David
Laing's copy was sold for 120. Messrs. Guild and
Young have fine copies. Another first edition which is
prized as better than much fine gold is that of Milton's
" Paradise Lost," an elegant copy of which finds an
abiding-place with Mr. Russell, who has also first
editions of some others of Milton's works. The various
societies formed for the reprinting of old works of
poetry and drama found many patrons in Glasgow, and
sets of the publications of the Ballad Society, the
Early English Text Society, the Percy Society, the
Shakespeare Society, and the Spenser Society, are
frequently mentioned in these pages, as are also
Arber's English Reprints, and the works edited by
Joseph Ritson.
Coming nearer to our own time there is a plethora
of riches. Mr. Young has the excessively rare volume
published at New T ark in 1807 by Lord Byron and
almost immediately suppressed. The first edition of
his "Hours of Idleness," Newark, 1807, which is now
very rare, is mentioned five times in these pages,
Messrs. Guild, Macdonald, Macgeorge, Murdoch, and
Young possessing copies. In addition, Messrs. Mac-
george and Guild have all but complete sets of the
first editions of everything published by Byron. Mr.
Macgeorge's collection of separate Byronic productions
is very large indeed. The same two gentlemen have
first editions of nearly all Shelley's works.
Mr. Macgeorge is strong in first editions, and, in
INTRODUCTION. 21
addition to those mentioned, has the first editions of
the separate works of Keats, Tennyson, and Swin-
burne.
He has the rare " Poems by Two Brothers," written
by the Poet Laureate and his brother Charles, and
published anonymously in 1827; the Cambridge Prize
Poem, " Timbuctoo," and the "Poems Chiefly Lyrical,"
1830, the first of Tennyson's works to which he put
his name, besides other rare editions to the number of
nearly forty.
Messrs. Guild and M'Grigor have many editions of
Tennyson and some first editions. Original editions of
other modern poets are mentioned more than once.
Dr. M'Grigor has fine sets of the works of Sir
Theodore Martin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert
Browning, Coleridge, Goethe, Schiller, and other lesser
luminaries.
Mr. Russell has the works of Coleridge in 47
volumes, many of them original editions, and a fine
copy of the Aldine series of Poets. Mr. Mathieson has
an elegant copy of the same fine series, and the same
publisher's edition of Coleridge's works. Good edi-
tions of the standard poets of Great Britain, France,
and Germany are of course in most of the libraries,
and Professor Ferguson has a not inconsiderable num-
ber of volumes of Russian and Polish poetry. The
subjects of ballads and songs have been very fully
followed out in almost every one of the libraries.
As might be expected, this volume has a strong
Scottish flavour, and it would have been a pity had it
been wanting. Every true lover of his country must
rejoice to see the records of his native land put beyond
danger of wilful destruction. The indefatigability of
collectors is unearthing many hidden documents of
value, and every trifle being invested with a money
value, printed matter now runs less danger than
formerly of an ignominious end. Future generations
would have much to thank us for if in every place
22 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
in- the empire an effort was being made to collect the
literature of that particular spot.
This has been very thoroughly done in Glasgow, and
in a less degree as regards the whole of Scotland.
Some of the best Scottish collections existing are de-
scribed in this work. It would be hard indeed to match
the combined Scottish collections of the sixteen libraries
by any other collection of printed books either in Edin-
burgh, London, or elsewhere. They are especially rich
in poetry. The gigantic gathering at the Mitchell
Library overshadows all others, and Scottish poetry to
be studied thoroughly must be studied in Glasgow.
The " Poet's Corner," extensive though it is, is still
but a recent creation. There are many choice Scottish
poetical works which cross the path of the bookhunter
but once in many years, and can be procured only at a
ransom. What the "Corner" lacks in this respect is made
up by the private collections. Rare original editions
are in the Young, Guild, Gray, Macdonald, and Mur-
doch libraries. Many editions of such works as Bar-
bour's " Bruce," and Blind Harry's " Wallace " are
noticed as being in some one or other of the following
libraries: Guild, Gray, Hill, Macdonald, M'Grigor,
Murdoch, Russell, Shields, and Young. First edi-
tions of Ossian are numerous ; Dougal Graham's
" Poetical History of the Rebellion " occurs fre-
quently; some of the rare things printed by Sir
William Stirling- Max well are mentioned ; and sets
more or less approaching completeness of the works pro-
duced under the editorship of David Laing, James
Maidrnent, and W. B. D. Turnbull are in all of
the libraries. The magnificent Burns collection at
the Mitchell Library has but one important want a
copy of the first edition of the poet's works. It is a
blank not easily filled : copies are scarce, and when they
do appear readily find purchasers at high prices. A
good copy is worth from 60 to 70. Messrs. Young
and Gray possess handsome copies. Both gentlemen
INTRODUCTION. 23
have also a number of subsequent editions, including
the first Edinburgh and the first London edition. Mr.
Guild has many editions. Mr. Murdoch has, amongst
a number of editions, a copy of the second, with the
names of some of the persons referred to in the poems
filled in in the poet's handwriting. Dr. M'Grigor has
a copy of the same edition, presented to him by Sir
Theodore Martin, which formerly belonged to Lord
Dundrennan. Mr. Shields has some editions having
special interest, and Messrs. Hill, Macdonald,M'Grigor,
Macgeorge, and Russell have Burnsiana of value.
The contemporaries of Burns, whose productions have
risen in value because of their acquaintance with the
bard, are in almost every library in the book.
In Scottish family history all the libraries are more
or less rich. The Mitchell has a very large section con-
taining nothing but biographies of Scotsmen and Scot-
tish families, including eleven of the thirteen costly
works edited by William Fraser. Mr. Gray has about
a hundred separate works on the subject.
Mr. Young possesses the very scarce first editions of
Boece's " History," and Holinshed's " Chronicle " and
other rare histories of Scotland. Mr. Guild has many
rare historical volumes and tracts. His collection on
the life and reign of the hapless Marie Stuart is the
largest and most valuable of its kind in existence. It
contains over five hundred works, in many languages,
with rare portraits and other enhancing peculiarities.
It has been gathered from all quarters of the earth.
The portraits of the Queen number 315.
Mr. Shields and Mr. Macdonald have many very
scarce and curious works bearing on the history of
Scotland. Mr. Russell has some early histories, and
Messrs. Gray, Hill, Murdoch, M'Grigor, and Mathie-
son have many important Scottish historical works.
Special attention has been paid to Scottish history in
the Mitchell Library, and at Stirling's Library there
is a considerable collection.
24 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Complete sets of the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbots-
ford, Spottiswood, Spalding, and other societies' pub-
lications are in one or other of the libraries, that of Mr.
Guild and the Mitchell containing nearly all. The ex-
tensive gathering of topographical and historical works
on the places of Scotland which are in the Mitchell
Library and the libraries of Messrs. Gray, Macdonald,
Guild, Shields, and Wordie are unequalled.
They cover the entire country, and contain at least
as many books that are not in the British Museum as
are there on the subject. Mr. Anderson's admirable
catalogue of the topographical books in the British
Museum requires a companion volume of others that
are not in the Museum to render it complete, and we
venture to predict that as far as Scotland is concerned
the supplement will be as bulky as the original book.
Whoever may undertake the work, and consults the
Glasgow libraries, will find here much material hardly
to be found elsewhere, yea and whisper it softly not
even in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh.
But might not the undertaking assume larger pro-
portions, and the work be divided ? Might not the
Scottish portion of the work at least form a raison
d'etre for the establishment of a Society of Scottish
Bibliographers ?
The need for an exhaustive and authoritative account
of the literature of Scotland is apparent to everyone
having any acquaintance with the subject.
The ordinary bibliographical dictionaries are woefully
deficient in respect to Scottish books, and are frequently
very inaccurate. Information on Scottish bibliography
has to be sought for in many devious ways, and the
searcher has not seldom to go away disappointed by
failure, or but moderately satisfied with scanty and
doubtful information.
The work of forming a bibliographical guide to the
whole of the literature of Scotland is too heavy and
too unremunerative to be advantageously undertaken by
INTRODUCTION. 25
one individual, and could better be carried out by the
co-operation of everyone able to help. A society open
to every student of Scottish literature would perhaps
afford the best means of securing that co-operation.
The object would be to give an account of everything
printed relating to Scotland or Scots, written by Scots,
or printed in Scotland. Such a work would be of
inestimable value.
The co-operation of the owners of private libraries
would doubtless be cheerfully granted. Individual
members of the society might undertake to compile
bibliographies of villages, towns, counties, subjects, or
persons, all of which could be incorporated in one
grand dictionary. It may be worth mentioning that
the idea of forming a Scottish Bibliographical So-
ciety arose in the course of a conversation some time
ago between Mr. Barrett, of the Mitchell Library, and
the writer, on the feasibility of establishing a society
for the study of Glasgow bibliography. Mr. Barrett
doubted if the city would present a large enough field
to justify the formation of a society. Grave difficulties
doubtless attend the larger project, but these might be
overcome. We think the suggestion worth recording,
and commend it with all modesty to the notice of those
interested in Scottish literature.
Rich as are the Glasgow libraries in books relating
to the whole of Scotland, still greater prizes have been
carried off in the more limited arena of the city itself.
It is no exaggeration to say that there can hardly be
anything of importance relating to Glasgow which is
not in one or more of the public or private libraries of
the city. The industries of the city, its wonderful
growth, its quarrels, and its merry meetings, its amuse-
ments, its eminent men, its literature and art, and
every phase of its life, are copiously illustrated by the
literary stores of its citizens.
The Mitchell Library contains a large local collection.
At the end of 1884 it numbered about 2,400 volumes
26 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
and pamphlets. It contains many rare pamphlets and
periodicals, and some costly volumes. The Glasgow
division in Stirling's Library is not so large as that in
the Mitchell, but is increasing rapidly.
Mr. Macdonald has the first book printed in the city,
Zachary Boyd's " Cleare forme of Catechising," printed
by George Anderson, 1639, and of which no other
copy is known, but the honour of having the very first
thing printed in Glasgow is shared in this volume by
the Mitchell Library and Professor Ferguson, who each
possess a copy of a small tract printed the year before
Mr. Macdonald 's treasure.
Mr. Russell has a copy of Zachary Boyd's Four
Letters of Comfort, printed in the city in 1640, just
two years after the introduction of printing. The
Mitchell Library contains 804 volumes of early Glas-
gow printing, 338 of them from the press of the world-
famed printers, the Brothers Foulis. Messrs. Murdoch
and Shields have many examples of early Glasgow
printing. The Zachary Boyd above mentioned wa&
Minister of the Barony, and wrote, among other books,
one entitled "The Last Battell of the Soule in
Death," which was printed at Edinburgh by the heirs
of Andro Hart. It usually appears in two volumes,,
with the date, 1629, on each title-page. The pagina-
tion is continued through both volumes. David
Laing's copy in this form sold for 52 10s. Copies
similar to Laing's, but of varying excellence as to condi-
tion, are in the libraries of Messrs. Young, Gray,
Russell, Murdoch, Macdonald, and Ferguson. Mr.
Guild has a copy in one volume, dated a year earlier
than the two-volume copies. The supposition is that
the work was issued in 1628 in one volume, but being
found too bulky, and probably meeting a tardy sale, it
was made into two volumes in the course of the follow-
ing year, and two new title-pages and some additional
prefatory matter inserted. In the course of the present
work it was discovered that Mr. Murdoch has a copy
INTRODUCTION. 27
of the early edition, in addition to one of the later year,
and also that Professor Ferguson's copy, although in
two volumes, and bearing 1629 on the title-pages, had
the 1628 title-page inserted a little farther on in the
book. Mr. Macdonald's copy has the special merit
of containing two leaves supposed to be in only one
other copy. Of the first history of Glasgow, that by
M'TJre, very few clean copies are in existence. Mr.
Young has a perfectly clean one, uncut, and containing
all the plates which should be in a perfect copy.
Messrs. Russell and Macdonald have also good copies.
Mr. Macdonald has a valuable series of early maps of
the city, and is also the fortunate possessor of one of
the three copies extant of the first Glasgow Directory,
issued in 1783. When it was reprinted in 1871, the
copy from which it was set up was believed to be
unique. Mr. Guild has some early directories and
many Glasgow books.
The case of Fleming v. the Magistrates of Glasgow,
a printed record of which is in Mr. Gray's library, con-
tains the earliest plan of the city known. Mr. Shields
has some scarce volumes of local poetry, all the usual
histories of the city, many exceedingly rare Glasgow
periodicals, pamphlets on the affairs of the city, and
a number of views of old buildings in the neighbour-
hood of the High Street and the Saltmarket, executed
at his own expense. Mr. Macdonald has all the histor-
ies and many of the fugitive periodicals of Glasgow.
Mr. Mathieson has an interesting volume of pamph-
lets relating to a notorious ecclesiastical dispute among
the city fathers about 100 years ago, and other valu-
able works relating to the city. Messrs. Gray, Young,
Wordie, Ferguson, Macgeorge, M'Grigor, Hill, Mur-
doch, and Russell have each many Glasgow books.
The criminal history of Scotland is vividly lighted
up by the very remarkable collection of trials, indict-
ments, informations, etc., in the possession of Mr. Gray.
In some respects it is unique.
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Chap-books, the favourite literature of a bygone
time, have been assiduously collected by Mr. Gray,
Mr. Macdonald, and Mr. Shields, each of them having
a very large number of the very scarcest kind. Messrs.
Russell and Wordie have each a considerable number
of chaps.
Messrs. Gray and Macdonald have huge collections of
posters, proclamations, and similar bills, and Mr. Shields
has a most extensive and highly interesting gathering
of periodicals and other works relating to Paisley.
Mr. Macdonald has the first book printed in Stirling,
and Messrs. Ferguson, Guild, Young, and the Mitchell
Library have specimens from the press of Raban,
Aberdeen's first printer.
Dr. M'Grigor has devoted much attention to works
on Jerusalem and the Holy Land. His library con-
tains nearly 300 separate works on that subject, and
about 150 works on Switzerland and the Alps. Many
of these are works of the first importance. Dr.
M'Grigor has also over 100 maps bound separately.
Mr. Young has the very rare and valuable first edition
of " Hakluyt's Voyages."
In General History the most remarkable things are
the long and important series of works belonging to Mr.
Russell on King Charles I. and Professor Ferguson's
books on Iceland. Dr. M'Grigor has a considerable
number of works on Charles I., and has fine copies of
all the well-known histories. He has also " Notes and
Queries" from the commencement. Fine copies of
Grose's "Antiquities" of England and Wales, Scot-
land, and Ireland, and his " Military Antiquities " are in
most of the libraries. It is almost superfluous to say
that all the libraries contain copies of the standard his-
tories. The Mitchell Library and Stirling's Library both
possess large collections on general and English history.
Biography is well represented, particularly in the
public libraries. Fine art makes a brilliant appear-
ance. The Mitchell has a splendid collection, and
INTRODUCTION. 29
there are some very important works at Stirling's
Library. Every collector has some Bewicks, and Mr.
Guild has a great many. Mr. Macgeorge has perhaps
the most complete collection of Ruskin literature in
existence ; and Messrs. Guild, Gray, Hill, M'Grigor,
Mathieson, Russell, and Young have sets more or less
full of the works of Buskin. The Mitchell Library
has as many of his works as any other public
library in the United Kingdom. The libraries strongest
in examples of Cruikshank are those of Messrs. Mac-
george and Murdoch. Every one of the others have,
however, some of his work. Dr. M'Grigor has a
considerable number of works illustrated by Turner.
Mr. Russell and others have the costly works of Sir
William Stirling-Maxwell, and Lacroix's fine works.
Mrs. Jameson's books, the works of Philip Gilbert
Hamerton, Shaw's "Dresses," Strutt's "Sports and
Pastimes," Meyrick's "Ancient Armour," Lavater's
" Physiognomy," and many other beautiful books are
in one or more of the libraries.
Mr. Macgeorge has a very large number of books
illustrated by Blake, by Turner, and by John Leech.
Angling would appear to be a favourite sport with
the Glasgow collectors, many editions of Walton and
Cotton's "Angler" being in most of their libraries,
and Mr. Murdoch has about seventy volumes on the
piscatorial art. Mr. Murdoch has also many fine books
on fishes, shells, eggs, and birds. In alchemy, animal
magnetism, and the occult sciences, very few collections,
if any, can match that formed by Professor Ferguson.
One of its leading points is the large number of English
works it contains works not obtainable save at great
cost and after long years of waiting. In music the
noble but inaccessible Euing collection overshadows all
the others. The only library in which books on lang-
uage are unusually numerous is that of Mr. Wordie.
He has many dictionaries, grammars, glossaries, and
other works relating to European, Asiatic, and African
30 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
languages. Both public libraries have of course good
scientific and philological sections. Fiction has found
ample recognition. In addition to ordinary editions of
the works of standard novelists, which are in all the
libraries, first and fine editions are numerous. Mr.
Young has the first editions of " Gulliver's Travels "
and "Robinson Crusoe"; and the Mitchell has also
the latter. Messrs. Ferguson, Macdonald, Macgeorge,
M'Grigor, Murdoch, Young, and Wordie have first
editions of most of the works of Dickens; and Messrs.
Ferguson, Macdonald, Macgeorge, M'Grigor, Murdoch,
and Russell of the works of Thackeray. Dr. M'Grigor
and Mr. Macgeorge have the first edition of Vathek,
the latter gentleman's copy being on thick paper. The
Villon Society have found a number of subscribers in
Glasgow for their edition of the Arabian Nights'
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Entertainment. Teubner's, Valpy's, and Bonn's edi-
tions of the classics, and many other editions of separate
writers, are in the Mitchell Library. Dr. Scouler's
gift to Stirling's Library contains many editions of the
works of Aristotle. Mr. Russell has first editions of
Chapman's translations of " Homer," and Mr. Young
has early editions of "Ovid," "Seneca," "Homer," and
"Virgil." Dr. M'Grigor has several modern editions,
text and translations, of most of the classics.
As becomes judicious and sensible book-buyers, there
is no lack of bibliographical works. The names of
Brydges, Dibdin, Beloe, Allibone, Burton, Brunet,
Watt, Lowndes, De Bure, Hain, Hazlitt and other
famous bibliographers have : become as household words
with them. Of autographs, Mr. Guild has a very large
collection, and presentation copies of works with auto-
graphs are frequently noted. Mr. Wordie has a very
large number of books of proverbs in many languages,
and also an extensive collection of anecdotal literature,
and books of enigmas, epigrams, and facetiae.
Mr. Macgeorge has many first editions of Lamb's
works, som^i of them with notes in the author's hand-
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 31
writing. Professor Ferguson has a number of books
on the Gipsies, and Dr. M'Grigor has many hundreds
of most interesting pamphlets on various subjects.
This finishes our general survey of the principal
possessions of the sixteen libraries.
They are in many respects remarkable, and of the
highest interest to Scots and more especially to Glas-
gowegians.
Let us hope that the day of dispersion is far off from
all of them, and that rather than face the unwelcome
shadow of the auctioneer many of the owners may pre-
fer to secure for their books permanent and honoured
resting-places in the public libraries of the city.
CHAPTER I.
STIRLING'S AND GLASGOW PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The Founder, his Ancestors, Personal Appearance,
Will, and Death Beginning of the Library First
Board of Directors.
THIS library was founded in the year 1791 by Walter
Stirling, and some account of him may very properly
preface a description of the institution which owes its
existence to his generosity.
His father, William Stirling, was an eminent physi-
cian in Glasgow early in the last century, and was a
man of more than ordinary ability and sagacity. His
place was in Dispensary Close, off the High Street.
He took an active interest in other matters besides
those pertaining to his profession, and is mentioned by
M'Ure, the first historian of Glasgow, as one of the
early promoters of linen manufacture in the city, hav-
ing, with three others, erected a factory at Grahams ton,
32 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
then called Graham's Hall, "for weaving all sorts of
Hollan-cloth, wonderful fine, performed by fine masters,
expert in the curious Art of Weaving, as fine and as
well done as at Harlem in Holland."
He took into partnership that Dr. Gordon who, al-
though a distinguished surgeon, is now only remem-
bered as the master to whom the celebrated novelist,
Tobias Smollett, was apprenticed. The versatile ap-
prentice is supposed to have had the Doctor in mind
when drawing the character of Potion in his " Roderick
Random." Dr. Stirling was twice married, first to
Janet Smith, and second to Elizabeth Murdoch, by the
latter of whom he had one son, the subject of the pre-
sent notice, born in Dispensary Close on 12th Decem-
ber, 1723. He had also two daughters, one of whom
married the Rev. Patrick Nisbet of Hatton, the other
a merchant in Glasgow named Archibald Corbet.
Walter Stirling could trace his ancestry back to
Robert Stirling, of Bankier and Lettyr, who died in
1537. This Robert is said to have been the nearest
collateral heir of Janet Stirling, commonly called Lady
Gadder. This, however, is matter of disputation among
the various branches of the Stirling family, and as it is
outside the province of the present work to discuss
knotty questions of family history, we pass on to the
consideration of what we trust are undisputed facts.
Robert Stirling of Bankier had a son named John, who
married Beatrice, daughter of George Elphinstone of
Blythswood. From this union there were eight sons
and two daughters. The sixth son, Walter, was Dean
of Guild in 1630, and his autograph is given in the
" View of the Merchants' House," published in 1 866.
Walter's grandson, John, had three sons named John,
William, and Walter. John was Lord Provost
of Glasgow in 1728, and his son William was the
founder of the highly respected firm of William Stirling
& Sons. After him Stirling Street and Stirling Square
were named, these thoroughfares being made through
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 33
the garden and orchard attached to the family mansion
in High Street. The second son, William, was Dr.
Stirling, the founder's father. The third son, Walter,
was proprietor of the lands of Shirva, near Kirkintil-
loch. His only son distinguished himself in the navy,
and was afterwards knighted.
Of Walter Stirling, the founder of the library, not
much is known. He spent a quiet, retired life, and but
for his generous bequest would doubtless have sunk
into that oblivion which has enshrouded many another
eminently respectable citizen. He was a merchant in
the city, and seems to have prospered in business. He
entered into partnership with a Mr. Bell, and the firm
appears in the first Glasgow Directory (1783) as Stir-
ling, Bell & Co., Trongate. The exact location was
No. 18. Mr. Stirling's name is also entered separately
as of Miller Street, where he then resided. In 1 77.3
he was added to the Councillors of the Merchant rank
in the Town Council, and was elected treasurer of the
burgh for the year. In the following year he took the
place of John Alson, jun., as an ordinary member of
Council, and was elected and chosen to bear office as
Bailie of Gorbals. In 1780 he was elected to the office
of Second Bailie of the Merchant rank, which he held
for one year. In 1782 he retired, being disqualified on
account of his seniority as a Councillor. In addition to
the offices named, Mr. Stirling was elected a director
of the Town's Hospital in 1776, 1779, 1780, and 1781.
He became a member of the Merchants' House in 1788,
under the title of a "home trader." Previous to 1779
he resided in King Street, where he possessed consider-
able property.
On 4th August of that year he purchased from Mr.
Robert Oliphant of Rossie the dwelling-house in Miller
Street which afterwards formed part of the library be-
quest. This house was built by Mr. James Jackson,
for fifty years Postmaster of Glasgow, who sold it to
Mr. Oliphant. Miller Street was formed in 1773. It
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34 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
was cut through the garden of John Miller, a maltman,
after whom it takes its name, who resided at what is
now the south-east corner of the street. When it was
first opened it had only an entry from Argyle Street.
None but gentlemen's houses were allowed in it, and
when fully built it presented a fine appearance, and was
a very fashionable street. It is interesting to note
that the lots were taken up very slowly, the principal
objection to the site being its distance from the centre
of the city. It was then on the outskirts, and in the
vicinity of green fields. The population of Glasgow
was 66,578.
On 3rd January, 1785, Mr. Stirling executed a will
bequeathing one thousand pounds, his house in Miller
Street, his own collection of books, and a share in the
Tontine Society, to the City of Glasgow for the pur-
pose of forming and maintaining a public library for
the use of the citizens. He made another will in
1789, but in nowise disturbed the library bequest.
He left the bulk of his estate to Mary Nisbet, eldest
daughter of his sister Janet, subject to several annuities.
To discourage litigation he directed that should any
of the legatees question Miss Nisbet's right, the chal-
lenger's portion was to be suspended until the case
was settled, and the defence expenses of Miss Nisbet
were to be met out of the challenger's portion. Need-
less to say there was no dispute.
Mr. Stirling's personal appearance is thus described
by " Senex," Robert Reid, who remembered him
" He was a man of pleasing address, and of gentlemanly
manners. I remember him with cocked hat, ear
curls, and a respectable pigtail." Another authority
says he dressed very plainly, but with neatness and
precision. He was hunchbacked, and formed one of a
party similarly deformed invited to dinner by an
eccentric gentleman popularly called <: Jemmy Ward-
rop." Mr. Stirling gave the would-be wit a sharp
rebuke for his cruel jest, and the town taking Mr.
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 35
Stirling's part, Wardrop was long unpopular. . Mr.
Stirling was never married. On 17th January, 1791,
he passed quietly away, in his house in Miller Street,
having attained the ripe age of sixty-eight. As will
be seen from his will which is given below he directed
the library to be managed by a board of directors
chosen from the following four public bodies: The
Town Council, the Merchants' House, the Presbytery
of Glasgow, and the Faculty of Physicians and Sur-
geons, three from each, which with the Lord Provost
of Glasgow (President ex officio) made a directorate
of thirteen, commonly supposed to be an unlucky
number, the evil effects of which were doubtless
averted by the difficulty shared in common with most
other public institutions of getting a full meeting.
He desired the library to consist of rare and curious
books, rather than of the common and ordinary kinds,
and it is said that he hated novels so heartily that he
had not read one for forty years. The librarian was to
allow all proper persons access to the books for at
least three hours each lawful day, and no rule or
regulation that mis^ht be made was to interfere with
O O
the chief or primary view of the donation, viz. " The
constant and perpetual existence of a public library for
the citizens of Glasgow." The high integrity of the
man comes out strikingly in the stipulation that should
any director become insolvent he shall at once cease
to be a director. In choosing a librarian the directors
were to prefer one of the name of Stirling " should
he be equally qualified for the office with any other
candidate." Either there has been no desire on the
part of the Stirlings for the librarian ship, or having
applied they have not been found equally qualified
with other candidates, for no one bearing the name of
Stirling has as yet filled the office. The time to be
allowed for reading the books was to depend on the size
of the work a very reasonable provision, if all books
were equally well worth reading and equally digestible.
36 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Eight weeks were to be allowed for a folio, four for a
quarto, and two for an octavo.
DEED of MORTIFICATION by Mr. WALTER STIRLING,
Merchant in Glasgow, of a Fund for establish-
ing a PUBLIC LIBRARY for the benefit of the
inhabitants of Glasgow.
I, WALTER STIRLING, merchant in Glasgow, consider-
ing that as a Public Library kept in a proper place in
the City of Glasgow will be attended with considerable
advantage to the Inhabitants ; Therefore, and in order
to establish such a Library, and in exercise of the
power which I reserved to myself by my deed of
settlement, I hereby Dote and Mortify, to and in
favour of the present Lord Provost of the City of
Glasgow, and to his successors in office, the sum of one
thousand pounds sterling money, and my tenement
lying on the east side of Miller Street in the said city,
and whole pertinents thereof, and my share, right, and
interest in the Tontine Society of Glasgow, with the
whole benefit, profit, and advantages which may arise
therefrom, during the natural life of Elonora Lee,
daughter of Robert Lee, merchant in Greenock, upon
whose Life my subscription proceeded, for the sole
and only purpose of purchasing a Library, and sup-
porting a Librarian for taking charge of the books
which may belong to me at my death, as well as those
which may be purchased in future, from the fund above-
mentioned, appropriated and set apart for that pur-
pose : and which sum of one thousand pounds sterling
money, I Bind and Oblige myself, and my heirs and
successors, to pay, at the first term of Whitsunday
or Martinmas after my death, to the then Lord
Provost of Glasgow, or his successors in office, to
be by him and the persons afternamed applied in
the purchase of lands, or other proper security, the
yearly rent and produce of which to be by them
applied for the uses and purposes aftermentioned, and
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 37
for no other uses whatever, and in the Manner, and
Subject to the regulations aftermentioned.
And, First, The books of my present Library, and
all those to be purchased in future out of, or from
the fund hereby appropriated, shall, in all time coming,
be vested in thirteen managers who are to be elected
and chosen from among the following Corporations or
Societies, viz.: From the Town Council of the City
of Glasgow, three of their number (besides the Lord
Provost of the City of Glasgow for the time, who
is and always shall be a Director ex officio) ; from the
Merchants' House of Glasgow, three of their number ;
from the Presbytery of Glasgow, three of their num-
ber; and from the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons
of Glasgow, three of their number ; the Provost to be
constantly Preses at the meeting of the said Directors ;
and in case of his absence, the Preses to be chosen by
the majority present at each meeting.
Second, Each Corporation or Society are to Elect
their three Directors at their first meeting after
Candlemas subsequent to my Death, and thereafter at
their first meeting after Candlemas yearly ; and the
persons so chosen may, if their constituents see proper,
be elected for any period not exceeding five years, but
they may be re-elected as oft as their constituents
please, provided, at the time of their election, they are
members of the Society electing them, not exceeding five
years at once, without re-election. And in case any of
the said Societies shall neglect, at their first meeting
after the Candlemas subsequent to my Death, or at
any subsequent Candlemas thereafter, or at least before
the first Tuesday of May yearly (being the time when
the Directors are to enter upon the execution of their
office) to make choice of three Directors.
Such Society so neglecting are to omit and lose their
right of Election for that year. And the Directors
from the other Societies shall, at the first meeting
thereafter, intimate the same to their constituents
38 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
respectively, each of whom shall, at their first meeting-
after said intimation, chuse their proportional number
out of their own members to fill up the vacancy. And
in case any of the said Societies shall neglect to chuse
their quota for filling up the vacancy, the Directors
chosen shall, at their next meeting, chuse any person
or persons whom they think proper for completing
the Directors to the number of thirteen as aforesaid.
Third, In any case any Director shall become in-
solvent, he shall, ipso facto, cease to be a Director,
and the Society who chose him shall, at their first
meeting after such insolvency, elect another in his
place. Nor shall such Director so becoming insolvent
be again eligible, unless he shall have paid all his
debts. And in case the Society who chose him shall
neglect to chuse one to succeed him, the other
Directors shall, at their first periodical meeting there-
after, chuse one instead of such insolvent Director.
Fourth, The Directors are to meet the first Tuesday
of every second month, beginning with the first Tues-
day of May yearly ; and may meet at any 'other time
or times which the majority at any former meetings
shall judge proper, and the Preses is hereby em-
powered to summon a meeting of the other Directors
when he pleases, upon twenty-four hours' previous
warning ; and five of said Directors to be a quorum.
Fifth, The Directors at their meeting on the first
Tuesday of July yearly, shall chuse a Librarian, pre-
ferring one of the name of Stirling to any other of the
candidates (provided he be equally qualified for the
office with any other candidate), and the person so
chosen may be elected for any number of years, not
exceeding four years, and may be re-elected thereafter,
if the Directors shall think fit, as oft as they please.
Sixth, The Librarian so chosen shall be obliged to
find sufficient security in a sum equal to the value of the
books, to be ascertained by the Directors ; and he shall
allow all proper persons to consult and read the books
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 39
three hours each lawful day. But no book shall be
lent out of the Library to any person whatever with-
out an order signed by two of the Directors ; the
borrower, at same time, depositing a sum equal to the
value of the book, which is to be forfeited, in case of
his damaging or losing it, of which damage the
Librarian is to be the judge ; but in case he shall
value the damage too high, the same may be mitigated
by the Directors, if they shall see cause, and the
borrower shall be obliged to return the book borrowed
within a certain time, not exceeding two weeks for
an octavo, four for a quarto, and eight weeks for a
folio.
Seventh, The accounts respecting the fund shall be
balanced yearly, and, after paying the salary to the
Librarian and other necessary expenses, the remainder
shall be applied in purchasing books, and which sum
must never be less than twenty pounds sterling yearly,
but as much more as possible. And in this remainder
is meant to comprehend any donations of books or
money below ten pounds ; arid any donation above that
sum in money is to be lent out, and the interest arising
therefrom, with the produce of the other funds, to
be applied in the purchase of books yearly, except the
Donors shall give other directions, whose directions
respectively must be sacredly obeyed.
Eighth, That the accounts to be kept relative to the
funds shall be balanced yearly, on a day certain, and
the free fund ascertained, which must not be less than
twenty pounds. And the Directors shall, at their
next periodical meeting thereafter, chuse the books to
be purchased with the said free balance, either manu-
script or printed, and which I would recommend
should be rather rare and curious books, than of the
common and ordinary kinds. And the majority of the
Directors shall have a power of purchasing any books
they please, but not of disposing of any without the
consent of the whole Directors.
40 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Ninth, Every donor contributing to the extent of
one hundred pounds sterling, or upwards, to this
foundation, shall become an extraordinary Director
during his life, and contributing twenty pounds sterling
shall be one for five years, and so proportionally for
what he shall give more. And in case any person
shall incline to bequest a sum by way of legacy, such
donor shall have power, by his deed containing the
bequest, to name an extraordinary Director, who shall
be continued in the management for such a number of
years as shall correspond to the sum doted, agreeable
to the rule above mentioned.
Tenth, Each of the four incorporated bodies or societies
above named are hereby empowered, when they shall
judge proper, to chuse a committee to visit the library,
and the books thereto belonging, and inspect the books
of sederunt of the Directors, and the accounts and
vouchers relative to the funds (which shall be made
patent to them for that purpose), and to report their
opinions of all the transactions to their constituents,
who, upon receiving and considering such report, may
give such orders to the Directors as they may judge
necessary or proper, with which the Directors shall be
obliged either to comply or to transmit such orders
back to the Society or Incorporation from whom they
issued, with the Directors' remarks thereupon, stating
their reasons for not complying, and the Directors
shall likewise be obliged, at the same time, to send just
copies of the whole to each of the other Societies.
And whatever the majority of the whole of these, who
shall give their opinion upon the points in dispute,
shall agree upon as fit, and right to be done, the same
shall be binding upon the Directors, until it shall be
altered in like manner.
Eleventh, I reserve power to myself to name and
appoint Extraordinary Directors, and also the Libra-
rian, and to make such additional regulations as I
may judge proper, by any writing under my hand.
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 41
But as the articles and rules before established, as well
as those which in future I may see proper to make,
may be improved upon, and others established which
may be better calculated for rendering my Public Lib-
rary of the greatest use possible ; so I declare that
whatever regulations or alterations the four Societies or
Incorporations above mentioned shall think proper to
make for answering the purpose I have in view, if
unanimous as Societies, or whatever the said Directors,
with the consent of any three of the Societies, shall
agree upon, shall be binding upon the Directors in the
execution of the trust hereby created. It being under-
stood, that no regulations or alterations, which may be
made or agreed to, shall be inconsistent with, or strike
against the chief or primary view of this Donation,
viz. : the constant and perpetual existence of a Public
Library for the citizens or inhabitants of Glasgow;
and that none of the powers or rights hereby granted
shall prescribe or go into desuetude by not using, but
shall subsist and remain for ever. And in order that
my tenement in Miller Street of Glasgow may be
vested in perpetuity, in the person of the Provost of
Glasgow for the time being, for himself, and in name
of the other Directors of my said Library before
described, to be holden of his Majesty in free burg-
age, for service of burgh, used and wont, I hereby
constitute and appoint [No names were ever fitted in}
and each of them, jointly and severally, my lawful and
irrevocable procurators, with my full power, warrant,
and commission for me, and in my behalf, duly and
lawfully to resign and surrender the foresaid tenement
or steading lying on the east side of Miller Street,
Number Seven, with the houses and buildings erected
thereupon, as bounded and described in a Disposition
thereof granted to me by Robert Oliphant, Esquire of
Kossie, dated fourth day of August, one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-nine years, in the hands of
any one of the Bailies of Glasgow for the time being ;
42 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
and as in the hands of his Majesty, my immediate law-
ful superior of the same in favour, and for new insert-
ment thereof, to be granted to the Lord Provost of the
City of Glasgow, at the time of resignation, as one of
the Directors of my said Library, for himself and his
successors in office, and in trust for, and in name arid
behalf of the other Directors of said Library, to be
chosen in the manner before mentioned, in legal and
O
proper form ; and to do and cause to be done every-
thing which to the office of a procurator in such cases
belongs. Ratifying hereby, and holding firm all and
whatever my said procurators shall lawfully do, or cause
to be done, in virtue thereof, and which lands before
disponed, I oblige me, and my heirs and successors, to
warrant to the said Lord Provost of Glasgow, and his
successors in office, for himself, and in name of the
other Directors foresaid, at all hands and against all
deadly. And further, I hereby assign and dispone to
the said Provost and his foresaids, not only the whole
writs and evidents of and concerning the foresaid
steading, and Tontine Society, made, granted, and con-
ceived in favour of me and my authors, with the whole
obligements and clauses therein contained, and all
action and execution competent to me thereupon ; but
also the rents, maills, and duties of the said lands,
from and after my Death, and for ever thereafter.
And I declare that these presents, though found lying
by me at the time of my death, or in the hands of any
other person undelivered, shall have the effect of a
Delivered evident, with the not-delivery whereof I
hereby dispense ; and consent to the registration thereof
in the books of Council and Session, therein to remain
for preservation, and constitute
my procurators for that purpose.
In witness whereof, this and the three preceding
pages, all wrote upon stamped paper, by Patrick
Robertson, son of Patrick Robertson, writer in Glas-
gow, are subscribed by me at Glasgow, the third day
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 4&
of February, Seventeen hundred and eighty-five years,
before these witnesses, the saids Patrick Robertson,
senior, and Patrick Robertson, junior, witnesses also to
my subscribing the marginal note on the first page,
which is also written by the said Patrick Robertson,
junior.
(Signed) WALTER STIRLING.
(Signed) PATK. ROBERTSON, Witness.
PAT. ROBERTSON, Witness.
The four public bodies to whom the management of
the library was delegated elected directors early in
1791. The following gentlemen composed the first
board :
From the Town Council
Lord Provost James M'Dowall.
Richard Marshall.
John Campbell of Clathic.
Alexander Brown.
From the Merchants' House-
Gilbert Hamilton.
Robert Findlay.
Archibald Grahame.
From the Presbytery of Glasgow-
Rev. John M'Caul.
Rev. Robert Balfour.
Rev. Alex. Ranken.
From the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Peter Wright.
Robert Wallace.
Alexander Dunlop.
Lord Provost M'Dowall took much interest in the
library, and was one of the earliest donors. He re-
mained on the board until 1794, two years after he
had vacated the chief magistrateship. He was again
44 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Lord Provost, 1796 to 1798, and consequently again
President of the library. He was the chief pro-
moter of the Royal Infirmary, which was established
during his provostship. Richard Marshall was a
director for two years, but rarely attended the
meetings. He was afterwards appointed barrack-
master. Alexander Brown was Dean of Guild in
1784-5. Gilbert Hamilton succeeded Mr. M'Dowall
in the provostship, holding office for the usual term of
two years. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the
library, and was one of the representatives of the
Merchants' House on the directorate from 1802 to
1810. Robert Findlay was a director to 1796, and
again from 1799 to 1802. Archibald Grahaine retired
in 1796. Rev. John M'Caul was minister of the Tron
Church, and remained a director for four years. Rev.
Alexander Balfour was minister of the Outer High
Church ; he filled the office of director for eight years,
being returned from the Presbytery from 1791 to 1795,
and L808 to 1812. Dr. Alex. Ranken was of the
Ramshorn Church, and represented the Presbytery at
the library 1791 to 1795, 1804 to 1807, 1815 to 1818.
He was the author of a History of France in nine
volumes, regarding which a good story is told. Wish-
ing to test the popularity of the work, he one day made
the following inquiry of Mr. Pate, the second librarian
of Stirling's Library: "Pray, Mr. Pate, is Ranken's
History of France in f " " It never was out," was the
prompt and sarcastic reply. Dr. Peter Wright was
one of the most assiduous of the early managers of the
library. He was on the board from its institution till
1800, again for a year in 1802-3, and for four years
from 1804 to 1808. He attended almost every meet-
ing, and took a large share of the work. He is
mentioned by " Senex " as the last personage who con-
tinued to walk the " plainstanes " (in front of the
Tontine Buildings) " decked out with his scarlet cloak
and cocked hat."
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 45
CHAPTER II.
TJie number of Volumes left by Mr. Stirling Early
Catalogues Reprint ofthejirst Catalogue.
AT their first meeting the directors ordered an in-
ventory to be made of the books left by the founder.
They were found to number 804, and were valued
at 160. A list of them is given in the first catalogue
(issued in 1792). A copy of this catalogue is in the
library, and is probably the only copy existing. It is
a small quarto, printed in the " Courier " office, by
William Reid & Company. The list occupies the
first 29 pages; from that to page 73 is styled "Cata-
logue Second," and contains the titles of the books
added by the directors before opening the library.
"Catalogue third," and appendix issued in 1795
continues the paging to page 98. The total number of
volumes in the three catalogues is 3,705. Several
supplementary catalogues were printed in the early
years of the present century, and in 1805 it was found
necessary to issue a new general catalogue. 1,000
copies of it were printed, not one of which now remains.
Supplementary catalogues were printed in 1809, 1818,
1825, and 1828. Although Mr. Stirling's private
library seems but small in these days, it would prob-
ably have been impossible to match it in the houses of
his neighbours. He formed his collection with care
and judgment, and it may reasonably be taken to in-
dicate very accurately his tastes and habits. The large
preponderance of works of history, and the not incon-
siderable number of books in Latin, quite support the
received opinion that he was of an antiquarian and
studious turn, which is perhaps confirmed by his dislike
46 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
to fiction, although there is of course no valid reason
why an antiquary should not like a novel now and
again, as indeed some of our best novelists have been
erudite arid accomplished students of the past. Some
of the books have risen much in price since Walter
Stirling purchased them, and are now difficult to find,
and for this reason it is perhaps a pity for the sake of
the library that he did not in his buying subscribe for
a copy of the first edition of Burns's poems, so easily
got then, so scarce and so costly now. As a sample of
the kind of books collected by a Glasgow gentleman of
taste and culture in the last century, and as a reprint
of a unique volume, the author begs leave to present
here a reproduction of the list of books bequeathed by
the founder to Stirling's Library. The catalogue is
here reproduced exactly.
A CATALOGUE of the BOOKS that were in the possession
of the late Mr. Walter Stirling, the founder of
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY, at the time of his
death, and which he bequeathed to that institu-
tion.
BOOKS IN FOLIO.
No. Date.
History of the World, by Sir Walter Raleigh Lon 1652
Matthaei Westmonasteriensis Historiarum Flores ib 1570
Stow's Chronicle of England, .continued by Howes
black letter ib 1615
Fox's Martyrology, 3 vols. black letter ib 1641
5 Rushworth's Historical Collections, 8 vols. ib D Y
Thuani Historia, 4 torn, in 3 Franc 1609
Tillemont's Ecclesiastical Memoirs, vol. 1 Lon 1733
History of Great Britain, by John Speed ib 1627
Sibbaldi Scotia Illustrata (Historia Naturalis] Edin 1684
10 Keith's History of the Church and State of Scotland ib 1734
Abercromby's Martial Achievements of the Scots
Nation, 2 vol. ib 1711
Mackenzie's Lives of Scots Writers, 3 vol. ib 1708
Scots Acts of Parliament, bv Sir Tho. Murray of
Glendook Edin 1681
Wodrow's History of the Sufferings of the Church
of Scotland, 2 vol. Edin 1721
15 Buchanani Opera, 2 torn, in uno Edin 1715
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 47
Date.
Sidney's Arcadia Lon 1725
Barnes' History of Edward the Third Cam 1688
Wood's. Athenae Oxoniensis, 2 voL Lon 1721
Stow's Survey of London, 2 vol. ib 1720
20 Davila de bello civil i Gallico, 3 torn. Rome 1735
Knolles' History of the Turks, continued by Rycaut,
3 vol. Lon 1687
Brandt's History of the Reformation in the Low
Countries, 4 vol. ib 1720
Tyrrell's History of England, 2 vol. ib 1697
Spelman's Posthumous Works Oxf 1698
25 Howel's Synopsis Canonum, 2 torn Lon 1708
Burnet's History of the Reformation, 3 vol. ib 1681
Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton ib 1677
Exposition of the 39 Articles of the Church of
England ib 1700
Poole's Annotations on the Old and New Testament,
2 vol. ib 1688
-30 Sleidan's History of the Reformation ib 1689
Heylin's History of the Presbyterians Oxf 1670
History of the Union, by Daniel Defoe Edin 1709
Prince Cantemir's History of the Othman Empire Lon 1734
Harris' Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 voL ib 1705
-35 Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels, 6 vol. ib 1744
Collection of Voyages and Travels from books in
the Harleian Library ib 1745
Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, 2 vol. ib 1708
Journals of the Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth, col-
lected by Sir D. Ewes ib 1682
Maddox's History and Antiquities of the Exchequer
of England Lon 1711
40 Hayne's Collection of State Papers (from 1542 to
1570) ib 1740
Chaucer's Works, llaclc letter ib 1598
Cowley's Works ib 1678
Venerabilis Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica (cum para-
phrasi Saxonica) ib 1644
Matthaei Paris Angliae Historia ib 1684
45 Johnstoni Historia rerum Britannicarum Amst 1655
Forduni Scotichronicon, 2 torn. Edin 1775
Camdeni Annales, rerum Anglicarum, 2 torn. Lon 1615
Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ib
Life of Richard Baxter, written by himself ib 1696
50 Hobbes' Leviathan ib 1651
Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of
England ib 1714
48 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
Godwyn's Annals of England, during the reigns of
Henry VIII. Edward VI. and Mary ib 1630
Fuller's Worthies of England ib 1762
Church History of Britain, till the year 1 648, 2 vol. ib 1655
55 Knox's History of the Reformation Edin 1732
Petri Bembi Historiae Venetae Lug Bat
Plinii Historia Naturalis Gen 1631
Titi Livii Historia, cura Fran. Modii, cum notis
aliorum Franc 1588
Scapulae Lexicon Graecum Basil 1605
60 Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, trans-
lated by Hobbes Lon 1676
Translation of Virgil's ^Eaeid by G. Douglass Bishop
of Dunkeld Edin 1710
Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Holland ; an-
nexed, the History of Scanderbeg, translated from
the French of Lavordin Lon 1596
The Holy Bible ; black letter ; printed by Graf ton ib 1541
black letter ; printed by Barker, 2 vol. ib 1585
65 Horton's Exposition of 4 select Psalms (the 4, 42,
51, 63) ib 1675
The Book of Common Prayer for Scotland Edin 1637
Spottiswood's History of the Church of Scotland Lon 1655
Calderwood's History of the Church of Scotland, Lon 1678
Userii Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates ib 1687
70 Fuller's History of the Holy War and Holy State Cam 1640
Mather's History of New England Lon 1702
History of the Reign of Henry the 5th, by Goodwin ib 1704
The Life of Henry the 8th, by Lord Herbert of Cher-
bury ib 1672
Polydori Virgilii Anglica Historia Basil 1655
75 Daniel's History of England, continued by Trussel, and
annexed, Bacon's Life of Henry the 7th Lon v y
Wilson's History of James the 1st ib 1653
The History of Philip de Commines ib 1614
The Lives of Pope Alex, the 6th, and of Caesar Borgia,
by A. Gordon ib 1739
Memoirs of the Sieur de Pontis ib 1694
80 History of the Administration of Cardinal Richelieu ib 1657
Memoirs of France, by Michael de Castilnau ib 1724
Life of Will. Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle ib 1669
Life of Archbishop Usher, with his Letters, by R. Parr ib 1686
Hidden Works of Darkness, or an Introduction to the
Trial &c. of Archbishop Laud, by Prynne ib 1645
85 Canterbury's Doom; the History of the Trial, Con-
demn., &c. of Archbishop Laud, by Prynne ib 1646
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 49
No. Date.
The Troubles and Trial of Archbishop Laud, written
by himself ib 1695
The Second Volume of the Remains of Archbishop
Laud, written by himself, collected by H.
Wharton (a sequel to the Troubles) ib 1700
Cyprianus Anglicus, or the Life and Death of Arch-
bishop Laud, by Heylin Dub 1719
Pauli Jovii sui Temporis Historia, 2 torn. Lutet 1558
90 aliud Exemplar, in 1 tomo Basil 1578
Vitae & Elogia Illustrium Virorum, 2 torn. ib 1578
History of the Council of Trent, by P. Soave Polano
(Father Paul) Lon 1640
De Vita & Rebus gestis Mariae Scotorum Reginse,
quae scriptis tradidere Autores sedecim, a Sam.
Jebb. 2 vol. [The contents of the two volumes are
set out.] Lon 1725
Journal of the House of Commons from 1606 to 1609 ;
a manuscript
95 History of the Troubles of Great Britain from 1633 to
1 650, by Robert Monteth of Salmonet ; added,
The Causes of the Restoration of Charles the 2d,
from the French of D. Riordan de Muscry Lon 1735
Collection of Papers, from authentic Records, in relation
to the Troubles in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
from 1639 to 1649, by J. Nelson, L.L.D. 2 vol. ib 1682
Lives of the Crown Officers of Scotland, by Geo. Craw-
ford, Vol. I Edin 1726
Monro's Expedition with a Scots Regiment under the
King of Denmark, and the King of Sweden, from
1626 to 1634 Lon 1637
History and Antiquities of Scotland, to the Death of
James the 1st, by William Maitland, continued to
James the sixths's accession to the Crown of Eng-
land, by another hand ib 1757
100 Drummond of Hawthornden's History of Scotland,
during the reign of the five first James's ; with
Memorials of State, during the reigns of James the
6th, and Charles the 1st ; annexed, his Familiar
Letters, and the Cypress Grove ib 1655
Sir Buls. Whitlocke's Memorials of English Affairs till
the death of James 1st ib 1709
Memorials during the Reign of Charles 1st, &c. ib 1682
History of the Life and Reign of Richard the 3rd, by
G. Buck ib 1647
History of the Civil Wars between the Houses of
York and Lancaster, from the Italian of Biondi ib 1641
4
50 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
105 Chambei-lain's History and Survey of London ib 1769
Burrow's Book of Rates, Vol. I Glas 1774
Craigii Jus Feudale Lon 1655
Robert Barclay of Urie's Works ib 1692
Opera Joannis Forbesii a Corse ; Vita Interior, Theo-
logia Moralis, Irenicum, cura Pastoralis, Instructi-
ones Historico-Theologicae, 2 torn. Arnst 1703
110 Julii Solini Polyhistor.
Fuller's Pisgah fight of Palestine Lon 1662
Thevenot's Travels into Turkey, Persia, and the East-
Indies ib 1687
Sir John Chardin's Travels into Persia and the East-
Indies ib 1686
Travels of the Ambassadors of the Duke of Holstein
through Muscovy, Tartary, and Persia ; annexed,
Mandelslo's Travels into the East-Indies. * ib 1662
115 Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tarteriae Chamum, per
Joan. Nieuhovium ; Latinitatedonataper Hornium :
(cum multis Tabulis aeneis). Amst 1668
Sandys' Travels through Greece, Egypt, Holy Land, &c. Lon 1670
History of Lapland, by Scheffer Oxf 1674
Conquest of Mexico, from the Spanish of Ant. de Solis Lon 1724
Royal Commentaries of Peru, from the Spanish of
Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ib 1688
120 History of the City and State of Geneva, by If. Spon ib 1687
Chrorographical Description of the British Monarchy
(engraved) ib 1748
Historia & Antiquitates TJniversitatis Oxoniensis
(opera A. Wood) Oxon 1674
Sibbald's History of Fife and Kinross Edin 1710
Crawford's History of the shire of Renfrew, and of the
Family of Stewart ; annexed, Acts of Sederunt of
the Lords of Session, from 1661 to 1681, and
Articles of Regulation
125 Scobell's collection of Acts of Parliament from 1648 to
1651 Lon 1653
Bacon's Natural History ; annexed, His New Atalantis ib 1639
Machiavel's Works ib 1680
Trial of Lord Stafford and others for High Treason ib 1681
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scot-
land from 1694 to 1717 inclusive, and from 1726
to 1782, inclusive, 5 vol. Edin VY
130 Virgilii Opera, 2 torn, (excudebat Foulis) Glas 1778
The Poetical Works of James Thomson, 2 vol.
(Foulis) ib 1784
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 51
BOOKS IN QUARTO.
No. Date.
Desiderata Curiosa, with cuts, by Francis Peck, 2 vol.
in one Lon 1779
Leland's History of Ireland, 3 vol. ib 1773
Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, 3
vol. Edin. 1771
135 Memoires de Sully, 3 torn. Lon 1747
Histoire d'Angleterre, par Rapin, 10 tom. Haye 1727
Hume's History of England, 6 vol. Lon 1762
Essays ib 1758
Spratt's History of the Royal Society ib 1702
140 Ainsworth's Dictionary, Latin and English, 2 vol. ib 1761
Howard's State of Prisons War 1777
Journal d'un Voyage au Nord en 1736 & 1737, par
Outhier Paris 1744
Joannis Majoris Britanniae Historia Edin 1740
History of Virginia, by Sir William Keith Lon 1737
145 Travels of E. Ysbrants Ides from Moscow to China,
with plates ib 1705
A collection of Tracts by Tho. Chubb ib 1730
History of the Military Transactions of the British in
Indostan, from 1745 to 1755, by Orme ib 1763
Guiccardini's History of the Wars in Italy, translated
by Fenton ib 1579
Marianae Historia de Rebus Hispaniae Bogin 1605
150 A Voyage to the South Sea, by Mons. Frezier Lon 1717
History of the Irish Rebellion begun 1641, by Sir John
Temple ib 1646
Boyer's Royal French and English Dictionary Hague 1702
Strada de Bello Belgico, cumfiguris Franc 1651
Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis, cum tabulis Lon 1719
155 Seldeni Uxor Hebraica Franc 1673
Cinnamus de rebus gestis imperatorum Constanti-
nopolitorum Traj 1652
Spanhemii Historia C. Religionis restitutae apud Genev.
Genev 1672
Leslei Scotorum Historia Rom 1675
Index Nominum Proprioruin in Historiis Thuani Genev 1634
160 Bower's History of the Popes, 7 vol. with an Appendix,
containing a View of the Controversy between the
Papists and the Author Lon v Y
Goodwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England (black
letter) Lon 1615
Tychonis Brahei Vita, authore P. Gassendo accessit,
Copernici, Peurbachii, & Regiomontani vita
(eodem Authore) Par 1654
52 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
Account of the Royal Family of Scotland, and of the
surname of Stewart, by Duncan Stewart Edin 1739
Collection of celebrated Criminal Trials, by H. Arnot ib 1785
165 Case of Will. Brereton Captain of the Duke, with an
Appendix Lon 1779
A System of English Conveyancing, adapted to Scot-
land, by J. M'Nayr Glas 1789
Principal Carstares' State Papers and Letters Edin 1774
Process of Declarator concerning the Revenue of Glas-
gow College 1778
History of the Shire of Renfrew, by Crawford, con-
tinued by W. Semple Pais 1782
1 70 History of the Province of Moray, by Lauchlan Shaw
Edin 1775
Rae's History of the Rebellion in 1715 Bum 1718
Whitelock's Journal of the Swedish Embassy in 1653,
2 vol Lon 1772
Account of the Countries round Hudson's Bay, by
Art. Dobbs ib 1744
Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, continued by King,
3 vol ' ib 1785
175 Consideration on India Affairs, by Will. Bolts ib 1772
Account of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich in 1789 ib 1789
Papers Relating to the Augmentation of the Stipends of
the Established Clergy in Scotland Edin 1751
Chalmer's Estimate of the Strength of Great Britain
annexed, An Essay on Population, by Judge Hale
Lon 1782
The Holy Bible, with Annotations, printed by Barker ib 1606
180 The Holy Bible, printed by Barker ib 1630
The Holy Bible Edin 1712
The New Testament in English (black letter) with the
Latin of Erasmus, printed by Gaultier Lon 1550
The Real Christian, by Firmin ib 1670
Flavel's Treatise on the Soul of Man ib 1698
185 Collection of the Writings of Lod. Mnggleton ib v Y
Anderson's Defence of the Church Government, &c. of
the Presbyterians Glas 1714
Selden's History of Tithes 1618
Alpinus de Medicina Egyptiorum, & Bontius de Medi-
cina Indoruin Por 1645
Euclidis Elementa, editio Rob. Simson Glas 1756
190 Spens' Translation of the Republic of Plato ib 1763
The First Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, with Notes
(by Callender of Craigfortfi) ib 1750
Pamphlets, 10 vol [The contents of these are set out,~\
STIRLING'S P UBLIC LIBRA RY. 53
BOOKS IN OCTAVO.
No. Date.
Present State of Europe (by Campbell) Lon 1757
The True Interest and Political Maxims of Holland, by
De Witt ib 1746
The Works of Sir William Temple, 4 vol Ed in 1754
205 Clarendon's History of the Civil Wars in England,
begun 1741, 6 vol Oxf 1632
Campbell's Lives of the Admirals of Great Britain,
4 vol Lon 1742
Moyle's Works, 2 vol ib 1726
Greaves' Miscellaneous Works, 2 vol ib 1737
Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, 4 vol ib 1783
210 Jenyns' Miscellanies ib 1770
Emlyn's Collection of Tracts, 2 vol ib 1731
Liber Niger Scaccarii, Editore Tho. Hearnio, 2 torn Oxon 1728
Neal's History of the Puritans, 4 vol Lon 1732
Calarny's Life of Baxter, with an Account of the
Ministers ejected after the Restoration, and the
History of Dissenters till 1711, 4 vol ib 1713
215 Prideaux's Connection of Sacred and Profane History,
2 vol ib 1718
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with cuts ib 1763
Pearson's Sermons ib 1718
Craig's Sermons, 3 vol Edin 1733
Echard's Ecclesiastical History, 2 vol Lon 1710
220 Burnet's Abridgement of his History of the Reformation ib 1 782
The Works of Flavius Josephus, 4 vol Glas 1762
History of the Translations of the Bible, by John
Lewis Lon 1739
Vetus Testamentum Juxta Septuaginta Inter0etes,
Edidit Jo. Er. Grabe, 8 torn Oxon 1707
Gillies' Historical Collections of the Success of the
Gospel, 2 vol Glas 1754
225 The Trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverel Lon 1710
Dr. Echard's Works ib 1705
Father Paul on Ecclesiastical Benefices ib 1736
Sir Matthew Hale's Contemplations, in 3 parts, 2 vol ib 1689
An Essay on Witchcraft, by Francis Hutchinson ib 1720
230 Bayle's Philosophical Commentary on " Compel them,"
&c. 2 vol ib 1708
Euclidis Elementa, ex versione Commandini Ox 1732
Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, 2 vol Lon 1721
Gordon's Geographical Grammar ib 1749
Nicolson's English Historical Library, 3 vol ib 1696
235 Collections on the Scottish History before 1153, by Sir
James Dalrymple Edin 1705
54 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
Negociations of Sir Ralph Sadler, Ambassador to
Henry 8th ib 1720
Baillie's Letters and Journals, 2 vol ib 1775
Bishop Parker's History of His Own Time Lon 1727
History of the Church and State of Scotland, from the
Accession of Charles 1st, to the Restoration of
Charles 2d, by And. Stevenson, 3 vol Edin 176b
240 Macky's Memoirs during the reigns of King William,
Queen Anne, and George 1st Lon 1733
Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, from 1702 to 1708,
by Lockhart of Carnwath ib 1714
Historical Treatise of Cities and Burghs, by Dr. Brady ib 1777
Antiquities of Constantinople, by Gyllius, translated
by Ball ib 1729
Puffendorf's Introduction to the History of Europe ib 1719
245 Complete History of Sweden ib 1702
History of the Revolutions of Spain, by Vairac, 5 vol ib 1724
Robertson's History of Scotland, 2 vol ib 1761
History of the Reign of Charles 5th, 3 vol Dub 1769
History of America 3 vol Lon 1777
250 Inquiry into the Evidence against Queen Mary
(Tytier) Edin 1767
Ockley's History of the Saracens, 2 vol Cam 1757
Neal's History of New England, 2 vol Lon 1747
Gordon's History of the American War, 4 vol ib 1788
Hamilton's New Account of the East Indies, 2 vol ib 1 744
255 A Cruising Voyage round the World, by Captain
Woodes Rogers ib 1726
Anson's Voyage Round the World ib 1747
Account q a Voyage Round the World, by W. Betagh ib 1728
Ulloa's Voyage to South America, 2 vol ib 1772
Collection of Voyages, Dampier's, Waser's, Cowley's.
&c. 4 vol ib 1729
260 Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages of Byron,
Cook, &c. 2 vol. Dub 1774
Charlevoix's Voyage to North America, 2 vol Lon 1761
Smith's Voyage to Guinea ib 1 744
Stewart's Journey to Mequinez in 1721 ib 1725
History of the Balearick Islands, or the Kingdom of
Majorca, translated from the Spanish ib 1719
265 History of the Island of Minorca, by Jo. Armstrong ib 1756
A Voyage to the North, from the French. Lon. 1706
Account of Denmark as it was in 1692 ib!694
Observations on Vesuvius, Etna, &c. by Sir W. Hamilton ib 1774
270 Account of Peru, and of the Earthquake at Lima in
1746 ib 1748
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 55
No. Date.
A General History of Stirlingshire, by Will. Nimino Edin 1777
The History of Glasgow, by John Gibson Glas 1777
Echard's Roman History, 5 vol Lon 1713
History of the Parthian Empire, by Tho. Lewis ib 1728
275 PerizoniiCommentarii Historic! de Seculo Sexto decimo Lug 1710
Hugonis Grotii Annales & Historiae de rebus
Belgicis. Amst 1658
History of Peter the Great, by A. Gordon, of Auchin-
(') T toul, 2 vol Aber 1755
History of Genghizcan the Great, by Petis de la
Croix Lon 1722
Vita Caroli Magni per Eginhartum, & Annales Pipini,
Caroli, <kc. Ger 1521
280 History of Will, de Croy, Governor to Charles 5th. by
Verillas Lon 1687
Life of Pope Sixtus the 5th. by Greg. Leti ib 1704
Life and Death of Sir Thomas Moore, by W. Hooper ib 1729
Gilpin's Life of Bishop Latimer ib 1755
Life of Bernard Gilpin ib 1753
285 The Life and Political Testament of Colbert ib 1695
Life and Actions of Marshal Turenne, by M. Buisson ib 1686
Memoirs of Denzil Lord Hollis, written by himself
Account of the Duchess of Maryborough, written by
herself ib 1742
A Collection of Lives and Memoirs. Memorials of the
Life of Thomas Hearne Private Passages of
the Life of Sir Thomas Pengelly Memoirs of the
Family of Talbot Memoirs of the Life of Louis
Maximilian Mahomet Memoirs of the Life of Dr.
Daniel Williams, with a true Copy of his Will ib v Y
290 Inquiry into the Genealogy of Scottish Surnames,
with a particular account of the Surname and
Family of Buchanan, by W. Buchanan of Auch-
mar Edin 1775
Johnson's History of Pirates, 2 vol Lon 1726
History of the Order of the Garter, by Elias Ashmole Lon 1715
Proceedings of the Inhabitants of Quebec to obtain an
House of Assembly ib 1775
Specimen of Naked Truth, from a British Sailor
(Admiral Vernon) ib 1746
295 Essays upon Peace at Home and War Abroad, by
D'Avenant. ib 1704
Essays on Ways and Means ib 1695
A Discoui'se on Grants and Resumptions, and For-
feited Estates, by the Author of " The Essay on
Ways and Means." ib 1700
56 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
The Speeches and Judgment of the Lords of Session
in the Douglas Cause Edin 1768
Grotius de Jure Belli ac Pacis, cum Notis Gronovii,
2 torn
300 Chronicon Preciosum, an account of the value of Eng-
lish Money for the last 600 years (by Bishop
Fleetwood) Lon 1707
Harris' Description and Use of the Globes ib 1732
Experiments on Bleaching, by Francis Home Edin 1756
Mead's Mechanical Account of Poisons Lon 1708
The History of the Plague in London in 1665, and in
Marseilles in 1720
305 Celsus de re Medica, 2 torn Glas 1766
The Holy Bible Dub 1740
Walker's Sermons, 3 vol Edin 1784
Gouge's Works Glas 1751
Vines' Treatise on the Sacrament Lon 1677
310 Inquiry into the Constitution, Worship, &c. of the
Primative Church (by Lord King] ib
State of the Process against Professor John Simson Edin 1728
The True Gospel of Jesus Christ asserted, by Tho.
Chubb Lon 1738
The Posthumous Works of Tho. Chubb, 2 vol ib 1748
The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton ib 1715
315 Nouveau Dictionaire, Francois & Latin Paris 1681
The Memorable Things of Socrates, translated from
Xenophon; with the Life of Socrates, by E.
Charpentier, and the Life of Xenophon Lon 1712
Cl. Schrevelii Lexicon Graeco-Latinum
Linguae Graecae Institutiones Grammaticae Edin 1725
Florus, cum notis Salmasii & selectisimis variorum. Amst 1674
320 Bailey's Translation of Justin Lou 1732
Caesar, cum Animadversionibus Vossii, Davisii, &c.
2 torn. Lug B 1713
Suetonius, in Usum Delphini Lon 1718
Plinii Secundi Epistolae & Panegyricus Oxon 1686
Quintus Curtius, cum Notis variorum Amst 1673
325 Eutropius, in Usum Delphini Lon 1716
The Gentleman's Magazine, from the commencement
in 1731 to 1739, inclusive, with the years 1741
and 1744, 11 vol ib vv
The Scots Magazine from the commencement in 1739,
to 1789, inclusive, 51 vol (continued) Edin VY
Pamphlets, 5 vol. [Contents are set out.']
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 57
BOOKS IN DUODECIMO, ET INFRA.
No. Date.
The Jewish Spy, by D'Argens, 5 vol Lon 1744
Hudibras, with cuts by Hogarth ib 1732
.335 Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Battle of the Books Edin 1750
De Nova Insula Utopia, auctore Th. Moro Glas 1750
Milton's Paradise Lost Lon 1730
Pope's Poetical Works, 4 vol Glas 1768
Iliad, 4 vol ib 1767
340 Odyssey, 3 vol ib 1768
Dryden's Translation of Virgil, 3 vol ib 1769
The Metrical History of Sir "William Wallace, by
Blind Harry, 3 vol Per 1790
Le Diable Boiteux, par Le Sage, 2 torn Lon 1759
The Blackbird, a Collection of Songs Edin 1764
545 Shaftesbury's Characteristics, 3 vol 1757
Nettleton on Virtue and Happiness Glas 1751
Locke on the Conduct of the Understanding 1741
Human Prudence Dub 1728
A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head, by C. Trench-
field Lon 1710
350 Hoyle's Games Improved ib 1779
The Interest of Princes and States, by the Duke de
Rohan Lon 1641
A Select Collection of Tracts, by Walter Moyle Glas 1750
A Free Inquiry into the Origin of Evil, by Soames
Jenyns Lon 1757
Bishop Burnet's Tracts ; Travels, Answers to Verillas,
&c. 2 vol ib 1689
-355 A Treatise on the Second Sight Edin 1763
The Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests, 2 vol Lon 1704
Relation Historique de la Peste de Marseille, en 1720 Colog 1721
Present State of England, by Ed. Chamberlyne Lon 1680
The Bye Laws and Regulations of the Marine Society ib 1775
360 Gee on the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Glas 1767
Child's New Discourse on Trade ib 1751
The Causes of the Decline of Foreign Trade Edin 1756
Forbes on Bills of Exchange ib 1718
L' Histoire Universelle, par Bossuet, 2 torn Paris 1758
365 Histoire Ancienne, par Rollin, 13 torn Amst 1738
L' Histoire de Louis XI. par Duclo.s, 3 torn Haye 1750
History of the Reign of Lewis the 13th. by Vassor,
3 vol Lon 1701
Le Siecle de Louis 14. par Voltaire, 2 torn Edin 1752
Ordonnance de Louis 14. pour les Armees, &c. Paris 1689
-370 History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great,
by Voltaire, 2 vol Berw
58 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
Revolutions de la Republique Romaic, par Yertot,
3 torn Paris 1720
Revolutions de Suede, 2 torn Vertot ib 1751
Revolutions de Portugal, Vertot ib 1758
Rerum Scoticarum Historia, auctore G. Buchanano Edin 1700
375 Historyof Scotland from 1436, by Lindsay of Pitscottie Glas 1749
Historia Motuum in regno Scotiae (ab 1637 at 1640) Dant 1641
Introduction to Anderson's Diplomata Scotiae, by Tho.
Ruddiman Edin 1773
Remarks on the History of Scotland, by Sir D. Dal-
rymple ib 1773
Tracts of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty ib 1782
380 Examination of Q. Mary's Letters to Bothwell, by
Goodall, 2 vol ib 1754
Crawfurd's Memoirs of the Affair's of Scotland, from
1566, to 1581 ib 1767
Moyses' Meinoii*s of the Affairs of Scotland, from the
beginning of the Reign of James 6th. till his
Accession to the Crown of England, with a Dis-
course on Go wry 's Conspiracy ib 1755
Melvil's Memoirs during the Reigns of Elizabeth, Mary,
and James 6th. Glas 1751
Bishop Guthrie's Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland,
from 1637 to the death of Charles 1st. ib 1747
385 Scotstarvet's Staggering State of Scots Statesmen Edin 1754
Ludlow's Memoirs relating to England, from the be-
ginning of the Civil Wars till the Restoration,
3 vol Edin 1751
Wei wood's Memoirs relating to England, from 1588 to
the Revolution Glas 1749
Earl of Balcarras' Memoirs of the Revolution, 1688, in
Scot. Edin 1754
Fletcher of Saltoun's Political Works Glas 1749
390 Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, 6 vol Lon 1725
History of the Conflicts of the Clans Glas 1764
Plutarch's Lives, 6 vol Edin 1757
Diog. Laertius de vita & moribus Philosophorum Lug 1559
395 La Vie de Charles V. de 1'Italien de Leti, 4 torn Brnf. 1710
Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, from the Latin
of Wishart Edin 1756
La Vie de Bayle, par Maizeaux, 2 torn Haye 1732
Memoirs of John Gordon of Glencat Lon 1733
A Genealogical Account of the House of Stewart, by
D. Symson Edin 1712
History of the House of Douglas, by Hume of Gods-
croft, 2 vol ib 1743
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 59
No. Date.
400 The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry Lon 1712
The Life of the Rev. Matthew Henry, by W. Toug ib 1716
The Life of the Rev. Joseph Alleine ib 1763
History of the Bucaniers of America, 2 vol ib 1741
Cluverii Introductio in universam Geographiam Arnst 1651
405 Martini Martinii Sinica Historia ib 1659
Olai Magni Gentium Septentrionalium Historiae
Breviarum Lug 1652
Severinnus de Monzambano de statu imperii Gei'-
manici 1684
Hispania & Portugallia, Commentarius de opibus, &c. ib. 1641
Les Declices des Pais-bas Brus 1700
410 An Account of the Republic of Geneva, by G.Keate Lon 1761
Brydone's Tour through Sicily and Malta, 2 vol Dub 1775
Scraston's Reflections on Indostan Lon 1761
Martin's Voyage to St. Kilda ib 1698
Wallace's Account of the Islands of Orkney, with
an Essay concerning the Thule of the An tients ib 1700
415 Brand's Desciiption of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland
Firth, &c. Edin 1701
The Antiquities of Durham Abbey Durh
M'Ure's History of Glasgow Glas 1736
The Muses Threnodie, by H. Adamson, first printed
in 1638, with Antiquities chiefly relating to Perth,
dec. an Account of Cowrie's Conspiracy, 2 vol.
pub. by J. Cant Perth 1774
Scots Acts of Parliament, from the First Parliament
of James 7th (1685) to the Union Edin 1731
420 Stewart's Abridgement of the Acts of Parliament
from the First Parliament of James 1st. (1424)
to the Union, continued by Bruce to 1726 Edin v Y
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scot-
land, from 1638 to 1649, inclusive 1682
Notes on a Variety of Subjects in Law, by John
M'Coull, a Manuscript
Sir George Mackenzie's Institutions of the Law of
Scotland Lon 1694
The Grandeur of the Law, by H. Philipps ib 1684
425 The Complete Copy-holder, by Sir Edward Coke ib 1673
Forbes on Church Lands and Tithes Edin 1705
Tracts on Marriage and Divorce, by Ber. Ochino,
Castamore, &c. Lon 1736
Interesting Histories and Trials, translated from, the
French, 2 vol ib 1744
Praxis Medica Hennanni Boerhaave, 5 torn Pett 1728
430 Le Chirurgien Dentiste, par Fauchard, 2 torn Par 1728
THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No. Date.
Traite de la Colique, par Parcel ib 1767
Keill's Anatomy Lon 1734
The Holy Bible Edin 1743
The Holy Bible, 2 vol Lon 1684
435 Biblia Sacra ex Seb Castellionis Interpretatione [4
torn.] ib 1726
Psalterium, Manu-Scriptum, cum Literis initicdibus
illuminatis & deauratis
The Rhemes New Testament 1749
Disputation haldin in Scotland the Zeir 1580, betwix
the Praetendit Ministeris (reformed) and Nicol
Burne, Prof, in Sanctandrois, &c. Paris 1581
The True Crucifixe for True Catholics, by Sir W.
Moore, of Eowallane Edin 1629
440 Comparative Theology Glas 1752
Hugo Grotius de veritate Religionis Christianae Amst 1680
Amesius de Conscientia ib 1643
Spanhemii introductionis Epitome ad Antiquitates
Sacras Lug 1675
Spicilegia Antiq. Aegypti, &c. auctore G. Jameson Glas 1720
445 Fleming's Fulfilling of the Scripture, 2 vol 1681
The Success of Two Danish Missionaries in Malabar Lon 1718
Histoire des Yaudois, par Boyer Haye 1691
Exposition of the Book of Job, by J. Dui-ham. Glas 1759
Rise and Progress of Religion, &c. by P. Doddridge Lon 1 750
450 Sermons, by H. Binning Glas 1760
Sermons and Essays, by J. M'Laurin ib 1755
Religio Medici (Eroum) Lug 1644
The Religious Stoic, by Sir Geo. Mackenzy Lon 1698
Busbequii Omnia quae extant Lug 1633
455 Georgii Buchanani Poemata quae extant Amst 1687
Grotius de Mari Libero, & P. Merula de Maribus ib 1633
Huygen's Conjectures concerning the Planetary
Worlds Glas 1757
Les A ventures de Telemaque, par Fenelon Lon 1755
Homeri Ilias, Gr. & Lat., 2 torn Glas 1778
460 in uno tomo Cant 1664
Fabellae ^Esopicae & Vita u3sopi, studio Camerarii Voeg 1564
Lucretius de Rerum Natura, cum commentariis Lam-
bini Franc 1583
Ciceronis Opera Omnia, 20 torn, typis Foulis Glas 1749
Virgilii Opera ib 1775
465 Ovidii Opera, 5 torn, typis Brindley Lon 1745
Cornelii Nepotis imperatorum Vitae Glas 1777
Taciti Opera ad Editionem Gronovii, 2 torn, in uuo ib 1743
Valerii Maximi dicta factaque Memorabilia Amst 1671
STIRLINffS PUBLIC LIBRARY. 61
No. Date.
Velleii Paterculi Hist. Rom. cum notis Ger. Vossii ib 1664
470 De Caesaribus, Egnatius, Dion, Vopiscus, &c. typis
Aldi Ven 1516
Lipsii Antiquitatem Romanarum Breviarium Lon 1692
Hobbe's Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey ib 1677
Maronides, or Virgil Travestie, by J. Phillips ib 1672
Creech's Translation of Lucretius, with Notes ib 1715
475 Ruddimanni Grammatica (major) 2 torn. Edin 1725
Grammatica (minor) ib 1771
Boyer's French Grammar Lon 1733
Ross's French Grammar Glas 1772
Pamphlets, 5 vol. [Contents are set out.]
CHAPTER III.
Inadequacy of the Bequest Books to be lent out Open-
ing of Library First Librarian Incidents of Early
Years Mr. James Pate Library Removed to Hut-
cliesons Hospital Affairs in Confusion : Inquiry
and Report John Struthers Alterations on the Con-
stitution New Buildings Amalgamation of Glasgow
Public Library Scouler Bequest Decline of the
Librai^y.
THE inadequacy of the bequest embarrassed the direc-
tors, and they therefore set themselves with vigour
to consider what means might be adopted to enable
them to carry out the wishes of the founder. It was
proposed to sell the house in Miller Street, also the
share in the Tontine Society, and to expend the monej^
left by Mr. Stirling on building or hiring a place suit-
able for the library, but the Solicitor-General declaring
that to be beyond the power of the directors, the pro-
posal was abandoned. It was finally resolved to amend
the constitution, the principal alteration being the in-
sertion of a clause authorizing the lending out of books
62 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
to (life) subscribers of three guineas. Formal announce-
ment of this arrangement was made in the newspapers,
and books lay at places of public resort for the en-
rolment of members.
The effort was crowned with success, 92 subscribers
being admitted at the first meeting, and the total num-
ber enrolled during the first year amounting to 202.
Mr. Stirling's house being found unsuitable for the ac-
commodation of the library, a room was engaged in St.
Enoch's Square, from the Faculty of Physicians and
Surgeons, at a yearly rent of twelve pounds.
The Rev. (afterwards Dr.) William Taylor, minister
of St. Enoch's Church, was elected librarian, at a salary
of thirty pounds per year, or the use of such rooms in
the Miller Street house as were not let. It is hardly
necessary to say that Mr. Taylor chose the thirty
pounds. He was by all accounts an estimable gentle-
man, inclined to take things easily, as would appear from
the following account of him by " Senex," in " Glasgow
Past and Present" : " Dr. Taylor was always glad to
give out a load of books at once, as it saved him the
trouble of frequent application to the shelves. The
doctor in particular was very reluctant to take the
ladder and mount aloft to the upper shelves of
the library in search of old, dusty, cob-webbed
volumes so enticing to our antiquaries, this opera-
tion causing the necessity for the application of a
clothes-brush to his clerical blacks. I have known the
doctor to give out books by armfuls, and he was not
very particular about the period when they were re-
turned, for the longer they were kept out so much less
trouble was it to him. I must say, however, that Dr.
Taylor was a polite and obliging librarian." One hun-
dred pounds worth of books were purchased, and so
popular did the library become that, in May, 1792, it
was proposed to raise the subscription to five guineas,
which was eventually done in March, 1793. It was
further raised in 1816 to ten guineas, and six years
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 63
afterwards it was reduced to seven guineas. At this it
remained until 1833, when it was again fixed at five
guineas, at which it has continued ever since. In 1792
a Seal of Cause was granted by the Lord Provost and
Magistrates erecting the library into a corporate body.
The library was opened daily from eleven to two. It
is indicative of the pastoral character of the times that
in one of the early minutes a complaint appears that
the town bulls had run up and damaged the stairs of
the Miller Street property, and the librarian was di-
rected to get them repaired at the charge of the Cor-
poration. The bulls would probably be in charge of
the town herd who every morning collected the cattle be-
longing to the inhabitants and drove them to the Cow-
caddens to graze, bringing them back in the evening.
It is worth noting that one of the early meetings was
held in the Tontine Tavern. The troublous nature iof
the closing years of the eighteenth century is forcibly
brought to mind by an order of the directors, dated
May, 1794, that Payne's "Rights of Man," and other
books, having been adjudged seditious, are not to be
given out. A member who did not find it convenient
to avail himself of his membership card, asked leave to
hand over the privilege to a young man of his acquaint-
ance, whom he described as possessing an unquenchable
thirst for knowledge. It is to be hoped that the young
gentleman found other means of allaying his thirst, as
the directors decided that only the subscriber could use
the library. A proposal made in 1792 to admit annual
subscribers at a guinea per year was approved of by
three of the four bodies having an interest in the lib-
rary. But the Merchants' House disapproving of it,
the idea was given up, not to be resumed again in a
practical shape for more than half a century.
At first only persons resident in Glasgow were ad-
mitted as members, but in August, 1793, it was agreed
to admit those residing within ten miles of the city, or
staying in it for a part of the year.
64 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
On llth May, 1795, the Rev. Mr. Taylor resigned
the office of librarian, and was succeeded by Mr.
William Meikleham, who held the post for a year,
being in turn succeeded by Rev. James Pate. Mr,
Taylor was afterwards a director. Nothing of im-
portance occurs in the records of the library for many
years. The affairs of the institution did not apparently
excite much interest even among the directors, for
although only four statutory meetings were held each
year, no business was done at many of them for want
of a quorum. In 1801, the Town Council neglected
to elect directors, and in accordance with a clause in
the will of the founder, the other three managing
bodies each elected a director to make up the number.
This happened again in 1808. In January, 1808, Mr.
Pate, having been appointed keeper of the Hunterian
Museum, resigned the office of librarian. He seems
to have been a careful and diligent servant. Of a
severe, saturnine disposition, he ruled his little domain
with a high hand, and was much feared by the luckless
persons who aroused his ire. " Seiiex," in a charac-
teristic letter written to the directors in 1848, says
that Mr. Pate was the only valuable librarian the
library had ever possessed.
He examined every book as it was returned, leaf by
leaf, and if torn, mended it there and then. This
enabled him to detect the author of any damage, and
woe to the delinquent ! "I have seen ladies stand
trembling from top to toe under the scolds of Mr.
Pate, for having returned books a little spoiled, or
with a slight spot of ink." After occupying the
curatorship of the Hunterian Museum for a short time
Mr. Pate was presented to the charge of Innerleithen,
Peeblesshire.
His successor, Alexander Gray, described as a preach-
er of the Gospel, held office until November, 1812, when
he was appointed to the parish of Kincardine in Men-
teith, Perthshire. The next librarian John Gumming
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 65
was also a preacher of the Gospel, and remained in
the library until he received a presentation to the
parish of Fraserburgh in January, 1815. He died in
1857 in the 85th year of his age and the 42nd of his
ministry. The Rev. Matthew Muir was the next
keeper of the books, and continued in office until his
death in 1832. The premises in St. Enoch's Square
do not seem to have been over-suitable. In 1795 a
committee was appointed to inquire as to whether the
library could secure accommodation in the Assembly
Rooms (now the Athenaeum), but it never reported.
When the patrons of Hutchesons' Hospital were
erecting their new buildings, negotiations were entered
into, with the result that in 1805 the library was
moved into the main hall of the buildings.
The minute books of this period contain the record
of little but routine business. In 1796, a donation of
books was received from Mr. and Miss Coulter, form-
ing the first considerable gift of books. Books were
also presented by Mrs. Colonel Ritchie (1802), Robert
Reid, "Senex" (1807), Robertson Buchanan (1810),
Alexander Molleson (1812), and Kirkman Finlay,
M.P. for Glasgow (1817). In 1826 over 500 volumes
were received from William Jameson, jun., merchant
in Glasgow.
A special label was printed for them, and a separate
catalogue was ordered to be prepared. In addition to
these there were many gifts of lesser amount, the most
interesting being that from the distinguished Governor-
General of India, Warren Hastings, of a copy of the
report of the debates in the House of Lords on his trial.
It is inscribed : " To Mr. Stirling's Library, from
Mr. Hastings." In 1817, the ubiquitous tax-gatherer
attempted to levy a rate on the library under the
Servant Tax, but the insinuation that the library was
a shop, and the librarian a shopman, was repelled with
much warmth. On 12th August, 1822, the usual
quarterly meeting of directors was not held on account
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66 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGO W.
of the King's visit to Edinburgh, and in February,
1832, it is recorded that no directors came to the
meeting owing to "peculiar circumstances." The
cholera epidemic of this year is probably here referred
to. At the death of the Rev. Matthew Muir the
affairs of the institution were found to be much con-
fused. A considerable sum of money was missing, and
many books.
The money was replaced from Mr. Muir's personal
bank account, and some of the books were recovered,
but a number of valuable ones were never found. A
committee was appointed to inquire into the state of
the library, and to suggest such improvements in the
mode of management as they might deem necessary.
The directors entrusted with this duty discharged it in
a very thorough and satisfactory way. They made a
searching investigation, and drew up an exhaustive
report. This report contained a summary view of the
library from its foundation, with a valuable statistical
table of the revenue and expenditure, and concluded
with some sensible suggestions on the management
and cataloguing of the books. The report was adopted,
and its recommendations carried out. The books were
put in order, and a classified catalogue issued. This is
the only classified catalogue of Stirling's Library, and
the best complete catalogue of the library issued.
None of the others are good specimens of cataloguing,
the first one least of all. In it the names of the books
are entered in the order in which they stood on the
shelves, a plan the inconvenience of which may be
experienced by looking for a work in the average book-
auctioneer's catalogue of the present day. This refor-
mation of 1832, and the entry of the institution on
what seemed to be a vigorous career, forms a sort of
halting-place, and is a convenient point from which to
review the previous history of the library. From May,
1791, to May, 1832, a period of forty-one years, 607
persons were enrolled as members. Of these, 377
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 67
joined during the first two years, the following thirty-
nine years witnessing an addition of only 270. The
first two years give an average increase per year of
188 ; the following thirty-nine years give an average of
7. 389 members paid three guineas, 178 paid five
guineas, 7 paid ten guineas, and 33 paid seven guineas.
The revenue and expenditure during the forty-one
years were as follows :
REVENUE.
Rent of house in Miller Street, - 2,927 10
Interest on 1,000 lodged with Cor-
poration of Glasgow, - 1,927 19 1
Dividends on share in Tontine Society, 342
Subscriptions of Subscribers, , - 2,475 18
Sale of Catalogues, - 17758
From other sources, 69 15 6^
Total, 7,920 8
EXPENDITURE.
Books and Binding, - 4,114
Salaries and Gratuities to Librarians, 1,820
Insurances and Public Burdens, 371
Printing, Stationery, Advertising,
and Law Accounts, - 252
Rent of Library, 792
Repairs and miscellaneous expenses, 536
Total, 7,887 10
The annual income in 1832 was estimated at
156 15s. 8d., made up as follows :
Rent of property in Miller
Street, - 95
Interest on City Bond, - 35
Dividend on Tontine Share, 400
Subscriptions of Members
(average of ten years), - 22 15 8
156 15 8
68 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
The expenditure was estimated at
95 15sj 8d., made up as follows:
Librarian's Salary, - - 50
Insurance, 7 10
Incidental expenses, 858
Rent of Library, 30
95 15 8
Balance available for the purchase of
books, - 61
The number of subscribers at May, 1832, was 300,
" a larger number," the report adds, " than should
have been from the ordinary calculations of life."
The growth of the collection had been about as slow
as the increase in subscribers, relatively speaking. As
has been already stated, Mr. Stirling's library con-
sisted of 804 volumes. These were at once added to,
and the first catalogue (1792) contained the titles of
2,000 volumes. In 1795 these had increased to 3,705.
On 26th September, 1816, there were 5,899 volumes
in the library (Cleland's " Annals of Glasgow," v. ii.
p. 436). The same writer, in his " Rise and Progress
of the City of Glasgow," gives the number in Novem-
ber, 1819, as 6,360. This gives an increase of 2,655
volumes from 1795, an average yearly increase of
about 111 volumes. If the donations be subtracted, a
very small number is left to have been added by pur-
chase. The number of volumes in the library in 1832
is not given in the report of the committee, but the
value of them is stated to be 3,300.
Out of a considerable number of competitors, one of
whom was John Struthers the poet, Mr. John Wyllie
was appointed librarian.
Mr. Wyllie, who was previously a dealer in foreign
books in the city, did not long enjoy his appointment,
dying in 1833. He was succeeded by Mr. Struthers, just
mentioned, the author of the " Poor Man's Sabbath,"
and other poems, and a " History of Scotland from
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 69
the Union in 1707 to the year 1827," two volumes,
octavo, Glasgow, 1827. His complete poetical works
and autobiography were issued in 1850 in two pretty
little volumes.
The story of his life is told with great modesty. He
was born at Longcalderwood, in the parish of East
Kilbride, where his father was for upwards of forty
years the principal shoemaker. He received little
schooling, save what his mother gave him. She
taught him to write, by writing down in a very rude
manner on a slate the letters of the alphabet, which
the boy carefully copied. He was also taught to read
by his mother from the Shorter Catechism, learning
the words and the questions at the same time.
He learned his father's craft, and plied it for many
years in Glasgow. His first volume was published in
1804, at sixpence, and, helped by a favourable review
in an Edinburgh periodical, was sold out in a few
weeks. He was intimate with Joanna Baillie, by whose
advice Messrs. Ballantyne of Edinburgh published a
complete edition of his poems, giving him thirty pounds
and two dozen copies. He was an amiable and God-
fearing man, judging everybody with great charity a
timid soul, doubtful of his own ability, preserving a
fresh heart and an uncomplaining spirit through
a long life, marked by hard times, and latterly clouded
by heavy sorrow and affliction.
Whether owing to Mr. Struthers or not, the library
during his occupancy of the post of librarian declined
rapidly. The number of subscribers at the date of his
entering office was a little over 300. When he
resigned in 1848 it had dwindled down to 105. From
O
1833 to 1837 35 members joined ; during the next five
years, 1837 to 1842, only 11 were added, while from
the latter date to 1848 there seems to have been no
addition at all to the membership. In 1833 it was
proposed to erect a library building at the back of Mr.
Stirling's house, and plans and estimates were obtained
70 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
and the erection proceeded with, but although the new
place is reported, in 1835, to be nearly ready, the
library remained in its home in Hutchesons' Hospital
buildings for nine years longer. In this connection it
may be worth mentioning that the Library Hall was
used for the meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science on their visit to Glasgow in
1840. In 1841 the patrons let the body of the hall
for a reading-room, and Mr. Struthers was allowed to
look after the room, in addition to his duties as
librarian. 1842 witnessed a spirited attempt to
resuscitate the institution. To so low an ebb had
matters come that the committee appointed to con-
sider the situation reported that only 72 members
were using the library, and added that it was painfully
obvious that unless some means were taken by the
directors to infuse new life into the institution its
present languid and declining condition would soon
end in its destruction. One of the remedies suggested
was the addition to the managing board of representa-
tives from the subscribers, which suggestion was
carried into effect in 1848. This report was accom-
panied by one from the Committee on Library Buildings
laying before the directors a number of schemes for
the accommodation of the library, and recommending
that which proposed to enlarge and utilize the building
at the back of the house in Miller Street. This
proposal was adopted, and the whole of the altera-
tions and additions being completed, the books were
removed from Hutchesons' Hospital buildings, where
they had been for nearly forty years, to their new
habitation in June, 1844. In this place, which is
now used as a warehouse, the library remained until
1864, when the present premises were erected. Noth-
ing practical resulted from this awakening, and in
course of a year or so the old torpor supervened. In
1848 came another revival. A new committee was
appointed, and reported in favour of the admission of
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 71
annual members, and of the addition to the manage-
ment of eight directors, elected by and from amongst
the subscribers. To Mr. Andrew Liddell, a munificent
donor, is due the main credit of the success which
attended the labours of this committee, and he very
deservedly headed the poll at the first election of the
additional directors. The four public bodies ratified
the proposals of the committee, and also agreed to make
several improvements in the building for the better
accommodation of the readers which it was anticipated
would flock to it. Owing to his feeble health, it was
found necessary to dispense with the services of the
librarian, Mr. Struthers, and Mr. William Auld was
elected in his place. The library was opened on
Christmas Day, 1848, under the new conditions, and
on 8th January, 1849, for the first time in its history
the public were admitted in the evening. Previous
to this gas was not used in the building. This re-
opening was probably the first occasion on which free
use was made of the collection, the " three hours per
day," mentioned in the will of the founder, having
been a dead letter up to this time. Just before the
alteration of the constitution the number of members
was 105. Up to the day of the election of directors
(19th January, 1849), 11 life and 118 annual members
had made application for admission. On that date the
subscribers met and elected the following gentlemen-
all of whom are now dead to represent them on the
Board of Directors : Andrew Liddell, Richard S.
CunlifF, William Cockey, William Bogle, Joseph
Fleming, Robert Buchanan, William Brodie, Robert
Reid ("Senex").
The new constitution provided for the election of a
vice-president, treasurer, and secretary. Mr. James
Play fair, one of the directors elected by the Town
Council, was the first vice-president ; Mr. Andrew
Liddell the first treasurer ; and Mr. William Cockey
the first secretary. Fortune smiled on the institution
72 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
for a few years. The report for the eighteen months,
from 1st October, 1848, to 30th March, 1850, bore
that the life subscribers had increased from 116 to 131,
and the annual subscribers from 118 to 298 the
total number of members therefore being 429. No
account had been kept of the number of volumes con-
sulted, but the consultations had been numerous. 900
volumes had been added, and 500 repaired. The
following very valuable donations had been received
amongst others : The Maitland Club publications ;
" Edinburgh Annual Register," 24 volumes ; Calvin
Society's publications, 27 volumes ; Dugdale's Mon-
asticon, 8 volumes ; and other works from Mr. James
Bogle, 80 volumes from Mr. Andrew Liddell, and 57
volumes from Mr. William Euing.
In April, 1851, it was reported that the subscribers
numbered 423, consisting of 127 life and 296 annual, a
slight decrease on the number of the previous year.
10,569 volumes of which only 30 per cent, was
fiction were consulted in the reference department.
Next year showed an increase of 104 annual and 1 life
subscriber, and also an increase of 865 in the issue of
books. The year following, 1852-3, witnessed a still
further increase in both number and issue. In 1853-4,
the last year of this period of which reliable statistics
are available, there was a decrease of 3 life and 26
annual subscribers, and the number of books issued
was 2,612 less than that of the previous year.
On 5th April, 1851, Mr. Auld resigned, and was
succeeded by Mr. J. B. Simpson, previously a director,
brother-in-law of the late Sheriff Glassford Bell, and
husband of " Gertrude," author of " Linda, and other
Poems," and the beautiful and widely-known hymn,
" Go when the Morning Shineth." Mr. Simpson was a
man of wide reading and occasionally handled the
brush. Several of the old and curious books bear
descriptive labels in his handwriting, evidencing a good
deal of out-of-the-way knowledge. He published in
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 73
1872 a volume of short pieces entitled "Literary and
Dramatic Sketches." In his hands the library does
not appear to have been conducted to the satisfaction
of the directors. But as the present writer does not
feel it incumbent on him to put on record all the per-
sonal disagreements which may have occurred amongst
those concerned in the management of the library from
time to time, save where the adequate telling of the
story would be impaired, it will suffice to say that Mr.
Simpson left the service of the directors towards the
end of 1860 on anything but pleasant terms. His
successor, Mr. David Blair, was appointed in April,
1861. From this time matters began to improve. In
1860-61, 13,351 volumes were issued in the reference
department; in the following year the issue increased
to 39,633 ; the issue of the next year was 56,587, and
the succeeding year (1863-64) 61,343. The increased
business soon overleapt the accommodation which was
sufficient in 1844, and the directors therefore took
down the old Stirling mansion and erected on its site
the present library buildings. For this purpose they
borrowed the sum of 3,600, to be repaid in annual
payments of 250. The last of these falls to be paid
.at Whitsunday, 1888. The new Library Hall was
opened on llth April, 1865, by Lord Provost Blackie.
A picture of Mr. Stirling's house is given in " Glasghu
Facies." Pecuniary difficulties presenting themselves,
a loan of 1,500 was received from the Corporation,
and about 100 life subscribers at 5 5s. each were
enrolled. In 1871 the Glasgow Public Library, a sub-
scription library formed in 1804, amalgamated with
Stirling's, and the title of the institution was changed
to " Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library." In 1872
Dr. William Scouler, Professor of Mineralogy in the
Royal Dublin Society, bequeathed his books, number-
ing over 2,000, to the library. They consist mainly of
foreign works, including many specimens of early
.Spanish, Portuguese, and French printing. They are
74 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
mostly on scientific or philosophical subjects, a con-
siderable number treating of Ireland, and a not incon-
siderable number being works of and works on Aristotle.
Of the history of the library during the ten years pre-
ceding 1881 little more need be said than that it was
not increasing either in prosperity or in usefulness.
Year after year saw the number of readers and sub-
scribers decline, until at the end of the financial year
(March 31) 1880-81, the former were estimated at 25,000
and the latter numbered 339. In the spring of 1881 a
committee was appointed, with Councillor (now Bailie)
Jackson as convener, to inquire into the cause of the
decadence of the library. This committee reported in
favour of adding a large number of new books, of
shifting the library to a more populous locality, and
of extending the hours during which it was open. The
first and third of these proposals were under the present
librarian carried into effect, and with other reforms
have been the means of raising the place to its present
satisfactory position. In January, 1881, Mr. Blair
died at upwards of eighty years of age. He was longer
in office than any of his predecessors, having nearly
completed the twentieth year of his librarianship. In
a minute of 10th February, 1881, the directors give
expression to their deep regret at his death, and record
their opinion that he had given long-continued and
faithful service to the library.
STIELING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 75
CHAPTER IV.
Appointment of a new Librarian Increase in Member-
ship and Issue Stock-taking Arrangement of the
Books Difficulty of Classifying the Library while
in use Want of Room Scheme of Classification
Growth of the Library Prominent Directors Vice-
Presidents Bailie Bogle William Euing Michael
Connal - - Treasurers Secretaries Robert Reid>
" Senex " Interesting Donation Present Board of
Directors Donors Manuscripts.
IN April, 1881, 'Mr. Thomas Mason, senior assistant
librarian in the Mitchell Library, was appointed in
the place of Mr. Blair as librarian. The progress of
the library since then may be briefly set forth. In
1880-81 the number of members was (including life
and congregational members) 339 ; in 1881-82 these
increased to 459, and further increased in the follow-
ing year to 670. At the end of 1883-84 it was found
that the number had reached 731. This shows an
increase in three years of 392 members, the subscrip-
tions of whom amounted to 157 15s. 3d. The number
of new members enrolled was much larger (679), allow-
ance having to be made in reckoning the increase for
the members who have lapsed. Of members presently
on the roll the oldest in membership is Mr. J. D.
Bryce, 18 Buckingham Terrace, who was admitted as
a life member on 8th February, 1836. The issue of
books during the same period has increased in even a
greater ratio than the members. The issue for 1880-81
was estimated at about 25,000 ; that for 1881-82 was
57,463 ; for 1882-83, 104,714 ; and for 1883-84, 132,239,
Thus in three years the issue of books has been in-
creased at least five-fold.
76 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
No arrangement of the books seems ever to have
been made until that made by the present librarian.
His first piece of work was to make an inventory of
the books in the place, which labour was exceedingly
dirty, and extended over a period of six months. That
finished, he at once proceeded with the arrangement.
With the |library in use, the process was a tedious
and laborious one. The class first brought together in
one place was Biography. The books composing it
had to be sought for in every part of the building, and
owing to the dim and sometimes titleless state of the
backs of the books, the only thorough method was
found to be that of opening every book and deter-
mining whether it belonged to the class in formation.
This had to be done for every class, the labour, of
course, becoming easier as the number of books to go
over decreased. The quickest and most satisfactory
way would have been to have divided the books into
their respective classes at once, and then to have
arranged each class on the shelves where it was most
convenient to have it. But this method would have
necessitated the shutting of the library for a consider-
able period, which was out of the question. The work
was further increased by the want of room to turn in.
When a class of books had been selected, a place had
to be provided for them. The volumes had been
gathered from every press, but there being no excess
of space, the unarranged books had to be put into the
vacancies caused by the abstractions, and as they might
remain in their temporary places for months, their loca-
tion had to be taken note of, else it would have been
practically impossible to get them when wanted. This
mere matter of locating occupied a considerable time,
and did not directly forward the arrangement. Another
piece of temporary work requires to be noted before
an accurate idea can be had of the labour involved in
arranging a large public library while it is being used.
After a class was arranged it was necessary to provide
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY. 77
a key to the individual books from the old numbers.
When a new catalogue is in use the books will be
sought for by their new numbers, and will be readily
found. But until the issue of this new catalogue
the books are asked fqr by their old numbers, hence
the necessity of a key or index from the old to the
new numbers. The arrangement, we do not say
re-arrangement, as the present is the first time the
books have been arranged, is now concluded, and
an account of it may therefore be given without
danger of recording what might afterwards be
altered had the plan of arrangement been only
projected.
The books are arranged in thirteen classes, as
follows :
A. Theology, Philosophy, and Ecclesiastical History.
B. Biography.
C. History, Travels, and Voyages.
D. Science and Natural History.
E. Fine Arts.
F. La.w, Politics, Sociology, Commerce.
G. Language.
H. Poetry and the Drama.
K. Fiction (Prose).
M. Miscellaneous Literature.
K. Rare and Curious Books.
S. Books relating to Scotland.
W. Scouler Donation.
The first ten of these may be called ordinary classes ;
the last three are special classes, composed entirely
of books which naturally belong to the other classes,
but which are separated for the purpose indicated in
the titles the rare books for safety, the Scottish books
for convenience, and the Scouler donation for the laud-
able object of perpetuating in a visible manner the
generosity of the donor.
The publications of the Patent Office form a class,
78 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
but being a large and very distinct one, and, further,
not belonging to the library, but kept in trust for the
Corporation of Glasgow, it was not necessary to deal
with it as with the rest of the contents of the library.
Theology and Ecclesiastical ^istory are placed to-
gether, and Philosophy by itself, the whole class
tilling almost one side of the gallery. Biography is
downstairs, and is divided into general biography,
i.e., volumes containing two or more lives, and indi-
vidual biography, consisting of books dealing with
only one life. Individual biography is arranged on
the shelves alphabetically by the names of the sub-
jects of the memoirs.
History and Travels are located in the gallery, and
are arranged on the shelves in countries in the follow-
ing order : World, Europe, France, Spain, Portugal,
Italy, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Switzerland,
Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia
(islands go with the adjacent countries), Africa, Canada,
United States, other American States proceeding south-
wards, Asia proceeding from east to west. Australasia,
England and Ireland are kept downstairs, separately,
of course, and are considerable sub-classes, and are
again sub-divided into books on the whole of these
countries and those on parts. Books on Scotland, it
will be remembered, form a distinct class.
Fiction is arranged alphabetically, irrespective of
size, but this matters little, as works of fiction are
much alike in dimensions. The class is kept down-
stairs, near at hand. Rare and curious books are in
the librarian's room. Books relating to Scotland are
divided into those on the whole of Scotland, and those
on parts, those on the ecclesiastical history, law, etc., of
Scotland. Sets of magazines are shelved in parts of
the library less accessible, or where an even row of
uniform volumes adds to the appearance of the library
without disturbing the class arrangement.
The practical advantages of having books of a class
STIRLING'S P UBLIG LIBRAE Y. 79
together are obvious, and to these may be added the
neat, orderly appearance which results from a good
arrangement. The growth of the library is set out in
the table appended :
Year. Volumes. Increase.
1791 - 804
1795 3,705 2,901
1816 5,899 2,194
1819 6,360 461
1842 11,000 4,640
1870 24,000 13,000
*1878 38,000 14,000
1885 42,000 4,000
In the course of this account of the library mention
has been incidentally made of some of those who have
taken a part in its management, but several other
gentlemen have been prominently connected with the
institution whom we have had no opportunity hitherto
of introducing, but whose services to the library have
been such as to render incomplete any account of it
which omitted to speak of them. Mr. John Wardrop
was on the board from 1807 to 1829, and during that
long time was the most regular and hard working
member of the directorate. The Rev. Dr. Lockhart
was a director from 1795 to 1798, 1802 to 1803, 1808
to 1811, and 1819 to 1821. The Rev. Mr. Burns
of the Barony filled a similar position from 1795
to 1803, and 1807 to 1810. The following gentle-
men also held office : Rev. Mr. M'Lean, Gorbals,
from 1795 to 1799, 1803 to 1804, 1811 to 1813,
1822 to 1824; Dr. Miller, from 1801 to 1802, 1803
to 1805, 1806 to 1812, 1817 to 1826 ; Bailie Laurence
Craigie, from 1802 to 1803, 1820 to 1826; Rev.
Dr. Stevenson Macgill, Professor of Divinity in
Glasgow University, from 1798 to 1802, 1821 to 1823,
* The Glasgow Public Library and the donation by Dr. Scouler
were acquired between 1870 and 1878.
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1833 to 1835; Dr. Balmanno, from 1803 to 1805, 1814
to 1815; Mr. Hopkirk, 1807 to 1810; Dr. Nimmo,
from 1810 to 1811, 1812 to 1824; Bailie James
Lumsden, 1820 to 1826 ; Eev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers,
from 1823 to 1824; Gilbert Watson, from 1824 to
1829 ; Dr. Alex. Panton, from 1826 to 1832 ; Walter
Ferguson, from 1827 to 1832; Dr. George Hendrie,
from 1827 to 1832; John Smith, youngest, from 1828
to 1834 ; Dr. Weir, from 1832 to 1847, 1852 to 1855 ;
Dr. Perry, from 1832 to 1845, 1847 to 1848; Dr.
Cowan, from 1832 to 1841; Henry Paul, from 1834
to 1839; Principal Macfarlan, from 1834 to 1837;
John Leadbeater, from 1839 to 1844; Alex. Hastie
(afterwards M.P. for the city), from 1839 to 1849; Dr.
Alfred Hall, from 1848 to 1850 ; Dr. Joseph Fleming,
from 1849 to 1858; Rev. Dr. Runciman, from 1851
to 1854 ; Rev. William Symington, from 1852 to 1858;
Sheriff Skene, from 1852 to 1856 ; Rev. Dr. Jamieson,
from 1856 to 1880; James Hedderwick, from 1851 to
1854. The office of vice-president was instituted in
1848, and, as has been noted, its first holder was Bailie
James Playfair. He was succeeded in 1852 by Bailie
James Bogle, who died in 1855. Mr. William Euing
was next elected to the office, and held it until his
death in 1874, when the Rev. Dr. Jamieson was ap-
pointed. Mr. Michael Connal succeeded Dr. Jamie-
son in 1879. Bailie Bogle was next to Mr. Euing the
most munificent donor to the library. The latter gave
many fine books, and in virtue of his gifts was elected,
under a clause in the founder's will, an extraordinary
director. To his generosity the library owes its most
precious possessions. He gave thousands of volumes,
all of them belonging to the class which Mr. Stirling
most desiderated "rare and curious books." So
thorough was his sympathy with the library that he
lovingly hovered about it, dropping in ever and anon
with a precious volume. His connection with the
library was unique in point of duration. He was
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elected a life member in 1795, four years after the
foundation of the library, and therefore for his three
guineas enjoyed the privileges of membership for 79
years. At his death he bequeathed the sum of 200
to the library.
Of the present much-esteemed vice-president nothing
but praise can be said. He was born next door to the
library, some sixty-eight or so years ago, when Miller
Street knew naught of shop or counting-house, and
cherishes a loving regard for Walter Stirling's founda-
tion. Twenty-eight years ago he joined the board
of directors, and with his co-director, Mr. George W.
Clark, battled with officialism, neglect, and mismanage-
ment, and in every movement for the improvement of
the library initiated since then he has taken an active
share. Mr. Andrew Liddell discharged the duties of
treasurer till his death in 1854. He was succeeded
by Mr. Richard S. Cunliff, who held office until 1875,
and was in turn succeeded by the present respected
treasurer, Mr. David Sandeman. Mr. Liddell is men-
tioned earlier in this notice as having taken a chief
part in the resuscitation of the library in 1848. He
also presented many books. Mr. Cunliff was the
keeper of the purse during a period when the income
rarely exceeded the expenditure, and he gave liberally
both in service and in money. He died in 1879. Mr.
Sandeman was a director of the Glasgow Public
Library, and on its amalgamation with the Stirling
Library was elected a director of the latter. He
recently subscribed 50 to the fund for the extinction
of the debt on the library. The office of secretary was
ably filled by Mr. William Cockey from 1849 to 1864,
when Mr. G. W. Clark took office. Mr. Clark had asso-
ciated with him as joint secretaries the late Mr. Cun-
ningham Monteath, and the present secretary, Mr. John
Ferguson. Mr. Clark's long term of service has been
greatly to the advantage of the library. When the
new buildings were being put up, and latterly when
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the funds were very low, he did yeoman service. One
of the early directors yet remains to be noticed
Robert Reid, better known as the " Senex" of " Glasgow
Past and Present," and " Old Glasgow." He presented
the library in 1865 with his own photograph, and the
receipt given him by Mr. Pate when he became a life
member, on 2nd March, 1799. On the photo and
receipt is an inscription in the following terms : " To
Stirling's Public Library, Glasgow, from Mr. Robert
Reid (alias ' Senex'), in the 67th year of his subscrip-
tion, and 93rd year of his age." He died the same
year. His recollections of old Glasgow, first given in
the " Glasgow Herald," and afterwards republished in
" Glasgow Past and Present," are most valuable. He
was born before the deepening of the Clyde, and before
the erection of a greater part of the present city. He
had many curious and entertaining stories to tell of
old Glasgow and its ways, and gave a deal of topo-
graphical information which it would have been hard
to have collected otherwise. The present board is a
good one. Its management is distinguished by enter-
prise, and by that amount of reforming zeal necessary
to keep abuses from creeping in, a zeal, however, which
is judiciously tempered by that wholesome conservatism
which becomes the guardians of a public institution, and
under its sway the library is in a more flourishing con-
dition than it ever has been before.
The present directors are :
Elected By
George Buchanan, Professor of
Clinical Surgery in the Uni-
versity of Glasgow, 1853 Physicians and Surgeons.
Michael Connal, Vice-President
(Chairman of the School
Board of Glasgow), 1856 Subscribers.
w n , , f 1858-61 Town Council.
George W. Clark, | Ig61 Subscr i bers .
Dr. Robert Perry, 1861 Physicians and Surgeons.
( 1 8fi5 8
Preceptor William Wilson, < io 7 g Town Council.
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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Elected
David Sandeman (Treasurer), 1871
Rev. Matthew Cochrane, M.A., 1871
John Ferguson (Secretary), 1878
Bailie George Jackson (Con-
vener of Managing Com-
mittee), 1879
William M'Kim, 1880
Donald M'Corquodale, 1881
Robert Chrystal, 1881
George Smith, 1881
Rev. F. L. Robertson, D.D., 1881
Dr. Robert Renfrew, 1882
William Kerr, 1883
J. F. King, 1883
Lord Provost William M'Onie, 1883
Rev. David Miller, 1884
J. M. Cunningham, 1884
Councillor James Colquhoun, 1884
By
Subscribers.
Presbytery.
Subscribers.
Town Council.
Subscribers.
V
Merchants' House.
Presbytery.
Physicians and Surgeons.
Subscribers.
>
Town Council.
Presbytery.
Merchants' House.
Town Council.
Among the donors to the library have been some
illustrious and many notable persons. Her Majesty
the Queen sent a copy of her " Leaves from the
Journal of our Life in the Highlands " with her
autograph, in 1868, and again honoured the library
in a similar way last year, with " More Leaves from
the Journal of a Life in the Highlands." The names
of Horace Greeley, James O. Halliwell, Lord Kin-
loch, and nearly all our local historians, also appear
in the list of donors. William Jameson, jun., Bailie
Bogle, William Euing, Robert Reid, and Bailie
Liddell have been mentioned already in these pages
as liberal givers.
There are fully a dozen of manuscripts in the lib-
rary, two of them written on vellum. These two are
described in the preface to the present catalogue as
being of the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, and
they certainly appear to be quite as old as that. One
is a treatise on the Canon Law (in Latin). It is a
small book (4j inches long by 3 broad), and is strongly
bound in vellum, with big brass nails on the sides. The
staple of the clasp remains, but the clasp itself has dis-
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appeared. The writing is beautifully done in red and
brown, with illuminated borders and initial letters.
Some of the initial letters contain portraits, and the
borders are adorned with pictures of birds' heads and
of the products of the fields. It contains about 300
pages. The other manuscript on vellum is a copy of
the Psalms of David, a very beautiful piece of work.
It is of the same size as the other manuscript, but the
leaves are much thicker. The initial letters at the
beginning of each psalm are in gold, those at the
beginning of each verse in red and blue alternately.
The writer had evidently quailed before the cxix.
Psalm, as he only gives a selection from it. Both
these manuscripts formed part of Mr. Stirling's be-
quest.
Of the manuscripts on paper thelargestand most impor-
tant is a thick folio volume of about 760 pages, containing
many papers on the History of Scotland, civil and eccle-
siastical. The first 210 pages deal with Scottish affairs
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Then
follows a " Perfect Inventore of the Pious Donations
since the dayes of King James the I. to the reigne of
King James the VI. inclusive ; " as also thereafter
" Proceedings of the late General Assembly held at
Glasgow, 1638;" "Proceedings of the late General
Assembly held at Edinburgh, 1639;" "Articles of
agreement condeshendit by the Council of Dort in
favours of the Royal Burrows of Scotland, anent the
holding of the Scottish staple at Dort;" " Ane accompt
of the debate betwixt the Merchants and Trades of
Edenborough, and of the Acts and other papers that
passed thereupon in 1661, and theirafter;" "Table of
the Statutes of Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh, in
July, 1627;" "Ane brieff Discourse concerning the
trade of the Kingdome of Scotland, with some remedies
proposed for ye relieff yerof, 1667;" "Division of
Public Taxation, 1665, among the Counties and Royal
Burghs of Scotland, showing the amount each paid ; "
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" Roll of Parliament, 1669 ;" " Laws and Articles of
War for the Government of his Majestie's forces within
the Kingdom of Scotland." A number of other papers
of less interest follow. The' book is written in more
than one hand ; that in which the most of it is written
is a fine hand old style, of course. Among the other
manuscripts we may note the following: "The Hellenic
Kingdom and the Greek Nation," by George Finlay,
honorary major in the service of His Majesty the King
of Greece. The preface is dated, from Athens, 25th
July, 1836. We do not think that this treatise was
ever printed, although Mr. Finlay subsequently pub-
lished several books on Greece and the Greeks.
" Subscription List for Building the Assembly Room,
Glasgow, February, 1758, to April, 1763;' Robert
Bogle's Account." Presented by Bailie Bogle. We
should think this would be worth printing, as it con-
tains a long list of the names of the leading local men
of the time. " Memoranda regarding the present state
of the principal Libraries in Glasgow, with notices
respecting some other Scotch libraries, 1849." This
is an interesting folio, compiled by Robert Reid
(" Senex "). It and the next manuscript were presented
by Mr. Reid. " Tables of superficial measure adapted for
the ready calculation of the contents of timber and
of various goods of freight, etc., by Robert Reid;"
" Journal of the House of Commons, from 18th
November, 1606, to 9th February, 1609;" a folio
of 732 pages, written in a clear bold hand (it formed
part of the Stirling bequest). The other manuscripts in-
clude " Notes on Points of Law, by John M'Caul, writer
in Glasgow ; " " A^fac-simile of Burns's Cottar's Satur-
day Night," with a letter written byMotherwell the poet;
" A highly curious Commonplace Book," from the
library of the late J. F. Ferguson, of the Exchequer
Record Office ; a small book giving the prices of yarns
in 1784 and 1786 ; a work on Heraldry and Geometry,
etc., with illustrations (by a note on the flyleaf this
86 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
book appears to have been the property of one James
Gumming in 1705); " John Law's Demonstrationes
Logica, written by William Stirling in 1700." An
exercise book of this William Stirling's who is with-
out doubt the founder's father bearing the following
emphatic inscription, " Guilielmus Stirling aught this
Book, 1705," concludes our list of the more important
manuscripts belonging to the library.
CHAPTER V.
Fifteenth Century Printed Books Valuable copy of the
New Testament Dante's " Divina Commedia," rare
1481 Edition Professor Julianus Guzzlemus
Bibles and other rare and valuable Books
Summary.
OF incunabula, or books printed in the fifteenth
century, there are twenty-five examples, and one of
them is in three volumes. The library thus possesses
twenty-seven volumes printed before the year 1500.
The earliest are about 1470, and the others, where
dated, are of the years 1474, 1475 (two), 1476, 1477
(two), 1479, 1480 (two), 1481 (two), 1483, 1485, 1488,
1489, 1490 (two), 1492 (two), 1493, 1494, 1496, 1499.
Of those which bear an imprint, six were printed at
Venice, three at Cologne, two at Florence, and one
each at Eome, Basil, Nuremberg, and Ragusa. Of
these we will notice the more interesting.
First comes a well-printed folio entitled "Vitae
Sanctorum Patrum," printed at Cologne about 1470
by Ulric Zell, the first Cologne printer. Like nearly all
the books printed by him, it is undated and unsigned.
Santander, in his " Dictionnaire Bibliographique,"
ascribes it to Zell, and fixes the date as about 1470.
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It is a good copy. Bound up with it is a copy of the
" Statuta Ecclesiae Coloniensis," printed at Cologne by
Hoelshoff in 1492. The end papers of the volume
are formed of part of a very neatly- written manuscript
poem.
With the introduction of printing the old manu-
scripts fell in estimation, and many of them were used
in binding the early products of the printing-press.
Very rare and curious manuscripts have been discovered
in this way.
The other 1470 book is a copy of the Sermons of
St. Chrysostom, supposed by bibliographers to have
been printed at Rome about 1470. It is a very rare
book and has neither place of imprint or date. The
next in chronological order is the " Sermones aurei de
Sanctis Fratris Leonardi de Utino," 1474. No place
of imprint mentioned. It is a folio of about 850
pages, printed on strong white paper. It has been
cut, but there still remains an ample margin. It is
illuminated here and there, and blank spaces have
been left for capital letters to be put in by hand.
The printing is somewhat uneven, but clear. The
book is bound in rough, light-coloured skin, with
boards nearly half-an-inch thick. It contains about
sixty sermons, most of them on the saints. Leonardi
was a prominent Dominican of the fifteenth century.
He died in 1470, and the first edition of his sermons
was published in the following year.
Our next book is the Wars of the Jews and
Romans, by Joseph us, printed at Rome in 1475 by
Arnold Pannartz. It is a fine illuminated copy of the
first edition. Watt in his " Bibliotheca Britannica"
says of this edition " An elegant work. This is
one of the very few works which Pannartz published
after the death of his partner, Sweynheym. Ex-
ceedingly rare." The other 1475 work is the " Mar-
garita Davidica," the Psalms of David, St. Jerome's
version, supposed to have been printed by Ambrose
88 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Keller. It is a good copy, but has evidently been
exhibited in some museum or similar institution, as at
one place it is very dirty. Of the " Fasciculus Tem-
porum " there are two copies in the library, one printed
" per Conradum de Hcemburg" in 1476, and the other
by an unknown printer in 1490. This work was
originally written by Werner Rolewinck de Laer, a
Carthusian monk. He brought it down to the year
1470, and afterwards continued it to 1480. The
earliest edition extant is that of Cologne, 1474, and
early editions of it are very rare. Both copies are il-
lustrated, the 1490 one having one full-page illustration.
The pedigree of the human race is given from Adam
onwards, not in the usual hackneyed form in which
genealogical trees are constructed, but right across,
page after page, to the end of the book, rings with
names inside, showing the position of our progenitors.
When it reaches Christ a portrait is given ; accompany-
ing the account of the flood are two pictures of the ark,
a front view and a section.
The next book in order of date is the "Conclusiones
siue Decisiones antique Dominorum auditorum de
Rota," printed in 1477 by Peter Schoeffer, partner with
Gutemberg and Faust, and son-in-law of the latter.
This is an illuminated black-letter folio of about 600
pages, very perfect, and of great typographical beauty.
It contains decisions in the Rota, an ecclesiastical court
of Rome, singularly composed of judges of different
nations. The other 1477 book is a copy of the first
edition of the " Historia Rerum ubicunque Gestarum,"
by Pope Pius II., printed at Venice. It is illuminated,
and has been handsomely re-bound.
The most valuable of the incunabula, and perhaps
the most valuable book in the library, is a copy of the
Vulgate edition of the New Testament, with a glossary,
supposed to have been printed at Nuremberg in 1479.
Bibliographers are divided in opinion as to the place
and date of the printing of this rare edition. As, how-
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ever, a copy of it was purchased for the celebrated
Cistercian Abbey of Stratford-Langthorne in 1480, the
supposition that it was printed in 1479 is very probably
correct. It is a large folio, printed on strong paper,
wonderfully clean, in double columns, the text in the
centre and the commentary at the sides. The first
page has been finely illuminated, but has been washed
by some restorer, and partly spoiled. The initial
letters are beautifully done in bright colours, and many
in gold. All the capitals in the text and commentary
are coloured. On the front edges are fixed about a
score of red leather tags to facilitate the opening of the
book at particular places. In this edition the sig-
natures are not regular, and there is therefore no guide
for the order of the books, which varies in different
copies.
In this copy the Epistles of St. Paul are placed at the
end. It is strongly bound in stout oak boards, covered
with leather bearing a number of devices. It is,
indeed, a noble book.
A work by Thomas Aquinas is the next book of
importance an illuminated black-letter folio, in fine
condition, printed at Cologne in 1480.
Of printing in 1481 there are two specimens a copy
of the " Questiones in Quartum Librum Sententiarum,"
by John Duns Scot, or Duns Scotus, printed at Venice
by Nicolas Jenson ; and a copy of Dante's " Divina
Commedia," printed at Florence by Nicolo di Lorenzo.
Dibdin, in his " Library Companion," says of this
edition " Of course the very curious in graphic lore
will beat every bush and scale every acclivity to obtain
as perfect a copy as may be of the famous commentary
of Landino, with the plates of Baldini, after the
designs of Boticelli. 'Tis of the date 1481, and is
altogether a grand volume. Let all copies of this
celebrated volume bow their heads before that in the
Public Library at Munich, that in the Imperial Library
at Vienna, and that at Spencer House for each of
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these possess twenty copper plates ! As to the price
of this book, that depends entirely on the number of
the engravings found in the copy. Lord Spencer's
duplicate, which contained nineteen plates, was sold
for ,52 10s. This book is usually found with cuts
to the first two cantos. It is usually a book of
magnificent amplitude of margin, and it exists in the
Magliabechi Library on vellum." The Stirling copy,
unfortunately, wants all the plates, but has the two
cuts referred to, and a duplicate of the second cut is
prefixed to Canto III. The ample margin has, under
the knife of the binder, suffered somewhat. The first
twelve pages are not in so good condition as the rest,
and have been cleaned and mended. There are several
MS. notes in an old hand on the margin.
Our next book is an excellent copy of the first edition
of the " De He Aedificatoria " of Leon Baptista de
Alberti, printed at Florence in 1485. 1488 is the date
of a black-letter folio, printed disagreeably close, en-
titled " Bartholomaeus de Proprietatibus Kerum." It
is a general history of Nature, composed by Bartholo-
mew Grenvil, an English Minorite or Franciscan, of
the family of the Earls of Suffolk. He flourished
about the year 1360, "and appears to have been the
Pliny of his time." A magnificent edition of this work
was printed by Wynken de Worde, Caxton's successor.
A copy of Augustine's " Annotationes in Psalmos,"
printed at Basil in 1489, is our next specimen. This
volume is a duplicate from the Royal Library at Stutt-
gart, and had once been chained to its place, the staple
still remaining. It is a very thick volume, printed on
stout paper.
Of books printed in the year 1490 there are two
examples; one, the "Fasciculus Ternporum," we have
already mentioned, the other is Seneca's Morals,
printed at Venice by Bernardius Cremona and
Simon de Luero. It is a small folio in Latin.
According to a note on the fly-leaf by a former
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owner (Robert Trail, 1818), this volume was once the
property of the " celebrated Professor Julianus Guzzle-
mus," and contains many notes in his handwriting.
The Professor's autograph appears on the last page.
That he was a doctor of law is all we have been able
to find out about the "celebrated" professor with the
fiercely suggestive name. Bound up with Seneca is a
copy of the Lives of Laertius, printed at Venice in
1493. The first edition of Laertius was printed at
Venice by Jenson in 1475. Two of Cicero's works,
printed at Venice in 1492 and 1496 respectively, are in
the library. They are bound up with a copy of Persius,.
with the commentaries of Brixanius and Foncius,.
1494. The last of the fifteenth century books which
we will notice is an Alphabetical Index, by John
Bechenhaub, of Mayence, of the four books of
opinions from the registered writings of Saint Bona-
ventura, printed by Anthony Koburger, of Nuremberg,
in 1499. It is in three volumes folio, illuminated,
finely printed, and in a capital state of preservation.
It is bound with strong wooden boards. Koburger was
the printer of the well-known " Nuremberg Chronicle "
(1493), a copy of which is in the Mitchell Library.
Watt says of him " A very celebrated printer of the
fifteenth century, who exercised his art at Nuremberg >
where he died in 1513. The works of his printing are
distinguished for the lustre and magnificence of their
execution."
This completes our survey of the fifteenth century
printed books. Few non-collegiate provincial libraries
possess so many, and fewer still so valuable specimens
of the work of the early printers. To William Euing
the library owes every one of them.
Of books printed between the years 1500 and
1600 there are more in the library than we would
care to count. We have noted the principal ones.
They include books printed in England as well as.
abroad, one or two of some rarity relating to Mary
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Queen of Scots, and a few early editions of foreign
poets.
The first on our list is the l{ Summa quae vocatus
Catholicon, Grammaticalia quaedam et Lexicon com-
plectens," by Joannes de Janua, printed in 1503 a
good copy, with some very pretty initial letters. The
binding is rather the worse for wear, and an indus-
trious bookworm has penetrated a considerable way
through board and book. Watt describes this book as
containing many errors, but as having the singularity
of being " the first Latin dictionary printed after the
destruction of that language."
Of two years' later date is the " Opus Aureum
Musice Castigatissimum de Gregonana et figurativa
atque Contrapundo," with music. It is one of the
very early works published on the art. A copy of
the Chronicori of Gusebius, printed at Paris in 1512
by Henry Stephens, need not detain us, nor need we
do more than mention the first Polyglot Psalter
(Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Chaldean, and Latin) printed
at Geneva in 1516, but pass on to a rather uncommon
edition of Livy, printed at Basil in 1531 by Froben.
The editor was Simon Grynseus, and he in this edition
published for the first time the 41st, 42nd, 43rd,
44th, and 45th. books. These were copied from a manu-
script (which latterly found its way to the Imperial
Library at Vienna) written about the fifth century,
and " esteemed," says Dibdin, " as one of the most
valuable in the world." Of books printed in London
we may note a fine black-letter copy of Chaucer, 1598;
Matthew of Westminster's " Flowers of History,"
the first edition in Latin, printed in 1570; and a good
copy of the second edition of Fabian's " Crony cle,"
1533.
Of books relating to the unfortunate Mary Queen of
Scots there are three in the library which are not
to be met with every day, one of which is not
in the otherwise almost perfect collection of Marie
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Stuart literature belonging to Mr. J. Wyllie Guild.
The first and earliest of the three is the " De Titulo et
Ivre Serenissimae Principis Mariae Scotorum Reginae
quo Regni Angliae successionem sibi justi vendicat,"
printed in 1580 at Rheims. It is a treatise on the
title of Mary to the crown of England. The second is
entitled " Mariae Stuartae, Scotorum Reginae/' etc.
Cologne, 1587 (the year of her execution). It was the
first Catholic publication on her execution. A tiny
book of only thirty-two leaves, it is so scarce as not to
have yet come within purchasing reach of the owner
of the greatest Marie Stuart collection in the world.
The third book is the first edition of the " Corona
Tragica" of Lopez de Vega, the celebrated Spanish
poet, published at Madrid in 1627. It is bound in
vellum, and contains a portrait of Marie. " It is
intended to be a religious epic, but is, in fact, merely a
specimen of intolerant controversy. Marie is repre-
sented as a pure and glorious martyr to the Catholic
faith, while Elizabeth is alternately called a Jezebel
and an Athaliah." (Ticknor's Spanish Literature.)
Of early editions of the works of foreign poets we
may mention, besides the " Corona Tragica," Ariosto's
"Orlando Furioso," published at Lyons in 1556, the
"Rimas" of Camoens, published at Lisbon in 1598,
and " Alciatis Emblemata," Lyons, 1564.
Of the Bible and of the New Testament there are
several early editions. The earliest edition of the
Bible is that called Cranmer's, printed by Richard
Grafton in 1541. It is a fine black-letter folio, with
numerous curious illustrations. Seven copies of the
Geneva version follow of the dates respectively,
1560, 1579, 1585, 1595, 1599, 1606, and 1616.
One of these is the very scarce Edinburgh edition
commonly known as "the Bassandyne Bible." It
was the first edition of the Bible printed at the
Scottish press. The Old Testament is dated 1579 and
the New Testament 1576. The printing was superin-
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tended by a Committee of the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland. The only complete copy said
to be known is that belonging to Earl Morton. The
title-page of the Stirling copy is a reprint from Earl
Morton's one. In addition to this defect, which it has
in common 'with most other copies, the Stirling one
wants a few leaves. The peculiar rendering of the
seventh verse of the third chapter of Genesis has given
the Geneva version a place amongst those Bibles which
are valued for their verbal peculiarities. For the word
" aprons " in our present Bible the Genevan version
reads " breeches," by which name that version of the
Bible has come to be known. " Breeches " Bibles are
not by any means scarce, although a fine perfect copy
like that in the library, printed by the deputies of
Christopher Barker, in 1595, at London, will command
a good price. It has many quaint illustrations, includ-
ing a map of the Garden of Eden and a very wooden-
looking picture of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden
fruit. A well-bound copy of the Bishop's Bible of the
same date has the Psalms, with music.
Of editions of the Bible and the Old Testament there
are about fifty, all of more or less interest.
Of the New Testament by itself the library contains
about twenty-five editions, the rarest of which was
noticed at length amongst the fifteenth century books.
The next in order is that printed at London in 1550 by
Thomas Gaultier, a somewhat rare edition copies have
been known to sell at as high as 15. There are four
other sixteenth century editions. Of the Book of
Common Prayer there are several editions, the most
interesting of which is that which occasioned the Jenny
Geddes episode, if, despite Hill Burton, we can believe
that that lady ever had any existence. It is entitled
" The Booke of Common Prayer, for the use of the
Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Printed by Robert
Young, 1637." This copy has the Psalms done into
verse by King James, printed at London, 1636. In
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general this volume ends with the word " certaine," it
being originally intended to append " certaine prayers,"
but that leaf was cancelled in some copies and finishes
properly. Leaf "Hh3" of the Psalms was cancelled
owing to the printer having omitted nearly three lines
of Psalm cix. (see Lowndes' Bib. Man.).
The Stirling copy ends properly, and wants the leaf
of the Psalms referred to. Both Psalms and Prayer
Book are in black letter. The volume originally be-
longed to Mr. Stirling. There is also a copy in the
Mitchell Library. Of books relating to Scotland there
is a fair general collection, including the Maitland Club
publications, some of those of the Bannatyne and
Spalding Clubs, Slezer's " Theatrum Scotise " (third
edition, 1718), Gordon's Itinerarium Septentrionall
(1727), Sibbald's "Fife and Kinross" (first edition,
1710), the first edition of Bishop Keith's "Catalogue
of Scottish Bishops" (1755), a fine large-paper copy
of the "Baronial Antiquities of Scotland," by Bill-
ings; beautiful large paper copies of Captain Grose's
works fat Captain Grose, immortalized by Burns
Kay's " Edinburgh Portraits " (first edition}, and a
copy of Pinkerton's " Vitae Antiquae Sanctorum," of
which only 100 copies were published. Of pamphlets
there are several thousands in the library, including
many rare ones relating to British history, and an ex-
haustive collection dealing with Scottish ecclesiastical
matters.
Among Glasgow books we may mention two copies
of M'Ure's " History of Glasgow," many of the early
newspapers, nearly all the histories, a long set of
directories, beginning with 1818, going on to 1825,
1826, 1827, 1828 (first one issued by the Post Office),
and continuing (with some blanks) to the present time,
and the official statistics regarding the cholera epi-
demic, 1832-33 ; 28 volumes in manuscript.
The earliest of the Glasgow newspapers merits special
mention. It is the " Glasgow Journal," for the period
96 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
from June, 1759, to January, 1763. The " Journal"
was begun by Andrew Stalker in July, 1741. The
editor of the " Notices and Documents illustrative of
the Literary History of Glasgow" (Maitland Club)
says that no copy of it earlier than 1745 has been pre-
served, and adds that fortunately the numbers from
1745 to 1749 have been recovered. It is quite pos-
sible, therefore, that there may be no other copy of the
"Journal" for the years 1759 to 1763 than the one in
this library. It is a folio, and well printed. This was
the paper which favoured and doubtless amused its
readers by its novel marriage announcements " On
Monday last, James Dennistoun, junior, of Colgreine,
Esq., was married to Miss Jenny Baird, a beautiful
young lady." Another damsel is described as a beauti-
ful young lady WITH A HANDSOME FORTUNE," and another
as " an agreeable young lady, WITH 4,000."
Before leaving the older books, we must not omit to
note two volumes of old almanacs, beginning with one
for 1620, a copy of Lily's " Six Court Comedies," 1632;
and the first edition in English of Milton's " Defence of
the People of England." Of specimens of fine modern
printing there are Bowyer's great edition of Hume's
"History of England," Busby's Lucretius, and a
number of the works printed by the Foulises. A very
large and splendidly executed work is Blaeu's gigantic
Atlas of the World, in twelve imperial folio volumes.
The volume containing Scotland is in several other
Scottish libraries, but few possess the whole work.
Of important modern works there are not a few.
Chief amongst them are Sir William Dugdale's magnifi-
cent work on English abbeys, "The Monasticon Angli-
canum," 8 volumes folio, finely illustrated, presented by
Bailie Bogle ; James O. Halli well's great edition of
Shakespeare's works, in 16 volumes folio, with the
plates on India paper, presented by William Euing
(only 150 copies were printed, and one sold recently
realized 67) ; Sir Austen Henry Layard's folio
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on Nineveh; Lord Kingsborough's "Antiquities of
Mexico," in nine handsomely printed and bound
folio volumes; Nichol's folio Hogarth, Barrington's
"Historic Memoirs of Ireland," Forbes's "Oriental
Memoirs," Strutt's " Dress and Habits of the People
of England," Britton's "Architectural Antiquities of
Great Britain," and the larger and costlier Avorks
of John Ruskin. Sets or portions of sets of the fol-
lowing magazines, serial and society publications are
also in the library : All the Year Round, Annual
Register, Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Art Jour-
nal, Athenaeum, Belgravia, Bentley, Bibliographer,
Blackwood, British Association for Advancement of
Science Reports, British and Foreign Evangelical
Review, British Quarterly Review, Bulwark, Calvin
Society, Camden Society (part), Catholic Presbyterian,
Cavendish Society, Chambers's Journal, Classical
Journal, Colonial Magazine, Contemporary Review,
Cornhill, Craftsman, Critical Review, Douglas Jer-
rold's Shilling Magazine, Dublin University, Eclectic
Review, Edinburgh Almanac, Edinburgh Philosophical
Journal, Edinburgh Review, European Magazine, Evan-
gelical Magazine, Farmer's Magazine, Foreign Quar-
terly, Fortnightly Review, Fraser, Gentleman's Maga-
zine, Glasgow Archaeological, Philosophical, Geologi-
cal, and Natural History Societies' publications, Good
Words, Household Words, Intellectual Observer, Jour-
nal of Sacred Literature, Leisure Hour, Literary
Gazette, Literary Panorama, London Society, London
Magazine, Macmillan, Macphail's Magazine, Maitland
Club, Meliora, Metropolitan, Monthly Magazine, Na-
tional Review, Naval Chronicle, New Monthly Maga-
zine, Nineteenth Century, North American Review,
North British Review, Notes and Queries, Once-a-
Week, Parker Society, Philosophical Journal, Phonetic
Journal, Political Review, Popular Science Review,
Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Quarterly Review.
Quiver, Reformed Presbyterian Magazine, Repertory
7
98 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
of Arts, Retrospective Review, St. James's Magazine,
St. Paul's Magazine, Scots Magazine, Sharpe's Maga-
zine, Spalding Club, Social Science Reports. Student,
Swedenborg Society publications, Sunday Magazine,
Temple Bar, Titan, Tract Magazine, Warton Club,
Westminster Review, Wodrow Society.
The publications granted to the city by the Commis-
sioners of Patents are kept in Stirling's Library. They
consist of the "Specifications of Patents" from 1617
to the present time about 150,000 in number the
" Abridgments" of the same, the "Commissioners of
Patents' Journal," and about 100 volumes of Indexes.
Before concluding this account of the rare and precious
possessions of the library, we think it not out of place
to mention that the massive table in the librarian's
room was made out of a portion of the Bishop's Bridge
which used to span the Clyde at the foot of Stock well
Street.
To recapitulate. The library has completed the
ninety-fifth year of its existence it was begun with
804 volumes, valued at 160, and now contains about
42,000, the value of which is to be computed at thou-
sands of pounds. About 1,200 life members and over
2,000 annual members have been enrolled, contributing
nearly 6,000 to the revenue, and in return borrowing
about 2,000,000 of volumes. For fifty-nine years after
it was founded no one used it but the life members.
During the last thirty-six years the public have been
admitted free of charge, and have had issued to them
800,000 volumes. The house which Mr. Stirling left
to the city has brought to the trustees in the shape
of rent about 14,000. The interest received on the
,sum of 1,000 also bequeathed amounted to nearly
2,500, the dividend on the Tontine share to 342.
The sum received from the sale of catalogues, from gift
, and other sources, may be put down at 2,000, which
.roughly gives an income of 25,000. Of this about
10,000 has been spent on books and binding, and
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8,000 on salaries. In thirty-five Lord Provosts, four
of whom were twice in office, and one thrice, the library
has had as many presidents. There have been five
vice-presidents, four secretaries, and three treasurers.
About 450 different gentlemen have acted as directors,
and the office of librarian has now its twelfth occupant.
Of the dozen, five were clergymen, two were book-
sellers, one was a shoemaker, one an ironmonger, one a
bookbinder, one of occupation unknown, and one a lib-
rarian. They held office as follows :
Years.
17911795. Rev. William Taylor, 4
17951796. William Meikleham, - 1
1796 1808. Rev. James Pate, - 12
1808 1812. Rev. Alexander Gray, - 4
18121815. Rev. John Gumming, 3
18151832. Rev. Matthew Muir, - 17
18321833. John Wylie, 1
18331848. John Struthers, - 15
18481851. William Auld, 3
18511860. J. B. Simpson, 10
18611881. David Blair, 20
1881. Thomas Mason.
In the career of Stirling's Library there are, without
doubt, many disappointing features, but also some
creditable and pleasing ones. Many of Glasgow's ablest
citizens have spent much time and labour, and some
of them money, to further its best interests.
When Walter Stirling died, and for many a long
day after, very old-fashioned notions prevailed in
library administration. These were not the days of
library associations, and every custodian dealt with
his charge according to his own fancy and personal
convenience. The library was established, the books
were there, the terms were made public, and the
institution was then left to live or die as accident
or a capricious public might determine. Stirling's
100 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
library did not die, but it may truthfully be
said to have slept very soundly. Managers can do
much to make a library successful, but their efforts
require to be backed up by an energetic librarian. A
library especially one dependent on the patronage of
the public for part of its living must be kept in the
front. Its presence in the community must be pro-
claimed as loudly and as often as opportunity offers.
Every facility must be given to render access to the
library easy. From the circumstances and nature of
the appointments, there is every reason to believe that,
with the exception of Mr. Pate and Mr. Auld, every
librarian from the first to the tenth looked upon their
situation as a quiet resting-place where they might
spend their declining years or prepare sermons for
prospective flocks. No wonder, then, that the library
never occupied the place due to it among the educa-
tional institutions of the city.
What the future has in store for the library we
know not, but there is strong ground for hoping that
it may become the centre of a more powerful organiza-
tion than it has ever been, or indeed than its founder
perhaps ever expected for it. In its new position its
operations might reasonably be wide enough to accom-
plish as much work in ten years as stand to its credit
for the last ninety-five. Whatever may be its part in the
library system of the city, its individuality should be
preserved ; it should not be turned into a collection of
cheap editions suitable for lending out, but maintained
as a reference as well as a lending library. The in-
junction of the founder should ring in the ears of its
guardians that his public library is to exist for ever,
and that no power or right with which he invested them
by his mil and deposition is to be relinquished.
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CHAPTER VI.
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY.
The Founder Terms of the Bequest Constitution of
the Library First Library Committee Leading
Principles followed in the Formation and Manage-
ment of the Library Purchase of the Library of
Professor Innes, of Books from the Library of
Professor Stevenson, and of Euing Duplicates in
the Library of the University of Glasgow Tem-
porary Premises secured.
THE Mitchell Library had its origin in a trust dis-
position and settlement by the late Stephen Mitchell,
tobacco manufacturer, formerly of Linlithgow, but
for many years in St. Andrew's Square, Glasgow,
where the firm still carry on business. By this deed,
which bears date 5th January, 1866, with codicil
dated 4th May, 1870, Mr. Mitchell bequeathed the
residue of his estate to the city of Glasgow, to " form
the nucleus of a fund for the establishment and endow-
ment of a large public library in Glasgow, with all the
modern accessories connected therewith," and he pro-
vided that the residue " should be allowed to accumulate
until, by its own natural increase, or by contributions
from others, the fund should amount to 70,000, or
even a larger sum should that be considered necessary
by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Councillors
for the time being, before the formation of the library
is begun." The principal directions of Mr. Mitchell
regarding the library will be found embodied in the
constitution, a copy of which follows.
Mr. Mitchell, who had for some time been resident
102 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
at Moffat, died on 21st April, 1874. His agents
intimated the bequest, with its probable amount, to the
Town Council on 6th May, and the Council on 16th
July accepted the trust. After consultation with Mr.
Mitchell's adviser, Mr. Boyd, who was thoroughly
acquainted with his wishes, the following constitution
was drawn up. The Town Council approved it on
30th October, and on 20th November the approval of
Mr. Mitchell's agents was also intimated :
CONSTITUTION OF THE MITCHELL LIBRARY, GLASGOW.
1. The residue of the Estate of the late Stephen Mitchell, with the
interest and profits which may accrue thereon, shall hereafter be
known and designated as "The Mitchell Library Ftlnd." The said
fund shall, with any contributions or additions thereto that may be
made by others, and subject to the expenses of management, form
the nucleus of a fund for acquiring and altering existing premises, or
for erecting new buildings suitable for a large Public Library in
Glasgow, and for establishing, endowing, and maintaining such a
Library, with all the modern accessories connected therewith. The
said Library shall hereafter be known and designated as " The
Mitchell Library."
2. Books on all subjects not immoral shall be freely admitted to,
and form part of, the Library, and no book shall be regarded as
immoral which simply controverts present opinions on political or
religious questions.
3. The administration of "The Mitchell Library Fund" and of
"The Mitchell Library " shall, subject to the direction and review of
the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Councillors of the City of Glasgow,
be entrusted to a Committee of their number, to be annually appointed
by them, and the proceedings of the Committee, and of such Sub-
Committees as it may from time to time appoint, shall be reported to
the Town Council in such way and manner and at such times as
the Town Council may from time to time direct.
4. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Councillors shall from
time to time elect such officers as they may consider necessary for
the management of " The Mitchell Libi-ary Fund " and of " The
Mitchell Library," subject to such conditions as they may from time
to time prescribe.
5. The Accounts of the Fund shall be annually balanced, audited,
and submitted to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, at such
time and in such way and manner as the said Lord Provost,
Magistrates, and Councillors may from time to time prescribe.
6. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Councillors shall have
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 103
]K)wer from time to time to add to, or incorporate with, " The Mitchell
Library," such other libraries or collections of books, or collections of
objects of vertu, or collections of objects of science and art, as in their
opinion may add to the utility and value thereof, and they may designate
the libraries or collections so to be added to, or incorporated with,
the Mitchell Library, by such distinctive names as they think
proper, provided always that, in the exercise of the power hereby
conferred on them, they shall not contravene the essential conditions
of Mr. Mitchell's Bequest.
7. The Mitchell Library shall be accessible to the public for pur-
poses of reference and consultation, at such hours and subject to
such conditions as the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council may
from time to time prescribe ; and for the accommodation of the
persons who may wish so to use the Library, a Librarian and staff of
Assistants shall be provided, who shall give out such books as may
be applied for, and see that the same are duly returned uninjured.
The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council may also authorize any
of the books in the Library to be lent out under such conditions as
they may from time to time pi'escribe.
In pursuance of the testator's directions the Town
Council appointed the following gentlemen a com-
mittee to administer the fund and the library :
The Lord Provost (James Bain), Knighted in 1877, left the Council
in same year.
Bailie William Collins, - Lord Provost from 1877 to 1880,
knighted in 1880, left the Council
in same year.
Dean of Guild Patrick Playfair, Vacated office in 1875.
Deacon-Convener "VVm. Smith, Vacated office in 1875.
Treasurer Miller, - - Vacated Treasurership in 1875,
left the Council in 1879.
Councillor James Adams, - Elected Bailie in 1876, left the
Council in 1880.
Councillor William Clark, Elected Bailie in 1875, left the
Council in 1879.
Councillor Hugh Colquhoun, - Elected Bailie in 1879, left the
Council in 1882.
Councillor Wm. B. Garvie, Left the Council in 1879.
Councillor Henry Grierson, Left the Council in 1883.
Councillor Thos. A. Mathieson. Preceptor of Hutch esons' Hospital,
1878 to 1883, left the Council
in 1884.
Councillor Alex. Mackenzie, - Left the Council in 1875.
Councillor A. G. Macdonald, - Left the Council in 1879.
104 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Councillor John Neil, - - Elected Depute River Bailie in
1883, elected Bailie in 1884.
Councillor James Salmon, - Left the Council in 1878.
Councillor Edward J. Scott, - Elected Bailie in 1875, left the
, Council in 1880.
Councillor W. E-. W. Smith, Still a member of Committee.
Councillor John Ure, - - Elected Bailie in 1875, Lord Provost
from 1880 to 1883, when he
left the Council.
Councillor William Wilson, - Elected Bailie in 1876, Preceptor
of Hutchesons' Hospital in 1884,
Convener of the Library Com-
mittee from 1 878.
Convener The Lord Provost ; Sub-Convener Councillor Salmon.
The net sum paid over to the Town Council by the
founder's representatives was 66,998 10s. 6d. In
accordance with the directions of the will this re-
mained at interest until 1876, when it had increased
to 70,000. Before proceeding to the history of the
library up to this point we have been dealing only
with the fund the few changes in the committee which
took place between 1874 and the opening of the library
in 1877 may be noted. In November, 1875, Bailie
Morrison and Councillor James Moir joined the com-
mittee, and Councillor Mackenzie left it. Dean of
Guild Play fair was succeeded by Dean of Guild James
King, and Deacon-Convener Smith by Deacon-Con-
vener Archibald Gilchrist. In November, 1876, Coun-
cillor William Brown took the place of Bailie Morri-
son. In 1876, the sum named by Mr. Mitchell having
been reached, the Council determined on putting the
testator's intentions into operation, and as a first
step, Dr. Marwick, the Town Clerk, was desired to
draw up a report on the subject. This report presents
so well the general considerations which have deter-
mined the policy of the Town Council in the develop-
ment and management of the library, that the following
extracts from it are given as the best method of indi-
cating the lines on which it has been conducted.
After rehearsing the principal provisions of the con-
stitution, Dr. Marwick proceeds
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" The testator's settlement, and the Constitution prepared in strict
accordance with it, and with the views and feelings of Mr. Mitchell
himself, as expressed to his agent, Mr. Boyd, thus define, to a con-
siderable extent, what must be the character of the library. It must
be one large Public Library, with all the modern accessories. All
books not immoral, in the broad sense explained by the testator, must
be freely admitted to and form part of it ; other libraries and collec-
tions of books, and such collections of objects of vertu, or science and
art, as in the opinion of the Town Council will increase the utility
and value of the library, may also be added to it and form part of it.
It must be accessible to the public for purposes of reference and con-
sultation that is to say, its primaiy purpose must be that of refer-
ence and consultation ; but the Town Council may authorize any of
the books to be lent out under such conditions as they may prescribe.
" To make the ' Mitchell Library ' a great public library primarily
of reference worthy of Glasgow, must necessarily be the work of
many years, during which it is to be hoped the liberality of public-
spirited citizens will largely supplement the existing bequest, munifi-
cent as it is. Such aid, however, it appears to the Committee, will
be best secured by the distinct avowal on the part of the Magistrates
and Council of their desire and aim to make it for Glasgow, though on
a necessarily more limited scale, what the British Museum is for the
nation. The Committee see no reason why, under proper manage-
ment, the Mitchell Library may not become, as one of the highest
authorities on such matters in England has said it should become,
second only, as a public library, to that of the British Museum. But
if it is to become this, every idea must be banished of limiting its
scope or making it the library of any class. At first, no doubt, the
object of those entrusted with the management must be to collect
works of standard literature in every department, taking care that
no branch is unduly represented. But in the subsequent additions
the same harmony and universality must be observed ; and cave must
specially be taken that no opportunities are lost of enriching the
library, from time to time, with the rarer and more costly works
which are ftoly to be found in great libraries. It will be for con-
sideration whether, in view of the fact that the University Library,
and other special libraries within the city, are in possession of many
rare and costly works to which the student may, under suitable regu-
lations, have access, the earlier pui'chases of that class of works for the
Mitchell Library should not, in the first instance, be directed rather
to providing for Glasgow, what none of these special libraries already
contain, than to multiplying copies of the same work. This, however,
is a matter of detail, the very mention of which may serve every neces-
sary purpose at present ; and the Committee cannot doubt that in this,
and indeed in every department of their work, they will receive the
hearty co-operation and assistance of the Senatus, and of every citizen
whose knowledge and taste qualify him for giving advice in such a
matter.
106 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
" Meanwhile the Committee desire to express their concurrence in
the following passages of the Report on ' Free Town Libraries and
Museums,' prepared by Lord Provost Blackie, and adopted by the
Magistrates and Council on 18th February, 1864 :
" ' 3. A free public library implies two indispensable things. It
must be, in the fullest sense, the property of the public, and it must
be suited to the tastes and necessities of every i - ank and condition of
the public. By many the institution of public libraries is regarded
merely as a benevolent project for providing instructive reading to-
the poor and the working classes. No idea, it may be confidently
affirmed, was further from the minds of those who first directed
public attention to our national deficiency in this matter ; or of the
Committee of the House of Commons when they investigated into-
the nature and extent of the want, and recommended the readiest
and most efficient remedy ; or of the Legislature when it adopted and
embodied the Committee's proposal of a small rate to be levied for the
creation and support of town libraries. Established on any other
piinciple than that of meeting a great social want by a great public
effort, in a spirit of the most perfect catholicity and comprehensive-
ness, the whole system would be false in principle and ei'roneous in
policy ; and not even the advantage of a rate levied under legislative
enactment would prevent it from hastening into inutility and decay.
The working-classes, who, by reason of their superior numbers, would
be the chief contributors to the foundation and support of a town
library, would also share, the most largely in its benefits ; but as the
library would be the property of no class in particular, and the books-
would be chosen with a view to the requirements of a diversified
population, so the professional man, the scholar, the merchant, the
manufacturer, the mechanician, the chemist, the student of nature or of
art, would each, in his own place and proportion, and according to
his tastes and pursuits, share freely and of right in the literary trea-
sures accumulated at the common expense.
" ' 4. A public library, in order to its being adapted to a great com-
munity, should be eminently distinguished by the character of gener-
ality ; and its true and permanent value, apart from its fully meeting
the demands of ordinary readers, will consist in its being in possession
of all that is most useful and interesting in every branch of knowledge..
Not only should it embrace the best books in every department of hu-
man inquiry, so as to be of value to men of every profession ; but the
ornamental ought to blend with the useful, and as in the case of the
free public libraries of Manchester and Liverpool, and of many
libraries in the United States those works should be acquired which,
owing to the cost of their production, the splendour of their illustra-
tions, their sumptuous typography, their antiquity or rarity, are only
to be found at present in possession of a few academic and other in-
stitutions, and are virtually excluded from the inspection of the com-
mon people.'
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 107
" A library thus formed, it is true, will not serve the purposes of
District Libraries, the books in which may be lent out to the inhabi-
tants and read in suitable reading-rooms attached to the libraries.
The value of such libraries and reading-rooms can scarcely be over-
estimated in a community like that of Glasgow. But, though district
libraries may be provided by other means, which will be afterwards
noticed, they cannot be procured under the Mitchell Bequest, the
object and purpose of which are different. Let it not be said, how-
ever, that the Mitchell Library so constituted would be a library for
the rich.- To say so is to ignore the fact that many of those who have
most distinguished themselves and benefited the world by their re-
searches and discoveries, and by their contributions to literature in
every department, have sprung from the humblest ranks. To such
men, and to men of like spirit and sympathies, the command of such
appliances of knowledge as the Mitchell Library will offer to every
person in Glasgow, is a boon which cannot be regarded as in any
sense limited to a class.
" It will be observed that Mr. Mitchell's Bequest is appointed by
himself to accumulate till it amounts to 70,000 at least before the
formation of the library is begun. The net sum received from his
Trustees was 66,998 10s. 6d. ; and the interest which has since
accrued makes the sum now available about 70,360. This sum
comprehends the value of books purchased, including the library of
the late Professor Cosmo Innes, and purchases made at the sale of the
valuable library of the late Professor Stevenson. In making these
purchases, under the authority of Magistrates and Council, the Com-
mittee mainly desired to secure many works which are not often to
be met with. But it must not be assumed that the collection already
made indicates in any way the composition of the future library,
which, as has already been said, should be of the widest and most
universal character.
"Such a library, as it is to be hoped the Mitchell Library is destined
to be, should, in the opinion of the Committee, be placed in a building
constructed for the purpose on the most approved principles, and with
all the requisites of a great library, including a consulting- room suit-
ably furnished with reading desks, and with every facility for research.
In preparing the plan of such a building, every advantage should be
taken of the experience suggested by the British Museum and other
important libraries in the country. Adequate provision should also
be made at the first for indefinite future extension. The situation of
such a building should be central, and the building itself worthy of
Glasgow."
It will be seen from a reference in the above report
that a commencement had already been made in the
acquisition of books to form the library. After the
death of Professor Cosmo Innes, of Edinburgh Univer-
108 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGO W.
ity, negotiations were entered into with a view to
secure for the Mitchell Library his valuable collection
of books. These were happily successful ; and it
must ever be matter for congratulation that the first
practical step towards giving effect to Mr. Mitchell's
enlightened and benevolent intentions was the purchase
of a library so rich in works of standard value ; and in
particular that a public library which gives promise of
becoming of national importance started with securing
so many rare works in Scottish history, biography,
genealogy, and antiquities.
Professor Innes was the editor of many of the import-
ant cartularies and other works issued by the Bannatyne,
Maitland, and Spalding Clubs. He passed Advocate
in 1822, was elected Sheriff of Morayshire, 1840, and
appointed to the Chair of History in the University of
Edinburgh, 1846. He was the author of several
antiquarian works which are so widely known and
appreciated as to render their separate mention un-
necessary. He died at Killin on 31st July, 1874,
aged seventy-six. His library was rich in all works
relating to charter lore and the constitutional history of
Scotland. It consisted of nearly 2,000 volumes and
pamphlets. Some of the leadingworks may be named :
Six of the important works edited by Dr. William Fraser The
Chiefs of Colquhoun, History of the Carnegies, The Red Book of
Orandtully, The Maxwells of Pollok, Memorials of the Mont-
gomeries Earls of Eglinton, and the Stirlings of Keir; Baronial
and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, by Billings ; Anderson's
Scottish Nation ; Lindsay's Coinage of Ireland, of the Parthians,
of the Heptarchy ; his Greek, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Coins ;
Remarkable Medieval Coins, and other of his works ; Drayton's Poly-
Olbion, 1613; Camden's Britannia, 1695: Rotuli Scotiae in Turri
Londinensi, &c., 1814-19 ; George Buchanan, Opera Omnia, Ruddi-
man's fine edition, 1715 ; Anderson, Diplomata et Kumismata
.Scotiae, 1739; Facsimiles of National Manuscripts, 7 volumes, folio ;
Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique, 6 volumes, folio, Paris, 1732; Bayle,
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, 4 volumes, folio, Amsterdam,
1730; Stow's Survey of London, 1618; Delrio, Disquisitionum
Magicarum, 1617 ; Raleigh's Historic of the World, 1628 ; Rush-
worth's Historical Collections, 7 volumes, folio, 1659-1701 ; Boccaccio's
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Decameron, Florence, 1573 ; M'Pherson's Antiquities of Kertcli ; a
large number of volumes of the publications of the Bannatyne Club,
Abbotsford duty Spalding Club, Maitland Club, Roxburghe Club,
and the Spottiswoode Society ; R. W. Cochran-Patrick's Scottish
Coins ; some volumes of the Irish Archaeological Society's publica-
tions ; Innes's Essay on the Inhabitants of Scotland ; Leslie, De
Origine Moiibus et Rebus Gestis Scotorum, Rome, 1675; Skene's
Memorialls for the Government of Royal Burghs, Aberdeen, 1685 ;
Cameron, De Scotorum Fortitudine, Paris, 1631 ; Scott, Fasti
Ecclesia Scoticanae ; The Arbuthnot Missal ; Scotorum Historiae
a prima Gentis, Hector Boethius, Paris, 1526 or 1527, the rare
first edition ; Smith's Iconographia Scotica ; The Bruces and the
Comyns ; The Miscellanea Scotica ; Sinclair's Statistical Account of
Scotland ; Jervise's Lands of the Lindsays, and his Antiquities of
Angus and Mearns ; Lord Lindsay's Lives of the Lindsays ; Stuart's
Records of the Priory of the Isle of May; Marwick's History of the
High Constables of Edinburgh ; Lyon's History of St. Andrews ;
Miller's Arbroath and its Abbey ; Dalzel's History of the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh ; Seton's Heraldry in Scotland, Regiam Majes-
tatera Scotiae, &c., folio, Edin., 1609 ; Sir George Mackenzie's
Laws and Customs of Scotland, Edin., 1699; Chalmers's Caledonia ;
many volumes relating to the Crawford and Lindsay Peerage case ;
White's Archaeological Sketches in Kintyre; Wyntoun's Cronykil of
Scotland, 2 volumes, 1795; several volumes relating to the Sutherland
Peerage case; Shaw's History of Moray, 1775; Burnet's Memorials
of the Dukes of Hamilton, 1677; Acts of the Parliaments of Scot-
land, 10 volumes, folio; Hofman, Lexicon Universale, Basil, 1677-83.
Under power of the sixth article of the constitution,
which provides that collections may be placed apart
from the general library and known by the name of
the donor or possessor, the Innes books have been
kept together. It may be of interest to mention that
in the set of the reprinted Acts of the Parliaments of
Scotland were placed loose the last sheets of the index
of that great work, which he prepared for the press
shortly before his death.
The Committee also about this time secured a set of
the publications of the Bannatyne Club, which they
purchased from Mr. James Maidment, the well-known
antiquary.
Shortly afterwards the magnificent library of the
late Rev. William Stevenson, Professor of Church
History in Edinburgh University, was dispersed by
110 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
auction. This was one of the most important private
libraries in Scotland rich in rare works, probably
unrivalled in works concerning church controversies,
admirable in condition, and containing many thousand
volumes. From this source were obtained 2,350
volumes, including many of much value. Professor
Stevenson was the author of " Legends and Com-
memorative Celebrations of St. Kentigern." Amongst
other important works secured were :
Faber's Lives of the Saints, 43 volumes, 1847-56 ; Memorie of the
Somervilles, 2 volumes ; Muir's Life of Mahomet, 4 volumes : Stry pe's
Historical and Biographical Works, 27 volumes ; Histoire Literaire
de la France, 15 volumes, Paris, 1865-9 ; Baines's History of the
County Palatine. 2 volumes, London, 1868-70; Clinton's Fasti
Hellenici ; the same writer's Fasti Romani ; Scott's Edition of
Swift's Works, 19 volumes, Edinburgh, 1814; Lord Lindsay's
History of Early Christian Art ; Smith's History of the World ;
Wodrow Society publications, 28 volumes; Collected Works of Dugald
Stewart, edited by Sir W. Hamilton, 1 1 volumes ; Histoire du
Consulat et de 1'Empire, par Thiers, 21 volumes; Wharton, Anglia
Sacra, 1691 ; Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's Etchings; Scottish Burgli
Record Society publications ; Hume's House of Douglas and Angus,
2 volumes; Laing's Early Metrical Tales; Works of Mrs. Hemans,
7 volumes ; Pinkerton's Scottish Poems, Ballads, &c. ; Notes and
Queries, 1849-72 ; Dyce's edition of Beaumont and Fletcher :
Calvin's Commentaries (Latin), 7 volumes, Berlin, 1833-4 ; Southey's
Book of the Church, with Replies, &c., 12 volumes; Lane's edition
of the Arabian Nights' Entertainment ; Smeaton's Historical and
Biographical Tracts ; Sir J. Y. Simpson's Archaeological Essays :
Pinkerton, Vitae Antiquae Sanctorum Scotiae ; Maidment and
Gracie's Templaria ; Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbuiy ;
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1832-72 ; Lingard's
History of England ; Series of 89 pamphlets on Papal Aggression,
1847-55; about 350 other pamphlets on various subjects; O'Dono-
van's Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, 7 volumes ; Universal
History, 25 volumes; the Foulis edition of the Works of Cicero, 20
volumes ; Retrospective Review ; Richardson's Works ; Reformation
Society publications ; Evans's Old Ballads ; Joseph Ritson's Works ;
Palgrave's Histories of Normandy and England ; Parker Society
publications, 55 volumes ; Lloyd's Historic of Cambria ; Theiner,
Codex Diplomaticus Dominii Temporalis S. Sedis; Old Northern
Runic Monuments, by Stephens ; Mabillon, De re Diplomatics, ;
Petrie's Monumenta Historica Britannica ; Picart, Ceremonies
et Coutumes Religieuses, &c., 12 volumes; Maitland's History of
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Edinburgh; Works of James I., 1616; Grose's Antiquities,
12 volumes; Platonis Opera Omnia (Bekker), 11 volumes, 1826;
O'Halloran's History of Ireland ; Britannia Sancta ; Wilson's
Vishnu Purana ; Crowe's History of France ; Bunsen's Christianity
and Mankind, 7 volumes ; Celtic Society publications ; Registrum
Monasterii de Cambuskenneth ; Archseologia Scotica ; Blackwood's
Magazine, 1817-73; Dublin University Magazine, 1837-73 ; Brunei's
Manuel du Libraire, 1860-5; Transactions of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 1788-1872 ; Allibone's Dictionary of English and Ameri-
can Authors; Acta Sanctorum, 61 volumes, folio, Paris, 1845-69;
Richard et Giraud, Bibliotheque Sacree, 29 volumes ; and The Bee,
edited by Anderson, 18 volumes, Edinburgh, 1791-93.
Before this time the University of Glasgow had
become possessed, by bequest, of the very important
general library formed by the distinguished Glasgow
collector, the late William Suing, one of the most
generous donors to Stirling's Library, and founder of
the Euing Musical Library in Anderson's University.
Naturally many of the works in the extensive collection
bequeathed to the University Library were duplicates
of books already there ; and from these about 1,800
volumes were selected for the Mitchell Library, at a
valuation.
The more important of them may be mentioned
Dibdin's Bibliotheca Spenceriana ; Biographia Britaunica; Smith's
Dictionary of the Bible ; Archaeological Journal, 1845-58 ; Hoi-sley's
Britannia Romana ; King's Munimenta Antiqua ; Gordon's History
of the Earls of Sutherland; Lye's Dictionarium Saxonica; Sir Wm.
Stirling-Maxwell's Annals of the Artists of Spain ; Waagen's Trea-
sures of Art in Great Britain ; W'eale's Early Masters in Christian
Decoration ; Humboldt et Bonpland's Voyage, ou Vues des Cor-
dilleres ; Child's English and Scottish Ballads ; Beloe's Anecdotes of
Literature and Scarce Books ; Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum ;
Crania Britannica, by Davis and Thurnam ; Halliwell's Account of
New Place, Stratford-on-Avon ; Collier's History of English Dramatic
Poetry ; Memorabilia of Glasgow, 1868 ; Early English Text Society's
publications ; Transactions of the Social Science Association ; Biblio-
theca Sacra, 1844-71 ; Reports of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science ; Edinburgh Review ; Punch ; Dalyell's
Powers of the Creator in the Creation, and Rare Animals of Scot-
land ; Panzer, Annales Typographic! ; D'Orbigny, Dictionnaire
Universel d'Histoire Naturelle, 1 6 volumes ; Restituta, by Brydges ;
Morrison's Dictionary of the Chinese Language; Life and Typo-
112 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
graphy of Caxton, by Blades; Brulliot, Dictionnaire des Mono-
grammes ; and MacGeorge's Armorial Insignia of Glasgow.
These three purchases Innes, Stevenson, and Euing
duplicates together with a few donations, comprised
nearly 5,QOO volumes, and were temporarily stored in
an upper room at the City Chambers.
As there was no suitable public building available,
the Town Council resolved to commence in temporary
premises. A very liberal offer was received from
Councillor (now Bailie) Neil to give for the purposes of
the library the free use for five years of the second
floor of a large building recently erected by him in
Ingram Street for business purposes. The Council
cordially accepted this offer. It was soon found that
the space would be insufficient, and an arrangement was
made with Mr. Neil to take for a similar period the
floor below in addition, at a rent fixed by the official
assessor. These two floors, each about 100 feet by 40,
form the premises in which the library has up to the
present time remained. The period of five years first
arranged for expired 31st May, 1882 ; but Bailie Neil
very generously intimated that he does not wish to
alter the terms of occupancy for the present ; and the
library thus continues to enjoy the free use of the
upper floor.
CHAPTER VII.
Appointment of Mr. F. T. Barrett as Librarian Other
Officers Catholicity and Comprehensiveness qimed
at in the Purchase of Books Gift of Books from the
University of Glasgow Arrangement of the Books
The Catalogue.
THE question of premises thus temporarily settled,
the next step was the appointment of a librarian.
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 113
Advertisements were issued towards the end of 1876,
and a large number of offers of service were received.
After a patient examination of the credentials of the ap-
plicants, and visits to a number of them in their respec-
tive libraries, in different towns, by a sub-committee,
the committee recommended the appointment of Mr.
Francis Thornton Barrett, and the recommendation
was approved by the Town Council in February, 1877.
Mr. Barrett's claim on the consideration of the Commit-
tee consisted of his ten years' service as sub-librarian in
the Free Libraries of Birmingham, which, it is well
known, are among the most successful in the kingdom.
In addition to testimonials from the Committee at
Birmingham, and from Mr. J. D. Mullins, the chief
librarian, he had recommendations from the late Mr.
George Dawson, Rev. R. W. Dale, D.D., the Right
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, and others. Later in the
year Mr. John Ingram, librarian of the Select Sub-
scription Library at Edinburgh, was appointed sub-
librarian, and Mr. Thomas Mason, who had had some
previous experience in library work, was appointed
senior assistant. Mr. Ingram still remains on the
staff; but Mr. Mason left in 1881 to take the post of
librarian to Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library, his
place being filled by the promotion of Messrs. J. D.
Brown and Robert Adams, who had been engaged as
assistants for some years.
On the appointment of the librarian the work was
proceeded with. The books already acquired were
registered and catalogued, and the principles of selec-
tion for further purchases were defined with greater
fulness. The views quoted by Dr. Marwick in the
preceding report, from Lord Provost Blackie's report
of 1864, were strongly approved, and particularly the
great importance of catholicity and comprehensiveness
was recognized. The following rules, which had been
observed in the formation of the great Reference
Library at Birmingham, and which, as will be seen,
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114 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
are quite consistent with the previous decisions for the
Mitchell Library, were noted with approval:
I. That the library should, as far as practicable, represent every
phase of human thought and every variety of human opinion.
II. That books of permanent value and of standard interest should
form the principal portion of the library, and that modern books of
value and importance should be added from time to time, as they are
published.
III. That it should contain those rare and costly works which are
generally out of the reach of individual students, and which are not
usually found in provincial or private libraries.
It was remarked that in such a city as Glasgow,
with so great a population, with such variety of cir-
cumstances and interests, with students of every branch
of knowledge, with professors of every shade of opinion
in politics, in philosophy, and in religion, the demands
upon the library would be of the most various kinds,
and that if it was to fulfil its founder's intentions, these
demands should as far as possible be met. It was
decided also that special attention should be given to
securing books on Scottish subjects, and particularly
those relating to the city.
With these objects in view, lists of representative
standard works were prepared, and distributed to most
of the leading dealers in books in the kingdom, with a
request that they would report such of the works as
they had in stock. Nearly fifty sets of the lists were sent
out, and a large proportion of them returned with offers.
By this means the Committee were enabled to select a
large number of books on very advantageous terms.
In the meantime, the temporary rooms in Mr. Neil's
building were furnished for the service of the library.
The arrangement adopted was to devote the western
portion of each of the rooms to readers, and the eastern
portion of each was fitted with book-cases, the service-
counter, the catalogues, and the staff being in the
centre. The accommodation for readers consisted of
chairs fitted with hat-rails, and tables furnished with
umbrella rails. A hoist was provided to communicate
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between the two floors. The books were removed
from the City Chambers to the library rooms in July.
During this month the library received a donation
of great value from the Senate of the University of
Glasgow, consisting of volumes selected from the dup-
licates (other than those bequeathed by Mr. Euing,
before referred to) in the University Library. The
whole number of volumes in this important gift was
fully 2,000, and they included many books of great
worth; among them
A large number of books printed by the Brothers Foulis ;
Wieland's Werke, 40 volumes, Leipzig, 1794-1800; the rare first
edition of the Works of Sir Thomas More, London, 1557, con-
taining all the unnumbered leaves which are often absent from copies ;
Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, London, 1710; Bacon's Novum
Organum, London, 1620 ; Huttich, Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae,
1534; Operae Horarum Subcisivarum, sive Meditationes Historicae,
Philip Camerarius, 1606 ; Roma Restituta, Thomas Bell, Glas-
gow, 1672 ; Grimeston's General! Historie of the Netherlands,
London, 1609 ; De Roma Triumphante, Blondus, Basil, 1559 ;
Camden's Annales Rerum Anglicarum, London, 1615; Arnot's
Criminal Trials in Scotland, 1785 ; Selden's History of Tythes,
1618 ; Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, 71 volumes,
Strasbourg, 1816-30 ; Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle,
20 volumes, Paris, 1815-32 ; Anthony it Wood, Antiquitates
Universitatis Oxoniensis, Oxon., 1674 ; Bibliotheca Graeca,
Fabricius, 8 volumes, Hamburg, 1790-1802 ; Homilae quinquaginta,
Saint Macarius the elder, Paris, 1559 ; History of the Works of
the Learned, 12 volumes, 1G99-1710, surely one of the earliest
reviews; De Vitis Stephanorum, Amsterdam, 1683; Naph tali, etc.,
1680; Sir William Moore's True Crucifixe for True Catholickes,
Edinburgh, 1629 ; John Row, Hebrsea? Linguae Institutiones,
Glasgow, 1644, a very early specimen of Glasgow printing; Ex-
positio Analytica Omnium Apostolicarum Epistolarurn, David
Dicson, Glasgow, 1645 ; Jansen, Paraphrasis in Psalmos Davidicos,
Antwerp, 1614; Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, 1651 ; Book of Common
Prayer for the Use of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1637, the
Jenny Geddes Prayer Book ; Psalms of King David, translated by
King James, London, 1636, not perfect; Clarke's Mirror for Saints
and Sinners, London, 1657 ; Symson's Historie of the Church,
London, 1634; Ptolemy, Opera, Basil, 1551 ; Petrarch, Opera quae
extant omnia, Basil, 1581 ; Commentarii Linguae Graecae, Budens,
1529; Cicero, Opera, Paris, 1539; Psalmorurn Davidis, Beza, London,
1580 ; Papisrnus Lucifugus, Menziesand Dempster, Aberdeen, 1668.
116 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
The books were next placed upon the shelves, an
attempt being made to combine the advantages of an
arrangement by subjects with those of an arrangement
by size. As far as possible, all the books on a given
subject were placed in the same press, while those of
the same size were on the same shelf. For example,
in the department of Foreign History and Topography,
the works on Asia and Asiatic countries were placed
together in one press the larger books on the lower,
and the smaller on the upper shelves. On each shelf
the books were arranged in geographical order, com-
mencing with the western and ending with the eastern
countries of Asia, the result being that all the works
relating to Palestine, Syria, etc., were at the left hand,
or first end of the shelves, while books on China,
Japan, and the east coast, were at the right hand or
last end, with the central parts of Asia between. The
adjacency of books on the same subject was thus
secured, but made vertical instead of, as is more usual,
horizontal ; and the waste and unsightliness of varying
sizes of books on the same shelf avoided. A similar
plan of arrangement was attempted in other classes,
though all subjects do not lend themselves to this treat-
ment so readily as does topography.
The alphabetical form of catalogue was adopted, from
a strong conviction of its great superiority in libraries
frequented by the general public. In this kind of
catalogue each work is entered under the name of its
author, when known, under its subject or subjects, and
under its title, for example : Gilfillan's " Bards of the
Bible " is under Gilfillan, Bible, and Bards ; Conder's
" Tent-work in Palestine, " under Conder, Tent-work,
and Palestine ; Davy's " Salmonia or Fly-fishing, "
under Davy, Salmonia, and Angling.
The result of this arrangement is that a reader,
wishing to see a work by any given author, refers to
his name, and sees at once if it is in the library ;
while a reader who desires to see what the library
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 117
possesses on a given subject, finds under the name of
that subject what books may be seen.
To illustrate the manner in which these entries
under subjects place the reader in command of the
resources of the library in the subjects on which he is
seeking information, the following may be named, the
numbers following them showing how many works in
each case are already in the catalogue : Africa, 55 ;
Agriculture, 46 ; America, 64 ; Anatomy, 33 ; Ang-
ling, 49 ; Architecture, 118; Arctic, 31; Art, 169 ;
Astronomy, 91; Bible, 270; Bibliography, 94; Bio-
graphy, 74 ; Botany, 97 ; Britain, 79 ; Canada, 39 ;
Chemistry, 80; Christianity, 109; Church, 166;
Dictionary, 167; Drama, 101; Drunkenness, 30;
Edinburgh, 85; Education, 97; Egypt, 52; En-
gineering, 49 ; England, 240 ; Entomology, 37 ;
France, 116; Future State, 31; Gardening, 43;
Geography, 54 ; Geology, 101 ; Geometry, 29 ; Glas-
gow, 428 ; Grammar, 138 ; Greece, 67 ; Health, 44 ;
History, 91; India, 142; Ireland, 111; Iron, 21;
Italy, 56; Jesus, 63; Land, 42; Language, 162;
Law, 72; Libraries, 94; Literature, 136; London,
67; Man, 54; Music, 97; Natural History, 102;
Natural Philosophy, 55 ; Ornithology, 43 ; Painting,
41 ; Palestine, 45 ; Philosophy, 106 ; Political Econ-
omy, 38 ; Physiology, '39 ; Poetry, 146 ; Religion, 75 ;
Roman Catholicism, 48 ; Rome, 84 ; Russia, 48 ;
Science, 99 ; Scotland, 714 ; Sermons, 136 ; Shake-
speare, 111 ; Testament, Old and New, 108 ; Theology,
68 ; Trials, 30 ; United States, 128 ; Zoology, 30.
Slips were printed as books were added, and mounted
in order, in large guard books, which are laid on the
counters for the use of readers. A catalogue of a more
comprehensive description, in which the same general
principles are to be carried out with more thoroughness,
is in preparation.
118 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
CHAPTER VIII.
Opening of the Library First Book Issued Rapid
Increase of Readers Magazine Room Donations,
Chalmers Bequest Exchanges Gift of Early
Glasgow Printing from Mr. J. Wyllie Guild Moir
Bequest Purchase of the Burns Collection formed
by Mr. James Gibson More Donations Improve-
ment in Trade, Decrease of Attendance Further
Donations Valuable Collection of Scottish Poetry
received from Mr. Alex. Gardyne Acquisition of
the Gould Collection of Burnsiana Still Further
Donations Growth of the Library Use made of it
by the Public Progress probably without Precedent.
THE library was formally opened on 1st November by
the Hon. James Bain (now Sir James Bain), Lord
Provost. Amongst those who supported his lordship
were, in addition to the members of the committee,
Professor W. P. Dickson, Professor Grant, Sir James
Watson, Dr. Marshall Lang, Mr. Michael Connal,
Sheriif Lees, Mr. J. Wyllie Guild, Mr. Wm. Mitchell,
and others. Addresses appropriate to the occasion
were delivered, and earnest wishes expressed that the
library might prove to be a popular and useful insti-
tution in the city.
The issue of books was commenced on Monday,
5th November, 1877. The first book asked for was
" Liber Officialis Sancti Andree . . . Sententiarum
in Causis Consistorialibus que extant," edited by Cosmo
Innes. The number of volumes issued during the day
was 186, and a commencement was made in what has
since become one of the marked characteristics in the
use of the library, namely, the making of extracts for
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future reference, and the copying designs for artistic
purposes. It is not known what the first quotation
extracted was ; but pencil sketches were made from
Collins's picture, "Rustic Hospitality," and from a
number of the illustrations in Lavater's " Physiog-
nomy."
The issue of books at once began to increase, and
that at a rate the management were not prepared for.
It is probable that in very few libraries is it true, as it
is here, that the smallest day's issue was the first.
The first printed report on the library was issued
early in 1880, and embraced the period from the
opening till the end of 1879. The Committee ex-
pressed " no ordinary satisfaction " that they were
enabled to issue so favourable a statement. The
record was one of steady progress and of public use-
fulness. The attendance of the public had continuously
increased ; and in the first report it was found neces-
sary to state that the temporary premises had already
become insufficient for the requirements of the insti-
tution. The number of volumes in the library had
increased from 14,432 at the opening to 28,532; and
the use of them had grown in even greater proportion.
The following small table gives the average number
of volumes issued daily during this period :
November and December, 1877, 395
January to June, 1878,- 505
July to December, 1878,- 753
January to June, 1879, - - 1,179
July to December, 1879,- - 1,294
All statements of volumes issued exclude the use made
of current periodicals in the magazine room now to be
described.
In addition to the supply of books for the use of the
public, the committee had organized a magazine room,
in which the current numbers of a large selection of
periodical publications could be seen. The arrange-
120 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
ments in this room were of the most liberal character.
No formality of any kind was necessary to procure
access to the magazines. Each was secured in a
strong reading cover, and all were placed openly on
the tables in alphabetical order, so that frequenters
of the room had only to walk in and find the journal
of which they were in search. The number provided
in this way was 150, and they had been selected with
a wish to provide a thoroughly representative collection
of the organs of current opinion and interest. This
department of the library was from the first a most
popular one.
A gratifying section of the first, as of all subsequent
reports, is the list of donations. In addition to the
large and important gift from the University authori-
ties already referred to, there were gifts announced
from Mr. John Alexander (24 volumes of Scottish
poets), Mr. Robert Anderson (Sotheby's Principia
Typographia, 3 volumes, folio, and other works), Mr.
A. B. Allan (a set of Engineering, 23 volumes), Sir
James Bain, Messrs. Blackie & Son (110 volumes,
chiefly of works published by them), Mr. J. Cleland
Burns, Dr. Cameron, M.P., Mr. R W. Cochrau-
Patrick, M.P., the Hon. William Collins, Lord Pro-
vost (more than 200 volumes and pamphlets), Mr. A.
G. Collins (selection of standard works of fiction, 155
volumes), the late Bailie Colquhoun (Virtue's Imperial
edition of the Works of Shakspere, 5 volumes, folio),
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
(their transactions), Glasgow Natural History Society,
Glasgow Philosophical Society, Mr Thomas Johnston
(numerous contributions to the " Poets' Corner " and
the Glasgow collection), Lord Mayor and Corporation
of London, Mr. James MacLehose, Mr John Mann
(Glasgow Herald, 1861 to 1876, bound; Glasgow
Morning Journal, 1858-60), Mr. David Murray (112
volumes), the late Mr. J. R. Napier (120 volumes and
pamphlets), Bailie Neil (Wyatt's Industrial Arts of
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 121
the Nineteenth Century, 2 volumes, folio), Councillor
W. R. W. Smith, the Swedenborg Society (works of
Emanuel Swedenborg, 44 volumes, and other books),
the late Mr. W. West Watson, City Chamberlain
(Hume's History of England, printed by Bensley for
Bowyer, 5 volumes, folio, volumes of Scottish news-
papers, etc.), Preceptor William Wilson (contributions
to the " Poets' Corner " and Glasgow collection).
In reporting on the year 1880 the committee were
compelled to proceed very much on the lines of their
first report. The history of the year was one of con-
tinued progress, both in the growth of the library and
in the appreciation of it by the community generally.
They believed they were "justified in making the state-
ment that its progress has been quite unprecedented."
The details of the work of the year may perhaps be
postponed for a general table or statement further on.
This year was marked by the bequest by Mr. Richard
Chalmers, for many years principal of the Ladies' Col-
lege, No. 1 Claremont Terrace, who resided in Kirkin-
tilloch, of his private library. The bequest comprised
nearly 1,000 volumes, and consisted chiefly of works in
general literature, with, however, a leaning to subjects
of an educational and philological character. Among
the works included were: A set of the publications of
the Early English Text Society ; Goethe's Sammtliche
Werke, 30 volumes, a fine copy ; Schiller's Sammtliche
Werke, 12 volumes; Works of Henry Hallam, 6 vol-
umes, of Richard Hooker, 3 volumes, of Archbishop
Leighton, 2 volumes; of Thomas Carl yle, of Max Mtiller;
Dyce's edition of Shakespeare, 9 volumes; Shakespeare's
Dramatische Werke, Schlegel und Tieck, 12 volumes;
Clarke's Concordance to Shakspere; Chambers's Life
and Works of Burns, 4 volumes ; Scott's Minstrelsy of
the Scottish Border, 4 volumes; Wordsworth's Poetical
Works, 6 volumes ; the Percy Folio Manuscript,
3 volumes ; Dictionnaire de la Langue Frangaise,
par Littre, 5 volumes; Dictionnaire comparatif des
122 TEE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Langues Teuto-gothiques, par Meidinger ; Halliwell's
Archaic Dictionary, 2 volumes; Histoire de la Lit-
te'rature Anglaise, par Taine, 5 volumes; Dictionnaire
des Sciences Philosophiques, par Franck ; Les Arts au
Moyen Age, par Lacroix ; Les Moeurs, Usages, et Cos-
tumes au Moyen Age, par Lacroix, fine copies ; Grun-
driss der Kunstgeschichte, von Ltibke, 2 volumes ;
Bos well's Life of Johnson, 10 volumes; a number of
volumes of Bonn's series, of Arber's reprints, and of
Pickering's reprints. A considerable portion of the
books were duplicates of works previously acquired;
but by Mr. Chalmers's forethought this was no burden,
for by his will he empowered the committee to ex-
change such books for others, or to sell them and
apply the proceeds to the purchase of other books.
This power as regards exchanging has on several occa-
sions been made use of and the library thereby en-
riched, while at the same time the exchanging library
was also benefited. By far the greater portion of the
exchanges so effected up to the present have been with
Stirling's Library, with the result that both are ren-
dered more complete. It should always be kept in
mind that all books received in exchange for duplicates
are registered as the gift of the donor who presented
the duplicate volumes, and in this way full effect is
given to the donor's desire to benefit the library.
Another benefaction of interest during 1880 was the
receipt from Mr. J. Wyllie Guild of a collection of
books on various subjects, but all printed in Glasgow
before the commencement of the present century.
There were seventy-eight volumes in all, and among
them were specimens from the presses of R. Sanders,
sen., 1666 to 1690; R Sanders, jun., 1697 to 1725;
A. Hepburn, 1689; A. M'Lean, 1706; H. Brown,
1713-14; D. Govan, 1715; J. & W. Duncan, 1720;
A. Carmichael, 1732-8 ; A. Miller, 1738-41 ; J. Robert-
son, 1739-69, and others. The other donations in-
cluded From the Lords of the Admiralty, a collection
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 123
of the astronomical works issued from the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich; the Bible Society of
Scotland, a collection of Bibles in various languages,
27 volumes; Institution of Civil Engineers, 23 vol-
umes of their Proceedings, to complete the library
set; His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the costly
catalogue of the library at Chatsworth, 4 volumes ; Dr.
A. B. M'Grigor, 131 volumes; Mr. Thomas Reid, the
manuscript of an unpublished philological work by the
late Dr. John Reid, a teacher of languages in Glasgow;
Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon, publishers, some of their
engineering and technical books, and some of the names
in the previous report.
The great event of the year 1881 was the bequest
by the late Bailie Moir of his large and well-chosen
library, together with the residue of his estate. This
is announced in the report of that year in the following
terms : " In the last report [it had been known early
in the year that this bequest was made] reference was
made to the important and valuable bequest made to
the library by the esteemed and lamented Bailie Moir.
Your committee have to report that, although the
residue of the estate has not yet been transferred to the
Town Council, it will, they have reason to believe,
amount to about 12,000, which will, after providing
for an annuity to the deceased's sister, be applicable to
purchasing books, to be placed along with the books
bequeathed by the testator in the Mitchell Library."
.... The books left by Bailie Moir were described as
a " large and excellent collection of standard works in
general literature. , . . The books are in admirable con-
dition, many of them being handsomely bound. Most
classes of literature are represented, the classification
showing 398 books and pamphlets in Theology and
Philosophy, 899 in History and Biography, 1,241 in
Political, Legal, and Social subjects ; 406 in Science,
principally Natural History and Botany; 105 in
Poetry, 19 in Linguistics, 40 in Prose Fiction, and 259
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miscellaneous. The whole number added to the lib-
rary by this bequest is 2,420 books and 947 pamphlets,
besides which there are about 850 duplicates, by the
sale or exchange of which the library will be still
further enriched. The books will be kept together
with such others as may be from time to time acquired
from the fund left by Bailie Moir for that purpose, and
in exchange for the duplicates, and will be known as
the ' Moir Collection/ ' Although anticipating some-
what in point of time, this appears a convenient place
to record that in the report for 1883, after the estate
had been wound up, the committee state that " under
the bequest of the late Bailie Moir of the residue of
his estate for the purchase of books, to be known as
the ' Moir Collection ' in the Mitchell Library, a sum
of 11,503 4s. 2d. has been received. In present cir-
cumstances, and while the library is so much restricted
in space, it has not appeared desirable to proceed im-
mediately with the carrying out of the objects of
Bailie Moir's bequest ; but when the library is provided
with a larger and more adequate home the possession of
this fund will enable the committee to secure for public
use many of those great and costly works in Science,
in Natural History, in Painting and. Engraving, in
Architecture, in Antiquities, in History, in Philosophy,
and other subjects, which are now beyond their reach.
This collection will form a memorial of our late friend
such as any citizen might look forward to with
pleasure, and will go far to place the library on an
equality with those of other cities." The Town
Council, to show their appreciation of Bailie Moir's
bequest, resolved to request Mr. Mossman to prepare a
bust in marble of the bailie. This has been very suc-
cessfully done. Owing to the want of accommodation
in the library, the bust is meanwhile kept in the City
Chambers.
Another important acquisition during 1881 was the
addition by purchase of the extensive and valuable
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 125
collection of editions of the works of Burns, and books
illustrative of his life and writings, formed during
many years by Mr. James Gibson, a native of Stirling
long resident in Liverpool.
The following are among the more noteworthy of the
donations of the year: From the Secretary of State for
India, more than 100 volumes relating to the antiquities,
topography, statistics, industries, and natural products
of India, including a number of costly illustrated works ;
Trustees of the British Museum, 130 volumes of the
works published by their order, including the volumes
descriptive of remains of ancient art, of Oriental and
other inscriptions, of various departments of the library
and of the natural history collections, many of them
finely illustrated ; Messrs. Blackie & Sons, 33 volumes;
Commissioner Kerr, privately printed and manu-
script materials for local biographies ; " Wellwisher,"
very numerous additions, principally in local and
Scottish literature ; Preceptor Wilson, about 200
volumes and pamphlets, many relating to Glasgow.
The public to this time had continued to make in*
creasing use of the library, and the issue of books was
again larger than in any previous year.
The year 1882 saw the first diminution in the attend-
ance of readers. This inevitable occurrence comes to
most libraries in the second year ; here it was post-
poned till the fifth. It is thus referred to in the
report for the year : " The number of volumes issued
to readers was 366,225 ... as compared with the
previous year a decrease of 9.28 per cent. This
comparatively slight falling oif cannot be considered
surprising, and the fact that it was not, in the
circumstances, much larger, affords a gratifying evi-
dence of the hold on the appreciation of the citizens
which the library has acquired. During the period of
depression of trade and deficiency of occupation the
attendance of readers at the library had increased at
a very unusual rate. In the year 1879 the number
126 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
was almost double that of 1878, and during 1880 and
1881 was still further increased. In 1882 the improve-
ment in trade had reduced very much the number of
unemployed persons, and to this cause mainly is pro-
bably due the lessened issue above recorded."
The library had again received very substantial
additions to its stock, the additions of the year num-
bering very nearly 5,000 items ; but there had not
been any single acquisition of equal importance to
some in former years. By this time it had taken
position as one of the more important libraries in
Scotland, its position in point of number of volumes
being now seventh, those larger being the libraries of
the four universities, and the Advocates' and Signet
libraries in Edinburgh. Of Scottish libraries to which
the general public have a right of free access, the
Mitchell Library was now the largest.
During this year, 1882, it was endeavoured to
ascertain more closely than hitherto what the relation
was between the number of volumes issued (which
from the commencement had been carefully tabulated
and registered) and the number of persons coming in
to the library. It was found that for every 100
volumes issued 90 readers entered the library, of
whom 37 read only the current periodicals, while 53
consulted books, and no doubt in many cases periodi-
cals also. Each reader of books handed in, on an
average, 1*49 readers' tickets ; the number of volumes
delivered to each being 1'89.
The following were among the books contributed
during 1882 by the kindness of friends of the library :
From Mr. J. Wyllie Guild, a further collection of
early Scottish printing, principally Glasgow, and in-
cluding 21 volumes from the press of R. Urie, and
8 from that of W. Duncan with other books, about
100 volumes; from Mr. Guild, together with the late
Mr. Moses Provan, a set of the Glasgow Courier news-
paper, 1816 to 1859, 44 volumes; Mr. Wm. Neilson,
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 127
Glasgow Chronicle, 1812, 1813, 1816; and numerous
other works from old and new donors.
In 1883 the attendance of readers was larger than
in the previous year, the number of volumes issued
being 381,607. The additions of the year included a
gift to the " Poets' Corner," in reference to which the
committee state in their report that they " refer with
very great pleasure to the gift by Mr. Alexander
Gardyne, of London, of a large collection of Scottish
literature, chiefly poetical. Mr. Gardyne has been for
many years an assiduous collector of Scottish books in
all departments of literature, and becoming much
interested in the collection of Scottish poetry forming
in the library under the name of the ' Poets' Corner/
decided to present to it the greater part of his gather-
ings in that department, except such books as were
already acquired. In this way the library has become
possessed of a collection of books which it would have
taken years of careful search and a liberal expendi-
ture of money to purchase separately." This generous
gentleman was a native of Arbroath, and had passed a
large part of his life in mercantile pursuits in India
and in the Mauritius. He returned to Britain more
than thirty years ago, and settled in London. He had
always been a lover of books, and particularly of Scottish
books, and now followed his bent freely. For many
years he was one of the most diligent of frequenters of
book shops and stalls, and of readers of booksellers'
catalogues, and by means of knowledge, patience,
watchfulness, and a liberal expenditure, he gathered
together a library of more than ten thousand volumes,
exceptionally rich in rare and curious books. It is
much to be regretted that there is a probability that
this very interesting library will be dispersed. The
portion of it presented to the Mitchell Library con-
tained about 2,250 " books and booklets," the smaller
being bound several in a volume.
Another noteworthy addition made this year was
128 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
the remarkable collection of autographs and printed
papers formed by Mr. James Gould, of Edinburgh, as
a memorial of the centenary celebrations of the birth
of Kobert Burns in 1859. Mr. Gould, with admirable
patience and perseverance, procured the signatures of
all the descendants and relatives of the poet who were
living at the time, and was also successful in obtaining
fragments of the handwriting of Burns's father, of
David Sillar, and others more or less closely connected
with the bard. He then asked for and got the auto-
graphs of all the leading promoters of the celebrations
in all parts of Scotland. These include the chairmen
of all the meetings held throughout the land, and
among them are many names famous in literature on
their own account. The manuscript portions of the col-
lection include further the signatures of the "authors
of the three greatest essays on Burns," J. G. Lockhart,
John Wilson, and Thomas Carlyle. There is also a
copy in her own handwriting of the prize poem by Isa
Craig Knox, read at the Sydenham Palace gathering.
The printed matter consists mainly of the contempor-
ary accounts of the meetings held in honour of the
centenary not only in Scotland, England, and Ireland,
but on the continent of Europe, in India, in Australia,
in Canada, in the United States, and in fact wherever
there were Scotsmen to do honour to their greatest
name. These accounts are arranged in countries. The
whole is arranged in four massive volumes ; and con-
stitutes a most interesting and valuable contribution to
the great Burns collection in the library. It was pur-
chased by means of a subscription promoted by Mr. J.
Wyllie Guild and Preceptor Wilson.
As in former years there were received many dona-
tions. The following were among the number: From
Dr. W. G. Blackie, a manuscript copy of Lectures on
Moral Philosophy, by Professor Arthur of Glasgow
University; this is specially curious as being in the
handwriting of John Wilson, schoolmaster, Tarbolton,
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 129
whose name is permanently fixed in literature as the
original of " Doctor Hornbook " in Burns's satirical
poem, " Death and Doctor Hornbook." Messrs.
Blackie & Son, a further gift of publications of their
firm, 20 volumes ; Mr. Duncan Brown, large collec-
tion of programmes of meetings held in the City Hall,
1865 to 1882; Messrs. Bryce & Son, publications of the
firm and other books, 30 volumes; ex-Lord Provost
Clouston, El win's edition of the Works of Pope, 7
volumes; Yarrell's British Fishes, 2 volumes; Chabot
and Twisleton on the Handwriting of Junius, and
other w r orks ; Mr. A. Devlin, the rare first Irish Bible,
by Bishop Bedell, 1685 ; the late Mr. W. N. Greig,
about forty volumes, mostly philological, but including
a Beckett's Comic Histories of England and of Rome,
and other books not on language ; the Secretary of
State for India, and the Trustees of the British
Museum, further donations similar to the former in
character, but including different works ; Commissioner
Kerr, two unique works of the late Dr. John Strang,
City Chamberlain of Glasgow, and other works ; Dr.
A. B. M'Grigor, 18 volumes; Mr. Isaac Pitman
of Bath, 80 volumes; Professor Dr. Geo. Stephens
of Copenhagen, three early chapbooks of Dugald
Graham, bellman of Glasgow ; Sir C. E. F. Stirling,
Bart, the Stirlings of Craigbernard and Glorat.
During 1884, the record of which brings our chron-
icle of the library to a close, the attendance of readers
was again larger than in any previous year, the vol-
umes issued reaching the very large number of 435,142.
As the reduced issue in 1882 was reasonably attributed,
to some extent at least, to the fairly good state of trade
and of the labour market, so must the large increase of
1884 be regarded as partially produced by the depres-
sion and scarcity of employment which existed in some
trades.
The additions of the year did not include any speci-
ally extensive acquisitions, and the increase was some-
9
130 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
what less than in most years. It amounted to nearly
four thousand volumes and pamphlets, and raised the
number contained in the library to 55,496.
In the preceding narrative the statistics of the pro-
gress of the library have been casually glanced at ; but
it was thought convenient to postpone to this place a
more particular account.
At the date of opening, 5th November, 1877, the
number of volumes was 14,432. At the latest date
available for this page, it had increased to 57,100.
The table on next page shows the classification and the
total at the end of each year. The numbers stated are
what remained after deduction of duplicates withdrawn
and exchanged, and books lost by theft or otherwise.
It is proper to state that the losses by theft and
destructive mutilation number only 55 out of an issue
of more than two and a half millions, or one volume for
each 45,500 books consulted by readers. It is, of
course, only in accordance with the fitness of things
that a considerable number of the thieves were detected
and punished.
With regard to the use made of the library by the
public an equally encouraging result is to be stated.
We state first the total issue of each year, and then
some statistics of the classification of the aggregate
issue. During the months of November and Decem-
ber, 1877, the volumes issued numbered 18,970; in
1878, 194,314; in 1879, 379,748; in 1880, 390,732;
in 1881, 403,713 ; in 1882, 366,225 ; in 1883, 381,607 ;
in 1884, 435,142.
The whole number of volumes issued from the
opening to the 31st December, 1884, was 2,570,451.
Of these 240,960, or 9*37 per cent, of the whole, were
of the class Theology, Philosophy, and Ecclesiastical
History ; 542,953, or 21*12 per cent., were in History,
Biography, Voyages, and Travel; 74,888, or 2'91 per
cent., in Law, Politics, Sociology, and Commerce ;
519,606, or 20'22 per cent., in Arts, Sciences, and
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Natural History; 187,134, or 7*28 per cent., Poetry
and Drama; 69,859, or 2*72 per cent., Linguistics;
207,647, or 8'08 per cent., Prose Fiction; 727,404, or
28'30 per cent., Miscellaneous Literature. Taking
what is known as light literature, namely Poetry,
Fiction, and Miscellaneous, together, they show only
4 3 '6 6 per cent, of the reading, and even this includes
a large number of books classed as miscellaneous, such
as encyclopaedias, reviews, etc., which are consulted
for purposes of study or information. The outcome
of all these figures is to show that of the reading at
the library a very large proportion is undertaken
not merely as pastime or amusement, but with the
definite object of acquiring knowledge and improving
the education.
The readers have been as various as the books they
called for. The majority, as might have been expected,
were of the working-classes ; many of them were
apparently clerks, or warehousemen ; a good many
students take advantage of the privileges offered ;
and there is a, smaller number of professional and
literary men. The attendance of ladies has been
very small, only 15,325 volumes out of the 2,570,451
having been consulted by them. This is no doubt
due to the fact that the committee have not yet been
able to make any better provision for their accommo-
dation than the screening off of a single table.
The history of the library during its as yet brief
existence is, we believe, without precedent, whether
regard be had to the number and value of the books
acquired, or to the benefit derived from them by those
in whose interest it was founded. Of course there are
not a few libraries in the provinces which are much
richer, especially in the costlier books ; but these have
been established for many more years. When the
present position of the Mitchell Library is compared
with that of other libraries at the same period in their
history, it will be seen how exceptionally favourable it
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 133
is. If in some respects, such as the failure to secure
suitable housing, the record is discouraging, the man-
agers have abundant ground for satisfaction in seeing
that the two great essentials of library success the
acquirement of good books in large numbers and the
free and appreciative use of them by the public have
been to so great a degree present.
CHAPTER IX.
Description of the Contents of the Library Formation
of the u Poets Corner" Purchase of the Jervise Col-
lection of Scottish Poetry Burns Collection The
Burns Centenary, unique Memorials James Mac-
farlan Gardyne Donation Description of the "Cor-
ner"- Collection of Glasgow Literature "Nodes
Smd 1 Weftianae " List of Periodical Publications
The Earliest West of Scotland Newspaper Glas-
gow Courant Glasgow Mercury.
IN attempting to give a general idea of the contents
of the library at this date, we will, after premising
that the main endeavour has been to make it as
thoroughly representative as possible, draw attention
to the special collections which have been formed.
The " Poets' Corner " is the realization, so far, of
one of the earliest suggestions made with regard to the
library. It had come to the knowledge of some mem-
bers of the committee and other friends that there had
been formed in Birmingham a "Shakespeare Memorial
Library " of a very comprehensive character, containing
all obtainable editions of the works of that poet, to-
gether with all works published in criticism or in illus-
tration of his writings or his life. The idea naturally
arose that it would be a most appropriate thing to col-
134 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
lect in Glasgow, which may be regarded as holding the
same position in relation to Burns as Birmingham does
to Shakespeare, namely, that it is the most important
and accessible place in the part of the country with
which the poet was associated, a library of the litera-
ture of the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns ;
and this was soon extended so as to include the poetry
of Scotland generally. The objects aimed at are thus
defined :
" The acquirement of (1) copies of the works
of Burns and all Scottish poets and verse
writers, and as far as possible of their differ-
ent editions ; (2) selections or collections of
Scottish poetry ; (3) historical and critical
dissertations on the poetry of Scotland ; (4)
biographies of Scottish poets.
" The preparation of a catalogue, giving the names,
birth and death dates, and localities of the
various authors, the titles of their works,
with particulars of editions, and such other
information as may be obtainable."
To forward the execution of this project it was pro-
posed to secure one hundred subscribers, each to con-
tribute one pound a year for five years. This number
was not reached : but still much interest was taken in
the idea, and it was so far successful that there has
been collected in the library, as public property, what
is confidently believed to be much the largest repre-
sentation of this department of the national literature.
The whole number of volumes, great and small, in the
" Poets' Corner," is now very nearly five thousand, of
which nearly one thousand relate directly to Robert
Burns. While very many of these books have been
acquired singly or in small numbers, the work was very
greatly forwarded by the securing three large collec-
tions, the gatherings of private gentlemen interested
in the same subject. The earliest of these was the col-
lection of the minor poets of Scotland formed by the
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late Mr. Andrew Jervise, of Brechin, the well-known
antiquary, author of " Epitaphs and Inscriptions in
North-East Scotland," " Lives and Lands of the Lind-
says," and " Memorials and Antiquities of Angus and
Mearns." Mr. Jervise's collection, which added a thou-
sand items to those previously acquired, was purchased
at the sale of his library in Edinburgh, and was paid
for from the subscribed fund.
The second of the large collections secured was the
Burns library of Mr. James Gibson, referred to already
as one of the principal events of the year 1881. In
extent this was believed to be not inferior to any other,
while in point of the condition of the books it contained
it left nothing to be desired, Mr. Gibson having always
been careful to secure clean, sound, and perfect copies.
Together with the Burns books otherwise secured, both
before and since, it contains, as was said, nearly 1,000
titles. The most conspicuous want is the original edi-
tion of 1786, of which no copy has as yet fallen in.
It is, however, hoped that some friend of the library
may by gift or bequest secure for himself the honour
of supplying this important desideratum. With this
exception, it is believed that the works of our national
poet, and the literature which has grown up about him,
are here represented with a fulness not found else-
where. The number of different editions of his works
is about 340, comprising about 520 volumes, and ex-
tending from the second, 1787, to the most recent
O '
issues. In Burnsiana, the library possesses the earliest
known criticism of the first edition, in the " Edinburgh
Magazine" of Oct., 1786, issued some six weeks before
Henry Mackenzie, in the well-known number of his
" Lounger," made the name of the ploughman bard
known to the literary world ; and from that time on
the growing appreciation of the greatness and per-
manency of his fame will be found chronicled and
preserved.
In addition to the Gould collection on the centenary,
136 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
already described (p. 128), there has been quite re-
cently received from Mr. Colin Rae-Brown, of London,
another memorial of the same occasion. It consists
of the original manuscript minute of the first meeting
held on 12th July, 1858, to organize the celebration,
and other papers relative, among which are letters of
acceptance or apology from many distinguished men
who were invited to take part. Among these auto-
graphs are those of the sons and other relatives of
Burns, of Sir Archibald Alison (the historian), Sir
David Brewster, Lord Brougham, Thomas Carlyle,
Charles Dickens, Earl of Eglinton, Judge Haliburton
(" Sam Slick"), Lord Houghton (R. Monckton Milnes),
Leigh Hunt, Mark Lemon (editor of " Punch "), Samuel
Lover, Lord Lytton, Lord Macaulay, Lord Palmerston,
Lord Panmure, Earl Russell, Earl Stanhope, Lord
Tennyson, W. M. Thackeray. These papers have
been carefully mounted and handsomely bound, with
a special emblematic title-page written by Mr. Thomas
Gildard. Mr. Colin Rae-Brown, who has given this
interesting and valuable volume, was one of the first
movers in the centenary, and was hon. secretary of the
demonstration in the City Hall, Glasgow. There are
several other matters of considerable interest, such as the
" Doctor Hornbook" manuscript, referred to at p. 128.
One of the most recent additions of this kind may
be mentioned here, though it is not closely connected
with the Burns portion of the " Poets' Corner." It is
a memorial by that true, if unfortunate, poet, James
Macfarlan, in his own handwriting, addressed to Lord
Palmerston, and asking for the grant of a small allow-
ance from the Civil List, in consideration of his writings
and his melancholy circumstances. The memorial
includes a copy of a very cordial letter from Charles
Dickens, to whose magazine Macfarlan had contri-
buted. Before any decision had been arrived at the
poet's death occurred. The memorial was presented
by Mrs. H. Buchanan MacPhail.
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The third large contribution to the " Poets' Corner"
was the gift, already mentioned, by Mr. Gardyne,
of London. This was thus referred to in the circular
of Preceptor Wilson, treasurer of the special fund :
" By the generous kindness of Mr. Alexander Gardyne,
the ' Poets' Corner ' has received the most important
contribution ever made to it a contribution placing it
in extent far before all other collections of Scottish
poetry. No fewer than 1,300 books and booklets were
received from this gentleman, who thus gave evidence
that though he has been for the greater part of his
life absent from his native country, he still in his old
age retains his love for Scotland and Scottish litera-
ture."
The number of authors, named or anonymous, whose
works are included in the " Poets' Corner " is about
2,000 of all degrees of greatness or smallness, from
Burns himself to the most obscure and purely local
of the " minor poets." These are in almost all cases
represented by the best editions in which their writ-
ings have been presented, and in many cases first
editions have also been secured. In so large a number
it is impossible to treat them individually, and thus
only a general statement is here attempted. The
collection of course includes the histories of Scottish
poetry by Campbell (only ninety copies printed) ;
Irving's History of Scottish Poetry ; Wilson's Poets
and Poetry of Scotland, 2 volumes ; Mackenzie's
Beauties of Gaelic Poetry ; ' Language, Poetry, and
Music of the Highland Clans, by Campbell ; Lyric
Poetry and Music of Scotland, by Stenhouse ; Sib-
bald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; and Edwards's
Modern Poets, 7 volumes; and the song and ballad books
edited by Watson, Herd, Motherwell, Buchan, Jamie-
son, Pinkerton, Rogers, Ritson, Chambers, Laing,
Maidment, Sharpe, Whitelaw, Murray, Aytoun, Child,
and others. Works on the music associated with the
Scots ballads, by Dean Christie (2 volumes 4to.),
138 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Thomson, Mackay, Graham, Stewart, Brown, Mavor,
Smith, and others. The copies of the separate writers
which are in many respects worthy of mention are so
numerous that we cannot attempt their description,
and must therefore refer to the manuscript catalogue
at the library. The managers are fully aware that
large as the collection is, it is not by any means
complete ; and that in particular much remains to be
done in gathering the earlier editions of the older poets.
But the foundations have been laid on wide lines, and
the progress made fully warrants the justification and
aspiration expressed by Preceptor Wilson, with whose
name the " Poets' Corner " is inseparably associated,
in his last issued statement on the subject : " I may
be permitted to point out that the poetical literature
of Scotland has long been recognized to be of quite
exceptional extent and richness ; and that, in par-
ticular, probably no country is more rich, possibly so
rich, in local, or rural, or, as it is sometimes called,
peasant poetry. The writings of these local poets over
all the country, in addition to their literary value,
preserve in many cases local dialects, local customs,
and local memories which are fast passing away. It
is surely w^orth while that in one public library in the
country there should be set apart a storehouse for these
treasures, where they will be carefully kept and pre-
served for future generations of readers. The hope is
cherished that in this section the Mitchell Library
will render a real service to students of our national
literature by placing within their reach means so
ample for the study of what is perhaps its most
distinctive and characteristic feature."
The second of the large special collections forming
in the library is that devoted to the city of Glasgow.
The purpose of this collection is stated in the following
resolution come to by the committee early in 1877 :
That the library " ought to contain copies of all books,
pamphlets, periodical publications, maps, plans, pic-
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torial illustrations, and generally all papers which in
any way illustrate the city's growth and life ; that
with respect to past publications care should be taken
to secure any which may from time to time be obtain-
able ; that with respect to the future all the local
newspapers and periodical publications should be filed
for preservation, and that Glasgow books and pamph-
lets should be purchased as issued, when not pre-
sented ; that the heads of the several departments of
the Corporation administration be requested to send to
the library copies of official reports and documents
(not being private and confidential), with as many of
former years as may be in print." Proceeding on
these lines, and interpreting them in a free and large
sense, the committee have been able to form a very
extensive and interesting representation of the litera-
ture of the city. The number of items now contained,
each being a separate volume or publication, is over
2,400, " varying in size from the huge volumes of the
newspapers to the eight or twelve page tract on some
local question of passing interest." The great appro-
priateness, and indeed importance, of each public
library collecting and preserving all matters relating
to its own locality has in some places been long
recognized, and this work has of late been generally
regarded as a duty to be discharged wherever public
libraries exist. The following remarks quoted from a
notice of the library report for 1882 in the leading
scientific weekly, " Nature," indicate well the value of
this part of a library's work : " One of the best
functions of a public library in any town is to become
the centre to which will gravitate all publications of
any local value or interest. For since every subject
or author is naturally connected with some locality, if
this were well carried out all over the kingdom, infor-
mation would gradually be as well arranged and as
readily accessible as in a cyclopaedia."
As in the case of the " Poets' Corner," the extent of
140 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
the Glasgow collection precludes any attempt at par-
ticularizing its contents. All the histories of the city
are present, though not always in very good copies.
The first edition of M'Ure, for instance, wants the
two folding-plates. The successive statistical works
relating to the growth of population and commerce
are nearly complete. Many incidents of local history,
such, for instance, as the struggle for the right-of-way
on the river banks, are preserved in the pamphlet litera-
ture they called forth. A unique book is worth a word
of mention. It is called " Noctes Sma' Weftianae :
the web whereof being woven by various hands, was
afterwards cut, pieced, and again put together by that
cunning workman, John Strang, the original pattern
drawer and designer of the same. Glasgow : J. C.
Malcolm, 1849." The following passages from the
preface, which, together with the title-page, was
printed specially for this, the only copy of the book
existing, explain its nature and motive: "The fol-
lowing jeux d'esprit had their origin in the party
contentions that existed in Glasgow at a period of
great political and social excitement. They were
published in ... 'The Scots Times.' . . . The
design of the Noctes originated with Mr. Strang. . . .
Having written in 1828 . . . papers on the clubs of
Glasgow ... it occurred to him . . . that the ideal
colloquies of one of these fraternities . . . might be
rendered a ... medium of satire against the system
of rotten burgh and municipal self-election. ... The
idea was accordingly adopted, and the first number of
the 'Sma' Weftianae ' appeared on 3rd October, 1829."
While Dr. Strang was the principal author, the follow-
ing also contributed Mr. J. D. Carrick, Mr. John
Kerr, Mr. Robert Malcolm, and others. In the
volume Dr. Strang has subjoined in notes the names
of the citizens and corporation officers referred to.
The volume was presented by Commissioner R. M.
Kerr, of London, son of the Mr. John Kerr named
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as a contributor, and well known as an editor of Black-
stone's Commentaries, and a writer on legal subjects.
The Commissioner, as becomes a good though absent
son of Saint Mungo, has presented other volumes of
much interest to the Glasgow collection, among which
should be specially named the compilations of materials,
partly in print, partly in manuscript, for the bio-
graphies of certain of the city worthies in former
days, including Dr. John Strang, City Chamberlain ;
Robert Chapman, publisher, successor to the Foulises ;
Robert Malcolm, printer ; Alexander Malcolm, writer ;
John Kerr, writer. It is much to be desired that this
excellent example of Commissioner Kerr should be
largely imitated, and that gentlemen who may be
in possession of memoranda or papers bearing on the
lives of former citizens of worth and note should
arrange them in order, and place them, or at least
copies of them, with the Glasgow collection. One
of the divisions of the Glasgow collection, as stated in
the original resolution, consists of periodical publica-
tions newspapers, magazines, etc. published in
Glasgow. To show at once the extraordinary num-
ber and variety of these publications, and the success
which has so far attended the effort to secure them,
the following list is inserted. Of the serials mentioned
therein the library possesses in many cases complete
sets, in others, portions of sets of varying extent, and
in others again only a single number to show that such
a magazine once was. Many of them were very short-
lived, some of them perishing with the issue of the
second number.
LIST OP PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING NEWSPAPERS,
PUBLISHED IN GLASGOW.
Academic, 1826. Ant, 1826-7, 2 vols.
Academician, 1883. Argus, 1833-36, 1840-43.
JEon, 1884 Asylum, 1794-96, 3 vols.
Amateur, 1856. Athenaeum, 1830.
American and Continental Athenaeum and Clydesdale Week-
Monthly, 1870. ly Miscellany, 3 vols., 1850,
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Attic Stories, 1817-18.
Bailie, 1872
Banner of the Truth, and Scottish
Calvinistic Magazine, 1848.
Bee, 1873-74, 2 vols.
Bennet's Glasgow Mag., 1832-33.
Blythswood Holm Literary Maga-
zine, 1875.
British Educator, 1856.
Bulletin, Daily (1 number), 1860.
Chameleon, 1832-33, 3 vols.
Chartist Circular, 1839-42, 2 vols.
Chiel, 1883
Christian Herald, 1818-20, 1825-
31.
Christian Journal, 1851-52, 2 vols.
Christian Leader, 1882
Christian Pioneer, 1826-45.
Christian Teacher, 1837-38.
Chronicle, 1811-16, 1820.
Church of Scotland Magazine,
1834-38, 5 vols.
Citizen, Evening, 1859, 1862, and
1877
Citizen, Weekly, 1877
College Miscellany (Nos. 4-7),
1863.
Constitutional, 1836-37, 1838-47.
Courant, 1747-49.
Courier, 1800-2, 1816-59.
Culler, 1795.
Daily Exhibitor, 1846-47.
Daily News, 1855.
Day, 1832, 2 vols.
Drama (No. 2), 1847.
Dramatic B.eview, 1844-46.
Draughtplayers' Weekly Maga-
zine, 1884.
Emmet, 1824, 2 vols.
Essayist and Literary Review,
[1852-3].
Evening Post, 1866-67.
Exile, 1884.
Freeman, 1851.
Free Press, 1823-25.
Gazette (1 number), 1855.
Gentleman (1 number), 1834.
Germania, 1880.
Gillies' Exhortation to the In-
habitants of the South Par-
ish of Glasgow. Sept. 26,
1750 Jan. 26, 1751.
Gleaner, 1806.
Good Songs, 1884.
Gospel Communicator, or Philan-
thropist's Journal, 1827.
Gospel Temperance Advocate,
1882.
Guide, 1880
Hedder wick's Miscellany, 1862-
63, 2 vols.
Herald (daily), 1819-20, 1825-31,
1860
Herald (weekly), 1879
Herald of Friendship, Love, and
Truth, 1842.
Herald to the Trades' Advocate,
1830-31.
Hygeian Journal, 1833-35.
Infant School Magazine, 1834,
1854.
"Jean Byde Papers," 1873.
John Knox, or Religious Re-
former, 1824.
Journal of General Literature,
1835-36.
Judy, or Glasgow Satirist, 1857.
League Journal, 1877
Literary Coronal, 1825-26.
Literary Museum, 1832.
Literary Rambler, 1832.
Literary Reporter, 1823.
Looking Glass, 1825-26 (Heath).
Afterwards Northern Look-
ing Glass.
Loyal Reformers' Gazette, 1831-
35.
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143
Mace, 1879-83.
Magazine and Clydesdale Monthly
Register, 1811-12, v. 2 and 3.
Mail (weekly), 1879
Mechanics' and Engineers' Maga-
zine, 1844-47.
Mechanics' Magazine, 1824-26, 5
vols.
Medical Examiner, 1831-32,
1869-71.
Medical Journal, 1828-30, 1854-
59, 1868
Mercantile Age, 1879
Mercantile Critique, 1879.
Mercantile World, 1879.
Mercury, 1778-96.
Mercury's Missives, 1883.
Military Record.
Miscellany, 1789-92.
Monthly Visitor, (?)
Morning Journal, 1858-60.
Museum, 1773, 2 vols.
National Literary Journal, 1884.
News (morning), 1873
News (evening), 1877
North British Daily Mail, 1877
Northern Notes and Queries, 1853
Opera Glass (3 numbers), 1848.
Our Magazine, 1863.
Partick Observer, 1877
Peel Club Papers, 1839-40.
Penny Post, 1877.
Phoenix, 1792-94.
Poetry, Original and Selected,
Brash and Reid, 4 vols.
[imperfect].
Polyhymnia (18 numbers).
Post-Office Guide, 1884
Progressionist, 1863.
Protestant, 1819-22, 4 vols.
(M'Gavin).
Protestant Watchman, 1854.
Punch, 1849.
Queen's Park Magazine, 1877-78.
Quiz, 1882
Radical Reformer (1 number),
1857.
Sabbath School Magazine, 1883
Salt Water Gazette, 1835.
Sanitary Journal, 1879
Satirist, 1848-49.
Saturday Post (1 number), 1862.
Scotland, 1882.
Scots Times, 1835-36.
Scottish Athletic Journal, 1882
Scottish Blue Bells, 1883.
Scottish Celtic Review, 1881-82.
Scottish Financier, 1883.
Scottish Law Review, 1885
Scottish Leather Trader, 1880
Scottish Monthly Magazine, 1836.
Scottish Nights, 1883
Scottish Novelist (now British
Homes), 1884
Scottish Observer and Dramatic
Review, 1856.
Scottish Protestant, 1851-52.
Scottish Pulpit, 1833 (1 number).
Scottish Reader, 1883
Scottish Review, 1853.
Scottish Standard, 1877.
Scottish Umpire, 1884
Sentinel, 1822.
Sentinel, 1877.
Social Reformer, 1878
Special Constable (3 numbers),
1849.
Sphinx, 1883.
Star, 1870 (No. 2).
" Steel Drops," 1874-79.
Student, 1817.
Summer Talk, 1883.
Sunday Talk, 1883
Sunlight, 1883-84.
Tatler, 1883-84.
Temperance Society Record, 1834
(1 number).
Textile Trade Review, 1883-84.
Thauinaturgus, or Wonders of the
Magic Lantern, 1816.
144 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Theatrical Review, 1846-47 (3 Wanderer, 1818.
numbers). Weekly Miscellany, 1789-92, 6
Thistle, 1869 (1 number). vols.
Tickler, 1883. West Country Intelligence, 1716.
Times, 1858-59 (2 numbers). West of Scotland Magazine, 1855-
Times (evening), 1877 57.
Wizard, 1873.
University Journal, 1832. Workman (1 number), 1858.
University Magazine, 1882.
University Review, 1884. Young Men's Journal, 1833.
Young Men's Christian Magazine,
Voice of the People, 1883. 1879
Voluntary Church Magazine, Young Misses' Magazine, 1800.
1833-39.
While most of these possess points of interest, there
are two or three we select for special mention. " The
West Country Intelligence," 1716, is understood to be
the earliest representative in the West of Scotland of
the modern newspaper. It is a tiny sheet, measuring
7 -| by 5f inches, and is occupied mainly with copies of
royal messages and speeches, and despatches from
abroad, but there is a little home news, of which this,
from the number for 16-21 January, 1716, may be
taken as a sample:
" 'Tis very dangerous Travelling in the Country by Reason of a
great Fall of Snow : For on Monday last, one William Finlaysou
Younger, Merchant in Paslay, an honest thriving man, of good
Credit and Reputation, went from this Town for Paslay, he was
found Yesterday about 4 a- Clock in the Afternoon, with a consider-
able sum of Money on him, near Erkleston half a Mile off the Road,
in a Writh of Snow, having some Life in him when found, and breath-
ing about 5 Hours thereafter, and so dyed, being never able to speak,
whose Death is very much regretted."
The copy in the library is only a fragment, consisting
of some three and a half numbers. It was formerly in
the library of the late James Maidment.
The next volume to mention is the " Glasgow
Courant," for 1747 to 1749, beginning with No. 105
and continuing to 208, in very good condition, contain-
ing as may be supposed many very interesting intima-
tions concerning the Glasgow of those days.
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One of the most valuable items in the list is the com-
plete set of " The Glasgow Mercury," of which the
first number was published Thursday, January 8, 1778,
and the last on Tuesday, 27th September, 1796. To
attempt to indicate the many elements of interest in
this series would lead too far, but the introductory and
valedictory addresses of the publisher are worth quot-
ing, if only as marking the difference between the ideas
of newspaper management then and now. In the first
number he gives notice :
"To thf Public. The curiosity of mankind has produced a number
of periodical papers, many of them published daily, and conveying
accounts of the transactions of the times. Of these the weekly paper
[the ' Mercury ' was to be weekly] appears to be the most useful and
satisfactory. In the daily paper you have the tale of the day without any
certainty of its truth, but in the weekly paper you have articles mostly
of authentic intelligence. The Editor, having leisure to distinguish
truth from falsehood, imparts that information that seems to merit
attention."
The announcement of the cessation is in another way
not less curious. It appeared, as stated above, on 27th
September, 1796 :
"On the 9th August and 13th instant, an advertisement was in-
serted in this paper, announcing the proprietor's intention to dispose
of it to any person who might consider it an object worthy attention.
As he has failed in carrying his design into execution he must now
inform the public, and particularly the subscribers to the Paper, that
this Number is the LAST of a series which has been continued during a
period of nearly twenty years. The proprietor's chief, or rather only,
motive for discontinuing the publication of the MERCURY arises from
the extensiveness of his printing business in general. Were this not
the case, so far from having any thought of resigning the paper, he is
enabled to declare that he would carry it on though the encourage-
ment he has always experienced were considerably lessened."
Large as the library collection of Glasgow periodicals
is, it is well understood that it is by no means complete,
and all available means are taken both to complete sets
of such as are present only in part and to secure those
of which no portion has yet been obtained.
Other portions of the Glasgow collection have to do
10
146 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
with such questions as the public health, the water
supply, the disposal of the sewage, and other matters
of public importance. Glasgow trials form a group.
The collection of programmes of meetings and enter-
tainments held in the City Hall, from 1865 to the pre-
sent time, which was preserved and presented by Mr.
Duncan Brown, hall-keeper, and has been securely
bound in ten substantial volumes, is a piece of local
history to which very few libraries possess a parallel.
But it is impossible here to name the many items of
local interest personal, political, literary, ecclesiastical,
or artistic which the collection contains, and we leave
it with the remark that it promises to become one of
the largest and most complete of the provincial
gatherings of local literature.
CHAPTER X.
Early Glasgow Printing First Printing in the
City List of Glasgow Printers The Brothers
Foulis Works on Scotland The National Cove-
nant Knoxs History of the Reformation in Scotland
Scottish History, Topography, and Biography
11 The Black Acts" Miscellaneous Scottish Books.
THERE remains for notice the third of the collections
of a special kind which the Mitchell Library possesses.
This is conveniently known by the name of " Early
Glasgow Printing." By great good fortune a copy of
what is believed to be the earliest piece of printing
executed in the city was secured at a very early period
of the library's existence. This is a tract of sixteen
pages, bearing the following title : " The Protestation
of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland,
and of the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Borrowes,
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Ministers and Commons ; Subscribers of the Covenant,
lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the
Mercate Crosse of Glasgow, the 28, and 29, of
November 1638. Printed at Glasgow by George
Anderson, in the Yeare of Grace, 1638."
The title-page is adorned by a rude cut, the naked
figure of a man. It has no apparent relation to the
subject of the tract, and may have been a portion of a
larger design. The first introduction of printing into
Glasgow is a matter of so much local interest, that the
following record from " Extracts from the Records of
the Burgh of Glasgow, 1573-1642," may be permitted,
although it is doubtless well known to many of our
readers:
4 January, 1640. Ordaiues the thcsaurare to pay to George
Andersone, printer, ane hundrethe pundis in satisfactioun to him of
the superplus he debursit in transporting of his geir to this brnghe,
by the ten dollouris he gave him of befor to that effect, and als
in satisfactioun to him of his haill bygane fiallis fra Whitsonday in
anno 1638 to Mertimes last.
The distinction of being the first printing done in
Glasgow has been claimed for a small book bearing
date 1634, and with the following title: "True
Christian Love to bee Sung with any of the Common
Tunes of the Psalmes [Col. 3-16, Let the Word of God
dwell in you]." Printed by I. W. for John Wilson,
and are to be sould at his shop in Glasgow, 1634.
The general opinion, however, is that this was printed
at Edinburgh by John Wriettoun, or Wreittoun, for
the Glasgow bookseller.
The collection so appropriately and happily com-
menced with the earliest Glasgow print has now grown
into very considerable dimensions. The annual report
for 1884 states that "the department of ' Early Glas-
gow Printing ' has received additions bringing up the
number of volumes contained to about 820." All
books printed in Glasgow before the commencement of
the present century are included. It is believed that
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most of the printers who exercised their calling within
the city are represented by at least one of their pro-
ductions. Materials are not as yet available for a
complete list of these predecessors of our present typo-
graphers, but the following names are among them.
The dates following the names are not intended to
show either the beginning or the ending of the work of
each respectively, but merely the date of the first
book of each now in the library. A fe\v of the names
are those of publishers, not printers :
Anderson (George) . . 1638
Anderson (Andrew) . . 1658
Sanders (Robert) . . . 1664
Hepburn (Andrew) . . 1689
Sanders (Robert) 2n.i . . 1697
M'Lean (Archibald) . . 1706
Brown (Hugh) . . . . 1713
Govan (Donald) . . . 1715
Duncan (J. & W.) . . 1720
Crawford (Thomas) . . 1721
Duncan (William) . . 1726
Glasgow College (no name) 1 730
Carmichael (Al<>x.) . . 1731
Stalker (Andrew) . . . 1732
Carmichael & Millar . . 1736
Millar (Alex.) .... 1738
Robertson (John) . . . 1739
Robertson & M'Lean . . 1739
Urie (R. & Co. i . . . 1741
Paton (George) . . . 1741
Foulis (R. & A.) . . . 1742
Duncan (David) . . . 1743
Smith & Hutcheson . . 1745
Hall (John) 1748
M'Callum (John) . . . 1749
Orr(John) 1750
Bryce & Patersou . . . 1752
Knox (James) .... 1752
Newlands (J.) . . . . 1753
Duncan (Wm., junr.) . . 1753
Marshall (W.) .... 1755
Henderson (A. & J .) . . 1757
Bryce (John) . . . . 1760
Smith (Robert) .... 1762
Mair (Patrick) .... 1764
Walker (William) . . . 1767
Galbraith (Joseph) . . 1768
Hutcheson (Charles) . . 1768
Duncan & Co 1770
Tait (Andrew) . . . . 1770
Duncan (R. & T.) . . . 1771
Reid (Daniel) . . . . 1772
Smith (William) . . . 1772
Adam (Alex.) .... 1773
Chapman (Robert) . . . 1775
Robertson (J. & J.) . . 1777
Chapman & Duncan . . 1779
Bell (William) .... 1781
Robertson (J. &M.) . . 1783
Niven (David) .... 1785
Duncan (James) . . . 1788
Miller (Ebenezer) . . . 1790
Reid (John) .' . . . 1791
Turner (James) . . . 1791
Macaulay (Andrew) . . 1792
Miller (Wm.) .... 1792
Paton (W.) 1795
Gillies (James) .... 1796
Duncan (J. & A.) . . . 1796
Mundell (James) . . . 1797
Napier & Khull . . . 1798
Cameron (A.) .... 1798
The pre-eminent name, whether for the excellence,
the. accuracy, or the quantity of the work, is that of
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Robert & Andrew Foulis. The reputation of the
brothers is more than local, more than Scottish, more
even than British ; for their books are mentioned with
respect by bibliographers the world over. Together
with Baskerville of Birmingham, they most worthily
upheld for many years the character and excellence of
the provincial press. To whatever excellence of exe-
cution their successors in the art may have attained,
the older work still holds its own in correctness of
composition, in evenness of inking, in accuracy of
register, and, in short, in all the qualities which render
a well-made book a delight to its possessor and an
object of envy to his friends. The following note as
to the Foulises may be acceptable :
Robert Foulis was born in Glasgow, April 20th,
1707, and began his career as a barber's apprentice.
On the suggestion of Professor Francis Hutcheson,
whose lectures he had attended, he relinquished this
occupation for that of publishing and bookselling, and
in 1739 established a business of his own. In part-
nership with his brother Andrew (born, Glasgow,
November 23rd, 1712) he put forth from his press
numerous important works, including many choice and
accurate editions of the Greek and Latin classics. In
addition to his eminence as a printer, Robert Foulis
was famous for his efforts to establish in Glasgow an
academy of the fine arts. This he instituted in 1753,
and in 1776 an exhibition of the pictures and sculpture
in connection with the academy was given in London.
Many of the pictures had been purchased by Robert
Foulis on the Continent, and were of considerable value.
The most famous pupil taught in the academy, which
proved on the whole unsuccessful, was David Allan,
commonly called the Scottish Hogarth. Tassie, the
medallist, also received the rudiments of his artistic
education in the same school. Robert Foulis died on
the 2nd of June, 1776, and Andrew in 1775. Andrew
had been educated for the Church at Glasgow Uni-
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versity, but is not known, apart from the famous co~
partnery, for any special achievement. The business
was continued under the name of R. & A. Fouli&
for a number of years after the decease of the original
partners by Robert's son, Andrew.
The number of volumes in the library bearing the
Foulis imprint is about 350, of which the following
may be named :
Phsedri Fabulse, ex editions Burmanni. 12mo. 1741.
Juvenal et Persius, Satyrce. 8vo. 1742.
Demetrius Phalereus de Elocutione. 8vo. 1743 (said to be the first
book printed in Greek in Glasgow).
Pindar, Opera. 1744.
Sophocles, Tragredise. 2 volumes. 1745.
.^Eschylus, Tragcedise. 2 volumes. 1746.
Relph (Josiah), A Miscellany of Poerns. Printed by Robert Foulis
for Mr. Thomlinson in Wigton. 1747.
Hamilton (William) of Bang our, Poems on Several Occasions. 1748,
Cicero, Opera. 1749. 20 volumes, 18mo.
Euripides, Orestes. 1753. 8vo.
Simson (Robert), Elements of Euclid. 1756. 4to.
Homer, Iliad. 1756. 2 volumes, sm. fo.
Homer, Odyssey. 1758. 2 volumes, sm. fo.
Pindar [Opera]. 1757. 4 very small, but neat volumes.
Oatalogus Lihrorum, Archibald] C.[ampbell] D.[uke of] A.[rgyle].
1758. Sm. 4to.
Thucydides [Opera]. 1759. 8 volumes, 12mo.
Herodotus, Opera. 1761. 9 volumes, 12 mo.
Xenophon, Opera. 1762-67. 12 volumes, 12mo.
Bell (John) of Antermony, Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to
divers parts of Asia. 1763. 2 volumes, 4to.
Catalogue of Pictui'es, composed and painted chiefly by the most
admired Masters ... by Robert Foulis. London: 1776. 3
volumes, 18mo. [printed in Glasgow].
Virgil, Opera, ex editione P. Burmanni. 1778. 2 volumes, sm. fo.
The well-known folio editions of British Poets, including Pope,.
Thomson, Parnell, Gray, etc. (Milton's Paradise Lost is alone
wanted to complete this set).
While the palm must be given to the Foulis house,
the work of some others is but little inferior. Urie
especially approaches closely the greater printers ; in-
deed, so close is the resemblance between some of their
books and his that it is difficult to avoid the idea
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that some of the books bearing their name were from
his office.
In addition to the tract of 1638 already spoken of,
there are three other books produced by George Ander-
son. These are " Hebrsese Linguae Institutiones,"
1644, and " Chilias Hebraica : seu, Vocabularium,"
1644, both by John Row ; and " Expositio Analy-
tica Omnium Apostolicarum Epistolaruni, David
Dicson," 1645. It is not a little remarkable that
Avithin so short a period of setting-up his press here,
Anderson was already printing in Hebrew characters.
The literature preserved in all these old Glasgow
books would form a fruitful subject of consideration, as
throwing light on the topics which occupied the minds
of the people. It is very largely religious and eccle-
siastical, occupied much with controversies which have
long lost their interest for all except the few students
of doctrinal antiquities. Old Light and New Light,
Burgher and Anti-Burgher, Original Secession,
Associate, Relief, and other synods arid churches
here have their records. Other departments of litera-
ture are, however, by no means unrepresented. The
poets are printed and reprinted ; history and phil-
osophy have some books. The requirements of the
University caused a great printing of the Greek and
Latin classics, and in this class are some of the most
sumptuous of the productions of the local press.
As in the case of the " Poets' Corner " and the
Glasgow collection, constant attention is given to the
securing books not yet obtained. In collections such
as these it is of the utmost importance to attain the
nearest practicable approach to completeness.
Leaving now the departments relating more par-
ticularly to the city, we glance briefly at the other
Scottish sections of the library, and find that although
there has not been the same effort at making- exhaust-
^3
ive collections, there has been much time and care
given to securing good representations of the various
152 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
branches of the literature of the country. A press
was at first set apart for the general civil history of
Scotland, another for local histories or topography, a
third for Scottish biography, a fourth was to contain
works on Scottish religious history, on Scottish law,
on the natural history of Scotland, on the Scottish
language, and such other Scottish books as did not fall
in any of the foregoing classes. These original allot-
ments of space have all been long since filled up, and
the overflow books have had to be placed in the upper
room, often in inconvenient enough positions. Owing
to this, and until the library is provided with much
larger rooms, it is not possible to show together the
whole possessions in any class.
The religious and ecclesiastical history of Scotland
is told in the writings of Knox (Laing's edition),
Buchanan, Crookshank, Cunningham, Defoe, Grub,
Hetherington, Lawson, Lee, Lyndsay, M'Crie, M'Ker-
row, Skinner, Stanley, Spotswood, Struthers, Wodrow,
Walcott, and others.
A most interesting national relic which may be
named in this place is an original manuscript copy on
parchment of the National Covenant, the " bond of
union or agreement drawn up at Edinburgh in 1638
by the leading Presbyterian ministers, and subscribed
by vast numbers of persons of all ranks of life. It
embodied the Confession of Faith of 1580 and 1581.
. . . The subscribing of the National Covenant began
28th February, 1638, in Edinburgh. . . . Copies were
circulated through the country for signature." The
copy in the library is signed by Rothes, Montrose,
Cassillis, Elcho, and many other peers and persons of
other ranks. Many of the names attached are very
much faded, and we are not able to state in what
district of the country it was subscribed. Its deci-
pherment and elucidation would appear to be a very
desirable object for our local antiquarian society to
undertake. It is enclosed in a morocco case, lettered
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" The Confession of Faith and Solemn League and
Covenant, 1638," but this title belongs rather to the
later document drawn up and signed in 1643. In
the same case is another copy on a larger parchment
and much more legible, with elaborate decorative
heading and border. It bears to have been prepared
for signature after the General Assembly held at
Glasgow in 1638 ; but at present it is not clear
whether it is an original or a copy. No signatures
.are appended.
Perhaps the two books in this department of greatest
individual interest are " The Booke of Common Prayer,
and Administration of the Sacraments and other parts
of Divine Service, for the use of the Church of Scotland "
(Edinburgh : Robert Young, 1637) ; traditionally asso-
ciated with Jenny Geddes's stool ; and " John Knox's
Historic of the .Reformation of Religoun within the
Realm of Scotland," the original edition, begun by
Vautrollier in London, 1584, but stopped by order of
Archbishop Whitgift and never completed. The copy
in the library wants several leaves, which are supplied
in manuscript. It is interesting as having belonged to
Dr. Charles Stuart of Dunearn, father of James Stuart,
the younger of Dunearn, who in 1822 killed Sir Alex.
Bosw T ell in a duel. There is in it an autograph letter
of Dr. Thomas M'Crie, the biographer of Knox and
well-known writer on Scottish ecclesiastical history and
biography, addressed to Dr. Charles Stuart, and ex-
plaining the circumstances of the printing of the
volume. The book is a very rare one.
Mention should be made also of several large collec-
tions of contemporary pamphlets relating to the
different controversies which have from time to time
arisen. These commence as early as the times of the
Stuarts and the Revolution, and continue with greater
or less completeness to matters so recent as the pro-
ceedings in the case of Professor W. Robertson Smith.
Naturally the agitation which resulted in the Disrup-
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tion of 1843 is largely represented, there being one
large set entitled " Non-Intrusion Pamphlets."
Among the writers on the civil history of Scotland
whose works will be found on the shelves are
Abercromby, Anderson (Diplomata Scotiae, 1739),
Balfour, Boece (Scotorum Historiae a Prima Gentis
Origine, Paris, fo., 1526), Buchanan (Rerum Scotica-
ruin Historia, fo., 1582), Cauiden, Dalzell, Fordun
(Scotichronicon, edit. W. Goodall, 2 volumes, fo.,
1759), Hailes, Historians of Scotland, edited by Skene
and David Laing, 10 volumes; Hollinshead (Scottish
Chronicle, 2 volumes, 4to), Cosmo Innes, T. Innes
(Ancient Inhabitants of Scotland, 2 volumes, 1729),
Jonston (Inscriptiones Historicae Regum Scotorum,
1602), Leslie (De Origine Moribus et Rebus Gestis
Scotorum, 1675), Lindesay (History of Scotland, fo.,
1728), Maitland (History of Scotland, 2 volumes, fo.,
1757), Stuart (Caledonia Romana), Tytler, Wyntoun,
Burton's, and other modern histories such as Taylor,
Wright, Macintosh, etc. ; numerous histories of the
Rebellions ; the National Manuscripts of Scotland, 3
volumes, fo. ; the various publications issued by
authority from the General Register House, Edin-
burgh, viz., Calendar of Documents relating to Scot-
land, Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, The
Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Register of the Privy
Council, and the Register of the Great Seal of Scot-
land, complete as far as published ; also the Rolls Office
publications referring to Scotland, the series of the
Burgh Records Society, and the Records of the Con-
vention of Royal Burghs.
Scottish topography or local history has been assidu-
ously gathered and garnered. Many of the books are
scarce, and are becoming more so, in consequence of
the greatly increased interest taken in this class of late
years. In addition to the ordinary books the library
has two or three specialties in this department, of
which the most important is perhaps the collection,
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made by Mr. Jarnes Maidruent, of papers relating to
the county of Lanark. Mr. Maidnient preserved,
arranged, and bound cuttings from newspapers and
magazines, public notices, handbills, plans, pictures,
and various other papers, relating to all parts of Scot-
land. They were arranged in counties, and together
filled about 100 large volumes. The library endea-
voured to purchase the whole series, and offered what
was thought a liberal sum. It was, however, sold for
very much more, and broken up. It was some con-
solation for the loss of the larger set to be enabled
afterwards to secure the above portion, Lanarkshire,
which is in six volumes.
The fine works of the late James Drurnmond, U.S.A.;
the very rare volume of Views on the Coasts of Suther-
landshire, by the Countess of Sutherland ; Chalmers's
Caledonia, 3 volumes; Nattes' Scotia Depicta; the
Statistical Account, both editions; Slezer's Theatrurn
Scotise (reprint) ; and numerous finely illustrated works-
on the topography and antiquities of the country are
present.
In the department of Scottish biography, very much
the same must be said as of the topography. It has
been sought to bring together the most esteemed lives
of eminent Scotsmen and Scotswomen. The books are
so numerous that it is out of the question to attempt
to name them. There is in this department another
of the gatherings of that indefatigable collector and
arranger, James Maidment. It consists of his cuttings
regarding Scotsmen who, while not in the front rank
of distinction, are yet noteworthy for some feature of
their life or character, and who have been deemed
worthy of obituary notice in the journals of the district
where they were known. This is especially valuable
as giving information concerning persons whose namea
are not inserted in the standard works on national
biography. It is in eight folio volumes, but is so
much swollen by insertions since binding that it will
156 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
be necessary to divide it into at least double that
number.
The library has been fortunate in securing as many
as eleven of the thirteen valuable and costly works
on Scottish family history, etc., edited by Dr. William
Fraser. It has
The Stirlings of Keir. 4to. 1858.
Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton.
2 volumes, 4to. 1859.
Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok. 2 volumes,
4to. 1863.
History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk. 2
volumes, 4 to. 1867.
Red Book of Grandtully. 2 volumes, 4to. 1868.
Chiefs of Colquhoun, and their Country. 2 volumes,
4to. 1869.
The Lennox. 2 volumes, 4to. 1874.
Earls of Cromartie. 2 volumes, 4to. 1876.
Red Book of Menteith. 2 volumes, 4to. 1880.
Chiefs of Grant. 3 volumes, 4to. 1883.
Registrurn Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenrieth.
1147-1535. 4to. 1872.
The two still wanting are "The Scotts of Buccleuch,"
and " The Book of Caerlaverock." Besides Dr. Eraser's
works, the library has many of the other books in the
same department, among which may be named Ander-
son's Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, with supple-
ments, 1825 ; Historical Records of the Eamily of
Leslie, 3 volumes; Baronage of Angus and Mearns,
by Peter, which was withdrawn from circulation ;
Hume's Douglas and Angus ; Memorie of the Sorner-
villes, 2 volumes ; Douglas's Peerage and Baronage, 3
volumes; Crawfurd's Peerage, 1716; Peerage Claims
and Cases ; Clan Family Histories, etc. We may
name too a superb copy of the original edition of
Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, together with an octavo
copy, to protect the quarto ; Crombie's Modern
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Athenians is mentioned as a kind of complement to
Kay; Pinkerton's Vitse Antiquse Scotorum Scotise,
1789, a considerable number of works on the life and
history of Mary Queen of Scots, of which probably
"Tracts Relating to the Funerals," is one of the
rarest ; Anderson's Scotch Biography and Scottish
Nation, 4 volumes ; Bruce's Eminent Men of Aber-
deen ; Chambers's Biographical Dictionary, 3 editions ;
Irving's Lives of Scottish Writers, 2 volumes; Irving's
Eminent Scotsmen; Keith's Scottish Bishops; Lives
of Scottish Poets, 3 volumes, 1821-22; Scots Worthies,
by Howie, various editions ; Scottish Biographical Dic-
tionary, 1822; Stark's Biographia Scotica, 1805;
Mackenzie's Writers of the Scots Nation, 3 volumes
folio, 1708 ; Brunton and Haig's Senators of the Col-
lege of Justice, 1832 ; Conoll} 's Eminent Men of Fife ;
and Scott's Fasti Ecclesise Scoticaiise, 3 volumes.
In ,the department of Scottish Law, all that has been
attempted is to provide a few books for the general
reader. It was thought undesirable, even if possible
with the means available, to attempt anything like the
formation of a professional library on this subject.
Among the books secured may be mentioned a set of
Thomson's edition of the Acts of the Parliaments of
Scotland, with index, 12 volumes, folio. Perhaps it
would have been more in keeping to name first one
of the most recent, as it is one of the rarest, additions
to the library. This is a copy of " The Black Acts,"
so called, presumably, from its being printed in black
letter. The copy is not perfect, as some leaves are
badly burned round the edges, and the title-page is
away. These faults may, perhaps, be supplied in fac-
simile. The body of the book is in good order, and
happily the conclusion and colophon have lost no mere
than some half-dozen letters. They are worth quoting :
" Heir endis the actis and Constitutiounis of the Reahne of Scot-
land maid in Parliamentis haldin be the rycht excellent, hie, and
mychtie Princis Kingis James the First, Secund, Thrid, Feird, Fyft,
158 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
in the tyme of Marie now Quene of Scottis, viseit, and correctit
by the Lordis depute be speciall commissioun thairto, and extractit
furth of the Registers be the Clerkis of our souerane Ladyis
Register respectiue. Cvm privilegio ad decennium. Imprentit at
Edinburg[h] be Robert Lekpreuik the. xxviij. day of Nouember,
the y[eir] of God ane thousand fine hundreth thre scoir sax [ye]ris."
There are also some other editions of Acts of Parlia-
ment of early date, in addition to the now current
series of Public General Statutes relatinp* to Scotland.
-
Among the writers on Scottish Law are H. Bar-
clay, G. J. Bell, J. H. Burton, Erskine, Lord Fount-
ainhall, Lord Kames, J. Lorimer, Sir G. Mackenzie,
J. D. Mar wick, J. Kiddell, Lord Stair, J. D. Wilson,
and others.
In the department of Scottish Antiquities and Scottish
Art, we name the Archaeologia Scotia ; a complete set
of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland ; Drummond's Ancient Scottish Weapons ;
Mr. Cochran-Patrick's works on the coinage and
medals of Scotland, and on early Scottish mining ;
Cardonnel's Numismata Scotise ; Anderson's Diplo-
mata et Numismata Scotiae, 1739 ; Wingate's Coinage
of Scotland ; Billing's Baronial Antiquities ; Scott's,
Cordiner's, and Grose's Antiquities. The heraldic
works include, besides Nisbet, Stodart's Scottish
Arms, 2 volumes, folio, and Sir David Lyndsay's
Heraldic Manuscript, 1878. The books on costume
and tartans include Mclan's Clans, 2 volumes, folio;
Sobieski Stuart on the Clans, folio ; the " authenti-
cated" Tartans, issued at Mauchline.
The Scottish Language is treated of by Beattie,
Brown, Jamieson, Mackay, Michel, Mitchell, and
others.
There are further many Scottish books of a general or
miscellaneous character, such as a set, nearly complete,
of Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, files of Scottish
newspapers "Scotsman," "Edinburgh Courant,"
" The Witness," with which Hugh Miller was connected.
Sets of the Scottish Publishing Societies, Abbotsford,
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 159
Maitland, Spalding, Bannatyne (of which the library
copy is unusually complete), Grampian, etc.
With this we leave the Scottish section of the
library. It has now become probably one of the
largest and most important collections of the national
literature ; and its further development will doubtless
be one of the principal objects of the committee.
CHAPTER XL
The General Contents of the Library Theology and
Philosophy History, Biography, Voyages and
Travels Law, Politics, etc. Arts, Sciences, and
Natural History Poetry and the Drama Phil-
ology Fiction -Miscellaneous Works -- List of
Periodicals and Serials taken Financial Position
of the Library Conclusion.
THE description, inadequate as it is, of the local and
national sections of the library has taken up so much
space, that it becomes necessary to limit our account of
the general library to a rapid survey of its chief features,
without attempting to particularize.
Following the classification, we first come to The-
ology, Ecclesiastical History, and Philosophy, 8,370
volumes. Here we find copies of representative
editions of the Bible, including the Wycliffite ver-
sions; the reprint of Coverdale's Bible, 1535; of the
first edition of the authorized version, 1611 ; and
others. The English Hexapla shows the six principal
English versions of the New Testament. There are
two polyglots, and translations of the Bible into many
languages, one of the rarest books in this department
being the first Irish Bible of 1685, Bishop Bedell's.
The works in illustration of the Bible commentaries,
ICO THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
annotations, histories, dictionaries, etc.- are very
numerous, and represent all schools of opinion. They
include many works worthy of separate mention. In
doctrinal theology it has been endeavoured to secure
the writings of the leaders in each of the principal
forms of belief. Ecclesiastical history, both general,
and as recorded in different countries, occupies a large
space on the shelves. There is also a large number of
works relating to classical and other mythologies, and
religions other than Christian. In Mental and Moral
Philosophy most of the greater names, ancient and
modern, will be found in the catalogue.
The large class, History (including Topography),
Biography, Voyages and Travels, contains 11,012
volumes, very many of them being interesting from
their rarity or from some circumstances of their pro-
duction. The arrangement of the class is by country,
universal or general history being a separate division.
The space available here does not permit the mention
of many works, and we must be content with the state-
ment, which is of general application, that as far as
possible the standard works have been acquired in
good editions. As examples of the larger books we
name a ver}>" fine cop}'' of O'Donovan's Annals of the
Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters (Dublin :
7 volumes, 1851); Les Peuples de la Russie, par
Pauly, folio, with many splendid coloured plates ;
the great work compiled by order of Napoleon Des-
cription de 1'Egypte, publiee par Panckoucke (24
volumes, text, and 12 large volumes of plates, 1821-29);
Espana Artistica y Monumental, Villa- Amil (3
volumes, folio) ; The Survey of Western Palestine
(issued by the Exploration Fund, 7 volumes) ; The
Itinerary of Fynes Morison, 1617 ; and some of the
illustrated works relating to the archaeology of India.
In Biography, there are the general works of
Chalmers, Rose, and others ; classed biographies of
different nationalities, and of different professions ;
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of lives of the saints the library has a somewhat ex-
tensive collection, including the great work " Acta
Sanctorum/' Bollandus (Paris; 1845-1883), 62 volumes,
folio. The individual biographies are very numerous,
and include lives of persons of all ages, of all nations,
and of all professions or positions.
The next in order of classification is Law, Politics,
Sociology, and Commerce, containing 6,700 volumes.
It includes sets of the Public General Statutes, of
Hansard's Parliamentary History and Parliamentary
Debates (in 394 volumes), of Cobbett's Political
Register, and a large number of Parliamentary
papers on important subjects. The committee have
recently resolved to procure a complete set of the
latter, which will doubtless be of great service to
persons interested in public questions. The principal
writers on political economy are present. There are
good collections on the subjects grouped as Sociology,
such as education, the relations of capital and labour,
the treatment of the poor, the marriage laws, and
questions akin to these ; and many works bearing
on statistics, including a good set oif the Journal of
the Statistical Society. The class further contains a
large number of pamphlets on political and social
questions, which are frequently of great importance as
containing the earliest indications of movements which
ultimately take effect in legislation.
The large class which follows Arts, Sciences, and
Natural History, 9,721 volumes is one which has
received great attention, and in which many fine works
have been secured. Painting, design, and decoration
are represented by such works as Racinet's Poly-
chromatic Ornament, Carr's Drawings of the Italian
Masters, Ottley's Italian School of Design and Floren-
tine School, Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament
(folio and quarto), Audsley's Ornamental Arts of
Japan, Les Chefs d'CEuvre de la Peinture Italienne,
par Mantz, and many others ; Sculpture by the fine
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engravings of the Ancient Marbles in the British
Museum, and by the works of Cicognara, Canova,
Flaxnian, the Museum Worsleyanum, etc. Archi-
tecture is a strong section of this class, and includes
the Architectural Publication Society's great diction-
ary, and works by Adam, Carter, Sir W. Chambers,
Coney, Fergusson, Goodwin, Hakewell, Hunt, King,
Knight, Nash, Nicholson, Parker, Pugin, Street,
Viollet-le-Duc, Wild, and Winkles.
The application of art to industry is illustrated by
the fine works of Wyatt and of Waring, which contain
descriptions and coloured illustrations of the chief works
in the exhibitions of 1851, 1857 (Manchester), and
1862 ; Histoire des Arts Industriels, par Labarte, (3
volumes). The arts of the Middle Ages are the sub-
ject of the beautiful works of Louandre, Henry Shaw,
and others. Paul Lacroix brings down similar subjects
to a later date. The history of art is related in the
works of Callcott, Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Eastlake,
Jameson, Kugler, Lanzi, Lindsay, Liibke, Stirling-
Maxwell, Waagen, Winckelmann, Woltmann. and
Woerman, and many others of minor interest. A
very nearly complete set of the works of Professor
Ruskin may be mentioned here. There are the fol-
lowing series of portraits, among others: Lodge, 12
volumes ; Knight's Gallery, 8 volumes ; Heads of
Illustrious Persons, Houbraken and Vertue, with
Lives by Birch ; and a number of more recent works,
such as Cassell's National Portrait Gallery, etc.
The chief representative of Palaeography is the great
work of Silvestre. Music is as yet somewhat inade-
quately shown, the following being the principal
writers found here : Chappell, Cherubini, Crotch.
Grove, Hawkins, Helmholtz, Hullah, Kircher, Mao-
farren, Ouseley, Pauer, Hitter, and Stainer.
The books on Natural History are arranged in four
main divisions, those dealing with Nature generally,
and those devoted respectively to zoology (including
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 163
comparative anatomy and physiology), to botany, and
to geology.
In Zoology, the strongest section is Ornithology, in
which the important works of Gray (Genera of Birds),
Sclater and Salvin, Temminck, Des Murs, Marquis of
TVeeddale, and others have been obtained. Curtis,
Drury, Harris, Kirby and Spence, Lubbock, Martyn,
Newman, and Wood are the principal writers on En-
tomology. In other branches of zoology are the works
of Cuvier, Couch, Owen, Jardine, Harris, Yarrell,
Low, and others, and the extensive series of reports
of the " Challenger " scientific expedition. In con-
nection with zoology, reference should be made to
works on angling, and on sport generally, of which
the library has a large number.
In Botan}' will be found the writings, for the most
part illustrated, of Balfour, Candolle, Cook, Don,
Greville, Harvey, Hooker, Le Maout and Decaisne,
Lindley, Loudon, Maund, Paxton, Pratt, Ray, Sachs,
Seeman, and Watson. Two of the works may be
named, Moore's " nature-printed " " Ferns of Great
Britain and Ireland," folio ; and Cook's " Beautiful
Seaweeds," illustrated by natural specimens, a work
of which the credit belongs to Paisley, and of which
only 50 copies were prepared.
Geology is the subject of works by Chambers, Dana,
Geikie, Lyell, Mantell, Miller, Murchison, Nichol,
Page, and Smith. We find space to mention Sir
Richard Owen's recently completed work, History of
British Fossil Reptiles, 4 volumes, quarto, 170 copies
printed. In Metallurgy we have Percy, Crookes and
Rohrig, and others.
In the great and important subject of Science we
regret that all we can attempt is a statement of the
principal divisions of it in the library arrangement.
First come works of a general or encyclopaedic charac-
ter, embracing the whole field of science, followed by
a division on physics light, heat, sound, electricity,
164 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
and magnetism, etc. Chemistry is represented by a
large number of books, of which the major part is
concerned with the recent and present state of the
science, while the remainder serve as materials for
the history of its progress. Adjoining chemistry is
a section in which are medical and surgical works.
There has been no attempt to form anything like a
professional library on these subjects, the books ac-
quired being generally such as are suitable for the
general reader. Connected with these are dietetics
and cookery. Public health, sanitary science, treat-
ment of sewage, and the like follow in order.
Much attention has been paid to the subject of
manufactures and the useful arts ; and the works in
these are among the most appreciated in the library.
There are important practical works on engineering
and shipbuilding, among them sets of the more im-
portant serials devoted to these professions. If space
permitted it would be shown that there are few trader
on which the library does not possess useful technical
and practical books. Mathematics and astronony
occupy the last of the scientific divisions.
In the next class, that of Poetry and the Drama,
which, exclusive of nearly 5,000 volumes in the " Poets'
Corner," has more than 3,000 volumes, we find standard
editions of the principal poets, British and other. The
class contains some rare and many important works,
and it is with regret that we are compelled to omit
particular mention of them, and pass on to
Linguistics or Philology, which forms the next class
(879 volumes), and which again has been the subject of
much attention. The science of language generally is
present in the writings of Abel, Bopp, Farrar, Harris,
Kavanagh, Latham, Monboddo, Mliller, Murray, Sayce,
Schlegel, Tooke, Wedgwood, and Whitney.
Of works on the languages severally, we note, among
others In English, the dictionaries of Johnson (several
editions, including the first, 1755), Ash, Bailey (1745),
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 165
Hunter, Latham, Ogilvie, Philips (1706), Richardson,
Webster, Worcester, and Wright ; and the grammati-
cal works of Bain, Cobbett, Crombie, Lowth, Maetzner,
Morris, Murray, and Whitney.
In Hebrew, Davidson, Gesenius, Gousset (1702),
Kalisch, Marini (1593), and Tregelles; with many less
important works.
In Greek, the great Thesaurus of Stephanus, and
works of Budeus (1529), Creiner, Crispini (1566),
Curtius, Damm, Hoogeveen, Jelf, Liddell and Scott,
Passow, Reiske, and Winer.
In Latin, Adam, Andrews, Du Cange, Facciolatus,
Holyoke (1677), Lewis and Short, Ruddiman, Smith,
Stephanus (1734-5), and Zurnpt are the representative
names ; but, in addition, the library possesses many
modern text-books and dictionaries.
In French, the dictionaries of Littre (5 volumes),
Cotgrave (1650), F Academic Francaise, Fleming and
Tibbins, Menage (1750), Miege (1688), l 'Trevoux"
(8 volumes, 1771) ; and numerous grammatical books,
chiefly modern.
In German, dictionaries by Fliigel, Grieb, Grimm,
and Hilpert ; grammatical works by Otto, Strauss, and
Wendeborn ; with numerous class and reading books.
In other languages, Lye's Dictionarium Saxonico
t Gothico-Latinum (1772) ; Freytag's Lexicon Arabico-
Latinuni, 4 volumes; Golius' Arabic Lexicon (1653);
Morrison's Chinese Dictionary, 3 volumes ; Goldie's
En'k Dictionary ; Ludolf s Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum
(1661); Gaelic Dictionaries by Armstrong, M'Alpine,
and Macleod and Dewar ; Forbes' Hindustani Diction-
ary ; Rask's Icelandic Dictionary (1814) ; O'Brien's
Irish Dictionary ; Italian Dictionaries of Florio (1611),
Millhouse, Petronj, Politi (Tuscan), 1640 ; Banks' Rus-
sian Dictionary, 2 volumes; Spanish Dictionaries ; Sere-
nius' Swedish-English Dictionary, 2 volumes (1741-57) ;
Welsh Dictionaries of Jones, Richards, and Walters ;
Schilter's Teutonic Thesaurus, 3 volumes (1727-8) ; and
166 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
many other linguistic publications, including vocabu-
laries of the languages of savage nations, provincial
dialects, and works on special departments of phil-
ology.
The position of the library with regard to prose
fiction, which forms the next class, is a little ex-
ceptional, and is thus stated in the annual report for
1874-79 : "When the selection of the books to form
the library was in progress, the question of fiction came
up, and the following recommendation on the subject
was made : That, considering that at Stirling's
Library, within a short distance, there is a supply of
works of fiction, accessible to the public in the same
way as the Mitchell Library is ; and further, that there
are in the city numerous private circulating libraries,
from which novels may be got for a penny a-w r eek ;
and further, that there is practically no provision what-
ever of useful modern books in other departments of
literature; and further, that the means at the com-
mittee's disposal, both as to accommodation of readers
and the supply of books, is inadequate, that works of
fiction be not purchased for the library in the meantime.
This recommendation has been acted on, and hitherto
no novels have been bought. In January, 1879, how-
ever, Mr. A. Glen CoJlins generously offered to present
a selection of novels, and on the offer being accepted,.
he sent 155 volumes of standard novels, uniformly and
handsomely bound. These, with one or two other
gifts, form the library's stock of fiction." The only
books we need name are, a good copy of the first
edition of "Gulliver's Travels," with the maps; the
Abbotsford edition of Scott ; and Haslewood's edition
of Painter's Palace of Pleasure.
The last class is Miscellaneous, 10,006 volumes, de-
scribed in the report as consisting " chiefly of works
which include two or more of the other classes, such a&
encyclopaedias, collected works of general writers, essay-
ists, sets of periodicals, etc." Among the encyclopaedias,
THE MITCHELL LIBRARY. 167
we name the extensive work of Zedler, 68 volumes, folio;
the famous Encyclopedic of Diderot and D'Alem-
bert, 33 volumes, folio ; Encyclopaedia Britannica,
eighth and ninth editions ; Blackie's, Chambers's, and
others. The collected works of general writers and the
essayists are so numerous that we can only note their
presence, for the most part in good editions. In bibli-
ography we find excellent copies of the various works
of T. F. Dibdin, Allibone, Brunet, Brydges, Clarke,
Clement, Collier, De Bure, Ebert, Guild, Hain,
Lalanne, Lowndes, Manne, Oldys, Querard, Richard,
Watt, etc. ; and in connection with these we name
Arber's Transcripts of the Registers of the Stationers'
Company, 4 volumes, quarto, and a large collection of
the catalogues of important libraries both in Britain and
in America. It may further be stated that the library
has many first editions and privately printed books.
The library has sets of Professor Arber's other
series, the English Reprints, the English Garner, and
the English Scholar's Library ; and of Dr. Grosart's
Fuller Worthies' Library, Chertsey Worthies' Library,
Huth Library, etc. Among other series in the library
may be named Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopsedia, Family
Library, Oriental Series, and Sacred Books of the East.
Most of the works issued by the more important
publishing societies are in the library, including the
Ballad, Camden (English history), Chaucer, Early
English Text, Hakluyt (early travels), Harleian (gene-
alogy, etc.), Folk Lore, Palseontographical, Percy
(early poetry), Scottish Text, Spenser, Surtees (history
of Northern England), and other societies of a kindred
nature.
The manuscripts in the library are few in number,
and, except the National Covenant, not of great im-
portance. A few of them have been already named.
The periodicals placed currently on the tables in the
magazine-room, and subsequently bound for preserva-
tion, are numerous and representative. The following
168
THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
list of " serials in progress," which omits such as have
been already named, must close our notice of the con-
tents of the library :
LIST OF PERIODICALS, TRANSACTIONS, NEWSPAPERS, AND OTHER
SERIALS ix PROGRESS IN THE MITCHELL LIBRARY.
Academy.
Academy Notes.
Agricultural Society's Journal.
Alliance News.
All the Year Round.
Almanacs ; General :
Aim ana ch de Gotha.
American Almanac.
British Almanac and Com-
panion.
Glasgow Almanac.
Illustrated London Almanac.
Oliver & Boyd's, with Supple-
ments.
Orkney and Shetland Almanac.
Thorn's Irish Almanac.
Whitaker's Almanac.
American Naturalist.
Annalen der Physik und Chemie.
Annual Register.
Antiquarian Magazine and Biblio-
grapher.
Antiquaries of Scotland, Society
of. Proceedings.
Antiquary.
Antiquary's Library.
Anti-Slavery Reporter.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia.
Archaeological Association. Brit-
ish, Journal.
Architect.
Architect, British.
Art
Annuaire Illustre des Beaux
Arts.
Art Journal.
Art Text- Books.
Chronique des Arts.
Courrier de i'Art.
Decoration.
Gazette des Beaux Arts.
Grosvenor Gallery Notes.
L'Art.
Magazine of Art.
Portfolio.
South Kensington Museum
Art Handbooks.
Year's Art.
Astronomical Observations, Edin.
Astronomical Register.
Athenaeum.
Atlantic Monthly.
Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Ar-
chaeological Association Pub-
lications.
Baird Lectures.
Bampton Lectures.
Banner of Israel.
Bible Standard.
Bibliotheca Sacra.
Black wood's Magazine.
Book Lore.
Bookseller.
Botanical Magazine, Curtis.
Bradshaw's Railway Guide.
British and Colonial Printer.
British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. Re-
ports.
British Museum Library Cata-
logue and other Museum
Publications.
British Quarterly Review.
British Trade Journal.
Broad Arrow-.
Builder.
Builder's Weekly Reporter.
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169
Building News.
Burgh Records Society Publica-
tions.
Caledonian Curling Club Annual.
Canadian Gazette.
Catalogue Illustre du Salon.
Celtic Magazine.
Century Magazine (formerly
" Scribner's ").
Chambers's Journal.
Charity Organization Review.
Chemical News.
Chemical Industry Society, Jour-
nal.
Chemical Society, Journal.
Chemist and Druggist.
Chemist and Druggist's Diary.
Chetham Society Publications.
Christadelphian.
Christian Advocate.
Christian Socialist.
Christian World.
Church Almanac.
Church Quarterly Review.
Civil Engineers, Institute of.
Proceedings.
Civil Service Commissioners' Re-
ports.
Civil Service Year Book.
Clarendon Historical Society.
Clarks' Foreign Theological Lib-
rary.
Clerical Directory.
Club Almanach.
Colliery Guardian.
Colonial Office List.*
Colonies and India.
Contemporary Review.
Contract Journal.
Co-operative News.
Cornhill Magazine.
Courrier de 1'Europe.
Cunningham Lectures.
Dial (Chicago).
Dietetic Reformer.
Directory of Directors.
Dod's Parliamentary Companion.
Dramatic Notes.
Draper.
Dublin Freeman's Journal.
Dublin Review.
Dublin Royal Society, Scientific
Proceedings and Transac-
tions.
Early Chroniclers of Europe.
Ecclesiastical Observer.
Economist.
Edinburgh Botanical Society.
Edinburgh Directory.
Edinburgh Gazette.
Edinburgh Review.
Educational News.
Educational Times.
Electrician.
Eminent Women Series.
Engineer.
Engineering.
Engineering Review.
Engineers and Shipbuilders of
Scotland. Transactions.
Engineers, Society of. Transac-
tions.
English and Foreign Philosophi-
cal Library.
English Citizen Series.
English Illustrated Magazine.
English Men of Letters.
English Political Leaders.
Entomologist.
Entomologist's Monthly Maga-
zine.
Era.
Era Almanac.
European Literature, Dawn of,
Series.
Expositor.
Fabrics and Textile Industries,
Journal.
Farmer's Almanac, Morton's.
Field.
170
THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Financial Reform Almanac.
Financial Reform Tracts.
Financial Reformer.
Folk Lore Journal.
Folk Lore Society Publications.
Football Annual.
Football Annual, Scottish.
Foreign Countries and British
Colonies.
Foreign Office List.
Fortnightly Review.
Garden.
Gardeners' Chronicle.
Gas and Water Companies Direc-
tory (Gas Lighting, Journal
of).
Gegenwart.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Geographical Society, Proceed-
ings.
Geological Magazine.
Geological Record.
Glasgow Archaeological Society
Transactions.
Glasgow Criminal Returns.
Glasgow Directory.
Glasgow Fine Arts Institute,
Catalogue.
Glasgow Geological Society Tran-
sactions.
Glasgow Natural History Society
Proceedings.
Glasgow Parochial Boards, Re-
ports.
Glasgow Philosophical Society
Proceedings.
Glasgow Red Book.
Glasgow School Board Reports.
Glasgow Societies' Reports, vari-
ous.
Glasgow Town Council, Lists of.
Glasgow Vital Statistics.
Good Words.
Grampian Club Publications.
Graphic.
Great Artists Series.
Great Musicians Series.
Greenwich Astronomical Observa-
tions.
Handbooks for Bible Classes.
Hardware Circular.
Harper's Monthly.
Harper's Weekly (New York).
Hart's Army List.
Harvard University Library
Bulletin.
Health.
Herald of Peace.
Hibbert Lectures.
Historical Society, Royal. Trans-
actions.
Home and Colonial Mail.
Homilist.
Homoeopathic World.
Horological Journal.
Household Library of Exposition. .
Hulsean Lectures.
Hunterian Club Publications.
Illustrated London News.
Illustration, L'.
Index Society Publications.
India List.
Industrial Geogi-aphy Primers.
Insurance Blue-Book.
Insurance Gazette.
Insurance Gazette, Ireland.
Insurance Record.
International Review.
Investigator.
Investor's Monthly Manual.
Iron.
Jewish Chronicle.
Jewish Herald.
Jewish Intelligence.
Jewish World.
Journal of Society of Arts.
Jurisprudence, Journal of.
Knowledge.
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Lancet.
Land and Water.
Law List.
Law Society (Incorporated) Cal-
endar.
Law Times and Reports.
League Journal.
Leisure Hour.
Library Journal.
Library Association Proceedings,
and Chronicle.
Literary World.
Live Stock Journal.
Live Stock Journal Almanac.
Local Government Chronicle.
London Directory.
London Gazette.
London Quarterly Review.
Longmans' Magazine.
Longmans' Notes on Books.
Low's English Catalogueof Books.
Machinery Market.
Macmillan's Magazine.
Manuals of Technology.
Mechanic, English.
Medical Journal, British.
Medical Register.
Medicine, Braithwaite's Retro-
spect.
Mercantile Age.
Mercantile Navy List.
Messenger.
Metal Worker.
Microscopical Science, Quarterly
Journal.
Miller.
Mind.
Mineral Statistics.
Mining Journal.
Modern Review.
Music, Magazine of.
Musical Directory.
Musical Opinion.
Musical Standard.
Musical Times.
Musical World.
Nation (New York).
National Review.
Natural History, Annals of.
Nature.
Nature Series.
Nautical Almanac.
Naval Architects, Institute of,
Transactions.
New Church Magazine.
New Club Series.
New Plutarch Series.
Newspaper Press Directory.
Nineteenth Century.
Non-Christian Religious Systems.
North American Review.
Notes and Queries.
Oracle.
Orkney and Shetland Almanac.
Palestine Exploration Fund, State-
ment.
Paper and Printing Trades Jour-
nal.
Parliament House Book.
Parliamentary Reports, Returns,
Papers.
Peerages, Various.
People's Friend.
Pharmaceutical Journal.
Pharmaceutical Society Calendar,
Pharmacy, Year Book of.
Philosophers, English.
Philosophical Classics.
Philosophical Magazine.
Philosophies, Ancient.
Philosophy, Speculative, Journal
of.
Phonetic Journal.
Phonographic Journal (Sloan-
Duployan).
Photographic News.
Photography, British Journal of.
Photography, British Journal Al-
manac.
Pictorial World.
Postal Guide.
172
THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Press News.
Printer's Register.
Printing Times.
Psychical Research Society, Pro-
ceedings.
Publisher's Circular.
Publisher's Weekly (New York).
Punch.
Quarterly Review.
Railway Time Tables, Local.
Presented by the Companies.
Railway Times.
Rainbow.
Ray Society Publications.
Reformed Presbyterian Witness.
Registrar - General's Monthly,
Quarterly, and Annual Re-
turns.
Reliquary.
Reporters' Journal.
Revue des deux Mondes.
Revue Internationale.
Revue Politique et Litteraire.
Rhind Lectures on Archaeology.
Royal Society, Proceedings of.
Sanitary Engineer.
Sanitary Record.
Saturday Review.
School Board Chronicle.
Schoolmaster.
Science
American Journal of Science.
Annee Scientifique, L'.
Comptes Rendus des Seances de
1' Academic des Sciences.
Hardwicke's Science Gossip.
International Scientific Series.
Library of Contemporary
Science.
Monthly Journal of Science.
Revue Scientifique.
Scientific American, and Suppt.
Scientific and Learned Societies'
Year Book.
Scientific Roll.
Scotland
Calendar of Documents.
Exchequer Rolls.
Register of Privy Council.
Register of the Great Seal.
Accounts of the Lord High
Treasurer.
Scotsman .
Scottish Arboricultural Society.
Transactions.
Scottish Banking Magazine.
Scottish Law Reporter.
Scottish Naturalist.
Scottish Review.
Scottish School Board Directory.
Scottish Text Society.
Service Almanac.
Shorthand Magazine.
Smithsonian Institution Reports.
Social Science Congress Trans.
South Kensington Art Directory.
South Kensington Science Direc-
tory.
Spectator.
Star of Israel.
Statesman's Year Book.
Statist.
Statutes, Public General.
Statutes, Public General, Scotland.
Steamship.
Stock Exchange Year Book.
Sunday Magazine.
Sunday Review.
Symons's British Rainfall.
Tablet.
Technological Handbooks (Bell).
Technological Handbooks
(Churchill).
Telegraphic Journal.
Temple Bar.
Textile Manufacturer and Diary.
Theatre.
Theatre Annual.
Theological and Philosophical
Library.
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173
Theological Translation Fund
Library.
Times.
Times Index (Palmer's).
Times Eegister of Events.
Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter.
Tour du Monde.
Trade and Navigation Accounts.
Trade Marks Journal.
Triibner's American and Oriental
Literary Record.
Triibner's Simplified Grammars.
United States Government, Re-
ports of Various Depart-
ments.
University Calendars
Aberdeen.
Cambridge.
Dublin.
Dundee.
Durham.
Edinburgh.
Free Church Colleges.
Glasgow.
Glasgow, Andersonian.
London, Preceptors' College.
In addition to the serials now in progress the library
contains sets of many completed periodicals.
In the arrangements for the service of the public,
the aim has been to render access to the books as easy
and convenient as possible, and to interpose no restric-
tions or regulations save such as appeared necessary
for the safety of the books. On a counter near the
door are placed copies of the catalogue, and readers'
tickets. The reader, having found in the catalogue
the book he wishes to see, writes on the readers' ticket
its title and the library number, and adds his name and
address and the date. The ticket is then handed to an
assistant who brings the book or books, and the reader
returns them to the counter before leaving.
We have already noted the changes in the committee
up to the date on which the library was opened. It
London, Queen's College.
London, Royal College of Sur-
geons.
London, Trinity College.
London University.
Owen's College and Victoria
University, Manchester.
Oxford.
St. Andrews.
University Magazine.
Vaccination Inquirer.
Vanity Fair.
Victoria Institute. Transaction s-
Vigilance Association Journal.
Watchmaker.
Weale's Series (as issued).
West Coast Directory.
Westminster Review.
Who's Who.
Woods and Forests.
Zoological Record.
Zoologist.
Zoophilist.
174 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
now remains to add the few alterations which have taken
place on the list since then. In 1878 Councillors Arch.
Dunlop and George Jackson joined the committee;
Councillor William Wilson was chosen convener, and
Councillor T. A. Mathieson sub-convener. In 1 879
Councillors Peter Bertram, A. S. Bryce, Alexander
M'Laren, Duncan M'Pherson, and John Ure replaced
vacating members; and in 1880 Councillors Sir William
O
Collins, and W. M'Neil Stuart were elected. The new
members in 1881 were Councillors James Gray and J.
R Miller; in 1882, C. D. Rankin; in 1883, Councillors
J. H. Martin, James Macfarlane, John Shearer, jun.,
Michael Simons, H. S. Thomson, and James Col-
quhoun; and in 1884, Councillors Thomas Cuniming,
Robt. Graham, David Logan, and Walter Paton. The
committee has been reduced from its former dimensions
to ten members.
With respect to the financial position of the library it
may be stated that all that has yet been done, the ac-
quisition of a library of 57,100 volumes and the issue to
readers of more than two and a half millions, together
with the extensive use made of the current periodicals,
has practically been accomplished by the interest of the
fund, the capital sum now being only some 1,500 less
than when handed over by Mr. Mitchell's agents. The
full realization of the objects pointed to in Lord Pro-
vost Blackie's report would require longer time and
larger resources than have been at the disposal of the
committee. After payment of rent, lighting and warm-
ing, salaries and wages, insurance, annuities under the
founder's will, and incidental expenses, the amount
available for the purchase of books and periodicals and
for binding has in recent years averaged about 800.
Considerable as this appears, when it is compared with
corresponding expenditures at Liverpool, Manchester,
and Birmingham (not to speak of cities in the United
States), it will be seen how far it is from enabling the
committee to secure for public use the greater and rarer
THE MITCHELLL IBRART. 175
works of our own and other times and countries, and
otherwise giving full effect to the liberal policy they
have adopted.
The principal inconveniences to which readers have
been subjected arise entirely from the fact that the
business of the library has long outgrown the premises
in which it is placed. The overcrowding has been very
great, so much so as to deter many from taking advan-
tage of the books provided. Literary men and stu-
dents particularly, who require quiet and space for
their work, have been at a great disadvantage. The
ventilation, originally defective, has with greater num-
bers present become much worse, and offers another
serious hindrance to the use of the library.
Notwithstanding all these disadvantages, however,
it has to be recorded that the library has so far had a
remarkable and unlooked-for measure of success, and
has become one of the most popular of the city insti-
tutions. As a recent observer has remarked, it has
already " established a claim to be called a great library
great in progress, great in usefulness, greater still in
promise."
176 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
CHAPTER XII.
THE EUING MUSICAL LIBRARY.
Intentions of the Founder The manner in which
they have been carried out Inaccessibility of the,
Library Defects of the Catalogue Service which
the Collection might render to Musical Art Extent
of the Library Historical and Biographical Works
Great Wealth of the Library in Didactic and
Theoretical Works Sacred Vocal Music, Individual
Composers ; Collections; Rich in Psalters Secular
Vocal Music Instrumental Music Miscellaneous
Works.
THIS large and important collection of musical works
was formed by the late William Euing, insurance
broker in Glasgow, and was bequeathed by him to
Anderson's University in 1874. The provisions of his
will bear that the library of musical works is " to be
the property of, and deposited and kept in Anderson's
University in all time coming, and to be made avail-
able for the use and instruction of the professor or lec-
turer on music, and of the students in said Anderson's
University, under such restrictions or regulations as
the managers and trustees thereof may deem proper
for their care and preservation." A sum of 500,
subsequently increased by a codicil to 1,000, was left
for the purpose of providing a fire-proof compartment
for housing the library, and for providing a fund for
the maintenance of a librarian or curator. A further
sum of 200 was left to be applied to the compilation,
publication, and gratuitous distribution of a catalogue
of the library ; and in addition to all the foregoing, the
THE SUING LIBRARY. 177
testator left his stock of musical instruments for the
benefit of the same institution. Such, in brief, is the
history of the origin of this library.
Before proceeding to a description of the contents of
the library, it may be useful and instructive to deter-
mine how far the intentions of the founder have been
fulfilled ; and to learn by the sequel that benevolence
which is intended to have posthumous effect may often-
times be robbed of its efficiency by a too jealous inter-
pretation of the donor's dying testament. The library
is certainly " deposited and kept " in Anderson's Uni-
versity, but to such good purpose that the founder's
intentions with regard to its being made available for
the use and instruction of students are practically void.
A building has been erected, on fire-proof principles no
doubt, but which an actual test is quite liable to dis-
prove ; while its damp-proof capabilities seem never to
have received the distinction of a thought. Its fire-
resisting qualities in this latter connection are undeni-
able however, though the consolation arising from the
fact will scarcely counterbalance the ultimate destruc-
tion of the library. No funds seem to have survived
the erection of the sepulchre in which the library is
interred, and the want of a librarian accordingly forms
an unfailing excuse and off-put to any inquiring spirit
who may chance to desire the use of Mr. Euing's books.
The 200 have been spent in printing a large handsome
volume of 256 pages, bearing the title, " Catalogue of
the Musical Library of the late William Euing, Esq.,"
etc., and having the date 1878. Its value as a cata-
logue is open to some question on grounds afterwards
to be stated, but its virtues as an irritant, to such per-
sons as desire to consult the treasures it pretends to
describe, and have experienced the hopelessness of the
desire, are unmatched. The defects of the catalogue
O
are chiefly those of arrangement and transcription; but
there are other faults no less heinous, though of less
general consequence. In the first place, the catalogue
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pretends to be on the classified model, though it is
without a separate and sequential index of authors, in
consequence of which it is often necessary to make ten
or more different references in order to discover what
works of any composer the library possesses. It is
divided into eight principal parts, which are again sub-
divided, the whole forming fifteen sections. One part
calls for special notice, namely the " Addenda," in
which are three sections arranged on the no-arrange-
ment principle, and containing some of the most valu-
able items in the library. It is neither alphabetical
nor chronological, but a simple or compound hash ot
titles without order or utility. It is not too much to
say that this uncritical compilation is an insult to the
valuable collection it professes to index.
Here, then, is an extensive library, the most valu-
able of its kind in Scotland, and one of the most
valuable in the United Kingdom, shut up from public
access, and almost wholly conserved from any use
whatever by those musical students for whose benefit
it was left. The policy of those responsible for this
state of matters is highly injurious to the best interests
and progress of the musical community in Glasgow,
and will not fail to make the city be regarded as a
place where enlightenment has been withheld by those
whose office and obligation it is to further the advance-
ment of universal knowledge. The advantages which
a free and judicious use of the Euing Library would
be to musicians in Glasgow are incalculable, and would
not fail to foster the growing interest in music now
apparent on every side. Musicians of every grade,
whether professional or amateur, would find something
of interest and value in the collection, and the educa-
tional influence of the library would ultimately prove a
powerful force in bringing about the higher cultivation
of music now being aimed at all over the world. It
has always been a matter of reproach that Scotland
has never produced a composer of first-rate ability
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until quite recently ; while it may be truly said of
Glasgow that she has never produced a composer
worthy of the name. Yet, when a valuable aid in the
matter of attaining such a desirable honour is placed
within measurable reach of the musical public, a body of
persons otherwise pledged to the furtherance of educa-
tion are the sole means of excluding them, and defeat-
ing the attainment of the distinction in question. All
credit is allowed the trustees of the Euing Library for
their preservative efforts, but the praiseworthiness of
their action becomes questionable when the measures
taken to secure the safety of the books result in a
complete defeat of the intentions of the founder of the
library. The benefits of a library are seen only in its
use, and the Euing Library will never be a great factor
in musical education while its treasures lie in a condi-
tion of inglorious and damp repose. We trust no
officiousness will attach to the humble suggestion we
have to make that the trustees should divest themselves
of what is apparently a useless encumbrance, by placing
the collection in some public institution where its value
would be appreciated and its preservation secured by
more rational means than seclusion in a burglar but not
damp-proof tomb. To this end we may mention the
facilities in the possession of the Town Council, whose
members have some voice in the direction of at least
two liberally-managed free public libraries, in which
the late Mr. Euing's life-time collections would receive
honourable attention and a use worthy of their value.
Of the extent of the Euing Musical Library only an
estimate can be obtained. Calculated different ways, a
result is given showing the number of volumes and
pamphlets to be not less than between 5,000 and 6,000,
though it is probable that this number is within the
mark. Of the nature of its contents a better notion
can be given. It comprehends works on and in every
department of musical literature and composition, to
the description of which we may at once proceed,
180 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
adopting the following rough classification as a basis
on which to work :
1. Historical and Biographical Works.
2. Didactic and Theoretical Works.
3. Sacred Vocal Music.
4. Secular Vocal Music.
5. Instrumental Music.
G. Miscellaneous Works.
The first division comprises the works collected by
Mr. Euing himself, and a number of books from the
library of the late Dr. E. F. Birnbault. It is par-
ticularly rich in French and German authors, though
also containing many valuable and important English
writings. Among historical authors represented may
be named Ambros, Arteaga, Blondeau, Brendel,
Burney, Busby, Caffi, Castil-Blaze, Chorley, Chouquet,
Clement, Coussemaker, Dalyell, Edgcumbe, Edwards,
Engel, Fetis, Forkel, Hawkins, Hogarth, Hullah,
Kiesewetter, Martini, North, Parke, Reissmann, Rim-
bault, etc. Ambros is represented by his "Geschichte
der Musik," 3 volumes, 1862-68, a well-known work,
now completed, and maintaining a high renown for
brilliancy and acumen, and with which may be classed
the careful history of Franz Brendel. The English
histories of Burney and Hawkins are both out of date,
neither coming beyond the conclusion of the eighteenth
century; but their interest is still fresh for those whose
studies are of an antiquarian bent. The other Eng-
lish works are interesting mainly as retrospects of
musical history, for, except Hogarth and Hullah, none
of them are of great critical value. Sir James Graham
Dalyell's " Musical Memoirs of Scotland " is a purely
antiquarian performance, dealing more with music as
illustrated in works of art than throwing much light on
the state of practical music in Scotland. It is never-
theless a work of considerable interest, and is becoming
scarce and highly valuable in a bibliographical sense.
It is not necessary to do more than refer to the valu-
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able works of Clement (" Histoire Gendrale de la
Musique Religieuse," 1861; and " Dictionnaire Ly-
rique ou Histoire des Operas"), Coussemaker, Forkel
("Musikalisch-Kritische Bibliothek," 3 volumes, 1778),
Kiesewetter, Martini ("Storia della Musica," 1757-81),
Reissmann, etc., which are of general renown, and the
recognized working tools of the musical student.
In the Biographical section the best known work is
the " Biographic Universelle des Musiciens," by
F6tis, of which the library possesses only the old
and inaccurate edition of 1835-44, and without the
valuable supplement of Pougin. Gerber's "Historisch-
Biographisches Lexikon der Tonkiinstler " is repre-
sented in the editions of 1790 and 1812, and may be
named as the great authority of past times. Musicians
interested in the musical biography of Poland will find
much of interest in Albert Sowinski's " Musiciens
Polonais et Slaves/' published at Paris in 1857.
Bingley's second-rate "Musical Biography" of 1834
is present, as also is the worthless compilation in 2
volumes known as the " Dictionary of Musicians from
the Earliest Ages to the Present Time," 1824, to
which can be traced most of the errors and misrepre-
sentations of foreign biographical writers in regard to
British musicians and their works. Other collective
biographical works are those of Choron and Fayolle,
Clement, Escudier, Schilling, Schuberth, and others
too numerous or unimportant for detailed notice.
Among biographies of individual musicians we
may name Bach, by Forkel ; Beethoven, by Lenz,
Marx, Schindler, Thayer, Nohl, Ries, Oulibicheff,
etc. ; Bellini, by Pougin ; Billington (the scandalous
"Memoirs" of 1792); Boieldieu, by Hequet ; Cheru-
bini, by Denne-Baron and Raoul-Kochette ; Chopin,
by Barbedette ; Felicien David, by Azevedo ; Erard,
by F6tis ; Gretry, by Spazier ; Halevy ; Handel, by
Bray, Schcelcher, J. C. Smith, Mattheson, Mainwaring,
etc. ; Haydn, by Carpani, Fetis, Karajan, Beyle,
182 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
etc. ; Jommelli, by Mattei ; Lassus, by Mathieu ;
Lejeune, by Bouton ; Malibran ; Mendelssohn, by
Polko, Barbedette, Reissmann, Selden, Wallace, etc. ;
Meyerbeer, by Blaze de Bury, Pougin, etc. ; Moscheles;
Mozart, by Holmes, Nissen, Nohl, Cramer, Schlosser,
Jahn, Beyle, Oulibicheff, etc. ; Naumann, by Meissner;
Onslow, by Halevy ; Paganini, by Fetis, Imbert, etc. ;
Palestrina, by Baini, Blondeau, etc. ; Piccinni, by Gin-
guene ; Rossini, by Carpani, Beyle, Edwards, Pougin ;
Schubert, by Hellborn ; Schumann, by Reissmann ;
Spohr, by Malibran : Stradivarius, by Fetis; Wagner,
by Gasperini ; W. Y. Wallace, by Pougin ; Weber ;
and many others too numerous for mention. Some of
the foregoing are of extreme value to the musician,
and most of them illustrate musical history in a forcible
and pleasant style.
The great wealth of the library lies in its valuable
and extensive collection of didactic treatises and
theoretical and technological writings and dictionaries.
Of these it may be said to possess a stock scarcely
equalled in London itself by any single library now
existing ; while as regards the English provinces and
Scotland it is simply beyond match. Nothing can
be done in the course of this paper to describe in detail
any of the contents of this section, but a list of some
of the principal items may not come amiss to persons
desirous of learning a little regarding the possessions
of the library in this special department. Among the
older writers represented are Martin Agricola, whose
" Musica Instrumental Deudsch," 1545, is believed
to be one of the earliest works on performing on instru-
ments; Pietro Aron or Aaron, "Toscanello in Musica,''
1539, an early work of some value; Boethius, "Arith-
metica, Geometria et Musica," Venice, 1492; Butler.
"Principles of Music, in singing and setting," 1636;
Calvisius, "Melopceia," 1592; Cocleus, "Tetrachordum
Musices," 1511; Dowland, the translator of the "Micro-
logus " of Andreas Ornithoparcus, the original of
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which is not, however, in the library ; Faber, " Ad
Musicam Praticam," 1550; Gafurius, or Gafori, the
learned author of " Theoricum Opus Musicse Disip-
line," 1480, " Angelicum ac Divinum Opus Musice,"
1508, " De Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum,"
1518, "Theorica Musice," 1492, " Pratica Musice,"
1496 ; Galilei, father of the famous astronomer, " II
Fromino, dialogo sopra 1'arte del bene intavolare et
rettamente sonare la musica," 1584 ; Glareanus, or
Loris, whose " Dodekachordon," 1547, is one of the
rarest of musical books ; Kircher, " Musurgia Uiiiver-
salis," 1650 ; Listenius, " Rudimenta Musicse," 1538;
Locke, ' 'Melothesia, or Certain General Rules for Playing
upon a Continued Bass," 1673; Luscinius, "Musurgia,"
1536; Meibomius, "Antiquse Musicae," 1652; Mer-
senne, " Harmonie Universelle," 1636 ; Morley,
" Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke,"
1597; Playford, "Introduction to the Skill of Musick,"
seventh edition, 1674, and others; Praetorius, "Syn-
tagma Musicum," 4 volumes, 1614-20, a scarce and
costly work, of which this is one of the few complete
copies known; Raselius, "Hexachordum," 1589; Rhau,
"Enchiridion Musicaa Mensuralis," 1520; Salmon,
" Essay to the Advancement of Musick, by casting
away the perplexity of different cliffs," etc., 1672;
Simpson, " Compendium of Practical Music," 1667,
"The Division Viol," 1667; Tigrini, " II Compendio
della Musica," 1588; Zacconi, "Pratica di Musica,"
1596; Zarlino, Opera; " 1'Instituzioni Harmoniche,"
etc., 1589. Many of the works in the foregoing list
are of great rarity, and have a value for musicians
beyond the bookseller's estimate, in the light they
throw on early musical speculation and theory. The
whole history of the progress of musical theory can be
traced in them, and when taken in conjunction with
the modern writers, a view is obtained of the entire
system of musical practice as at present constituted.
It would be fruitless to notice the modern writers
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represented more than by name, and the following list
gives the majority of the famous writers whose works
are contained more or less completely in the library :
Adlung, Albrechtsberger, Asioli, Barbereau, Basevi,
Catel, Cherubini, Cheve, Chladni, Choron, Crotch,
Curvven, Czerny, Day, Fetis, Fink, Fux, Helmholtz,
Hiller, Hullah, Kastner, Lobe, Logier, Macfarren,
Marpurg, Marx, Mattheson, Rameau, Reicha, Rous-
seau, Sabbatini, Robert Smith, Tan'sur, Turk, Vogler,
and G. Weber.
The department of sacred music is especially rich in
psalters, hymnaries, and other collections of church
music, and possesses in addition many interesting
works by individual composers. These we will first
notice, passing afterwards to an examination of the
collections of psalmody, etc. An exceedingly rare
work is William Byrd's " Psalm es, Sonets, and Songs
of Sadnes and Pietie, made into musicke of five partes,"
London, 1588. This work contains some very quaint
reasons why people should learn to sing, one being
that " It doth strengthen all parts of the heart, and
doth open the pipes." A second book of Byrd's Sacred
Songs appeared in 1591. William Child's "First Set
of Psalms of Three Voyces," 1639, is another quaint
work. Kapsberger's " First Book of Motets," 1612,
is an interesting but not rare volume. That giant of
the sixteenth century, Orlando Lassus, is represented
by a collection of sacred music, dated 1582, and con-
tained in five volumes. His works are full of elaborate
counterpoint, not always remarkable for perspicuity,
and sounding wearisome and intricate to modern ears.
O
The " Psalms " of Henry and William Lawes, for
three voices, are more interesting to unscientific musi-
cians, and the volume contains some numbers which
have been adapted to present - day requirements.
Lejeune's Psalms and Lully's Motets represent respec-
tively the sacred music of the sixteenth and seven-
teenth centuries in France. Marcello's " Salmi" is
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present in three editions, among which is Avison and
Garth's scarce eight- volume English edition. A goodly
show is made of the works of Praetorius or Schultz
(1571 - 1621), whose " Musarum Sioniar," 1607 ;
"Hymnodia Sionia," 1611; " Megalynodia Sionia,"
1611, and some others, are among the most rare of
musical publications. Their value in an artistic sense
is open to question, but their popularity is shown by
the use made of some of the shorter pieces in our
modern collections of psalmody. This composer is
also noticed above in connection with musical theory.
Melchior Vulpius, a chorale composer of past and
present fame, is well represented by his " Cantionum
Sacra-rum," in eight volumes, published at Jena in
1602. The more modern composers are shown to best
advantage among the oratorios and works of a simi-
lar semi-sacred character. Arne's " Judith " and
Arnold's " Redemption " are last-century productions
of Handelian mould ; the former being in imitation,
and the latter entirely a compilation. Bach is fairly
represented by a German edition of his works (imper-
fect), and the Passion Music in English. His church
cantatas are not present in great force. Modern
Englishmen are plentiful, as J. Barnby, J. F. Barnett,
Sir W. S. Bennett, Bexfield, Chipp, Cusins, Dearie,
Ellerton, W. B. Gilbert, Glover, Hiles, C. E. Horsley
(whose " Gideon " was written for the Glasgow
Choral Union), Jackson of Masharn, Leslie, Perry,
Pierson, Russell, Stanley, Sullivan, Worgan, and
other writers. The living men among those above named
are very imperfectly represented by early works, while
a few of the older writers like Crotch, Macfarren, and
others, are not represented at all. Handel is complete ;
as likewise are Mendelssohn and Spohr. Beethoven,
Berlioz, Boyce, Costa, Graun, Hasse, Hiller, Molique,
Neukomm, Ries, Rolle, Romberg, Rossini, Schneider,
Silas, and Winter are each represented by one or
more works, but none of them so adequately as seems
186 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
commensurate with their importance. In the depart
ment of church music proper, the modern writers are
well shown, and it need only be said that all the most
important anthems, motets, masses, and services of all
the great composers are present.
The library of collections of Sacred Music (including
psalmodies and hymnaries) is no doubt one of the most
valuable ever formed in Britain by the work of a private
individual. The earliest church collections and the most
recent denominational hymn-books are found side by side
with the large collections of sacred music made at
various times by musicians of scholarship and ability.
Arnold's monumental collection of " Cathedral Music" is
present in the edition edited by Rimbault, in 3 volumes,
1843. " Corale Constantini," 1550-57, is an extremely
rare collection of sacred music, of which the alto, tenor,
and bass parts are alone supposed to exist. Boyce's
collection of " Cathedral Music," in 5 volumes, is pre-
sent in the original edition, as also is that of Dupuis in
3 volumes. The " Harmonia Sacra, or Divine Hymns
and Dialogues," 1687-93, is an interesting collection,
though of no special value. Bishop and Warren's
" Repertorium Musicse Antiquse," 1848, and Hullah's
" Library of Concerted Music," are modern collections,
carefully edited and well- selected. Latrobe's once
popular " Selection of Sacred Music from the Works
of some of the most Eminent Composers of Germany
and Italy," is a 6-volume work published in 1806.
The Motet Society's 3-volume " Collection of Ancient
Church Music " is a trustworthy work. Novello's
Standard Collections, consisting of anthems, motets,
and the " Fitzwilliam Music, being a collection of
sacred pieces selected from manuscripts of Italian
composers in the Fitzwilliam Museum," 5 volumes,
did more to popularize the older composers than any
other effort ever made in a similar direction. Ouseley's
" Cathedral Music " is a scholarly and able compilation.
Proske's " Musica Divina," a cheap and accurate collec-
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tion of ancient church music, published at Ratisbon in
3 volumes, in 1853-59, is probably the most valuable
publication of the kind issued in recent times. Rim-
bault's " Cathedral Music " is useful more for learned
musicians than for church use in general. Thomson's
"Symphonia Angelica" is another useful book of
anthems. The collections of Psalmody are without
number, and represent every civilized nationality,
while dating from the 16th to the 19th century. The
value of this section cannot be estimated by ordinary
methods, as many of the single works possess features
which make them unique here, curious autographs,
and there, notes by celebrities. As of local interest we
first glance at the Glasgow collections. Earliest
among these is William Brown's " Collection of Psalrn
Tunes in Four Parts," a small duodecimo dated 1700.
Next is Thomas Moore's "Psalm Singer's Pocket
Companion," 1756, of which there are several other
editions. Moore was an Englishman resident in Glas-
gow as music teacher to Hutchesons' Hospital. " The
Precentor," by Finlay and M'Lachlan, 1776, and " The
Precentor," 1779, by M'Lachlan alone, are inferior
works. Another early Glasgow collection is "The
Psalms of David in Metre, newly translated," 1773.
More recent compilations published in Glasgow are
Andrew Duncan's "The Choir," 1 828 ; Steven's " Har-
monia Sacra," n.d. ; the publications of Hamilton,
Mitchison, Brown, and Robertson, and others, generally
distinguished by much vulgarity and containing the
weak effusions of local nobodies to the exclusion of
many of the great names now found necessary in most
modern collections. The early Scottish collections in-
clude Knox's Liturgy, Edinburgh, 1635, and the
Glasgow reprint of 1864. An early psalm-book is
that printed in Edinburgh, 1595, and there are others
of 1615, printed by Hart, and 1635, of much value.
Raban's Aberdeen Psalter, 1625, is in the library,
but is imperfect. There are other Scottish provincial
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collections which are more curious than able perform-
ances, and among them we can only name Robert
Gilmour's "Psalm-Singer's Assistant," Paisley, 1793.
The English collections are extremely numerous, and
range from the 1569 edition of Sternhold arid Hopkins
to the year of Mr. Euing's death. The editions of
Sternhold and Hopkins are numerous, as also are those
by Tate and Brady, Playford, Patrick, and Este.
Other early dated collections are Barton's " Book of
Psalms in Metre," 1644 and 1682; Sandys' "Para-
phrase upon the Psalmes of David, set to New Tunes
by Henry Lawes," 1648, 1776, etc. ; Ravenscroft's
"Whole Book of Psalmes," in the editions of 1621
and 1633; Ainsworth's " Booke of Psalmes," 1644;
and George Withers' " Hymns and Songs of the
Church," 1623. The modern collections are sufficiently
well known to call for no special mention, which would,
indeed, be impossible without extending this chapter
beyond due limit. It is enough to say that nearly
every psalm-book, whether good or bad, large or small,
from the quaint productions of William Tan'sur to the
more recent works of Havergal, Hopkins, Stainer,
Gauntlett, Parr, Dibdin, and others, is in the library.
The American collections are only represented by the
modern publications of Lowell Mason, Bradbury &
Hastings, Hodges, Ives, Fillmore, Moore, Woodbury,
Zeuner, etc. The early works of Billings, Cotton
Mather, and others, are strangely enough not in the
library at all. The foreign psalmodies date from
1538, when " Ein Hubsch neu Gesangbuch " was pub-
lished at Ulm. This is the first Protestant hymn-book
ever issued, and is on that account of extreme value.
Luther's "Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen," Nuremberg,
1563, a beautiful work with curious engraved borders,
is one of the gems of the collection. " Psalmen des
Koniglichen Propheten Davids," Heidelberg, 1578, is
another early and scarce work. Without entering upon
any classification for this section we may name at ran-
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dom as possessing considerable interest for students of
psalmody, the Danish "Psalmebog" of Berggreen,
1853; Hurlebusch's Dutch Psalmen," 1766; Um-
breit's " Allgemeines Choral-Bach," 1811; "I Sacri
Salmi di David messi in rime volgari Italiane," 1664 ;
the Rouman collections of Grass, 1683, and Gonzen-
bach, 1733; Marot and Beza's versions (French),
numerous editions from 1560; the Bohemian edition of
Streyce, 1618, and many others of no less interest
though more generally known, and in consequence less
requiring notice.
In addition to the psalters and collections of
sacred music above described, there are a number of
hymnaries, liturgical works, and other books connected
with the church service, which the lack of proper
facilities for examination prevents our describing in
detail. They are, however, old and rare works, worthy
of a better fate than is reserved for them in the cata-
logue of the Euing Library, where they are jumbled
together at the end in a chaotic manner which reflects
little credit on the compiler.
The richness and variety of the department of
secular vocal music would require more than double
the space at our disposal to be adequately treated.
Among the older works are John Abell's " Collection
of Songs in Several Languages," London, 1701. This
is one of several such compilations by the same emi-
nent vocalist, and is a somewhat rare book. A collec-
tion of the madrigals of Arcadelt of 1543 is another
rare book. Playford's " Banquet of Musick," 6 books,
1688-92, is a valuable collection of songs, now becom-
ing very scarce, and in a sense a standard work from
which many later compilers have borrowed. Byrd's
" Songs of Sundrie Natures, some of Gravitie and
others of Myrth," 1589, is a quaint and delightful
specimen of a fine old master, whose "Psalms" has
been formerly noticed. It is a very rare work, as, in-
deed, are all of the 16th century publications, and its
190 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
merits are as high as its market value. Carey's
""Musical Century," 2 volumes, 1737-40, is a collection
of ballads of much importance, and a collection of
" Choice Songs and Ayres " of date 1673 may be named
as equally valuable. Among other rare collections
may be named "Clio and Euterpe," 1762; "Comes
Amoris," Lond., n.d.; " Deliciae Musicae," 1695-6;
Arnold's "Essex Harmony," 1774; Faber's "Melodiae
Prudentianae," 1533; Forbes' " Cantus, Songs, and
Fancies," third edition, Aberdeen, 1682 ; Hilton's
" Catch that Catch Can," 1652 ; " Mercurius Musicus,"
1699-1701 ;" Parthenia, or the Maidenhead of the first
Musick that ever was printed for the Virginals," com-
posed by three famous master, William Byrd, Dr.
John Bull, and Orlando Gibbons, 1655. In this book
the difficulties invented by the older English writers of
instrumental music are made fully apparent. Play-
ford's " Musical Companion," 1673, is a good collection
of old catches, glees, airs, etc. The " Theatre of
Music," 4 volumes, 1685-87, contains many beautiful
airs to the words of contemporary poets. The ever-
famous Tom D'Urfey is represented by a reprint of his
"Pills to Purge Melancholy," and by "Choice New
Songs," 1684. " Musica Transalpina," a collection of
Italian madrigals published by Nicholas Yonge,
1588-97, is a scarce and highly valuable work, the
words of which are reprinted in Oliphant's "Musa
Madrigalesca," 1837. Though the collections just
named are valuable in many respects, the works by
individual composers must be held to have a greater
interest, and perhaps a greater value. We can only
name Arne, Banister, Blow, Caccini, Corkine, Croft,
Eccles. Este, Ford, Gamble, Gesualdo, Gibbons,
Giovanelli, Greene, Greeting, Jones, Kapsberger,
King, Lawes, Pilkington, Porpora, Purcell, Havens-
croft, Ward, Weelkes, Willbye, and Wilson. Most of
those just named are madrigal writers celebrated in
musical history, and whose works are still as fresh as
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when first penned. The operatic section is repre-
sented by most of the great names connected with
the musical drama, and comprises works by Arne,
Auber, Beethoven, Bellini, Benedict, Bishop, Boieldieu,
Boyce, Campra, Cherubim, Cimarosa, Donizetti, Gluck,
Gounod, Gretry, Handel, Herold, Isouard, Lampe,
Linley, Lully, Macfarren, Marschner, Mercadante,
Meyerbeer, Mozart, Nicolai, Pacini, Paer, Purcell,
Rossini, Rousseau, Shield, Spohr, Spontini, Storace,
Verdi, Wallace, Weber, Winter, etc. The absence of
Wagner, Balfe, Barnett, and a few others is a surpris-
ing circumstance, when the catholicity of Mr. Euing's
taste is taken into account. The collection of glees
and catches is almost complete, and contains nearly
every composer of importance from the middle of last
centuiy. Most of those are present in the original
editions, which adds greatly to the value of the whole.
Among more modern collections of songs are an
"American Musical Miscellany" of date 1798.
Berggreen's Danish Anthology, 1869, is a valuable
national collection. Bickham's " Musical Entertainer "
is a handsomely engraved work by a once celebrated
writing-master. The Scottish songs are represented
in the collections of Bremner, Butler, Campbell, Dale,
Dun and Thomson, Elouis, Graham, Hamilton, John-
son, Maver, Oswald, Parry, Ritson, Smith, George
Thomson, W. Thomson, Turnbull, and others ; while
the national collections of Germany, France, England,
Wales, Ireland, Spain, and Switzerland, are well repre-
sented in various valuable compilations.
It now remains before concluding this chapter to
notice two other divisions, namely, Instrumental Music
and Miscellaneous, which form the two last in the
classification fixed on a former page. The instru-
mental division is not marked by any special wealth
one way or another, and contains few examples of the
more modern composers. Music for the organ and
pianoforte, including some very valuable works of
192 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Frescobaldi, bulks largely, but the number of full
scores is not great. Beethoven is represented by a
collection of full scores of his symphonies, and by his
pianoforte works. Corelli's concertos for two violins,
viola, and violoncello, with obligate, are present in
seven quarto volumes, as edited by Geminiani, with
several of his other works. Couperin, that rarest of
harpsichord composers, is inadequately represented in
a work of no great value. There are arrangements of
the orchestral works of various masters for pianoforte,
including Handel, Haydn, Vanhall, and the Earl of
Westmoreland, but the collection is on the whole much
inferior to what might have been expected. The string
quartets of Mozart, Haydn, and Mendelssohn are
present entire, but the works in the same class by
Boccherini and succeeding masters are not in the
library at all. The whole of the instrumental division
bears evidence of Mr. Euing's want of sympathy with
this form of music, and its presence seems more due to
accident than design. The Miscellaneous contents of
the library include sets of valuable musical journals, a
set of the Musical Antiquarian Society publications,
and a number of manuscript works, including auto-
graphs of great musicians, etc. In this section must
also be included a large number of works on musical
aesthetics and collections of musical anecdotes and
gossip, not properly coming under any of the headings
we have used.
Taken as a whole, the library is of surpassing
interest and value to the musician, and should
its treasures ever be made accessible to the public, it
will no doubt prove of much influence, both in an edu-
cational and artistic sense, in the future musical history
of Glasgow. The shortcomings which must necessarily
be apparent in this paper are in part due to the limited
opportunities given the writer of making personal exam-
ination of the books, and the catalogue proved but a poor
substitute. What has been attempted will perhaps
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 193
serve to give interested persons a notion of the great
value of a library which is virtually decaying in their
midst ; while liberal-minded persons, whether musical
or not, will perhaps be brought to think that an effort
should be made to recover for the public benefit a
treasury of musical lore at present withheld on not
over-reasonable grounds.
CHAPTER XIII.
LIBRARY OP JOHN FERGUSON, ESQ., M.A., PROFESSOR OF
CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
Character and growth of the Collection Volumes
from great Libraries, by famous Printers and
Binders, and with the Autographs of Great Men-
Fifteenth Century Books Volume from the Press of
Machlinia Vincent de Beauvais Speculum, the
largest Book printed in the Fifteenth Century
English Literature Foreign Literature Gipsy
Books Scotland Darien Tracts Scottish Topo-
graphy Scottish Prose Writers Works from the
Press of Raban, Aberdeen's first Printer Scottish
Poets Copy of the Jirst Work pnnted in Glasgow
Works of Glasgow Men Boyd's ''Last Battell of the
Soule in Death" Early Scottish Scientific Writers
Fine Art Chemistry, Manuscripts, Histories and
Bibliographies Alchemy and Early Chemistry
Works on Phosphorus, Assaying and Analysis, Dis-
tillation, Minerals and Metals Demonology, Witch-
craft, Magic, Mysticism Bibliography Classics-
Conclusion.
THIS is in many respects a remarkable library, and while
it stands undoubtedly by itself among the libraries of
13
194 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Glasgow, there are probably few exactly similar to
it among the private libraries of the country, if not of
even a wider area. This is due no doubt, in the first
place, to the unusual nature of the chief collection,
but also in a marked degree to the accurate knowledge
of what to look for, and the unwearied watchfulness of
the owner. So rare are some of the works it con-
tains that they hardly occur for sale twice in a lifetime.
Especially is this so in regard to many of the early
works on alchemy, in English and other languages.
Professor Ferguson's professional studies led him in
the first place to form an extensive chemical library,
embracing not merely the modern text-books which
were in a way necessities, but the older works, now
by the rapid advance of the science abandoned by all
but the student of what may be called the archaeology
of chemistry. To a thorough worker the speculations
of the forerunners of the modern chemist are always of
very great interest. Hence the collection of old chemical
books, then of works on the occult sciences as illustrat-
ing these, and, as a sort of corollary, books on witch-
craft. Like all libraries formed in the true booklover's
fashion carefully tasting every purchase not buying
so rapidly as to lose the pleasure distinct and by itself
of each new acquisition the alchemical and the general
collections have grown silently with the years, until
their dimensions when ascertained astonish even their
owner.
But the library is rich in several respects besides
alchemy. Indeed it is full of surprises. With no
pretensions to being complete with no design on the
part of the owner to make it so some of the smaller
sections challenge our attention by their high interest.
With the one exception of alchemy, hardly a subject
has been followed out to any notable extent, but every
book having been bought for some historical or literary
purpose, the merits of the sections depend mainly on
their being representative and select. This evident
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 19
absence of desire to form large collections on indivi-
dual subjects increases our surprise to find works of
excessively great rarity and value which w^ould form
the nuclei and are the desiderata of many special
libraries. It is idle, of course, to speak of the
few fifteenth century books which are usually to be
found in the best of private not noble libraries as
a collection, when we remember that Hain mentions
16,299 works all printed before the year 1500, but
when we find so many as nearly seventy fifteenth
century books in a small private library, the fact is
worthy of notice, and a legitimate subject for extended
remark, the more so that the volumes have not been
secured because of their early date merely but for
quite independent reasons.
Professor Ferguson would disclaim being reckoned a
collector of Glasgow books. Yet we find among those
having connection with the city a copy of the first
document printed in Glasgow ; a copy of Zachary
Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule in Death," having
the rare 1628 title-page; the "Academiae Glasguensis
XAPI2THPION " which contains congratulatory odes
from members of the University and Z. Boyd's
" Panegyric to Charles I." when he came to Scotland
to be crowned ; the works of some early natives of
the city, and other valuable local works. The same
remark applies to most of the other departments.
The total number of volumes in the collection is above
6,000. The works on alchemy are much in the condi-
tion they have been acquired in contemporary covers
in most cases but the larger part of the remainder
of the library is in elegant modern binding. Some of
the volumes have come from famous libraries, such as
those of Thuanus, Gordon of Gordonstoun, Sunder-
land, Beckford, Hamilton, Syston Park ; some have
been bound by celebrated binders, as Roger Payne,
Derome, Lewis, Mackenzie; a few examples of printing
from the famed presses of Aldus, Stephanus, Froben,
196 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Bodoni, Elzevier, Foulis, Baskerville, and others, are
in the library; and among the books bearing autographs
of well-known persons, not got, however, on that ac-
count, there are some with the names of Bishop Lati-
mer the martyr, John Locke, Laurence Sterne, Antoine
Laurent Lavoisier, the distinguished chemist, who was
guillotined during the French Revolution, Hadrian
Beverland, Matthew Mackaile, Robert Boyd of Troch-
rig, Principal of the University of Glasgow, his cousin,
Zachary Boyd, William Motherwell, Robert Southey,
and others.
The books printed in the fifteenth century claim
our first attention. Only a few of the more interest-
ing have been selected for notice. The first is by
Petrus de Abano or Apono, and is entitled " Tractatus
de Remediis Venenorum." It bears no date, but is
undoubtedly a fifteenth century production, and is
probably earlier than the dated editions. Abano took
his surname from the village of Abano, near Padua,
where he was born about the year 1246. He studied
at Padua, Constantinople, and Paris, returning to the
first-named place, where he practised for many years.
He attained great fame for his abilities as a physician,
and for his studies in alchemy and astrology. He was
accused to the Inquisition of having communications
with the devil, and was found guilty. Meanwhile he
died, and his body having been hid, his portrait, in
default of his remains, was publicly burnt by order of
the Inquisition. Of the " De Secretis " of Albertus
Magnus there are several editions, including that
printed by Machlinia in London, about 1483. It
need hardly be said that every scrap of printed matter
produced in England in the fifteenth century is of the
highest value. This volume was purchased at the sale
of the Hamilton Library. The " Mensa Philosophica "
of Anguilbert is a work which is sometimes erroneously
ascribed to Michael Scot. Nothing is known about
the author except that he was a native of Ireland.
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 197
There were several editions. The present volume is
without a date, but was printed at Louvain by
Johannes de Westphalia. Our next volume, the "Car-
mina " of Giovanni Aurelio Augurello, was printed
at Verona in 1491, and is the first edition. It was
afterwards enlarged and reprinted at Venice by Aldus
in 1505, of which edition there is also a fine copy. The
most celebrated production of this writer is his poem
on the art of making gold, which was consulted by
the alchemists, and often reprinted. It is alluded to
farther on. We mention St. Augustine's " Liber de
Sancta Virginitate," which also wants a date, merely
to note that a work of his is among the incunabula.
St. Augustine's works were so popular that Panzer is
able to give a list of 170 editions printed in the
fifteenth century. The above is the only edition of the
u De Virginitate " printed during that period.
The " De Proprietatibus Rerum," Strasburg, 1485, by
Bartholomew Glanvil, is an earlier edition of a work
noticed in the account of Stirling's Library (page 90).
There is also the French version, printed at Lyons by
Jean Cyber, without date. This book was not seen by
Hain, but it is described in detail in the " Transac-
tions of the Arch geological Society of Glasgow," vol ii.
The earliest of the volumes with a date is by Cardinal
Bessarion, "Ad versus Calumniatorem Platonis," printed
at Rome in 1469 by the first printers there, Sweynheym
and Pannartz. Not many of Bessarion's works were
printed, and those few are scarce. This was the first.
Of three years' later date is a work by Burlseus, or
Burley, an Englishman, " De Vita Philosophorum,"
supposed to have been printed at Niirnberg by Anthony
Koburger in 1472. As a mere specimen of typo-
graphy this is a very choice book. " Historia Tripar-
tita Ecclesiastica ex Socrate, Sozomeno et Theodoreto,"
printed by Schiissler, Augsburg, 1472, is the prin-
cipal work of Cassiodorus, and is one of the rarest
editions. Of the illustrious French theologian, John
198 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Gerson, there are some tracts, printed at Cologne by
Ulrich Zell, the first Cologne printer and the instructor
of Caxton. Others of the fifteenth century books are
" Pimander," by Hermes Trismegistus, Treviso,
1471, the first edition; " Lucidarius," by Honorius,
1499 ; "De Origine et Laudibus Scientiarum," etc., by
Zacharias Lilius, Florence, 1496; the same writer's
" Orbis Breviarium," Venice, no date ; " Malleus
Maleficarum," by Institor, printed at Niirnberg in
1494 by Koburger ; " Epistolae," by Franciscus Philel-
phus, Venice, printed by Vindelin de Spira ; " Psal-
terium," Venice, Aldus, without date, but about
1498 ; "De Situ Orbis," by Pomponius Mela, printed
at Venice in 1482 by Ratdolt ; several editions of
Michael Scot's "Liber Physionomise," including that
of 1477, the first dated one; "Liber Facetiarum," by
Poggio, Valdarfer, Milan, 1477 ; Polydore Vergil's
" Proverbiorum Libellus," 1498, the first book on the
subject, and extremely rare; the first edition of the
same author's "De Inventoribus Rerum," 1499. We
have reserved for last mention the " Speculum Quadru-
plex," in 10 volumes folio, printed about 1473. This
gigantic work, the largest printed in the fifteenth cen-
tury, was written by Vincent de Beauvais, a Dominican
monk of the thirteenth century. It is divided into
four parts : Doctrinale, Historiale, Naturale, Morale,
and consists of a digest of the author's extensive read-
ing on every subject. The last division, the Morale,
is probably not by him. Notwithstanding its immense
size, this work was reprinted no fewer than ten times
before the end of the fifteenth century.
Departing somewhat from the classification laid
down in the introduction, we note that the library con-
tains many of the standard writers on the literature
and history and analysis of the English language.
The following English authors are represented either
by complete works, collected editions, or separate
works: A' Beckett, Addison, W. H. Ainsworth,
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 199
Amory, Armstrong, Aubrey, Austen, Roger Bacon,
Francis Bacon, P. J. Bailey, R. Baxter, Beckford,
Beddoes, Boswell, Berkeley, Blair, Bloomfield,
Borrow, Bowring, Brooke, Torn Brown, Sir Thomas
Browne, Robert Browning, Bunyan, Burke, Miss
Burney, R. Burton, Bishop Butler, S. Butler, The
Brontes, Byron, Carlyle, complete, including his
translation of Legendre, Chapman, Chatterton,
Campbell, Chaucer, dough, Coleridge, Collins, Con-
greve, Fenimore Cooper, Cowley, Cowper, Erasmus
Darwin, Sir John Davies, De Quincey, Defoe, Dickens,
Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Ford, Fuller, Gibbon,
Goldsmith, Greene, Hallam, Herbert, Herrick, Holmes,
Hone, Hood, Hook, R. H. Home, Hume, James,
Keats, Kingsley, Kirke White, Lamb, M. G. Lewis,
Locke, Longlande, Lyly, Macaulay, Marlowe, Hugh
Miller, Milton, Moore, Morris, Otway, Peacock, Peele,
Percy, Percy Society, Pope, Reach, Radcliffe, Richard-
son, Robertson, Rogers, Ruskin, Reynolde, Shake-
speare, Shelley, Smollett, Swinburne, Adam Smith,
Sydney Smith, Spenser, Sheridan, Thackeray, Thom-
son, Tennyson, Walton and Cotton, Webster, Whewell,
Wordsworth, Wycherley, Young, and a number of
minor authors whom we need not enumerate. Of
Americans there are Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson,
Poe, Thoreau, and some minor writers. Among the
works calling for special notice are the second edition
of the " Vision of Piers Ploughman," printed by
Robert Crowley, London, 1550 (Crowley printed the
first edition, also in 1550); R. Scot's " Perfite
Platforme of a Hoppe-Garden," London, 1576; Lyly's
"Euphues," 1606, and "Euphues and his Eng-
land, "1609, both printed at London for William Leake;
" The History of King Arthur," 3 volumes, 1634. The
works of Thomas Love Peacock, humorist and satirist,
are in few libraries in their original form as they are
here. The works of Richardson, Miss Burney, and
Mrs. Radcliffe are also in first or early editions, and
200 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
the same is true in part of the works of Smollett,
Brooke, Maturin, Sir W. Scott, M. G. Lewis, Dickens,
Thackeray. Keats, Borrow, Browning, Clough, Swin-
burne, and others.
Foreign literature forms a not inconsiderable section.
Germany appears in the Nibelungenlied and other old
poetry, and in works of Fischart, Goethe, Schiller.
Lessing, Klopstock, Uhland, Fouque, Heine, Gessner,
Korner, Freiligrath, Wieland, Salis, Hoffmann, Ebers.
Freytag, and even Schumann. The collection of
French literature is large and choice, but is distin-
guished less by the presence of the ordinary French
classics than by fine editions and copies of very
curious and rare works, bibliographical essays and
catalogues, illustrated and other fine books and reprints.
Italian literature is not absent. The leading names
are Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Giordano
Bruno, Vico, Tasso, and Pulci. Among the curiosities
in the department of foreign literature are the works
(poetical and scientific) of Lomonossoff, and of some
others in Russian ; of Adam Mickiewicz, and others
in Polish ; of various authors in Dutch ; native poems
and translations in Icelandic, and a considerable num-
ber of works on Iceland. There are, besides, histories
of foreign literature, grammars, dictionaries, and books
not only in the European but also in some of the
Eastern tongues. To this group also belong the
gipsy books, of which there is a curious collection.
It contains Thomasius "de Cingaris," 1677; Vulcanius
" de Literis Lingua et Getarum," 1597, in which is
one of the earliest lists of gipsy words, the works of
Grellmann, Puchmayer, Paspati, Kogalnitchan, Pott,
Miklosich, Borrow (including his translation of the
Gospel of St. Luke into Spanish gipsy), and a number
of other tracts.
Of books relating to Scotland there are many
of interest. Among a variety of histories we note the
first edition of John Major's " De Historia Gen bis
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 201
Scotorum," Paris, 1521, written when he was a regent
in Glasgow University ; Baillie's " Letters," Spang's
" Rerum Nuper in Regno Scotiae Gestarum Historia/'
1641, and eight tracts on the Darien scheme. The
literature of this subject is extremely scarce, and we
therefore name those in Professor Ferguson's pos-
session :
Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien. Edinburgh, 1699.
Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien. No place, 1 700.
The same, another edition. No place, 1700.
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots
Colony. Glasgow, 1700.
Short Vindication of Phil. Scots Defence of the Scots abdi-
cating Darien. Lond., 1700.
Scotland's Grievances relating to Darien. 1700.
Full and Exact Collection. No place, 1700.
Borland's Memoirs of Darien. Glasgow, 1715.
The works on Scottish topography are numerous,
and some of them are rare. The following we think
worth naming : Roy's "Military Antiquities"; Mar-
tin's "St. Kilda," 1698; Martin's " Western Islands,"
two copies, one dated 1703, which is mentioned in
all bibliographies as the first edition, the other dated
1673 the title-page shows no sign of having been
tampered with, and appears to be contemporary with
the rest of the book ; fine copies of the " Baronial
Antiquities of Scotland," by Billings; the "Antiqui-
ties of Scotland," by Capt. Grose ; Sir Walter Scott's
" Border Antiquities " and " Provincial Antiquities " ;
Pennycuik's " Tweeddale," first edition, 1715, Nimmo's
" Stirlingshire," and lire's " Rutherglen."
Dividing Scottish authors into those who have
written in prose and those who have adopted, with
more or less success, verse as a medium for conveying
their thoughts, we find in the former class the following
authors : Sir Thomas Urquhart, represented by his
" Exquisite Jewel," 1652, and his translation of
Rabelais, 1664 ; Patrick Scot, by his " Table Book
for Princes," 1621, and "Vox Vera," 1625. George
202 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Dalgarno is represented by his "Ars Signorum,"
1661; Zachary Boyd, by the "Last Battell of the
Soule in Death," which will be spoken of under the
head of Glasgow ; Patrick Forbes, by his " Eubulus,"
Aberdeen, 1627, another production of Raban's press ;
David Dickson, minister at Irvine, "Short Explanation
of the Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews," Aberdeen,
1635, also from the press of Raban; John Napier of
Merchiston, " Ouverture de tous les Secrets de
1' Apocalypse," printed at La Rochelle in 1605 ; John
Cameron, by " Traicte Auquel sont examinez les Pre-
jugez de ceux de 1'Eglise Romaine centre la Religion
Reformee," La Rochelle, 1618; and the " Myrothe-
cium," 1677; D. Camerarius, "De Scotorum Forti-
tudine," 1631 ; Adam Blackwood's " Marty re de la
Royne d'Escosse," 1587, and his " Opera Omnia,"
1644. Among quite recent writers there are Robert
Chambers (nearly a complete set of his works), John
Gait (first editions of his novels and other works), Sir
Walter Scott, James Hogg, and various others, and
works on the history of Scottish literature, catalogues
of writers, biographies, and miscellaneous tracts.
Turning to Poetry we find the following collections,
most of them well known, some of high value, and all of
them well worth having : Cromek's Remains, Sibbald's
Chronicle, Pinkerton's Scottish Ballads, Scottish Poems,
and Ancient Scottish Poems ; Laing's Early Popular
Poetry, Fugitive Scottish Poetry and Early Metrical
Tales; Morison's Scottish Ballads and Scots Poets ;
Motherwell's Minstrelsy, and Harp of Renfrewshire ;
and the leading individual works Pinkerton's edition of
Barbour's " Bruce," one or two editions of Blind
Harry's " Wallace," reprints of Henryson, Dunbar,
Lyndsay, Lithgow, Montgomery, Hamilton of Ban-
gour, Sempill of Beltrees, Drummond of Hawthornden,
Gawain Douglas, also his translation of Virgil's
JEneid, Ruddiman's edition, 1710 ; Alex. Scott's
Poems, 1821, and Glasgow, 1883, one of six printed on
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 203
vellum; Leyden's "Complaint," Wyntoim's "Chron-
icle/' George Buchanan's Poems and Psalms, in Latin,
Paris, 1566; "Jephtha," the French translation, Paris,
1573, both from the press of Stephanus; the rare
volume of the Admirable Crichton's "In Appulsu
ad Celeberrimain urbem Venetam de Propria Statu
Carmen," printed by Aldus, Venice, 1580; the "Poemata
Sacra" of Patrick Adamson, 1619; Pennycuik's
"Poems," 1715; the original edition of Sir Thomas
Urquhart's "Epigrams," 1641 ; John Knox's "Psalms,"
Edinburgh, And. Hart, 1622 ; Andrew Eamsay's
"Poemata Sacra," Edinburgh, 1633; Arthur Johnston's
" Epigrainmata," Aberdeen, 1632 (another of Raban's
productions) ; Colvil's " Whigg's Supplication," Edin-
burgh, 1 695; and St. Andrews, 1796; Ross's "Helenore,"
Aberdeen, 1789; the first edition of Home's Collected
Works, 1760; various editions of Burns; and the
works of some minor poets.
The collection contains the ordinary histories of
Glasgow, Fairbairn's " Relics of Ancient Architecture
in Glasgow," Swan's "Views," etc., etc., a considerable
number of works connected with the University, and
a few specimens of the printing of Anderson, Robert
Sanders, W. Duncan, the Foulises, James Knox,
R. Chapman, and others. That from the press of
Anderson is no less than a copy of the " Declaration
of the Assembly," which met at Glasgow in 1638,
printed by Anderson in the same year, and having the
proud distinction of being the first document printed in
the city. It is so fully spoken of at page 146 (Mitchell
Library) that further description here is unnecessary.
This copy is bound with a number of pamphlets similar
in size, and all relating to meetings or deliverances of
the Assembly, some printed by Robert Young, who
printed the obnoxious " Laud Prayer Book," some by
Anderson at his Edinburgh press, and some by other
Edinburgh printers.
The volumes by the Sanderses consist of Bar-
204 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
hour's " Bruce," Blind Harry's "Wallace," Lyndsay's
"Works," Toldervy's " Foot out of the Snare," 1679;
Durham's " Clavis" Cantici," 1723; " An Explicatory
Catechism," 1719; the "Gesta Romanorum," 1713, and
other works. Among books by Glasgow men, or men
connected in some way with the city, a few are very
rare. The first place is due to Zachary Boyd's " Last
Battell of the Soule in Death," usually supposed to
have been first printed in 1629, but clearly established
as having been produced a year earlier. This copy,
which is a fine one, is in two volumes, and has the
1629 title-pages, also the dedications and other pre-
liminary matter which accompany this issue, and it
possesses the rare 1628 title-page. For a further ac-
count of this volume the reader is referred to the
chapter dealing with Mr. Guild's library, where
the whole question is discussed at length. William
Hegat proclaims his connection with Glasgow on
the title-page of his " Gallia Victrix," printed at
Poictiers in 1598, a work which is not mentioned in
any of our bibliographical dictionaries. Peter Lowe,
whose "Chirurgery" is in the library, was a noted medico
of his time, and the founder of the Glasgow Faculty of
Physicians and Surgeons. He died at Glasgow in
1612. His work was so much esteemed that it went
through five editions, and was translated into a num-
ber of continental languages. Ninian Paterson's "Epi-
grammata," 1678, and his " Moristonus Martyr," 1687,
are worth mentioning. Among Glasgow curiosities
are a number of the little books for children published
by Lumsden, and illustrated by Bewick.
Early Scottish literature is so entirely made up of
theological, religious, and poetical works that one
rarely comes across a book on any subject beyond
these. There were a few, however, on physical science,
and those which are in the collection may be mentioned
more on account of their rarity in the literature of the
country than for any other reason. Michael Scot is
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represented by numerous editions of his "Physionomia/'
and by his commentary on the Sphere of Sacrobosco,
Bologna, 1495, of which this is the only separate
edition. At a much later date came Thomas Morison,
an Aberdonian, who wrote against the alchemists " De
Causis Metallorum," Francof., 1593; William Davis-
son, first professor of chemistry in the Jardin des
Plantes, at Paris: " Oblatio Salis," Paris, 1641,
" Curriculus Chymiatricus," Paris, 1634; " Philo-
sophia Pyrotechnica," Paris, 1635, 1640, and the
French translation, Paris, 1651; and " Commentariorum
in Severini Ideam Medicinse . . . Prodromus," Hagse
Com., 1660 ; Gordon, " Pharinaco-Pinax," Aberdeen,
1625, printed by Raban; Patrick Scot, "Tillage of
Light," 1623, a rare alchemical tract; John Napier, of
Merchiston, " Rhabdologia," Edinburgh, And. Hart,
1617 ; Duncan Bornet, an Aberdoniau, " latro Chy-
micus," Francof., 1616, and in German, Frankfurt,
1618; Christopher Irvine, " Medicina Magnetica,"
1656, presentation copy from the author to Dr. A.
Penny cuick of Newhall ; Sinclair's " Hydrostaticks,"
1672; Peter Lowe's " Chirurgery," just mentioned,
1654; John Maccoll, " latria Chymica," London,
1622; Matthew Mackaile's " Macis Macerata," Aber-
deen, Forbes, 1677; " Fons Moffetensis," Edinburgh,
1659; "MoffetWell," Edinburgh, 1664 ; " De Cancri
Curatione," Roterod., 1675 ; " Diversities of Salts and
Spirits," Aberdeen, Forbes, 1683; Sir Thomas Urqu-
hart's curious trigonometrical work, " Trissotetras,"
London, 1645; David Person of Loghlands, "Varieties
. . . wherein the principall Heads of diverse Sciences
are illustrated," London, 1635, a perfect copy, clean
and unused.
Besides those alreadv mentioned there are a few
*/
other books interesting in the history of Scotch typo-
graphy. Daniel Tilenus: "Paraenesis ad Scotos, Gene-
vensis Disciplinae Zelotas," printed at St. Andrews
by Edward Raban, 1620. This is one of the very
206 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
early productions of Raban's press. Mr. Edmond
in his "Aberdeen Printers" names four works before
this one, two of them without place or printer's name,
all of them produced in 1620. Signature Al, which
was wanting in the copy which Mr. Edrnond examined
in the Edinburgh University Library, is present in this
copy. There are also one or two books from the
Kirkbride press, and a copy of Ged's " Sallust," the
first book printed from stereotype plates.
Of works of an artistic kind there are collections of
portraits by Freher, Imperialis, Reusner, Houbraken,
Lodge, Pinkerton, Walpole, Turner's " England and
Wales," Ruskin's principal works, Durer, and other
illustrated books, topographical, antiquarian, and lite-
rary.
The section devoted to Chemistry amounts to quite
two-fifths of the entire library, and of that, half is
composed of modern treatises, journals, text books,
pamphlets, and reprints, while the remainder consists
of a collection devoted to the elucidation of the history
and progress of the science. Beyond its extent and
variety, the former division, including books issued
within the last forty or fifty years, calls for no special
notice.
The latter division requires more particular con-
sideration. It contains First, manuscripts ; second,
histories and bibliographies ; third, collections of tracts
printed together ; fourth, individual works of different
writers; fifth, collections upon special topics minerals,
metals, mining, distillation, assaying, analysis, phos-
phorus.
Manuscripts. Without having pretensions to any-
thing valuable, this department contains from 80 to
100 alchemical manuscripts. Among these is a
manuscript of Geber's works, in Latin, of Saec. xiv.-
xv., a translation of the same into German, Saec.
xvii.-xviii., several copies of the " Rosarium Philoso-
phorum," a very popular treatise, some in Latin, one
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in German, one in French ; Isaac Hollandus' " Testa-
mentum," Basil Valentin's "Twelve Keys," Translation
of Drebbel's "De Quinta Essentia;"of the "Enchiridion"
of d'Espagnet, English Translation of R. Lully's "Testa-
mentum," never printed ; a Collection of Alchemical
Tracts in German, from Paracelsus, Saec. xvi. ; " De
Chemia Libellus " of Senior Zadith : Treatise in
English by Humphrey Lock ; a German translation
of Maier's " Atalanta Fugiens ;" a large folio volume,
dated April 23, 1667, bearing the autograph of
Johannes Kunckel v. Lowenstein, and containing all
the processes worked by him in the Elector's labora-
tory at Dresden, many collections of excerpts, notes,
and receipts in various languages.
There is, secondly, a considerable series of histories
and bibliographies of chemistry from the first known
history Vallensis, " De Antiquitate Chemise," Paris,
1561; and Trevisan " De Chemia, Opus Historicum,"
Strasburg, 1567 down to the most recent. It in-
cludes, of course, the standard works of Dufresnoy,
Wiegleb, Gmelin, Weigel, Kopp, Hoefer, Thomson,
Schraieder,Wagner,Gerding, Brande, Dumas, Chevreul,
Figuier, Olaus Borrichius, Conring; Mofhofs"Epistola,"
the very rare "Beytrag zur Geschichte der hoheren
Chemie ;" the original dissertations of Bergman, of
Boerhaave, and smaller works on the subject.
Of Bibliographies specially devoted to Chemistry
there are Borel, "Bibliotheca Chemica," Paris,
1654, Heidelberg, 1656; Cooper, "Catalogue," 1675;
Baumer, " Bibliotheca," 1782; Rothscholtz, " Biblio-
theca Chemica/' 1735; Reuss, " Repertorium," 1803;
Fuch's"Repertorium;"Zuchold,1859; Ruprecht, 1872;
Wolff, 1845 ; besides special lists appended to treatises.
There are biographical sketches, inaugural and other
dissertations dealing either with the history of chem-
istry as a whole, or with that of some epoch, or of a
particular discovery, or of some substance or class of
substances, or with the progress of the science in some
208 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
particular town, or school, or laboratory. Such disser-
tatio^is are numerous, and belonging as they do to
what is considered usually the ephemeral literature of
the subject, printed in small numbers, never appearing
for sale, but distributed privately, it is very difficult
indeed to make any collection of them at all without
expending much trouble and waiting for a long time.
It contains, thirdly, a selected representation of
chemical literature from the Middle Age writers down
to the modern period. This literature falls into four
main classes that of the alchemical period, that of the
medical and pharmaceutical period, that of the phlo-
gistic period, and that of the oxygen period. Though
there is a historical succession in these, there is not a
strictly chronological one, for they overlap, and the
alchemical literature runs on parallel with that of the
three which followed it.
The attempt has been made to get the most remark-
able and illustrative works belonging to each, the idea
being first to form a historical library ; but at the same
time much care has been taken to secure the rarest books
and those in the finest condition. Though, therefore,
there may be other collections numerically larger, there
cannot be many with more curious and valuable books.
The early literature is usually in Latin ; the later
literature, especially of alchemy, is chiefly in German.
But what distinguishes this present collection further
is the number of alchemical books in English, mostly
printed in the seventeenth century. These books have
of late years almost entirely disappeared, and hardly
ever occur in catalogues.
Alchemical literature has some peculiarities. Many
of the treatises, especially if they were by notable
authors, seemed to have been in constant demand and
were printed over and over again without any variation.
When the older editions had been worn out and the
demand still continued, it became the habit for some
one, a publisher perhaps, or a believer in the al-
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 209
chemist's pursuits, to make a collection of these
tracts, and print them in one or more volumes. Then,
curiously enough, these collections were sometimes re-
printed, or new collections were formed out of the older.
This library contains a very large number of these
different collections, both in their original and later
forms.
Fourthly, individual works of different writers.
To enter into a description of the uncommon books
brought together would take a volume in fact, would
involve a history of alchemy and early chemistry.
That, indeed, was the object of the collection, but a few
may be noted.
The earliest modern writer on chemical topics is the
Arab, Geber, who is said to have died in 776-7. Till
the end of the fifteenth century his writings circulated
in manuscript. They were then printed, and subse-
quently numerous editions appeared. They were
translated into German, French, and English, and they
were inserted in the collected editions of tracts.
With two or three exceptions, the whole of the editions,
so far as they are known, are in the present library.
The collection is probably one of the largest in exist-
ence.
In chronological order, but long after Geber, comes
Joannes de Garlandia or Hortulanus. His tracts, " De
Mineralibus," "Compendium Alchemise," "Diction-
arium Alchemicum," etc., were first printed at Basil in
1560, and again in 1571. Both are present. There
are also Morienus' " De Transfigurations Metallorum,"
first edition, Paris, 1559, very rare, and a very fine copy
in vellum, with the arms of Thuanus ; Roger Bacon,
"Thesaurus Chymicus," both editions, Franckfurt,
1603, 1620, and the extremely rare English translation,
" The Mirror of Alchemy," Lond. 1597, and the equally
rare French translation, Lyons, 1557. Of Eaymund
Lully, who was considered an adept, and about whom
so many stories are told, there are " De Secretis
14
210 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Naturae," Venice, 1542; Niirnberg, 1546; Cologne,
1567; " Codicillus," Cologne, 1563, 1572; "Liber
Mercuriorurn," Cologne, 1567; " Testamentum,"
Cologne, 1566; " Libelli," Basil, 1600, and some
others.
Petrus Ferrariensis, or Petrus Bonus, was a con-
temporary of Lully. He followed the views of Geber,
and defended the art from those who attacked it even
then. His chief work is entitled " Margarita Pre-
ciosa," and it was first edited by Janus Lacinius, arid
printed by Aldus at Venice in 1546. Editions fol-
lowed in other places in 1554, 1572, 1602, 1608, and a
German translation in 1714. All these are in the
collection.
George llipley, canon of Bridlington, about 1480,
wrote an English poem entitled the " Compound of
Alchemy." The first edition was printed at London in
1591, and is very rare. It was reprinted by Ashmole.
Both are present. Philip Ulstad wrote " Ccelum
Philosophorum " ; in the collection there are two folio
editions, Strasburg, 1535, and one exactly similar with-
out place and date, and there is the German transla-
tion, Frankfurt, 1551, folio, the late reprint of 1739,
and other Latin editions, Lyons, 1557, and Paris, 1544.
Of the poem on goldmaking by Augurellus, who lived
at the beginning of the sixteenth century and dedicated
it to Pope Leo X., there are some interesting editions :
Venice, 1515 ; French prose translation, 1548 ; French
verse, 1549, and others. By Pantheus, " Ars Trans-
niutatoria," Venice, 1519, and "Voarchadumia/' Venice,
1530 (the first editions), and others. By Joannes Picus
Mirandulanus, "De Auro," 1586, first edition, "Liber
omnium rarissimus," says Vogt, and valuable as contain-
ing one of the earliest allusions to the Greek alchemists.
Jacques Gohory, a follower of Paracelsus, edited the
" Livre de la Fontaine Perilleuse," with notes ; Paris,
1572, a very rare poetical tract.
Of Paracelsus himself there are between forty and
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 211
fifty different works and editions, both separate and in
collections, besides biographies and dissertations illus-
trating them. Paracelsus is a special feature of the
library. Some of the works have been already described
in " Bibliographia Paracelsica" by Professor Ferguson,
which is to be further supplemented.
Other notable alchemical writers are Basil Valentine,
Thurneysser, Ventura, Gratarolo, Nazari, Blaise de
Vigenere, Gasto Claveus, Penotus, and Dorn (the
commentator of Paracelsus), whose works are largely re-
presented. There is also the rare work of Dr. Dee,
" Monas Hieroglyphica," 1584, and the "De Causis
Metallorum," Francof., 1593, by Dr. Thomas Morison,
.already cited.
In the seventeenth century the literature of the
science separates into two, the alchemical and the
chemical, pharmaceutical or medical. To the former
division belongs Heinrich Khunrath, author of a number
of extravagantly obscure works of a cabbalistical char-
acter. The " Amphitheatrum Sapientiae ^Eternae" is
the chief. Michael Maier, the Rosicrucian, wrote a
great many works, reckoned by Vogt and other biblio-
graphers among the rarities of literature ; there are
some twenty-three or twenty-four of them in the col-
lection, including '' A.talanta Fugiens," " Lusus Serius,"
with the extremely rare English translation, "Jocus
Severus," " Civitas Corporis Humani," " De Volucri
Arborea," " Septimana Philosophia," etc. There are
the works of d'Espagnet, Castaigne, L'Agneau, Pal-
inarius, Hoghelande, usually in several editions.
There are Fludd's works, collected in six volumes,
folio, the presentation copy to Dr. Wm. Harvey, and,
besides, the "Mosaics! Philosophy" in English; the
-defence of the Kosi crucians, "Tractatus Apologeticus,'
Lugd. Batav., 1617; and the "Tractatus Theologo-
Philosophicus," of which Kloss says they belong to the
Greatest of literarv rarities. .
_? v
Of Sendivogius, Conring, Van Helmont, Eugenius
212 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Philalethes (Thomas Vaughan), Eirenaeus Philalethes r
George Starkey, etc., there are ample collections.
Ashmole's three works are present " Theatrum
Chemicum Britannicum," one of the finest copies
known, with the plates and two tables of errata ;
" The Way to Bliss," large and thick paper copy ;.
"Fasciculus Chemicus," with Motherwell's auto-
graph. There are the original editions of the three
historical works of Olaus Borrichius already referred
to : " Herrnetis . . . Sapientia . . . Vindicata," Hafniae,
1674 (Dr. Joseph Black's copy) ; "De Ortu et Progressu
Chemiae," 1688; and "Conspectus Scriptorum Chemi-
corum," 1697. Only Manget's reprints are known to
most writers. There are Kerkring's Commentary on
Basil Valentine's " Chariot of Antimony," 1671, 1685;
Johnson's " Lexicon Chemicum," first edition, London,
1652, and second edition, 1660; Salmon's Translations
of Geber, Bacon, and others, London, 1692. At the
beginning of last century stands the great collection by
Manget of 133 alchemical works in 2 volumes, folio,
Geneva, 1702. They are reprints of tracts which had
become rare, but a good number of them are in this
library in the original form.
The alchemical books of the eighteenth century
cease to be of much interest either from a historical or
bibliographical point of view. The literature became
debased, but though there is a great deal of it, it is not
suitable for description under the present circumstances.
The latter division of the literature from the sixteenth
century really deals with practical chemistry and with
the beginning of scientific chemistry.
Among the very first of the modern chemists is
Andreas Libau, or Libavius, who was a practical
worker and voluminous writer. His collected works
and several of his separate treatises are in the
library. The French chemists of the seventeenth cen-
tury are very well represented: Beguinus, Davisson,
Lefebvre, Glaser, Thibaut, Lemery, carry the science
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. ' 213
over a period of nearly 120 years. They all wrote
students' manuals, which were extremely successful
and passed through many editions. There is a very
good representation of them.
Contemporary chemists notable in the history of the
science, of whose works there are complete or nearly
complete collections, are Angelo Sala, Glauber (20 t6
30 works), Boyle, Barchusen, Kunckel, Becher (19 or
20 works), Stahl (10 works), later in the eighteenth
century Boerhaave, " Elementa Ohemiae," Paris, 1727,
.and the English translations ; Stephen Hales, J oseph
Black, Priestley, Richter, Marggraf, Klaproth, Le Sage,
Bergman, Scheele, Crell, Watson, Lavoisier, Chaptal,
Dalton, Davy and Berzelius. Berzelius may be looked
upon as concluding the historical period, for after him
the purely modern science begins, and with its litera-
ture we need hardly trouble. It is of vast extent, but
presents as yet no interest from the bibliographer's
point of view. But even here rarity is not unknown.
Not every modern chemist has seen the first editions
of Fresenius in English, 1843 and 1846; of Graham's
Inaugural Dissertation, 1830; of Odling's Manual,
1861; of Conington's Analysis, 1858; of George
Wilson's Chemistry, or even of Frankland's Lecture
Notes, 1866, and Roscoe's Elementary Lessons, 1866.
When the literature of special subjects is taken, there
are found to be some rare and curious books. There is
a small collection of the earliest writings about phos-
phorus, by Licetus, Balduinus, Cohausen, etc.; another
about the assaying of metals and early chemical
analysis; a third about distillation, including the treatise
of Hieronymus Brunschwig, Basil, 1531 : and the very
rare English translation printed by Lawrence Andrewe
at London in 1527, in small folio ; Hieronymus Rubeus,
"" De Distillatione," Ravenna, 1582, fine copy in vellum
with Thuanus' arms, and the fourth edition, Venice,?
1604; the works on distillation byGesner, "De Remediis ;
Secretis," 1552 (the oldest known), 1554, and others in
214 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Latin, and the English black-letter editions, London,.
1565, 1576, and 1599; Baptista Porta, " de Distilla-
tionibus," Strasb. 1609 ; John French, "Treatise on Dis-
tillation," London, 1651, 1653, 1667, etc.; there is a
fourth collection of early works on minerals and metals:
Orpheus, "De Lapidibus," Utrecht, 1689; Theophrastus,
"DeLapidibus,"Lond.l746: Camillus Leonardus, "Spe-
culum Lapidum," Venice, Sessa, 1502, 1516; Paris,
1610; Hamburg, 1717; in English, London, 1750;
" Lapidarium," Vienna, about 1519; Marbodeus, " De
Lapidibus Pretiosis Enchiridion," in his collected works,
Rennes, 1524, and separately, no place, 1531 ; Evax T
"de Gemrnis," 1585; Guidius, "de Gemmis," 1625;
Nicols, "A Lapidary," Cambridge, 1652, and others.
On Mines, Metallurgy, and Ore Analysis, the works
of Agricola (Latin, Basil, 1561 and 1657; Italian,
Basil, 1563); Entzel or Encelius, 1551, 1557; Lazarus
Ercker, 1598, 1672; Caesalpinus, Rome, 1596; Nurn-
berg, 1602; Webster, 1671; Alonzo Barba, the rare
English translation by the Earl of Sandwich, London,
1674; Sir John Pettus, "Fleta Minor," Lond., 1686, folio,
and " Fodinae Regales," Lond., 1670, small folio, and
others.
There is an unusual collection of works on the Rosi-
crucians, which includes the early German tracts : the
" Hermetische Hochzeit," " Fama Fraternitatis,"
" Allgemeine Reformation der ganzen Welt," Maier't-v
" Themis Aurea," " Silentium post Clamores," Flu eld's
treatises already mentioned, the translations into
English of the " Themis Aurea," 1656 ; the " Hermetic
Wedding," 1690 ; and the " Fama Fraternitatis," 1652;
some of the curious works of John Heydon; the "In-
struction" of Gabriel Naude, Paris, 1623 ; all of them
among the scarcest of books. There is the satire on the
Rosicrucians, " Le Comte de Gabalis," Paris, 1670,
first edition ; Amsterdam, 1671 ; English, London,
1714; French, 1742.
There is a series of alchemical and chemical die-
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 215
tionaries, from the earliest one in Greek down to the
last modern dictionary. This series is by no means
complete, but it contains most of the older lexicons
and a good representation of those which appeared in
succeeding centuries.
Professor Ferguson has not laid himself out for the
collection of works on Demonology, Witchcraft, Magic,
Mysticism, Cabbala, etc., as he has done for the history
of Chemistry, but has just taken some of the choice
things which have come in his way. The subject is a
very extensive one, the literature is very difficult to
get, and it would take a collector's whole attention to
compass it thoroughly. Under Mysticism and Cabbala,
we would notice " Cabbala Denudata ;" a very rare
volumeof "Theosophical Transactions," 1697,which came
out in numbers ; many of the works of Paracelsus and
Van Helmont ; and a splendid set of Cardan's works ;
Hendrik Harphius "Theologia Mistica," 1601; Valentin
Andrea, " Mythologia Christiana," and other tracts, in-
cluding the "Turris Babel, "an excessively rare collection,
printed by Zetzner, Strasburg, 1619 ; Campanella, " De
Sensu rerum et Magia," 1620 ; Hermes Trismegistus,
"Pirnander," the first edition, 1471, noticed among the
fifteenth century books, and translated into English
by Dr. Everard, 1650, second edition, 1657, both rare,
both present. There are a few works on Astrology, the
most curious being the " Angelical Guide " of Dr. John
Case, with the author's portrait. Of works on Chiro-
mancy, Talismans, Sybils, there are a few. We may
quote the titles of the more striking books on Witch-
craft, Demonology, Apparitions, and such like subjects.
It is unnecessary to say that they are all very scarce,
and some of them are hardly to be got at all :
' Speculum Peregrinarurn," no place arid date, treats of
angels and demons, etc. ; " Malleus Maleficarum," by
Institor, Nlirnberg, Koburger, 1494 (see fifteenth cen-
tury books) ; " Flagellum Maleficorum," no place and
date, black letter ; Molitor, " De Laniis et Phitonicis
216 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Mulieribus," various editions of the fifteenth century ; P.
Grillandus, 1545 ; R. Scot, " Discovery of Witchcraft,"
1584 ; Le Loyer, "Des Spectres," 1586 ; Wierus, "De
Prsestigiis Deemonum," 1568 ; King James VI.,
" Demonologie," Edinburgh, 1597, London, 1603;
James Mason, "Anotomie (sic) of Sorcerie," 1612; Delrio,
" Disquisitiones," 1603; Perkins, "Witchcraft," 1609,
4to, 1610, 12mo; Julius Obsequens and P. Vergil, "De
Prodigiis," Lyons, 1589; " Charmes . . . de Sorcellerie
de Henri de Valois," 1589; Cornelius Agrippa, "La
Philosophic Occulte," 1727, large paper, crimson
morocco, by Derome,in his best style; Boguet, "Discours
des Sorciers," 1610; Naude, " Apologie Pour les Grands
Hommes faussement soupyonnes de Magi e," Paris, 1625,
first edition, English translation, London, 1657, Amster-
dam, 1712; Dufresnoy, " Traite sur les Apparitions,"
1751; Dufresnoy, "Recueil de Dissertations sur les
Apparitions," 1752; Calmet "sur les Apparitions,"
1746 ; Agrippa, " Vanity of the Arts," London, 1575,
black letter; John Aubrey, "Miscellanies," 1696, first
edition; Glanville, " Sadduceeism," 1668; Glanville,
" On Witchcraft," 1700 ; Meric Casaubon, " A Treatise
on Spirits and Witches," 1672 ; Dr. Dee, " On Spirits,"
1659; Beaumont, "Treatise of Spirits," 1705 ; Brom-
hall, "Treatise of Spectres," 1658; Webster, "Dis-
playing of Witchcraft," 1677 ; WagstafFe, "Witchcraft
Debated," 1671, and "Witchcraft Vindicated," 1679;
Baxter, "Certainty of the World of Spirits," 1691 ;
"Dr. Lamb Revived," 1653 ; Matthew Hopkins, "Dis-
covery of Witches," 1647; "Advertisement Instruc-
tions to the Jurymen of England touching Witches,"
1653; "Witches of Essex," 1645; "Confession of
Louis Gaufridy," 1612, black letter; "Pandemonium,"
1684; "Narrative of the Sufferings of a Girl," Edin-
burgh, 1698 ; Tracts on the Case of Jane Wenham,
1712; Roe, "On Apparitions," 1698; "History of
Monsieur Oufle," Amsterdam, 1710, London, 1711. The
library also contains a collection of tracts and academic
PROF. FERGUSON'S LIBRARY. 217
dissertations on magic, witchcraft, vampires, and related
subjects, amounting in all to upwards of ninety separate
numbers, and there is the work by Horst, "Zauber-
Bibliothek," in six volumes. Among the modern his-
tories is a copy of Eusebe Salverte's " Essai sur la
Magie," first edition, privately printed, and the third
edition of 1856.
As a supplement to the preceding is the collection of
works on early physics and natural history, books of
secrets, and other curious literature, including English
works in black letter of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, several being now of great rarity. The
majority of these, together with a number of other
books of the same kind, have been described by Pro-
fessor Ferguson in a series of papers communicated
recently to the " Archaeological Society of Glasgow."
There are a number of bibliographical works of
reference which simply represent the owner's needs and
not bibliography as a whole. Hain's " Repertorium
Bibliographicum," Sinker's " Fifteenth Century Books
in Trinity College, Cambridge ;" Beughem's " Incuna-
bula," 1688; Petzholdt's " Bibliotheca Bibliographica,"
Vogt's " Catalogus Librorum Rariorurn," Freytag's
" Analecta Litteraria de Libris Rarioribus," and his
" Aparatus Litterarius," Peignot's "Repertoire Biblio-
graphique," 1812 (a large and thick paper copy);
Peignot's "Dictionnaire des Livres Condamnes au Feu,"
1806; Drujon's "Catalogue des Ouvrages Poursuivis,"
Kloss's " Bibliographic der Friemaurerei," Grasse's
" Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica," Dufresnoy's
Bibliography of Apparitions, Ladrague's Bibliography
of the Occult Sciences (Ouvaroff Collection), Moscow,
1870 ; Arpe's "Theatrum Fati, siveNotitia Scriptorum
de Providentia, Fortuna et Fato," Rotterdam, 1712 ;
Dibdin's " Tours," " Decameron," etc. ; Naude's " Advis
pour dresser une Bibliotheque," 1627, and the transla-
tion by Evelyn, London, 1661 ; the works of Lowndes,
Teissier, Van der Linden, Ritson, Watt, Allibone,
218 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Poggendorff, and the catalogues of several noted lib-
raries form a list of some of the chief works in this
section.
Classical writers are fairly represented. We can
only spare space for those in early or fine editions.
Of Aeschylus, there is the editio princeps, Aldus ,1518 r
and that printed by Stephanus in 1557 ; Anacreon, a
London edition of 1742, and Bodoni's beautiful edition,
1784 ; Aratus, Morel's Paris edition, 1559 ; Plantin's
edition of Aristaenetus, 1566 ; Froben's edition of
the Hymns of Calliinachus, 1532 ; the editio princeps
of the Tragedies of Euripides, Aldus, 1503 ; the
Odyssey, Aldus, 1504, and the Iliad, Aldus, 1524 ;
Morel's edition of Nicander, 1557. Of the works
ascribed to Orpheus, there is the fine Basil edition of
1523 (William Motherwell's copy), Heber's copy of
Pindar, London, 1755, and a Frankfurt edition of 1542 ;
the editio princeps of Sophocles, Aldus, 1502 ; the fine
Foulis editions of Sophocles, 1745, and Tyrtaeus, 1759.
Professor Ferguson has a number of books which be-
longed to Hadrian Beverland, all of them with manu-
script notes by him, and several of them presentation
copies either to or from that notable scholar. Among
these are editions of Catullus, Celsus, Juvenal, and
Martial. Of Aulus Gellius, there is an Amsterdam
edition, 1666 ; Juvenal and Persius, Aldus, 1501 ;
Wedderburn's Persius, Elzevier, 1664, and a Parisian
edition, 1644. Of Tacitus, the Elzevier edition, 1621.
Besides these there are working copies of Aristophanes,.
Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Cicero, Seneca, Horace,
Virgil, and others. There are also translations into
English and French, and commentaries, lexicons, and
explanatory works relating to classical literature.
The library also contains many general works of
reference which it is unnecessaiy to particularize.
The biographical, historical, philosophical, philological,
and other sections which might have been treated of
in detail have been omitted to make room for the more
M.R. GRAY'S LIBRARY. 21 J>
curious collections on alchemy and allied subjects.
This library is of quite exceptional character, and one
which it is difficult to deal with adequately. Few are
.sufficiently familiar with the subject of which the largest
portion in it is so notable a feature as to be perfectl} 7 at
ease in its treatment. But feeling that it would have
been a misfortune if so remarkable a library had gone
unmentioned, these pages have been written, and
although the collection truly yet remains undescribed,
*ome of its more prominent features have been roughly
outlined.
CHAPTER XIV.
LIBRARY OF GEORGE GRAY, ESQ., CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR
LANARKSHIRE AT GLASGOW, AND TOWN CLERK OF THE
BURGH OF RUTHERGLEN.
Blairtum Park The Library A Rare Catechism
Witchcraft Poetry and the Drama Scottish Poetrij
The Production of Home's "Douglas" on the Edin-
burgh Stage First, Second, and Third Editions of
the Works of Burns Splendid Collections of Scottish
Family History and Scottish Topography Other
Works on Scotland Proclamations, Dying Speeches,
etc. Controversy regarding the Election of Professor
Leslie to the Mathematical Chair in the University of
Edinburgh Chap-books Works relating to Glasgow
Fleming v. the Magistrates of Glasgow Boyd's
''Last Battell of the Soule in Death" Large Collec-
tion of Trials Burke and Hare, Dr. Pritchard
Collection of Indictments, Informations, etc. Fine
Art Conclusion.
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MR. GRAY lives at Blairtum Park, about a mile and
a half to the south of the ancient royal burgh of
220 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Rutherglen, of which he is the Town Clerk. The
house is picturesquely set upon a hill, and commands
a, magnificent view of the country round about. To
the west and north-west lie the great capital of the
West, and its suburbs of Crosshill, Pollokshields,
Strathbungo, Shawlands, and Pollokshaws, a vast sea
of housetops; to the north, Rutherglen, with its wide
Main Street and imposing Municipal Buildings ; to the
ast, the rising and populous village of Canibuslang,
and a long stretch of the valley of the Clyde ; and to
the south, the Cathkin Hills, extending from the Hill
of Dechmont westwards to Cathcart. Capping the
summit of the height, almost directly opposite, is the
dozen or so of handsome residences which form the
modern suburb of Burnside, their cold grey aspect
forming a striking contrast to the bright green of the
richly-wooded hollow.
Blairtum was built by Mr. Gray in 1878 on the
lands of High Crosshill, and is in the Scottish baronial
style of architecture. The library is situated in the
square tower facing the south, and is a handsome, well-
appointed room, but has grown too small for Mr. Gray's
requirements. Its capacity has been strained to the
utmost, almost every expedient known to librarians
suffering from a want of shelf space having been
resorted to, and supplementary bookcases erected in
adjoining rooms to receive the overflow. The number
of volumes may be set down at over five thousand.
Reckoning by separate publications, the total would
be much larger, as, for example, some of the volumes
of chap-books contain as many as eighty different
tractates, each published separately. The collection
is richest in Scottish literature, although other de-
partments of learning are well represented. For many
years Mr. Gray has specially sought for works relating
to Scotland, its history, its families and clans, its towns
and counties, its famous trials and notable natives.
Nearly five hundred topographical and historical works,
MR. GHATS LIBRARY. 221
over one hundred family histories, several hundreds
of articles pertaining to somewhat more than a hun-
dred and fifty trials, a large collection of criminal in-
dictments, informations, and similar documents, many
pamphlets relating to the rebellions of 1715 and 1745,
about fifteen hundred chap-books, and other works,
testify to the success with which he has pursued his
favourite subject.
To proceed to details. A book of much rarity is
" The Assembly's Shorter Catechism in Metre," by
Mr. Robert Smith, schoolmaster at Glammis, printed
at Edinburgh, 1727. A second edition was issued in
1729, and some years ago the work was reprinted by
an Edinburgh antiquarian bookseller from this 1729
edition, which he described as the first. Other early
catechisms in the library are several printed in Glas-
gow% one in 1774, and one printed in Paisley, with a fine
impression of the Paisley arms on the title-page. A
copy of Dunlop's " Collection of Confessions of Faith,
Catechisms, Directories, Books of Discipline, etc.,"
Edinburgh, 1719-22, 2 volumes, as also a large paper
copy of the beautiful Bible issued at Edinburgh by
His Majesty's printers for Scotland, Sir D. Hunter
Blair and J. Bruce, in 1811, and known as the "Im-
maculate Bible " from its typographical excellence and
freedom from inaccuracies, deserve mention. The latter
is now rare.
Mr. Gray has many works on witchcraft, among
which are tl Sadducismus Debellatus : or, a True Nar-
rative of the Sorceries and Witchcrafts exercis'd by
the Devil and his Instruments upon Mrs. Christian
Shaw," London, 1698 ; and Kirk's "Secret Common-
wealth : or, An Essay on the Invisible People going
under the name of Elves, Faunes, and Fairies," 1815.
The first edition is said to have been issued in 1691,
but not a copy is known, and the reprint is scarce, as
only 100 copies were printed.
Poetry and the Drama are present in the form of
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good editions of the works of Ben Jonson, Beaumont
.and Fletcher, Buckingham, Congreve, Gibber, Farquhar,
Ford, Garrick, Greene, Marlowe, Marston, Massinger,
Peele, Howe, the Shad wells, Sheridan, Southerne, Web-
ster, Lillo, Foote, Otway, Lee, Shirley, Dekker, Brome,
Mrs. Centlivre, Suckling, Randolph, Glapthorne,
Hey wood, D'Urfey, Chapman, Wycherley, Steele,
Aaron Hill, etc., besides many collections. Shake-
speare is represented, inter alia, by Mr. Payne Collier's
edition, 8 volumes, " with the purest text and the
briefest notes." Fifty-five copies were printed for sub-
scribers, over twenty of whom resided in Glasgow and
neighbourhood. First editions of several of Shelley's
works, Rogers's Poems and " Italy," nearly all Joseph
Ritson's works, and an almost complete set of the
remarkable works issued under the editorship of W.
B. D. D. Turnbull are in the collection. Of these
latter, we may mention the very rare and interesting
"Legende Catholica; a Lytle Boke of Seyntlie Gestes,"
Edin., 1840, 40 copies printed; " Owain Miles, and
other inedited Fragments of Ancient English Poetry,"
illuminated title-page, Edin., 1837, 32 copies printed;
"Vision of Tundale," Edin., 1843, 105 copies printed;
" Fragmenta Scoto-Monasticon," Edin., 1842, 70 copies
printed.
In the domain of Scottish Poetry there is a plethora
of riches. Most important are Sir William Alex-
ander, Earl of Stirling's Tragedie of Darius, 1604;
Aurora, 1604 (the only edition) ; a Paraenesis to the
Prince, J604 (never reprinted) ; The Monarchicke
Tragedies, 1607 ; The Alexandraean, 1616; Barbour's
Bruce, Edinburgh, 1670, black-letter; another copy,
Glasgow, 1737 ; another copy, black-letter, 1758 (the
real date of this is supposed to be 1716); Blind
Harry's Sir William Wallace, Edinburgh, 1705 and
1758 (this is uniform with the Bruce of the same date,
and is supposed to be similarly misdated), Glasgow,
1736 and 1747 ; Sir David Lyndsay's works, Glas.,
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1683, black-letter, and other editions; Wyntoun's
Chronicle of Scotland, edited by Macpherson, 2
volumes, large paper, 1795 (275 copies printed, 25
on large paper) ; Leyden's edition of the Complaynt
of Scotland, large paper copy; Curious Poems written
at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning
of the eighteenth century, by Mr. James Macalpie,
Sheriff- Substitute of Renfrewshire, 1694, and edited
by William Motherwell, Paisley, 1828 (only 30 copies
printed); Dougal Graham's Poetical History of the
Rebellion, third, 1774, fifth, 1787, eighth, 1808, ninth,
1812, and subsequent editions; the first edition of
Herd's Collection of Ancient and Modern Scottish
Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., the first edition of Fer-
guson's Poems, and the Poems of the intimate con-
temporaries of Burns, such as Lapraik, Sillar, Little,
etc.
The production of Home's play of " Douglas " on the
stage of the Edinburgh playhouse was the beginning of
a very fierce ecclesiastical war, in which the favourite
method of the time, pamphleteering, played a principal
part. Mr. Gray has many of these productions. Per-
haps the most virulent of them was " The Player's
Scourge ; or, a detection of the ranting prophanity and
regnant impiety of stage plays, and their wicked en-
couragers and frequenters ; and especially against the
nine prophane pagan priests, falsely called ministers of
the Gospel, who countenanced the thrice-cursed tragedy
called Douglas." The writer was a Cameronian minis-
ter in the Calton of Glasgow named Hugh Innes. He
stigmatizes the merry company of players as " Imps of
Satan and actors of his devices. . . . the most profligate
wretches, and the vilest vermin that hell ever vomited
out ; the filth and garbage of the earth, the scum and
stain of human nature," with other similar uncompli-
mentary metaphors, and proposes to mutilate them and
send them " back to their native lands of England and
Ireland whence," he fiercely adds, " most of our wicked-
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ness proceeds." After inveighing against the nobility
and gentry for their patronage of the theatre, his
passion reaches a height when he comes to the nine
prophane pagan priests, for whom he reserves vitupera-
tion of the strongest and coarsest kind. Home is de-
scribed as the ringleader in the black work, " remark-
able for his lightness, madness, impudence, prophanity,
impiety, swearing, Sabbath-breaking, contempt of his
superiors, neglecting and oft deserting his poor people,
and infecting them with the husks of error and pro-
phanity, which has made most of them as wicked as
himself .... dancing, gaming, drinking, wastery,
and that, like his master Satan, he may involve
others in the same misery with himself, he hath wrote
and caused to be acted and published his cursed play
called Douglas To excuse his wickedness, we
have been told that this apostate play-hunter makes
his boast that the Prince of Wales, the Dukes ol"
Cumberland and A e, and Mr. Pitt, etc., take him
by the hand ; but though this w T ere true, while others
deny it, he may rest assured that, though all the rakes,
great and small, in the three kingdoms were to take
him by the hand, and let him likewise take in the
assistance of the tyrant of France, the Tyger of Savoy,,
the witch of Endor, with her daughters the bloody
witches of Hungary and Lapland yet they will never
be able to screen him from the least drop of the
Mediator's vengeance, whose authority he hath con-
temned; but that woe pronounced against the man by
whom offence corneth will pursue him until his name
be made a curse and an execration upon the face of the
earth, for a beacon to all posterity, unless he speedily
fly to God for mercy." The other eight ministers who
witnessed the performance of " Douglas " are dealt with
individually in the same vigorous manner. In another
and later edition of this pamphlet, published in the
same year, Innes falls foul of the presbyteries who
acquitted Home and his friend Alex. Carlyle, and
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regrets that the printer will not do him the justice of
printing the full names of the persons mentioned in
the pamphlet.
" The Usefulness of the Edinburgh Theatre seriously
considered," 1757 (price twopence), is written in a
bantering tone, which must have proved highly divert-
ing to some of the onlookers of this remarkable con-
troversy. " An Argument to prove that the Tragedy of
Douglas ought to be publickly burnt by the hands of
the hangman " is a title which sufficiently indicates the
purport of the pamphlet which it heads. Many un-
sparing productions appeared on both sides, throwing
a curious light on the habits and customs of the people
of the Scottish capital a century ago, and marking
emphatically the low estimation in which "His
Majesty's Servants " and stage plays were held in the
northern part of His Majesty's dominions.
Of the works written or edited by James Maidment*
there are not fewer than fifty. Here also are nearly
all the publications of David Laing, John Pinkerton,
and Peter Buchan ; a perfect set of Brash and Reid's
original and selected poetry (in 4 volumes, each con-
taining 24 tracts); " The Lennox Garland," on vellum;
" Songs of the Holy Land," by Sir William Stirling-
Maxwell, Edin., 1846 (only forty copies printed) it
iras not published and the first, second, and third
editions of the poems of Burns.
The oft-repeated story of the life of Scotland's
national poet is familiar enough to excuse any but the
merest bibliographical statement here. Six hundred
and fourteen copies were printed of the first edition of
his poems, executed by John Wilson, Kilmarnock
(Chambers, v. 1, p. 349). The volume went to press
in the spring of 1786, and was issued in July. " Less
than a month after the volume was ready, 599 had
been disposed of, and there then remained on hand
only fifteen." Previous to its publication, the poet con-
templated emigration, but the fame which the volume
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226 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
brought induced him to stay and visit Edinburgh.
He states his share of the proceeds of the book to be
20. The enthusiasm of his Edinburgh admirers
took practical shape in a second edition issued for his
benefit. Creech, the celebrated Edinburgh publisher,
brought it out in 1787. In all, Burns is supposed to
have received about 500 from the sale of this edition.
In the same year the first London edition appeared.
Mr. Gray's copies of the three editions are in a fine
state, and are uniformly bound in full morocco, red, by
Riviere.
Scottish family history is strongly represented, as the
following list of names will show: Anderson's House of
Hamilton (large paper copy), The Braces and Comyns,
Hume's House of Douglas and Angus, Robertson's
Ayrshire Families, with supplement, The Breadal-
bane Succession, by Sinclair, also by Paterson, and
memoirs of the families of Drummond, Seyton, Ken-
nedy, Fleming, Lindsay, Somerville, Barclay of
Urie, Baird, Forbes, Stewart, Mure, Leslie, Forbes
of Granard, Argyle, Maclean, Monteith, Eglinton,
Middleton, Stanley, Stewart of Appin, Birnie, Edgar,
Knox, Christie, Robertson, Coutts, Rosslyn, T \veeddale,
Athole, Mackay, Crawfurd, Salmond, Dalmahoy,
Fraser, Montgomery, Row, Buchanan, Napier of
Kilmahew, Sutherland, Keith, Ednem and Dun-
treath, Thanes of Cawdor, Innes, Boyle, Shaw, Threip-
land, Haliburton, Spottiswoode, Smollett, Dennistoun,
Mackintosh and Clan Chattan, Oliphants of Gask,
Aiton, Burness, Rogers, Playfair, Haldane, Stirling,
Mar, Scott, Haig, Wishart, Macdonald, Alexander,
Strachan, Wise, Halkerston, Iver Clan, Campbell
Clan, Archer, Matheson, Mackinnon, Earldom of
Garioch, Shand, Harley, Bruce of Kinloss, Stewart,
Munro of Fowlis, and Fife.
Mr. Gray's group of books on the districts and
places of Scotland is so large as to have few rivals.
They number 388, and refer to 128 cities, towns, and
MR. GRAY'S LIBRARY. 227
-villages and 48 districts. Space will not permit giving
the names of these works, which is to be regretted, as
the most important catalogue of topographical books
issued in recent times Anderson's " Book of British
Topography," 1881 -does not mention many of them.
A list of the towns and districts may, however, be
given for the information of Scottish bibliographers
who have engaged in this very rich and interesting
field : -Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Aberdour, Airthrey,
Alloa, Arbroath, Ardrossan, Argyleshire, Arran, Ayr,
Ayrshire, Balmerino, Banff, Bass Bock, Beauly
Priory, Berwick, Biggar, Birse, Blair Athole, The
Border District, Braemar, Brechin, Bridge of Allan,
Broughton, Buchan, Bucklyvie, Busby, Buteshire,
Cairngorm Mountains, Caithness, Cambuskenneth,
Cambuslang, Cambusuethan, Cardross, Carluke, Car-
noustie, Castlecary, Cellardyke, Clydesdale, Coat-
bridge, Cockpen, Coldingham, Coldstrearn, Colinton,
Cornrie, Grail, Crieff, Cullen, Cunningham, Cupar,
Deer, Deeside, Dollar, Drumlanrig, Dryburgh Abbey,
Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire, Dumfries, Dumfries-
shire, Dunbar, Dunblane, Dundee, Dundrennan, Dun-
fermline, Dunkeld, Dunoon, Dysart, East Lothian,
Edinburgh, Edzell, Elgin, Falkirk, Ferryden, Fife-
shire, Fordoun, Forfarshire, Fowlis Easter, Galloway,
Glasgow, Gourock, Grampians, Greenock, Haddington,
Hawick, Helensburgh, Icolmkill, Inchcolui, Inchina-
home, Innerleithen, Inveresk, Inverness, Inverurie,
lona, Jedburgh, John o' Groats, Keith, Kelso, Kil-
rnalcolm, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Kinloss, Kinnord
Loch, Kintore, Kintyre, Kippen, Kirkcudbright, Kirk-
wall, Knapdale, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Laurencekirk,
Leith, Earldom of Lennox, Lesmahagow, Lews,
Liddesdale, Lindores Abbey, Linlithgow, Linlith-
gowshire, Lochmaben, Lochwinnoch, Madderty, Mary-
ton, Melrose, Milngavie, MofFat, Monteith, Montrose,
Moray, Musselburgh, Newburgh, Oban, Orkney,
Paisley, Partick, Peeblesshire, Perth, Perthshire,
228 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Peterhead; Pitcaithly, Pittenweein, Pluscardyn,.
Queensferry, Renfrewshire, Kothesay, Roxburgh-
shire, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, St. Kilda, St. Mon-
ance, Sanquhar, Scone, Shetland, Shotts, Skye,
Speyside, Spynie, Staffa, Stirling, Stirlingshire,
Strathearn, Strathmore, Sutherland, Tain, Tay, Teviot-
dale, Tillicoultry, Tranent, Troon, Tweeddale, Wemyss
Bay, Wigton, Wigtonshire. Many of these volumes
are of course small and hardly aspire to the dignity
and permanency of histories, but such as they are,
they are often the only printed accounts of the districts
to which ; they refer. On the other hand, the list
includes some very fine and important books, such as
for instance " Lacunar Strevelinense," a collection of
heads etched and engraved after the carved work
which formerly decorated the roof of the King's room
in Stirling Castle, 1817. The plates are fine. Books
on the whole of Scotland have not been counted among
these, nor have the Maidment collection of maps,
pictures, pamphlets, tractates, leaflets, cuttings and
scraps, relating to Perthshire and Stirlingshire, the
former in seven and the latter in four volumes folio.
These volumes contain the gatherings of an assiduous
antiquary during a long lifetime. Their contents are
hardly describable, they are so varied, and form a
perfect mine and inexhaustible delight not only to the
antiquary and the historian but to the lazy, purposeless
reader.
Mention requires to be made of the large collection
of books on Scottish Peerage, Baronetage, and
Heraldry, and the series of pamphlets, relating to
the Civil War in Scotland in 1715 and 1745 before
mentioned, and to the following Scottish works :
Anderson's " Diplomata Scotiae," 1739; Slezer's
" Views of Scotland," "Baronial Antiquities of Scot-
land," by Billings; Kay's "Edinburgh Portraits"
(first edition) ; Druminond's " Edinburgh in the Olden
Times " ; " Scottish Weapons, and Monuments of
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lona " ; Grose's " Antiquities of Scotland," with proof
plates ; the national manuscripts of Scotland (also
Ireland) ; many of the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbots-
ford and Spalding Club publications; the Burgh Record
Society's publications ; all Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's
works ; nearly all Sir John Graham Dalyell's works ;
Jamieson's Culdees ; the " North of England and
Scotland in 1704," Edin., 1818 (only 100 printed);
Murray's "Scenes in Scotland," Perth; "Critical
Account of the Inhabitants of Scotland," by Innes
(large paper copy) ; Pitcairn's " Funerals of Queen
Mary," (thick paper copy) ; " The Missal of Arbuth-
not"; "Three Nights in Perthshire," Glas., 1821 (large
paper) ; " Levern delineated by Charles Taylor," with
illustrations, 1831 ; Chainbers's " Edinburgh Fires,"
1824, and the " Black Dwarf," 1820 two very scarce
specimens of the early printing and publishing of the
brothers Chambers ; the brilliant and magnificent
work on Scottish tartans, " Vestiarium Scoticum."
There is another simitar and inferior work with which
this is sometimes confounded : A Glass wherein Nobles,
Priestes, etc., may see the Lord's Controversies against
Britaine, by Robert Ker, Feuer in Gilmerton, 1719 ;
Mr. Gray has also a number of the works issued from
the Bos well press at Auchinleck, a set of the Hun-
terian Society publications, several thousand proclama-
tions, executions, dying speeches, and miscellaneous
posters on all subjects, some of them referring to the
Covenanting times prohibiting conventicles an im-
portant series of prints. The catalogue of the Gray
Library at Kinfauns Castle, by D. Morison, jun., is
surely one of the finest catalogues ever produced. It
was printed by the compiler, a member of the well-
known Morison firm of Perth printers. Every page
is adorned with a beautiful border, and initial letters
done in colours, no two pages having the same design.
Only one side of the page has been used. The volume
is a small folio, and bears the date 1828. The instriu-
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ment of " Falsing of Dooms," Edin., 1826, is a very
rave tract; 10 copies were issued by James Hill.
A number of pamphlets on the case of Professor
Leslie recall a remarkable chapter in the ecclesiastical
records of Scotland. On the death of Professor
Robison in 1805, Professor Playfair, who then occu-
pied the mathematical chair in the University of
Edinburgh, was appointed to the vacant professorship
of Natural Philosophy. For the mathematical chair
there were many candidates. One of these was Dr.
Macknight, an Edinburgh minister, who had occasion-
all v assisted Professor Robison. He announced his
v
intention of retaining his parochial charge along with,
if successful, the office to which he aspired. In this
he was supported by a majority of the Presbytery of
Edinburgh, but opposed by Dugald Stewart, Professor
Playfair and others. Another candidate, and the suc-
cessful, one, was Dr. John Leslie, author of a work on
heat, who came highly recommended by some of the
most competent philosophers of the time. His remark-
able attainments commended him to the favour of the
Senatus, and his election would have caused no more
excitement than is usually occasioned by such proceed-
ings but that a charge of atheism, based on a note in
his treatise on heat, was made against him. This was
the beginning of a voluminous pamphlet war. Dugald
Stewart issued a lengthy vindication of his friend
Leslie, in the body of which was inserted a letter from
Professor Playfair to the Lord Provost strongly con-
demning the plurality of offices proposed by friends of
Dr. Macknight, and animadverting on the lack of
mathematical ability among the clergy of the Church
of Scotland. This brought out a reply from Rev. Dr.
Chalmers, then a young man, who in a pamphlet
published at Cupar made the remarkable statement,
" that after the satisfactory discharge of his parish
duties, a minister may enjoy five days a week of unin-
terrupted leisure for the prosecution of any science in
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which his taste may dispose him to engage." In this
way he proceeded to prove that a clergyman was even
better fitted for engaging in mathematical research than
a professor of mathematics, who would be exhausted
with his professional duties. Dr. Chalmers afterwards
much regretted this publication and did his best to
suppress it. Professor Leslie was appointed despite a
protest lodged by the Presbytery of Edinburgh. The
case was carried to the Assembly, where, after hearing
speakers on both sides for two days, on a preliminary
point, it was resolved by a majority not to consider
the case.
Of Chap-Books, Mr. Gray has as fine and as large a
collection as there is in this chap-collecting neighbour-
hood. On a rough estimate they number about 1,500.
1,200 of these are bound in volumes containing from
20 to 80 each. The rest are loose. The greater
portion of the original editions of Dougal Graham's
(the " Skellat Bellman " of Glasgow) are there, and
also the chaps issued by Peter Buchan at Peterhead,
and some early religious ones printed at Edinburgh.
Among the imprints are Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling,
Falkirk, Paisley, Airdrie, Greenock, Kilmarnock,
Aberdeen, Dunbar, Belfast, Newcastle, and London.
As a matter of course, the works relating to Glasgow
are very numerous, and some of them of great interest.
Mr. Gray possesses a series of documents relating to
the action instituted against the Corporation of Glasgow
by William Fleming, wright, relative to the removal
of his sawmill on the Molendinar Burn (1764 and
subsequent years). They consist of
(a) State of the Process.
(b) Pursuer's Proof, with the evidence of 46 witnesses.
(c) Defenders' Proof, with the evidence of 27 witnesses.
(d) Memorial for the Pursuer.
(e) Memorial for the Defenders.
(f) Petition for Pursuer.
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(y) Answers for Defenders.
(h) Plan of the Course of the Molendinar Burn.
(i) Elevation of North End of Arches, and Dam of
Sawmill.
The plan is of high local importance, as it is the first
we have of Glasgow. It includes the greater part of
the city, showing the College, High Street, Gallow-
gate, Saltmarket, Trongate, King Street, Candleriggs,
Princes Street, Goose Dubs, and the streets adjoining,
and shows the course of the burn from its entry within
the bounds of the city to where it emptied itself into
the Clyde. The evidence led in the course of the
case affords much valuable information regarding the
domestic history of the city. Seventy-three persons,
some of them leading citizens, testified, and necessarily
gave a good deal of autobiographical matter which is
now of exceeding great interest.
A copy of the rare 1629 two-volume edition of
Zachary Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule in Death "
is in the collection. This very valuable work is in several
of the libraries described in this volume, and is treated
of fully in the account of the library of Mr. Guild, who
possesses an extremely rare and interesting copy. Mr.
Gray's is clean and complete, and is beautifully bound
in blue morocco, by Riviere. The gallery of Raphael
called his Bible, being 52 prints after pictures by
Raphael, has a Glasgow interest. It is in an oblong
folio, issued in 1770, and was engraved in the Academy
of Arts at Glasgow, and printed by the famous Glas-
gow printers, Robert and Andrew Foulis. Fairbairn's
" Relics of Ancient Architecture in Glasgow " is a
beautiful volume, which increases in interest as year
by year the scenes so gracefully and faithfully depicted
are swept into the limbo of the things that were. It
is about to be re-issued. " Glasgow Illustrated," bv
/^ ' fc'
Scott, with descriptive text by Cullan, 1834, is a fine
series of views, and an uncommon book. Gibson's
MR. GRAY'S LIBRARY. 233
" History of Glasgow " has not yet been included in
the list of Glasgow rarities, although a copy possessing
the map which should accompany the history will
always command a good price. Mr. Gray's copy is
worth special mention, however, as being a thick paper
copy. The following tiny books are of high local in-
terest : Halli well's " Glasgow Merriments " (30 copies
printed), the List of Subscribers to the University,
and a number of the miniature books published by
Lumsden in the early part of this century, embellished
with cuts by Bewick. Macgeorge's " Armorial In-
signia of Glasgow," " Account of the Town's Hospital,"
1737, and " Hutchesoniana," are worth mentioning.
In addition to these Mr. Gray has a most extensive
and highly interesting series of pamphlets, broadsides,
handbills, and posters relating to Old Glasgow, and his
collection of early Glasgow printing is not inconsiderable.
His collection of trials is large and of great interest.
The trials of Burke and Hare and of Dr. Pritchard
and other Glasgow trials are illustrated most fully by
2k large number of documents of all kinds and sizes.
Song-sheets, rudely illustrated, that were hawked about
the street at the time, are here as clean as when they
were issued, legal documents, pamphlets, etc., forming
.a mass of important and varied information regarding
these notorious trials. The subjects of this collection
of trials take a wide range. They comprise murder,
high treason, sedition, forgery, robbery, fraud, haine-
sucken, assault, intimidation, rioting, housebreaking,
mutiny, unlawful oaths, piracy, abduction, fire-raising,
resetting, highway robbery, witchcraft, duelling, high
crimes, libel, and civil actions. They relate to the
whole of the United Kingdom, and include many of
the most notable cases tried in these islands. Of a
kindred nature is an extraordinary series of criminal
indictments, informations, and similar documents refer-
ring to a great number of cases from the year 1711
onwards. Nearly all of them relate to Scotland.
234 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
In Fine Art there are several notable books. Mr,.
Gray has almost complete sets of the beautiful works
of M. Lacroix, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, and John
Ruskin. The Ruskinian books include not only nearly
everything written by the great art critic, but also
some of the works referred to by him. Hogarth's
Works, atlas folio, London, 1822, containing 119 proof
plates, all on India paper, with biographical essay and
explanations by Nicholls, is a very valuable volume.
The same may be said of Alex. Deuchar's British
Crests, 2 volumes, 1817; David Deuchar's Etchings,
3 vols., 1803; and Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of
the English People, with coloured illustrations. Other
artistic books are Blake's works, Stirling-Maxwell's
works, Meyrick's Ancient Armour, Mrs. Jameson's
works, A Beckitt's comic histories, etc. Rare and
curious, and possessing a Glasgow interest, is the
Expert Swordsman's Companion, or, the true art of
self-defence, with an account of the author's life, etc.,
by Donald M'Bane, published at Glasgow in 1728. It
has some quaint cuts. Of books illustrated by Bewick,
Mr. Gray has the Quadrupeds, ^Esop's and Select
Fables, and Birds all first editions. Some of Dibdin's
bibliographical works are also in the library.
Enough has been written to show the prominent
features of Mr. Gray's library, but many a page might
be penned upon so fertile a text, and, indeed, nothing
short of an entire catalogue would be necessary to
adequately portray a collection where special subjects
have been so successfully cultivated.
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 235
CHAPTER XV.
LIBRARY OF JAMES WYLLIE GUILD, ESQ., PARK TERRACE,
GLASGOW.
Beauty of the Library Its Extent Books of Hours*--
Shakespeare Curious History of a Copy of the
Second Folio Shakespeariana Spenser's "Faerie
Queen " First Editions of Byron, Shelley, and Keats
A Book from the Queen's Library Songs and
Ballads Scottish Poetry, Biography, and History-
Extensive and valuable Collection of Works on Marie
Stuart Three Hundred and Fifteen Portraits of
the Queen of Scots Some of the Rare Works A
Volume which belonged to the Queen ; Songs on her
Marriage with the Dauphin Vindication of Eliza-
beth Glasgow Books Rare and highly -interesting
Copy of Boyd's " Last Baltell of the Soule, " printed
before the hitherto supposed First Edition Fine Art:
Ruskin, Bewick Bibliography Splendid Collection
of Autograph Letters.
A FEELING of dismay was our first sensation on enter-
ing Mr. Wyllie Guild's library. The sight was at once
delightful and embarrassing. So large, so varied, so
rich, and so beautiful, how was it possible to do justice
to it in a necessarily brief sketch and from a few visits \
To treat it adequately one would require to own it, or
live in it, and to have as large an interest in, and
possess as wide a knowledge of, the many subjects
which it specially illustrates, as the owner himself.
Two beautiful and spacious rooms leading from the
drawing-room contain the major portion of the col-
lection. They are fitted with elegant open bookcases of
236 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
oak, curiously carved and richly ornamented. In exquisite
carving on the doors beneath are scenes from sacred
history. The subjects of some of these are David's
Victory over Goliath, The Prodigal's Return, Thomas's
Incredulity, The Widow's Mite, Nathan reproving
David, Joseph Sold to the Ishmaelites, Boaz and
Ruth, Joseph Entertaining his Brethren, Pharoah and
his Host in the Red Sea, Elijah taken up into Heaven.
Two of the panels contain very clever representations
o Comedy and Tragedy. The most valuable, however,
Are three in the inner room of sixteenth century
French work, depicting the Adoration of the Magi,
the Ascension, and the Angel appearing unto Mary,
They are very fine examples of wood carving. The
panels were procured from many places and at various
times. Of varying dimensions, they have been skilfully
set in their present places. The rooms are adorned
with many beautiful things - - portraits, miniatures,
medals, ivory carvings, enamels, and interesting and
curious historical nick-nacks.
Mr. Guild's enthusiasm for everything relating to
Marie Stuart is well known, and his unrivalled col-
lection of Stuart literature will be spoken of in its
proper place. Meanwhile we may note a beautiful
wrought ivory helmet and horn which belonged to
Marie's first husband, the Dauphin of France ; a silver
commemorative medal, struck in Paris on the occasion
of the marriage of the Dauphin and Marie in 1558,
and a bottle, which was presented to her, of old French
glasswork, bearing the Scottish thistle and her mono-
gram and portrait.
These two rooms contain about two score of presses,
and comprise about two-thirds of the entire library.
Downstairs is a room which Mr. Guild terms his work-
shop. There are his Shakespeares, his grandest folios,
and his collection of autographs. Altogether, there
will not be fewer than 12,000 volumes in the library.
Mr. Guild has the good, or some may think it bad,
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 237
fortune to be afflicted with nearly every one of the
ordinary varieties of bibliomania, and has even the
honour of being the creator of some fresh forms of the
o
malady. He has not one hobby, but many, and he has
striven to excel in each of them.
In the press devoted to sacred literature are two
beautiful Books of Hours. The earlier of the two,
entitled " Les Heures a L' Usage de Tournay, avec
le Calendrier et 1'Almanach," is printed on vellum, and
is ascribed to the printing-press of the Parisian typo-
grapher Simon Vostre, with the date of 1502. It has
nineteen remarkably fine full-page woodcuts, represent-
ing scenes in the life of our Saviour, the Last Judgment,
and other sacred events ; and beautiful wood-cut
borders round every page, containing as many as 650
scenes of a sacred, pastoral, and hunting nature. The
volume is further decorated with several hundred
small capital letters, illuminated in gold and colours.
A note by a former owner, a member of the Society of
Antiquaries, contains the suggestion that the book is
a manuscript used to print from for ecclesiastical publi-
cations at Paris, some few printed ones, evidently
copies, being in the writer's possession. The other
volume is also beautifully illuminated ; its date is
1518.
In juxtaposition to these fine volumes is a manu-
script on vellum, entitled "Gebert Buch," with title-
page and initial letters, illuminated in colour. It is
supposed to belong to the year 1460, about ten years
after the invention of printing. Three Bibles stand
by the " Immaculate," printed by Sir D. Hunter
Blair & J. Bruce, Edin., 1811; Fittler's Illustrated
Bible, 1798 ; and one printed at Basle, 1505, by
Rapegolis. Two copies of the Confession of Faith,
Glasgow, 1755, 1756, have some local interest ; and the
imprint is also the most interesting thing to biblio-
graphers about Dickson's Short Explanation of the
Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews, which was printed at
238 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Aberdeen by Edward Raban, the first Aberdeen
printer, in 1635. Side by side with Spiritual Songs,
or Holy Poems, Edinburgh, 1685; The Religious
Stoic by Sir George Mackenzie, Edinburgh, 1665, are
The Psalrns in Prose and Meeter, with Godly
Prayers, and Kalendar, Edin., 1635, known as Knox's
Liturgy, or Knox's Psalter (Laing's copy brought 15
15s.) ; and Buchanan's Paraphrasis Psalmorum Davidis
Poetica, 1572, profusely ornamented. Mr. Guild has
a number of editions of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a
copy of the Bible illustrated by Dore, published at
Tours in 1866.
In Poetry the collection is rich indeed. It contains
48 editions of Shakespeare's works. First comes the
second folio, London, 1632. Mr. Guild has two copies.
The better of the two is a perfect copy, bound in old
crimson morocco, extra, with the autograph of Janet,
Countess of Kincardine. It was purchased for Mr.
Guild at the Williamson sale, Glasgow, 1865. The
other copy is imperfect, but is gradually being com-
pleted. It has a curious history. On the first
blank page is the following note by Clara Reeve, the
novelist, who was born at Ipswich in 1738, and died in
1803 : " This book has been in the Reeve family about
one hundred years. My grandfather, the Rev. Thomas
Reeve, of Ipswich, set a very high value upon it. My
father, the Rev. William Reeve, was a great admirer
of Shakespeare, but preferred the modern editions.
The book remained in the hands of his sister, where it
suffered by being lent about to those who abused it. ...
In the year 1773, my aunt, Maria Reeve, gave it me,
and I hope it will never go out of the family. Clara
Reeve, 1773."
Alas ! alas ! How futile are the strongest wishes
when measured against time. The volume came into
the possession of a nephew of Miss Reeve's who lived
near Both well. He was accidentally killed on the rail-
way, and his effects being sold, the precious volume
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 239
was bought by a Bothwell shopkeeper, who re-sold it
to Mr. Guild for 2s. 6d. A copy of the fourth folio, 1685,
which belonged- to Horatio Macculloch, is also here.
Mr. Guild has also Mr. J. 0. Halliwell's great edition
in 16 volumes, folio ; Paterson's sumptuous edition, with
the plates in three states ; Virtue's illustrated edition,
.a reprint of the first folio in 1807, and the facsimile
issued in 1866. His copy of the handsome edition in.
10 volumes, folio, edited by Steevens, has many addi-
tional plates inserted referring to plays and characters
of the time, and contains the portrait of Jane Shore by
Bartolozzi so often missing. He has also another
edition edited by Steevens, in one enormous but noble
volume, printed by Buhner in 1791. It is not
mentioned in Lowndes' Bib. Man. Of Shakespeariana,
Mr. Guild has fully 1,000 volumes and pamphlets.
He has all the publications of the Shakespeare So-
cieties, all Mr. J, Payne Collier's reprints, and also the
whole of Mr. J. 0. Halliwell's publications.
Spenser is present in the very rare first edition of
the Faerie Queen. The collection also contains a good
copy of Spenser's works which belonged to Charles
Kirkpatrick Sharpe. Good editions of the standard
dramatists, and a large number of the well-nigh in-
numerable collections of songs and ballads are pro-
minent features of the library. The most important
of a number of editions of Butler's " Hudibras " in
the division is that edited by Dr. Nash, and illus-
trated by Hogarth, 3 volumes, quarto. It appeared
recently in a catalogue at 13 13s. The first edition
of Pope's Essay on Man, London, 1733, is worth
mentioning, as is also a fine copy of " The Anti-
Jacobin," 1794. A noble edition is in the library of
Thomson's " Seasons," with illustrations by Bartolozzi
from drawings by Sir William Hamilton, 1797.
Coming to modern poets, Mr. Guild is a strong ad-
mirer of the trio whose genius lighted up so brilliantly
the early decades of the present century. Of Lord
240 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Byron's works he has every first edition and many
subsequent ones, together with a large collection of
Byroniana. Shelley's works are here in the rare
first editions, and Keats's in the same scarce form.
One of the two copies of the first edition of " Queen
Mab " has been the subject of a criminal prosecution,
as appears by the testimony written across the pages
of several witnesses as to its ownership. This rare
volume, which is worth many pounds, was bought
by Mr. Guild some years ago at an Edinburgh book-
stall for eighteenpence. First editions of the works of
Wordsworth, Southey, Chatterton, Philip James
Bailey, and minor poets are numerous. There are
some early volumes of Lord Tennyson's, including the
Cambridge prize poem on Timbuctoo, the first pro-
duction to which he put his name. Among the folios
is " The Idylls of the King," illustrated by the great
French artist, Dore. A pretty volume bound in vel-
lum is the " Welcome to the Princess of Wales on her
Marriage," a collection of original contributions in prose
and verse, edited by Miss Emily Faithful. It is the
identical copy presented by the authoress to Her
Majesty the Queen, and bears an inscription to that
effect. Mr. Guild picked it up in a London bookstall
for half-a-crown. The Chiswick press, the Aldine
series of poets, and the transactions of the Percy
Society bring us to the end of a very large division,
which we have really done little more than walk past.
Of all the many objects which set men collecting
books, surely none are so sweetly solacing as that of
songs. It is but too common, we know, to speak of
the good old days to the disparagement of the days
that are with us ; and far be it from us to quarrel un-
justly with the times, but is it not a patent fact that
the very best and finest of our lyrics were written by
other generations than ours ? We are induced to thus
pause in our task as chronicler and lament, by a fine
array of those little volumes of songs and ballads which
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 241
were the delight of our forefathers. They are of no great
typographical beauty, but their intrinsic value more
,than counterbalances their homely appearance. Among
the first we have Watson's Collection of Scots Songs,
issued in three parts in 1706-9-11: and the Orpheus
Caledonius; or, a Collection of Scots Songs set to
Musick, by W. Thomson, 1733. How pleasant their
titles ! The Charmer (1749), The Linnet (Glas., 1792
and 1800), The Goldfinch (1777), The Harp of Scotia
(1825), The Nithsdale Minstrel (Dumfries, 1815).
Thomson's Collection of the Songs of Scotland reminds
us of his prolific contributor, Robert Burns, and sug-
gests Johnston's Musical Museum, a publication some-
what similar to Thomson's, for which the bard wrote
many songs. If we desire to rightly estimate the
purifying influence of Burns on Scottish song we have
but to look into Herd's Collection of Scottish Songs
and Ballads (1776), and mark the difference. Col-
lections of songs and ballads were issued from minor
towns, of which Caw's Poetical Museum, published, at
Hawick in 1784, is an example. Many other lyrical
collections more or less known look down upon us, the
bare recital of whose titles would fill more space than
we can well afford. Like a true son of St. Thomas,
Mr. Guild subscribed for a copy of the magnificent
edition de luxe of " Round about the Round O with its
Poets," printed and published by the veteran printer,
Mr. Thomas Buncle, of Arbroath, a most remarkable
volume. Mr. Guild is the possessor of the original
manuscript of MotherwelTs Minstrelsy, and several of
his note-books containing numerous jottings and many
songs taken down from the lips of the "singing- women
of Paisley."
Individual Scottish poets abound. We may mention
a few of the leading ones, taking them in chronological
order Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling's
Doomes Day, Edin., 1614 ; the same writer's Recrea-
tions with the Muses, London, 1637 ; Hamilton's Life
16
242 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
of Wallace, 1722 and 1812; several editions of Bar-
bour's Bruce and Blind Harry's Wallace ; editions of
Sir David Lyndsay, Robert Henryson, and Dunbar ;
Fragments of Ancient Poetry, 1760 (first edition
of Ossian) ; Lapraik's Poems, 1788 ; many editions
of Burns's works ; Songs chiefly in the Scottish
Dialect, by Sir Alexander Boswell, 1803; Certain
Curious Poems, principally from the pen of Mr. James
M'Alpie, Sheriff of Renfrewshire, edited by William
Mother well, Paisley, 1828 (30 copies printed) this is
supposed to have been Motherwell's own composition ;
several first editions of Thomas Campbell's poems;
Hugh Miller's Poems, by a Journeyman Mason ;
Poems by Robert Chambers, 1835 ; and the poems of
Alexander Scott, Glasgow, 1882 (one of six on vellum).
The scarce reprints of rare works issued under the
editorial care of David Laing, James Maidment, and
W. B. D. D. Turnbull, occupy many pages in Mr.
Guild's catalogue. Perhaps the rarest are TurnbuU's
Owain Miles, and Legenda Catholica, Maidment's
North Country Garland (30 copies printed for presenta-
tion) ; his Book of Scottish Pasquils, 1827-8, large
paper (15 large and 45 small paper copies were
printed) ; and his Nugae Derelictae, a collection of
tracts of which only six complete sets exist; Laing's
Cock Lorelle's Bote (40 copies printed), and his
Various Pieces of Fugitive Poetry. Among the
miscellaneous volumes are The Paisley Repository ;
the Proceedings of a Craw- Court held in the Woods
of Pittencrief, Dumfermline, 1813 ; the Court of Session
Garland, 3839; and the rare first edition of Legal
Lyrics, by Outram.
The department of Scottish Biography and Family
History is well filled, and contains a few notable books,
such as The Lennox, by William Frazer ; the Bruces
and Comyns ; and Memorie of the Somervilles.
Scottish History forms quite a large library in itself.
The valuable publications of the Maitland, Bannatyne,
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 243
Abbotsford, and Spalding Clubs, many of those issued
by the other Scottish Clubs, and a set of the Burgh
Eecords Society's publications make an imposing appear-
ance, which is heightened by the close proximity of a
fine set of Grose's Antiquities, 12 volumes, folio, a large
paper copy of Chalmers' Caledonia, and the magnificent
work on Scottish Arms issued by Mr. Drummond the
other year. Mr. Guild has all the well-known works
necessary to make a good serviceable Scottish his-
torical library ; but all his possessions in this depart-
ment are as nothing contrasted with his incomparable
Marie Stuart collection. The fame of it has gone out
far and wide as a gathering princely in its wealth and
unique in its extent. It is only hindered from contain-
ing every work on the subject by the infrequent appear-
ance of many of them in the market. It numbers
fully 500 works, in many languages. The portraits of
the Queen in the library are as many as 315 in separate
form, exclusive of those in books. There is also a
large miscellaneous collection of portraits and historical
scenes connected with the reign of Queen Mary. A
complete catalogue of the whole has been prepared by
Mr. Guild, including all the works relating to the un-
fortunate Queen of which he has found any trace
either in this country or abroad. It is his intention
to print this catalogue, the compilation of which has
formed a pleasant recreation for more than thirty years,
and bibliographers will welcome it as a valuable con-
tribution on a very important subject.
The tragic story of the beautiful Queen of Scots has
attracted many minds, and her innocence has been pro-
claimed in language only equalled in passion by the
denunciations of her assailants. Many fiercely- written
volumes remind us that the war which still continues
around her personality was waged most valiantly in
her lifetime. In Germany the subject excites even a
livelier interest than in this country, and the collection
is being continually augmented by books and magazines
244 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
from the German fatherland. We have extracted from
Mr. Guild's catalogue the titles of some of what we have
deemed the more interesting works, which we here
present with such notes as we have been able to elicit.
The chief treasure of the collection is a volume which
once belonged to the Queen herself. It is entitled
" Confessione della Fede Christiana," by Beza. The
imprint is Appresso Fabio Todesco, 1560. ' It has Maria
K. Scotorum in capital letters stamped in gold on each
side of the cover, and on the title-page is the auto-
graph of Sir James Melville of Hallhill. It was pro-
bably a gift from the Queen to her devoted friend Sir
James, whom she sent as ambassador to Queen Eliza-
beth. This copy was sold at Dr. Laing's sale for 145,
and after passing through several hands at gradually
diminishing prices, it found a fitting resting-place in
Mr. Guild's collection.
On a table in the centre of the library are a dozen
or so of the most precious volumes. We will first glance
at a small quarto of four leaves, which is excessively
rare, containing songs composed and sung in Paris on
the occasion of Marie's nuptials with the Dauphin in
1558. It is entitled
Nuptiale Carmen Renati Guillonii mercurium agentis, quo exhortatis
Franciscum Valesium Galliarum Delphinum ad uxorem ducen-
dam Mariam utpote Scotiae reginam, quam tandem duxit anno
1558, Aprilis die 24. Addita sunt ab eodem Autore aliquot Epi-
grammata, quorum aliqua pertinent ad historian! nostri temporis.
Paris, apud Andream Wechelim, 1558.
Mr. Guild procured a copy at the sale of David Laing's library, but
subsequently received from abroad another copy, much taller and broader.
He has now therefore two copies of this most rare and interesting book.
The next two works are also on the French mar-
riage :
Epithalamium Francisci Valesii Illustriss. Franciae Delphini et Mariae
Stuartae Sereniss. Scotorum Reginae. Sm. 8vo, Paris, 1558.
This was written by Andrianus Turbenus. It is extremely rare, and
is not mentioned by either Lowndes or Brunet.
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 245
L'Hospital (Michel de) In Francisci illustriss. : Franciae Delphini et
Mariae Sereniss. Scotorum Reginae Nuptias viri ejusdam Am-
pliss. Carmen. 4to, Paris, Apud Federicum Morellum.
Perlin (Estienne) Description des Royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Escosse.
8vo, Paris, 1558.
This work was probably occasioned by the same ceremony.
Discours des Troubles nouvellement advenus au Royaurne d'Angleterre
avec une declaration faicte par le Comte de Northumberland et
autres grands seigneurs d'Angleterre. 12mo, a Paris, pour
Laurent du Coudret, Imprimeur, jouxte la copie de Jacques
Blochet. Avec privilege.
A letter vindicating Queen Elizabeth in the case of the Duke of Nor-
folk and Mary Queen of Scots. 12th October, 1571.
This scarce little piece is attributed to the pen of Lord Burghley, Queen
Elizabeth's secretary. There is no regular title to the tract, and it is
evident it was not published in the usual way, but distributed privately.
The text begins on A3, two blank leaves (often wanting) representing Al
and A2. It is in black-letter, and is prettily bound in blue morocco.
Buchanan (George) De Maria Scotorum Reginae totaque ejus contra
Regem Conjuratione fcedo cum Bothuelio Adulterio nefaria in
Maritum Crudelitate et Rabie, horrendo in super et deterrimo ejus-
dem Parricidio : plena, et tragica plane Historia. [London,
1572.]
" This tract, published anonymously, is confidently attributed to
George Buchanan, and is supposed to have been printed by John Day."
Lowndes.
Belief orest (Francois de) L'innocence de la tresillustre, tres- chaste
et debonnaire Princesse, Madame Marie Royne d'Escosse. Ou
sont amplement refutees les calomnies faulces, et impositions
iniques, publi^es par un livre secrettement divulgue en France,
1'an 1572 touchant tant la mort du Seigneur d'Arley son espoux
que autres crimes dont elle est faulcement accused, etc. 8vo.
Manolesso (Emilio Maria) Historia Nova, nella quale si contengono
tutti i successi della guerra Turchesca, la Congiura del Duca de
Nortfolch contra la Regina d'Inghilterra, etc. 4to, Padoua,
Lorenzo Pasquati, 1572.
Philadelphe (Euseb6) La Reveille Matin des Francois et de leurs
Voissins. A Edimbourg, De I'imprimerie de Jacques James,
avec permission, 1574.
"A fictitious imprint." Loiwndes. Rare.
246 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Lesley (John) Bishop of Ross. De Origine Moribus et Rebus gestis
Scotorum. 4to, Romae, 1578.
Contains a map of Scotland and nine engraved heads, including Mary
and her son. Republished in Holland, 1675. \ r aluable as containing
the only portrait of Queen Mary published during her lifetime a lovely
copy.
Chambre (David) Histoire Abregee de Tous les Roys de France
Angleterre et Ecosse, mise en ordre par forme d'Harmonie.
8vo, Paris, 1589.
Mr. Guild has two editions printed in the same year and from the same
types. Chambre was a follower of Queen Mary, and wrote his book to
prove the legality of her title to the English throne.
The two following tracts usually accompany this
work. Mr. Guild has both:
La Recherche des Singularitez plus remarquables concernant 1'Estat
d'Escosse. Svo, Paris, 1759.
Discours de la legitime Succession des Femmes aux Possessions de
leurs Parens & du Gouernement des Princesses aux Empires &
Royaumes. 8vo, Paris, 1579.
Continuing our list :
Throckmorton (Francis) A Discoverie of the Treasons practised and
attempted against the Queenes Maiestie and the Realme. Sm.
4to, 1584.
It was printed secretly without name or place. Reprinted in the ' ' Har-
leian Miscellany."
Whetstone (George) The Censure of a loyall Subject vpon certaine
noted Speach and Behauiours of those fourteen notable traitors
at the Place of their Executions the xx and xxi of September,
last past. As also of the Scottish Queen, now (thanks be to
God) cut off by Justice as the principal Roote of al their Trea-
sons on Wednesday, the 8 of Februarie, 1586. London, 4to.
1586 is evidently an error, as her execution took place in 1587.
Leycester. The copy of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle
of Leycester, Lieutenant-Generall of all Her Majestic 's forces in
the united Provinces of the lowe countreys, written before but
delivered at his returne from thence. With a report of certeine
petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Majestic at two
severall times from all the Lordes and Commons assembled in
Parliament. And her Majesties answers thereunto by herself
delivered, etc. Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1586, 8vo.
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 247
" Though the name of the Queen of Scots is not mentioned in the
title to this tract, she is entirely the subject of it ; and the whole work is
most artfully framed to inflame the minds of the people against her and
prepare them for her execution. The compiler of it was no doubt Robert
Cecil, whose initials are at the end of the preface."
Verstegan (Richard) Theatrum Crudelitatum Hsereticorum Nostri
temporis. Antwerp, 1587, 4to. Frontispiece and 29 plates.
The last plate is a representation of the execution of Mary, Queen of
Scots. She is kneeling with her head upon the block, while the heads-
man is swinging the axe preparatory to dealing the fatal blow. Other
editions were published in 1592 and 1604, and a French translation ap-
peared in 1588, all at Antwerp. It was reproduced at Lille in 1883 under
the title of Theatre des Cruautes des Heretiques au Seizieme Siecle. Mr.
Guild has it also.
Vera e Compifca Relatione del successo della Morte della Christian-
issima Regina di Scotia, con la dichiaratione dell' essequie fatte in
Parigi da] Christianissimo'Re, suo cognato, e il nome de' personaggi
intervenuti. 4to, Milan, 1587. Four leaves.
An Italian account of her execution in which the names are given of
those who attended the funeral honours paid to her memory in Paris.
Orompton (Richard) A Short Declaration of the Ende of Traytors
and false Conspirators against the State and of the Duetie of
Subjectes to their Souveraigne Governour. . . . Wherein are also
briefly touched sundry offences of the S(cottish) Queene committed
against the Crowne of the Land. Sm. 4to, black letter. London,
1587.
Written to vindicate the justice of the execution of Marie Stuart.
Blackwood (Adam) Martyre de la Royne D'Escosse, Dovariere de
France. A Edimbourg chez Jean Nafeld, 1587. From the
Beckford Library.
Kyffin (Maurice) A Defence of the Honorable Sentence and
Execution of the Queene of Scots, exempled with analogies and
diverse presidents of emperors, kings and popes ; with the
opinions of learned men in the point, and diverse reasons
gathered foorth out of both lawes, civill and canon ; together
with the answere to certaine objections made by the favourites
of the late Scottish Queene. "Juris executio nullam habet in-
juriam." Sm. 4to. London : printed by John Windet (circa.
1587).
This is one of the rarest volumes on Marie Stuart. On the accession
of James I. all copies were carefully suppressed and destroyed or
mutilated.
Fiorentino (P. W. A.) Descriptione del Regno di Scotia et Delle Isole
sue adjacenti. 4to, Anwersa, 1588.
Very rare. Reprinted by the Bannatyne Club.
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Scotus, Romoaldus. Summarium rationum, quibus Cancellarius
Angliae et Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethse Angliae Reginae
persuaserunt occidenam esse serenissimam principern, Mariam
Stuartam, Scotiae Reginam, & Jacob! sexti Scotorum Regis
Matrem, una cum responsionibus Reginse Angliae, et sententia
mortis. Sm. 4to, 1588.
Barnestapolis (Robertus) Maria Stuarta, Reginae Scotiae Dotaria
Franciae Haeres Angliae et Hyberniae Martyr Ecclesie Innocens
a codi Darleana Vlndice oberto Barnestapolio. 12mo. Ingolstadii,
1588.
Very rare. Reprinted by Jebb.
Rosse (Thomae) Idaea, sive de Jacobi Magnae Britanniae Galliae et
Hyberniae. London: J. Norton, 1608. 8vo, vellum.
James the Sixth's copy.
Udall (William) Historic of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart,
Queene of Scotland. London, 1624.
With portrait by Elstracke. This was published under the name of
William Stranguage.
Another edition, with portrait and engraved title by Marshall,
12mo, London, 1636.
Oono3us (Georgius) Vitae Mariae Stuartae, Scotiae Reginae Dotaria
Galliae, Angliae et Hiberniae Haeredis. 8vo, Romae, 1624.
With portrait of Mary.
De Vega (Lope) Corona Tragica: vida y muerte de la Serenissima
Reyna de Escocia Maria Estuarda. Sm. 4to, Madrid, 1627.
Described on page 93 " Ce poeme est recherche en Angleterre. " Brunei.
This copy has the portrait of the Queen. It is often wanting in copies.
Gatti (D. Bassianio) Maria Regina di Scotia. Poema Heroico
4to, Bologna, 1633.
With frontispiece representing the execution.
Regault (M.) Marie Stuard, Reyne d'Ecosse. 12mo, Paris, 1639.
With engraved frontispiece of execution. Very rare.
Hawkins (Sir Thomas) Knight. The Holy Court. Translated from
the French of Nicholas Caussin. 2 vols. fo. London, 1650.
The second volume contains a " History of the Incomparable Queen,
Mary Stuart, with portrait by Marshall, from Udall's Historic, 1636."
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 249
Jones (David) The Tragical History of the Stuarts, from 1086 to
the Death of her late Majesty Queen Mary. 8vo, 1697.
Frontispiece, with 10 portraits.
Drake (James) Historia Anglo-Scotica or an impartial History of
all that happened between the Kings and Kingdoms of England
and Scotland from the beginning of the reign of William the
Conqueror to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 8vo, London,
1703.
" This work was burnt by the common hangman at the cross of Edin-
burgh, 1st July, 1703." Chambers's Domestic Annals.
Jebb (Samuel) De Vitae et rebus gestis serenissimae Piincipis
Mariae Scotorum Reginae Franciae Dotariae quae Scriptis tra-
didere Autores XVI., et ad optiuiae fidei codices recensita. 2
vols. fo. London, 1725.
A beautiful uncut copy.
Fry (John) Bristol. The Legend of Mary Queen of Scots and other
Ancient Poems. Now first published from MSS. of the sixteenth
century. 4to, London, 1810.
One of six copies printed on large paper.
Excepting the following, the topographical works on
Scotland in the library do not call for special mention :
Baronial Antiquities of Scotland, by Billings, large
paper copy ; Biggar and the House of Fleming, large
paper copy ; Ramsay's Views in Renfrewshire ; Craw-
ford's History of Renfrewshire ; Hamilton's Sherif-
doms of Lanark and Renfrew.
Mr. Guild has the various histories of Glasgow
and the numerous works bearing on the city issued
during recent years, such as the Old Country Houses
of the Glasgow Gentry, Macgeorge's Old Glasgow, and
Glasgow Past and Present. Among the smaller books
are the four volumes of Brash and Reid's poetry, a
clean good copy of the curious work entitled Substance
of Fourteen Letters written by Andrew Marshall while
in confinement and under sentence of death in the Tol-
booth of Glasgow, in the year 1769, also the second and
third Glasgow directories, issued in 1787 and 1789 by
250 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGO W.
Nathaniel Jones, keeper of a servants' register office in
the Saltmarket. In respect of local directories, however,
Mr. Guild's library is more remarkable for what it once
contained than for what it now has. Mr. Guild pre-
sented a great many volumes of Glasgow directories
to the Institute of Accountants of Glasgow. He still
preserves a volume which, in a paper on Glasgow
directories read before the Archaeological Society of
Glasgow in 1882, he brought forward as the earliest
directory used in this district. It is Bailey's Northern
Directory ; or, Merchants' and Tradesmen's Useful
Companion for 1781. It contains, in addition to the
towns in the north of England, a directory to Edin-
burgh, Leith, Glasgow, Paisley, Greenock, and Port-
Glasgow. It was printed at Warrington. The first
Glasgow Directory was issued by John Tait in 1783 ;
the second and third, as above stated, by Jones in
1787 and 1789. Jones also published a directory in
1790-2, and in 1792-3 a new directory was issued by
his son after his father's death. Walter M'Feat begun
in 1799 to publish a directory, and continued it an-
nually until 1827, when the work was taken up by the
letter-carriers.
What has been said of Mr. Guild's directories is
equally true of his collection of early Glasgow printing.
He presented many volumes from the presses of early
printers to the Mitchell Library, greatly enriching the
city collection by making a clean sweep of his own.
But the jewel of his Glasgow books, past, present, or
even to come, is undoubtedly his copy of Zachary
Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule." Several copies of
this work are mentioned in this volume, but as Mr.
Guild's has some features of exceptional interest, this
place has been chosen for a thorough examination of
the facts connected with the several issues of the book.
The Rev. Zachary Boyd was descended from the
Boyds of Pinkill, and is supposed to have been born
in Kilmarnock about 1585. He was cousin to Andrew
ME. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 251
Boyd, Bishop of Argyle from 1613 to 1636, and to
Robert Boyd, son of James Boyd, Archbishop of
Glasgow, professor at Saumur in France, and suc-
cessively principal of the universities of Glasgow and
Edinburgh. He had probably received his earliest
education at Kilmarnock. He attended the College
of Glasgow, where he matriculated in 1601, and studied
at St. Andrews University from 1603 to 1607, taking
the degree of Master of Arts. At this time he appears
to have gone to the Protestant college of Saumur,
where his cousin, Robert Boyd, was a professor. In
France he remained for the space of sixteen years.
He was appointed one of the professors at Saumur, and
was subsequently offered the high office of principal,
which he declined. He returned to his native country
in 1623, and in the same year was appointed minister
of the Barony Parish of Glasgow. In 1631 he was
elected Dean of Faculty in the university, and again
in 1633 and 1636. In 1634 and 1635 he was chosen
rector, and for a third time he filled the office in 1645.
He was elected vice-chancellor in 1644, and continued in
the office till his death, which is supposed to have
happened in March or April, 1653. Mr. Gabriel Neil,
from whose biographical notice of Boyd we have ex-
tracted the foregoing particulars, was of opinion that
Boyd's first work was " Zion's Flowers ; or, Christian
Poems for Spiritual Edification," and had been written
before 1626. No part of this work was ever published
until Mr. Neil, in his reprint of the Last Battle of the
Soul, 1831, gave some specimens, which he was en-
couraged to follow up with a more extensive selection
published in 1851 under the title of " Four Poems from
Zion's Flowers." In 1626 Boyd began the composition
of "The Last Battell of the Soule in Death." The
date of the publication of the work has hitherto been
accepted as 1629. Mr. Neil made his reprint from a
copy of this date, and makes no mention of another
edition in any of his notes. He at one time owned
252 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
the copy now in the possession of Mr. J. B. Murdoch,
mentioned further on, but not until after the issue of
his last Boyd publication. He tells how in early life he
" possessed a fragment of the work which so fascinated
him that he formed the determination, if ever he could
obtain an entire copy, he would reprint it. After a
fruitless search of more than twenty years in different
towns, an imperfect copy was ultimately seen in Glas-
gow and purchased at the price of two guineas, from
which, along with two other imperfect copies, he was
in every particular enabled to make up a complete copy,
as published by him in 1831, in an edition of 300
copies, now long out of print " (Four Poems from
Zioris Flowers, appendix ii.). Several complete copies
have appeared since Mr. Neil wrote in 1851, and
the price has risen from the comparatively modest
sum of two guineas to fifty guineas. An earlier
edition or issue has also appeared. Mr. Guild has a
copy in one volume (the ordinary copies are in two
volumes), dated 1628. Mr. J. B. Murdoch possesses
a similar copy, and Professor Ferguson's, although in
two volumes and having the 1629 title-pages, has also
the 1628 title-page inserted in the first volume. The
most reasonable explanation which has yet suggested it-
self is that the work was issued in 1628 in one volume,
and being found too bulky, and perhaps not meeting
with a ready sale, it was in the following year divided
into two volumes and two title-pages printed with the
later date. This conjecture is borne out by the fact
of the paging being continuous throughout the two
volumes, pointing to a re-issue in two parts of a work
originally published in one. If this be the true ex-
planation it is of course incorrect to speak of different
editions, the later dated copy being but a re-issue of
the remainder of the original stock. Both issues or
editions are alike in the wording of the title-page, and
bear to be printed at Edinburgh by the heirs of Andro
Hart. In the 1628 volume there is none of the pre-
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fatory matter, dedications, etc., which were inserted
in the issue of 1629.
Boyd was proud of the city in which he spent so
great a portion of his life, and was fond of dating his
works from Glasgow. Had there been a printer in
the city " The Battell of the Soule " would likely have
been printed here. As it is, his works are inseparably
associated with the first printing done in Glasgow.
We take some pleasure in being the first to notice
in print the existence of the earlier form of " The Last
Battell of the Soule," which pleasure is increased by
the further discovery that few were aware of more than
one copy that belonging to Mr. Guild which was
consequently generally regarded as unique.
We cannot quit the Scottish division without men-
tioning the learned and handsomely executed works by
Mr. R. W. Cochran-Patrick on Mining in Scotland,
Scottish Coins and Scottish Medals ; Motherwell's
Paisley Magazine, 1828, and a number of volumes of
chap-books, printed at Stirling and other Scottish
towns.
Mr. Guild has good editions, handsomely bound, of
the standard histories and biographies. Of the latter
we need only particularize Ireland's Memoirs of
Jeanne d'Arc, 2 volumes, 1824 ; a large paper copy of
the Life of David Roberts; Peter Cunningham's
" Nell Gwyn," and the first edition of the Life of
Richard Nash of Bath, 1762.
Perhaps the most attractive portion of the library is
that devoted to the Fine Arts. It has a brilliant ap-
pearance, the material adornment corresponding very
appropriately with the intrinsic worth and subject of
the contents. On the ledge stands a handsome copy of
Meyrick's Ancient Armour, 3 volumes ; next to it is a
fine work, with seventy coloured illustrations of the
costumes of the empire of Russia ; Sotheby's Ram-
blings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton,
with many plates and also outline pictures on the covers ;
254 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Rome, by Francis Wey ; Memoirs of the Celebrated
Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club, with 48 por-
traits from original paintings, by Sir Godfrey Kneller ;
the second edition of Nisbet's Heraldry ; two copies of
Smith's Iconigraphia Scotica (1798) ; the book with
the same title by John Pinkerton ; the splendid five-
volume edition of Lavater's Essay on Physiognomy,
1789 ; Reid's Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of
George Cruikshank, with 313 illustrations, 3 volumes,
1871 ; Westwood's Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria,
illustrations of ancient versions of the Bible, Don
Quixote, illustrated by Dord; the Adventures of
Baron Munchausen, illustrated by the same artist ; the
Orphan of Pimlico and other Sketches ; Fragments
and Drawings, by "W. M. Thackeray, and Charles
Kirkpatrick Sharpe's Etchings, altogether a splendid
series of volumes. The first shelf begins with a mag-
nificent ten-volume edition of Lodge's Portraits of
Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, which has for
neighbours Hamerton's Etching and Etchers ; Sainte-
Beauve's Nouvelle Galerie de Femmes Celebres ; the
Maclise Portrait Gallery; Brulliot's Dictionnaire des
Monogrammes, published at Munich ; the catalogue
of the works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick,
with hundreds of beautiful cuts; Kay's Edinburgh
Portraits, first edition ; Walton and Cotton's Com-
plete Angler, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, with two
sets of plates (presentation copy to Sir Henry Ellis) ;
Lubke's Histories of Art and Sculpture ; Ruskin's
Modern Painters, and Stones of Venice; George
Cruikshank's Omnibus, and Table-Book, and a volume
of historical portraits selected from the National
Portraits Exhibition of 1866. Speaking of portraits,
we may here mention that Mr. Guild has, in addition
to those of Queen Mary, separate portfolios of portraits
of the Stuarts from James I. to the end of the line,
including many of Charles I. and II., also many rare
and fine portraits of Henry VIII. and fully sixty
MR. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 255
of Queen Elizabeth. There are also about eighty
portraits of Shakespeare and about sixty of Sir Walter
Scott, and an extensive collection of fine engraved
pictures of eminent persons, including many hundreds
of historical portraits.
The upper shelves are almost entirely devoted to the
works illustrated by the Bewicks. There in the order
of their dates are Choice Emblems, 1772; Youth's
Instructor and Entertaining Story-Teller, Newcastle,
1778; Gay's Fables, Newcastle, 1779; Edinburgh,
1792; York, 1811; 'The Blackbird, 1783; Select
Fables, Newcastle, 1784, and same place, 1820; Fox
against Fox; or Political Blossoms of the Right Hon.
Charles James Fox, 1788; Emblems of Mortality
(known as "Bewick's Dance of Deaths,"), 1789, 1795,
1825; General History of British Quadrupeds, New-
castle, 1790; Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith,
Hereford, 1794; Gloucester, 1809, and with the
works of Parnell, 1804; Cheap Repository (35 differ-
ent tracts), 1795, etc.; Blossoms of Morality, 1796;
Dublin, 1807, 1814; Dodsley's Economy of Life, Man-
chester, 1797 ; Pity's Gift, 1798 ; Poems, by the Rev.
Josiah Relph, Carlisle, 1798 ; Pilkington's Mirror for
the Female Sex, 1799 ; Bloomfield's Farmer's
Boy, 1800, 1802, 1815; Bloomfield's Rival Tales,
1802, 1815, 1820; Bloomfield's Wild Flowers,
1816 ; Bloomfield's May-Day, 1822 ; Thomas Love-
child's only method to make Reading Easy, York,
1802 ; Looking-Glass for the Mind, 1803 ; Scenes of
Youth, by William Holloway, 1803 ; British Birds, 2
vols., Newcastle, 1804, 1832, 1847 ; Effusions of Love
from Chatelar to Mary, Queen of Scotland, 1805 ;
Thomson's Seasons, 1805, 1809; Abridgement of
Goldsmith's History of England, 1805, 1808; Percy's
Hermit of Warkworth, 1806, another copy, Aln-
wick, no date; Kay's New Preceptor, Newcastle,
1807; Lay of an Irish Harp, by Miss Owenson (Lady
Morgan), 1807; A Spring Day, by Fisher, Edinburgh,
256 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
1808; Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Insects, Aln-
wick, 1809 ; Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by
Thomas Donaldson, weaver, Alnwick, 1809 ; Fables in
Verse, by Rowe, 1810 ; Thornton's Family Herbal,
1810 ; Progress of Man and Society, by Dr. Trusler,
1810; Poetical Works, by Thomas Adams, Alnwick,
1811 ; Northumbrian Minstrel, Alnwick, 1811 (three
numbers with coarse paper covers as issued) ; Charms of
Literature, 1812; Fables of ^Esop and Others, with
instructive application, by Samuel Croxall, 1813;
Fables of JEsop, Newcastle, 1818; System of Natural
History, 4 v., Alnwick, 1814; Oxford Sausage, 1815 ;
Natural Triumphs, by Mrs. Cockle, 1814; Elegy to
the Memory of Princess Charlotte of Wales, Newcastle,
1817 ; Elegy on the Death of George III., Newcastle,
1820 ; Lines to a Boy Pursuing a Butterfly, New-
castle, 1826 ; Verses Written at Langleeford, New-
castle, 1823 ; Reply to Lord Byron's " Fare Thee
Well," Newcastle, 1817, and Lines to Lady Byron,
Newcastle, 1817, all by the same authoress; The Way
to be Happy, or the Family at Smiledale, Glasgow,
1819 ; Ducks and Green Peas, or the Newcastle
Rider, Alnwick, 1827; The Collier's Wedding; a
Poem, by Edward Chicken, Newcastle, 1829; Metrical
Legends of Northumberland, by James Service,
Alnwick, 1834 ; Hastie's only Method to make
Reading Easy, Newcastle, 1839 ; Memoirs of- Thomas
Bewick, by Himself, Newcastle, 1862 ; Proverbs in
Verse ; The Youngster's Diary, Alnwick (coloured) ;
Day, a Pastoral, Alnwick (coloured, coarse paper
wrappers) ; The Enigmatist, Stockton ; Beattie's
Poems ; Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry
Book, Devizes ; Alnwick Picture-Book for the use of
Children, Alnwick, 3 numbers, with original wrappers ;
Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds, 1867.
These eighty-four Bewicks are uniformly bound in full
calf, richly tooled, and present a brilliant appearance.
After so long a list of Bewicks, it would be unfair to
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particularize the works illustrated by George Cruik-
shank. Alone, they would seem a fairly compre-
hensive collection beside the Bewicks they are not
worth mentioning. Under the ledge are some fine
folios. The first is the Typographical Antiquities of
Ames, edited by Dibdin, 4 volumes, large paper, un-
cut. Sixty-five copies of this sumptuous work were
printed, of which this is No. 11. Next to it stands
Leigh Sotheby's Principia Typographia, 3 volumes, a
splendidly-executed work. Caulfield's Portraits of
Remarkable Persons, 4 volumes ; Lord Ronald
Gower's two volumes of French Portraits ; and Roy's
Military Antiquities, are near neighbours, and other
works, costly and handsome, complete the shelf. In
addition to the works of John Ruskin already named,
Mr. Guild has the greater number of the smaller
volumes, forming altogether a large collection of his
works. Two little books and we will dismiss this
division. They are The Compleat Gentleman, by
Henry Peacham, London, 1661, notable for some
coloured illustrations of the " Art of Blazonry," and a
volume of Emblems by Giovio Vescoro di Nocera,
Lyons, 1574.
The department of Fiction is a considerable one. It
contains the best modern editions of Dickens, Thacke-
ray, Fielding, Smollett, and other leading novelists ; the
first editions of Scott's Waverley Novels, and an extra
tine copy of Paul and Virginia, Paris, 1838, with plates
in three, and some in four, states. In classics the only
notable volumes are Jacob Tonson's famous folio edition
of Caesar, 1712, richly illustrated ; the first edition of
Gawain Douglas's translation of Virgil, and Ovid's
Metamorphosis, translated by Tuski, 1584.
Bibliography is a prominent feature in the library.
Three divisions are devoted to it, and glancing over them
we see on their well-known works the names of Burton
(Book-hunter, first edition), Sir Egerton Brydges
(Restituta, on India paper, large, perhaps the only
17
258 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
copy on India paper), Censura Literari, 10 volumes,
Archaica, Beloe (Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce
Books), Allibone (Dictionary of English Literature),
Brunet (Manuel du Libraire), Collier (Early Eng.
Literature), De Bure (Bibliographic Instructive, etc).,
Dibdin (Bibliomania, several editions ; Library Com-
panion, Reminiscences, Director, Bibliotheca Sussexi-
ana), Ebert (Bibliographical Dictionary), Hain
(Repertorium Bibliographicum), Halkett and Laing
(Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous
Literature), Hartshorne (Book Rarities of Cambridge),
Hindley (Old Book Collectors' Miscellany), Lowndes
(Bibliographer's Manual), Nisard (Histoire des Livres
Populaires), Oldys (British Librarian), Walpole (Cata-
logue of Royal and Noble Authors), Watt (Bibli-
otheca Britannka), and many others. The Libri Cata-
logue, 5 volumes ; the Huth Catalogue, the Rox-
burgh Catalogue, the Retrospective Review, and the
Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica have for company a goodly
number of other catalogues of famous libraries. We
reserve for the last the splendid collection of autograph
letters, but before touching on them it may be as
well to dismiss a few books which hardly come under
any of the classes already described. These are
an extremely small copy of Sir Thomas More's
Utopia, published at Amsterdam in 1631 ; some of the
works issued at the Strawberry, Lee Priory, and
Auchinleck private presses ; the library edition of
Carlyle's works ; and a complete set of the Oxford
classics, full bound.
The autograph letters are systematically arranged,
each in a neat brown envelope, and the whole classified
and securely preserved in 15 portfolios. The classes
are royal, military, political, legal, literary, theatrical,
clerical, artistic, and miscellaneous. Mr. Guild admits
letters only to his collection, not mere autographs.
The portfolios contain letters from nearly 400 persons
more or less distinguished.
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Among the .Royal writers are John Stewart, Duke
of Albany, second son of James II. of Scotland ;
James Fitz-James, Duke of Berwick, Marshal of
France, and natural son of James II. of England;
Marie Stuart, the ill-fated Queen of Scots ; her son,
James I. of England; Charles II.; James III., the
Pretender; his son, Prince Charles Edward Stuart,
the young Pretender; George II., George III.,
George IV., Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the late
Duke of Albany, Francis L, King of France, 1515-47 ;
his son, Henry II., King, 1547-59; Louis XIV., "the
most magnificent of the Bourbon Kings " ; Napoleon I.
and Louis Phillippe, the Citizen King. Some of the
soldiers are Colonel James Gardiner, killed at the
battle of Prestonpans ; Sir Ralph Abercromby, George
Washington, Marshal Ney, Lord Nelson, the Duke of
Wellington, Lord Clyde, and Garibaldi. The letters
of Lord Nelson include a number addressed to Lady
Hamilton, with the replies, and there are beside two very
extraordinary epistles from the Earl of Bristol, Bishop
of Derry, to his dearest Emma, Lady Hamilton,
showing the intimate relations which existed between
them.
Among the statesmen and politicians are William
Pitt, Charles James Fox, Henry Dundas, Viscount
Melville, John Wilkes, Henry Grattan, Daniel O'Con-
nell, Lord Brougham, Joseph Hume, Earl Gray, Sir
Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, Lord Lansdowne,
Mr. Gladstone, Prince Talleyrand, Lafayette, Mazzini,
and Louis Blanc.
The portfolio Theatrical contains letters from many
noted actors, actresses, and singers. John Philip
Kemble and Mrs. Siddons are there, so are Charles
Kean and Helen Tree, John Bannister, J. M. Bellew,
Helen Faucit, Jenny Lind, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry,
and Herman Vezin.
Some distinguished divines have contributed to
the collection. Among others, the famous com-
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mentator, Matthew Henry ; Bishop Heber, Dr.
Thomas Chalmers, Bishop Wilberforce, Bishop
Colenzo, Dr. Ralph Wardlaw, Archbishop Trench,
Dean Stanley, Frederick Denison Maurice, Principal
Tulloch, and Principal Caird.
Among the artists are Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir
Thomas Lawrence, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Francis
Chantry, John Flaxman, Benjamin R. Hay don,
David Roberts, and Daniel Maclise.
The largest portfolio is that designated Literary.
The principal writers of the last hundred years are
numerously represented. One envelope contains a
bond by David Hume for 130 in favour of his servant,.
Margaret Irvine, on account of her byegone wages ;
executed 2nd June, 1771. Some of the letters of Sir
Walter Scott are exceedingly interesting. There is
a series of letters which passed between him and
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe which in an odd way
marks the progress of the intimacy between the two.
Sir Walter begins his first letter with " Sir " ; this
soon lengthened into " Dear Sir," and then into " My
Dear Sir"; another step and it reaches "Dear
Sharpe," and the limit of friendly address is attained
in " My Dear Charles." Scott's letter to Hood accept-
ing the dedication of " Whims and Oddities " is a
very kindly one ; but full of a melancholy interest are
his letters to the printers, Ballantyne and Constable,
in whose commercial ruin he was so heavily involved.
Quite a unique value attaches to a bundle of cashed
cheques granted by Sir Walter on the bank of Gala-
shiels in favour of his servants. A letter by Burns is
always of great interest and is highly prized. The
one in Mr. Guild's portfolio is accompanied by a poem
which has never been published. We are sorry that
the subject of the verses forbids their insertion here, as
they are very witty. Within the same covers are
letters written by Lord Byron, Shelley, Samuel
Rogers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Allan Cunning-
ME. GUILD'S LIBRARY. 261
ham, Robert Blair, Sir Alexander Boswell, Joanna
Baillie, The Ettrick Shepherd, Rev. John Home
(author of "Douglas"), Allan Ramsay, Robert
Southey, Thomas Campbell, James Macpherson (of
" Ossian " fame), Thomas Moore, James Montgomery,
William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Robert Brown-
ing, E. L. Landon, Lord Houghton, D. M. Moir
("Delta"), William Morris, Ebenezer Elliot, Sheridan
Knowles, Mrs. Grant of Laggan, Robert Gilfillan,
W. E. Aytoun, Victor Hugo, Beranger, Eliza Cook,
William Thorn (of Inverurie), Sergeant Talfourd,
Alaric A. Watts, William Motherwell, Barry Corn-
wall, Rev. George Crabbe, and Isa Craig.
Among the novelists are Charles Dickens, Wilkie
Collins, Thackeray, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Theo-
dore Hook, Thomas Hardy, William Black, Thomas
Hughes, Mrs. Gore, John Gait, G. P. R. James,
Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, Charles James
Lever, Samuel Lover, Charles Reade, Horace Smith,
Maria Edgeworth, Alexander Dumas, Jane Porter,
Amelia Opie, Mrs. Oliphant, Hon. Mrs. Norton,
Henry Mackenzie, Captain Marryat, Lord Lytton,
Charlotte M. Yonge, William Beckford ("Vathek"),
and Mrs. Henry Wood.
The writers on other subjects from whom epistles
find a place here are many. Some of the best known
are Tom Hood (father and son), Charles Lamb,
Harriet Martineau, Mary Russell Mitford, Lady
Morgan, Horace Mann, Lord Macaulay, Niebuhr,
Macvey Napier, John Wilson Croker, Lord Cockburn,
Lord Jeffrey, Charles Darwin, Thomas de Quincey,
Hepworih Dixon, Isaac D'Israeli, James Anthony
Froude, John Forster, Mary Somerville, Sir William
Stirling Maxwell, Sydney Smith, Agues Strickland,
St. Beuve, Baron Von Humboldt, John Ruskin,
William Roscoe, John Gibson Lockhart, George
Henry Lewis, Charles Knight, William Jesse, William
Jerdan, William Henry Ireland (Shakespeare forger),
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Michael Faraday, Professor Huxley, William Godwin,,
Francis Grose, Guizot, James O. Halliwell, J. Payne
Collier, Sir Arthur Helps, William and Mary Howit,
David Hume, Leigh Hunt, Sir Archibald Alison,
Lucy Aikin, Sir John Bo wring, Dr. John Biown, Sir
David Brewster, Thomas Carlyle, William Combe,
Horace Walpole, Patrick Fraser Tytler, A. F. Tytler,
William Cobbett, Sir John Lubbock, Professor Seeley,
Henry Rogers, Captain Parry, Alexander Dyce r
Thomas Frognall Dibdin, John Pinkerton, John
Stuart Mill, Lord Holland, Lord Mahon, J. Herman
Merivale, Chateaubriand, and Henry Home, Lord
Kames.
One of the portfolios contains a packet of very im-
portant letters addressed by the beautiful Jane,
Duchess of Gordon, to Francis Farquharson of Inve-
ray and others in reference to her separation from her
husband. Mr. Guild had these letters printed
privately in a handsome quarto volume in 1864.
Other autographs of interest are those of Sir John
Soane, Duncan Forbes, President of the Court of
Session ; Anna, Countess of Archibald, ninth Earl of
Argyle, who was executed at Edinburgh ; Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire ; Simon, Lord Lovat, exe-
cuted in 1746 for complicity in the rebellion ; John
Sobieski Stuart, the Countess Guiccioli, Count d'Orsay,
John Howard, Harry Erskine, Dr. Jenner, Sir Row-
land Hill, Florence Nightingale, Father Mathew,
Lord Chancellor Eldon, Miss Berry, and the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts.
It has given us no uncommon pleasure to visit and
write of this magnificent collection of books, or rather
collection of collections, tempered even though that
pleasure was by the fear of being unable to give such
an account of it as its size, wealth, and beauty de-
manded at our hands. In appearance it is beautiful ;
in literary treasure surpassing rich.
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CHAPTER XV.
LIBRARY OF GEORGE WINGATE HILL, ESQ., CASHIER, UNION
BANK OF SCOTLAND ; RESIDENCE, PRINCES TERRACE,
DOWANHILL.
Character of Mr. Hill's Library Poetry and the
Drama Scottish Poetry Scottish Biography, His-
tory, and Topography Ruskins Works Other Fine
Art Books Fiction Bibliography, dc.
THIS is an excellent library, leisurely and judiciously
chosen. Mr. Hill has ranged over the whole field of
literature, and culled with fine discrimination choice
flowers here and there. His marked liking for the
domain of the heather and the thistle has not dulled
his appreciation of the products of other lands, and his
library, while having strongly marked Scottish features,
is well-balanced and comprehensive. It is a gathering
of friends deliberately chosen, with whom there are
none but the happiest associations. The dominant
feeling with Mr. Hill being generally, we fancy, not so
much to possess a rarity as a desirable book, there are
few of extreme rarity to chronicle. In our first class,
we will only mention a large paper copy of the
" Immaculate " Bible, printed by Sir James Hunter
Blair and Coy. ; Dunlop's Confession of Faith,
etc. ; and the edition of the Psalms, with music,
printed by the heirs of Andro Hart, at Edinburgh, in
1635, commonly known as Knox's Liturgy or Psalter.
This was the edition from which the admirable reprint
edited by the Rev. Neil Livingstone was taken. The
leading editions of the Scottish Psalter are those of
1595, 1615, and 1635. Its first official appearance was
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in 1564, and it was discarded for the present metrical
version in 1650. Between these dates about forty
editions appeared. David Laing's copy of the 1635
edition sold at 15 15s.
Mr. Hill was a subscriber to Mr. J. Payne Collier's
edition of Shakespeare with the "purest text and the
briefest notes," and among other editions of the great
dramatist's works has Pickering's beautiful diamond
edition, that edited by Dyce, and that known as the
Cambridge Shakespeare. The dates and publishers of
the editions of the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Peele,
Green, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben
Jonson, Chaucer, Otway, Middleton, Ford, Shirley,
Foote, Butler, Dryden, Chatterton, Cowper, Shelley,
Byron, Southey, Wordsworth, and other poets need
not be detailed ; sufficient to say that they are all
editions of high repute. Ritson's works, Dodsley's Old
Plays, the Aldine series of Poets, Child's Ballads,
Utterson's Early Popular Poetry, the publications of
the Percy Society, with suppressed parts, the Percy
Folio MS., Rogers' Poems and Italy (1830-34, beauti-
ful copies), and an edition of Goethe's Faust, published
at London in 1838, in 2 volumes (50 copies printed, 40
for sale), occupy places in this division, a division
characterized by high all-round excellence.
We might dismiss the sections containing Scottish
poetry in a sentence, by saying that they contain the
works of every Scottish poet whose fame has been
more than national, and many more of lesser merit ;
but such summary procedure would neither be fair to
the authors or to Mr. Hill, nor respectful treatment of
that failing for verse-making which moved some one to
say that if a gun were fired at random in any of our
streets it would be sure to bring down a poet.
Of Burns, Mr. Hill has the second and third editions
issued in Edinburgh and London respectively in 1787,
an uncut copy of that published at Edinburgh in 1811,
2 volumes ; Hogg and Motherwell's edition, 5 volumes.
MR HILL'S LIBRARY. 265
i
Macpherson's edition of Wyntoun's Chronicle of Scot-
land is bound in pigskin, a material not susceptible
of a very fine polish. Mr. Hill's copy of Leyden's
edition of the Complaynt of Scotland is a large paper
one, and he has a large as well as a small paper copy
of Ancient Scottish Poems from the MS. of George
Bannatyne. The Tea-Table Miscellany, 3 volumes,
12mo, 1733, is worthy of notice as an edition not men-
tioned by Lowndes, and one rarely seen for sale. Mr.
Hill has the original edition of Herd's Ancient
Scottish Ballads, Ramsay's Evergreen, Chambers's
Songs of Scotland, Cunningham's Songs of Scotland,
Peter Buchan's Ballads, Jamieson's Scottish Songs
(with a portion of the manuscript), Kinloch's Scottish
Ballads, Scotish Poems of the Sixteenth Century, Sib-
bald's Chronicle of Ancient Scottish Poetry, Mother-
well's Minstrelsy, Gilchrist's Scottish Ballads, the col-
lection of songs and ballads edited by John Pinkerton,
Finlay's Ballads, Johnson's Scots Musical Museum.
He has also Chalmers's fine edition of Sir David Lynd-
say's works, 3 volumes, 1806 ; Laing's Select Remains
of Ancient Popular Poetry, uncut, 1822 ; his Fugitive
Poetry, 2 volumes, uncut, first and second series, 1825-
1853 ; and Early Metrical Tales, 1826 ; his editions of
Dunbar, Henryson, and Lyndsay, and many other of
his publications, and likewise those of James Maid-
ment; the well-known but scarce biographies of the
families of Douglas and Angus, the Bruces and Comyns,
the Somervilles, and other prominent houses are pre-
sent, supplementing a capital array of the best and most
authoritative works on the general history and topo-
graphy of Scotland. Of these we need only single out
for separate mention a beautiful large paper copy of
Billings' Baronial Antiquities, a copy of similar ampli-
tude of margin of Sir Walter Scott's Border Antiquities,
.and fine copies of Innes's Critical Essay upon the In-
habitants of Scotland, White's Kintyre, Bellenden's
translation of Boece's Chronicle, Pennant's Tour in
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Scotland and Wales, and lire's History of Rutherglen
and East Kilbride, with the life of Ure by Gray bound
up with it.
Mr. Hill is a member of the Society of Antiquaries
of Scotland, and possesses the Transactions of that body
from the year 1851. He has many of the books on
Glasgow which every Glasgow collector feels anxious
to obtain, and has subscribed for the best of the many
works brought out on the city within the last thirty
years or so. He has Adam Sim's (Coulter) copy of
the Memorabilia of Glasgow, 1835, the same gentle-
man's copy of the Chronicle of the Isles, Glasgow, 1826,
a very curious work, much of which was written by
Gabriel Neil, the biographer and editor of Zachary
Boyd ; a large paper copy of the reprint of M' lire's
View of Glasgow, and very fine copies of Stuart's,
Swan's, and other volumes of Glasgow views.
Mr. Hill's copy of Henderson's Scottish Proverbs
belonged to William Motherwell, the poet. It is in
large paper, and uncut. The Paisley Magazine is of
course present. Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, first
edition, in spotless purity, is here ; Crombie's Modern
Athenians, Burton's Scot Abroad, and St. John's Sport
in Moray. Buckle the historian's copy of the first
edition of Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary has found a
present resting-place in Mr. Hill's library. The col-
lection contains a complete set of the Oxford classics,
and a series of general histories arid biographies so
comprehensive as to leave out no great name or
country.
Few collectors will have more of Ruskin's works
than Mr. Hill, and none, finer copies. The most
valuable work, from a pecuniary point of view,
after some of Ruskin's, among the fine-art books is
probably Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, large paper.
A copy appeared not long ago in a bookseller's cata-
logue at 23 10s. It is a handsome book. Of Hamer-
ton's Etching and Etchers the three editions are here,
MR. HILL'S LIBRARY. 267
and the other works of a kindred nature are Kirk-
patrick Sharpe's Etchings, Dibdin's Typographical
Antiquities, Shaw's Dresses and Decorations, large
paper ; the same writer's Illuminated Ornaments, large
paper; Strutt's Habits, Humphrey's Printing, La-
croix's works on Mediaeval France, some of Bewick's
illustrated volumes, Cruikshank's Comic Almanac, and
many illustrated editions of Walton and Cotton's
Angler.
Science is better represented than in many larger
libraries. The works are all modern, and not confined
to any one department of scientific labour.
So excellently-selected a library necessarily contains
a well-filled press of fiction. Scott's novels are in 48
volumes, those of Fielding and Thackeray are editions
de luxe, while Dickens, Lytton, Disraeli, Smollett,
Defoe, and other writers are also in handsome form.
Of Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe there are
several separate editions of high value on account of
their illustrations. Of the Arabian Nights' Entertain-
ments there are the first edition of Lane's version, and
the luxurious and free translation issued by the Villon
Society.
Bibliography has due recognition. Besides the
ordinary books of reference, there is a fine uncut copy
of the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica, Nicholl's Anecdotes
Illustrative of the Eighteenth Century, Sir Egerton
Brydges' Restituta and Censura Literaria, Dibdin's
Decameron, Tour in France and Germany, uncut, Tour
in England and Scotland, uncut, The Bibliomania,
Burton's Bookhunter, and Collier's Decameron.
Although good bindings do not always denote good
books, good books should always be in good bindings.
Given a book excellent in subject and treatment, well-
printed on good paper, a beautiful coat is a natural
complement. It is but a due recognition of the
author, and skill and taste of the printer. Mr. Hill
is not wanting in a proper appreciation of either. His
268 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
books are handsomely and appropriately bound. The
seductive influence of charming books in equally charm-
ing garb is powerful, and tempts one to linger over
them, even after one has ceased to have anything
to say, and the patience of the reader is exhausted.
Few libraries contain so many works which no gentle-
man's library should be without, and few so small a
number of books the possession of which does not add
to, nor their absence mar the importance of, a library
as the collection of which we now take leave.
CHAPTER XVI.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ., LYNEDOCH
STREET.
General Remarks Psalters and Bibles Witchcraft,
Case of Christian Shaw Poetry Scottish Poetry,
Forbes's Cantus, Watson's Scots Poems Illiterate
Glasgow Printer Chap-books Symsons Elegies
Jean Adam, Authoress of " There's Nae Luck About
the House " David Laings Copy of his Edition of
Dunbar's Poems First Book Printed in Stirling
Robert Lekprevick, the Printer Gowrie Conspiracy
Scottish Topography Graham, of Killern and Rob
Hoy Scottish Biography Glasgow Books Boyd's
" Last Battell of the Soule"The First Book Printed
in Glasgow First Glasgow Directory, 1783 Maps
of Glasgow Glasgow Periodicals Children's Books
One Hundred Years Ago King James's " Counter-
blaste to Tobacco " Broadsides and Proclamations
Conclusion.
THIS is a library of which very little has hitherto been
known. With characteristic modesty, the owner per-
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sistently spoke of his collection in a depreciatory tone,
and so far succeeded as to have got into the mysterious
list who, for all the world knows, may have a fine
collection or nothing at all. It is a common experience
that much may be said on a matter about which little
or nothing is known. And few things lend themselves
to this kind of treatment so readily as collections,
whether they be of books or pictures. It is so easy to
shrug the shoulders and knowingly express the opinion
that the collection contains some choice things, or to
say that it is much overrated, and if everything was
known, etc.
Well, it is our pleasant lot to give some account of
a library little known, and which contains some very
curious, rare, and interesting things indeed.
It is almost exclusively a Scottish library, and in this
respect has much in common with the libraries of
Messrs. Gray and Shields. It contains amongst other
works a large number of rare first editions of Scottish
poets (including some scarce editions of the works of
Burns), a considerable collection of editions of Blind
Harry's " Wallace " and Barbour's " Bruce," some rare
books on witchcraft, a number of books bearing the
authors' autographs, and a splendid collection of books,
maps, periodicals, and pictures relating to Glasgow.
Many of the books are well bound, and some hand-
somely so. With these prefatory remarks, we may
enter on a consideration of the library in detail.
In Theology, the earliest work is John Knox's
" Answer to a Great Nomber of Blasphemous Cauila-
tions written by an Anabaptist " (printed at Geneva by
John Crespin, in 1560, and noticed fully in the descrip-
tion of Mr. Young's library). The next is entitled
" An Harmony of the Confessions of the Faith of the
Christian and Reform ed Churches, with verie short notes,
translated out of Latin into English"; "The Con-
fession of the Church of Scotland," Cambridge, 1586.
A curious and erudite work is John Napier of Merchis-
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ton's " Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of
St. John," Waldegrave, Edinburgh, 1593. It was the
occasion of much discussion at the time of its publica-
tion, and was translated into several Continental
languages. The present is a good copy. A scarce and
interesting book is Alex. Burnet the Archbishop of
Glasgow's sermon on the death of the Marquis of
Montrose, entitled " The Blessedness of the Dead,"
printed at Glasgow by Sanders, 1673. It has the
City arms on the back of the title-page.
The earliest of Mr. Macdonald's copies of the
Shorter Catechism is one published at London in
1656.
He has one of the three important editions of the
Scottish Psalter, that printed by Andro Hart, Edin-
burgh, 1615. Rev. Neil Livingstone, the editor of
the reprint of the Scottish Psalter, speaks of it as a
"handsome and well- printed edition," and again as
" in the musical department one of the most correctly
printed editions." The other two editions which with
this one stand out as important were those of L595 and
1635.
Of Bibles, Mr. Macdonald has the first edition of
the authorized version in Scotland, Edinburgh, printed
by the printers to the King's Most Excellent Majestic,
1633. It is very rare, and the value of this copy is
enhanced by its having the Apocrypha many copies
want it. Bound up with it are the Psalms (Cam-
bridge, 1628), a concordance, and some religious
tractates. It is in fine condition. Mr. Macdonald
has also the first Gaelic version of the Bible, London,
1690; Kirk's Gaelic Psalms, 1684; the first Gaelic
Confession of Faith, Edinburgh, 1725; and the first
edition authorized by the Church of Scotland of the
Paraphrases, Edinburgh, 1781. Cloud of Witnesses,
1720. This is the second edition; no copy could be
found when the work was reprinted some years ago
under the editorship of the Rev. J. H. Thomson.
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A very rare book on Witchcraft is the first edition
of Richard Baxter's " Certainty of the World of
Spirits," London, 1691. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe,
in the " Introduction to Law's Memorials," terms
it scarce. His own copy was imperfect. Other
rare and curious books on the same subject are :
" Memorable Providences relating to Witchcrafts and
Possessions ; A Faithful Account of Many Wonderful
and Surprising Things that have Befallen Several
Bewitched and Possessed Persons in New England.
Written by Cotton Mather, Minister of the Gospel ;
printed at Boston, in New England, and re-printed in
Edinburgh by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew
Anderson, printer to His Most Excellent Majesty.
Anno Dom., 1697;" Gayle's "Select Cases of Con-
science, touching Witches and Witchcraft," London,
1646; a Collection of Modern Relations of Matters of
Fact concerning Witches and Witchcraft, by Sir Mat-
thew Hale, London, 1693;" "A Relation of the
Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and
Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew, in Scotland/'
London, 1697. This is extremely scarce, probably
only a few copies being now extant. " Sadducisinus
Debellatus, or a true Relation of Sorceries and Witch-
crafts exercised by the Devil and his instruments on
Mrs. Christian Shaw," London, 1698 ; another edition,
Paisley, 1775. Christian Shaw was, at the time of the
supposed bewitchings, a girl of eleven years of age.
Her father, John Shaw, was laird of Bargarran, a
small estate in the parish of Erskine, in Renfrewshire.
"The child having informed her mother of a petty
theft committed by a servant, the woman broke out
upon her with frightful violence, wishing her soul
might be harld [dragged] through hell, and thrice
imprecating the curse of God upon her " (" Chambers's
Domestic Annals," v. 3, p. 168). Eight days after-
wards little Christian began to take violent fits, during
which she screamed for help. She continued to take
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these fits, to wrestle as if with an unseen enemy, and
to vomit forth hair, straw, wool, cinders, hay, and
feathers for months. She was taken to a Glasgow
doctor, who succeeded in restoring her to health for a
period of sixteen days, and would have completely
cured her but for the "hairs, hay, straw, and other
things wholly contrary to human nature." She de-
nounced the servant as the cause of her trouble, and
subsequently increased the number of her tormentors
to six. An inquiry was held into the case by order
of the Privy Council, and in the midst of it Christian
resumed her usual health, and never was afflicted again
in a like manner. The accused persons were tried at
Paisley, the Lord Advocate, Sir James Stuart, prose-
cuting, and were found guilty. On 10th June, 1697,
five of them were hung, and afterwards burned on the
gallow green of Paisley. Christian Shaw married the
minister of Kilmaurs about 1718, and her husband
dying, she returned in 1725 to Bargarran. To her
belongs the credit of introducing the manufacture of
thread into her native district, where it has since
developed to so great dimensions.
An extraordinary story of an evil spirit and its de-
structive doings is that related by Rev. Alexander
Telfair, minister of the parish of Rerrick, in the
stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Stones were thrown into
the house of Andrew Mackie, a mason, the inmates
were dragged up and down the house by the clothes,
and the house was set on fire. When any person was
hit by a stone a voice was heard saying, " Take that
till you get more ! " and another was sure to come
immediately. The volume in which these surprising
events are related is entitled, " A True Relation of an
Apparition, Expressions and Actings of a Spirit which
Infested the House of Andrew Mackie, in the Parish
of Rerrick, in Scotland, 1695, by Alexander Telfair,"
Edinburgh, 1696. Another story of barbarous and
inhuman treatment of reputed witches is told in a
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small and scarce volume called "A True and Full Re-
lation of the Witches at Pittenweem," Edinburgh, 1704.
Of Mr. Macdonald's general poetry we will name but
a few works. They are, " Seven Sobs of a Sorrowfull
Soule for Sinne," by William Hunnis, London, 1597.
This is the second edition ; the first was issued
in 1585 both are very rare. " Byron's Hours of
Idleness," Newark, 1807. This is a fine copy of the
rare first edition. The very severe notice which
it received in the " Edinburgh Review " roused
Lord Byron to the production of the bitter satire,
" English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," of which
Mr. Macdonald has also the first edition. "The Chris-
tian Year," by Keble, 2 volumes, Oxford, 1827 this
is the rare first edition, a facsimile of which was issued
some years ago. " Wordsworth's Poetical Works," 8
volumes, 1843-51, bears the autograph of the poet
an autograph seldom seen written at the request of
Charles Boner on his visit at Rydal Mount, 1st Febru-
ary, 1845 ; it has also Boner's name on the last
volume. Bailey's "Festus," first edition, 1839; later
editions were altered. On the fly-leaf are eight lines
from the poem over the fine signature of Bailey. Mr.
Macdonald has also a copy of " Hazlitt's English
Poets," with the signature and annotations of Alaric A.
Watts, the accomplished editor of the " Literary
Souvenir."
In the domain of Scottish poetry, as might be
expected, Mr. Macdonald is strong. We may begin
with a beautiful copy of John Forbes's " Cantus, Songs,
and Fancies, set to Music to Three, Four, or Five
Parts, both haft for Voices and Viols, with a brief
Introduction to Music/' by T. D.[avidson], Aberdeen,
1682. It is the third edition. Of the first edition,
Aberdeen, 1662, the copy which belonged to George
Chalmers was supposed to be the only one in existence.
It is said to contain the original of the air of " God
Save the Queen."
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An extremely rare book, and, in the present case,
having highly interesting associations of ownership, is
" Watson's Collection of Scots Poems." This copy
belonged to Bishop Percy, editor of the " Reliques of
Ancient English Poetry/' and has the following note
in his handwriting on the fly-leaf of one of the
volumes: "It should seem that this publication is
very scarce and rare, as Ritson, in his ' Scotish Songs,'
2 vols., London, 1794, 12mo, appears never to have
seen or heard of it when he was raking into all the
old collections of this sort, and making inquiries every-
where on this subject. Had he seen the third part
he might have given Montrose's song, p. 107, correctly,
and others of this hero's, which are omitted by him
entirely."
It was issued in three parts in 1706, 1709, and 1711.
The number of copies issued of the first part was very
small. A second edition of it only was published in
1713, with some slight alterations, and sets are often
made up with this second edition of the first part in place
of the edition of 1706. The three parts were intended
for binding in one volume, and it is usual to do so, but
Mr, Macdonald has bound the four volumes (the first,
second, and third parts, and the second edition of the
first part) separately in a uniform and elegant style. It
may be mentioned that, besides the note quoted above,
the volumes bear many other emendations by their
celebrated former possessor. The work was reprinted
in Glasgow in 1869.
The interest of the " Jacobite's Curse " is more acci-
dental than intrinsic. It was printed by Hugh Brown,
Glasgow, 1714, who spelled his Christian name thus
Huhg, and subscribed himself " printer to the Univer-
sity." The printing of the book is in keeping with the
illiterateness of the imprint. Dr. Robert Chambers
in a note on this volume says, " How highly it speaks
for the literary status of the western university in 1714,
that Huhg Brown was its printer." Dr. Chambers
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should have stated that the Senatus of the University
repudiated Huhg Brown's claim to be their printer.
(See appendix to M'Ure's " History of Glasgow,"
second edition, 1830.)
Of Allan Ramsay's Poems, Mr. Macdonald has,
amongst several other editions, that issued by Thomas
Kuddiman, 2 volumes, Edinburgh, 1721-8, having both
portraits, and bearing the autograph of Alexander
Duncan, of Lundie, ancestor of the Earl of Camper-
down. He has also the handsomely printed and
illustrated edition of the " Gentle Shepherd," issued
by the famous Glasgow printers, Foulis.
The most popular books among the people of Scot-
land during the three centuries succeeding the intro-
duction of printing were undoubtedly (excluding the
Bible and some other religious works) Barbour's
"Bruce" and Blind Harry's "Wallace." Almost
every Scottish poet, and notably Burns, speaks of them
with affection as among the earliest books they read.
The influence they exercised may be plainly traced in
the writings of our national bard, and in those of other
less gifted but as patriotic countrymen. The rugged
narrative of the valiant deeds of the national heroes
ministered to that spirit of almost aggressive independ-
ence characteristic of the untravelled and untutored
Scot, and especially to the hatred of England, which it
has taken many generations of peaceful union and
intercourse to subdue. No other books were more
read, and consequently it is extremely difficult to get
clean and perfect copies. Mr. Macdonald has a con-
siderable number in fine condition.
The " Tripatriarchichon, or the Lives of the Patri-
archs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," in verse, Edinburgh,
1705 this is a volume by Andrew S} r mson, author of
a " Large Description of Galloway." The present copy
is from the library of the late David Laing. Bound
up with it are the very rare elegies by the same writer
respecting which Lord Dundrennan in his notice intro-
276 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
du>ctory to Symson's Galloway says, " Symson was also
the author of several elegies. The editor is not aware of
the precise period at which they were printed. They
are of considerable rarity, and he has only seen one
copy, which was most politely communicated to him by
Sir Walter Scott. It is bound up with the ' Tripatri-
archichon,' but has no title-page and bears no date."
A rare volume, around the authoress of which con-
siderable interest has gathered, is among Mr. Mac-
donald's possessions. It is entitled " Miscellany
Poems, by Mrs. Jane Adam, in Cartsdyke." It is
a 12mo, published in Glasgow in 1734. To her is
ascribed, and justly we think, the authorship of the fine
ballad, " There's nae Luck about the House." The
Rev. John Sim, finding a manuscript copy of the ballad
amongst the papers of William Julius Mickle, the
translator of the " Lusiad " of Camoens, when he was
at work on a new edition of Mickle's works, eagerly
seized it and incorporated it in his book. This as-
sumption of authorship was disputed by Cromek in his
" Select Scottish Poems," and a warm controversy
ensued. Alexander Rodger, a Greenock gentleman,
wrote a very conclusive vindication of Jean Adam's
claim, which was published in Greenock in 1866. Her
little book was issued by subscription, and not the
least interesting thing about it is the list of subscribers'
names. After supplying the 123 persons who had sub-
scribed, Miss Adam shipped off a considerable number
of copies to Boston, in America, for which she never
received payment. It is sad to relate that she died
friendless in the Town's Hospital at Glasgow, and was
buried at its expense.
The following works are now rare : Court of Session
Garland, 1839, with supplementary tractates; Select
Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland,
edited by David Laing, Edinburgh, 1822 108 copies
printed ; two new editions were published recently.
Various Pieces of Fugitive Scottish Poetry, princi-
MR. MACDONALD'S LIBRARY. 277
pally of the seventeenth century, Edinburgh, 1823-5
72 copies printed ; a second collection was issued in
1853, of which 70 copies were issued. The first con-
tained 42 pieces, and the second 48 pieces. Mr. Mac-
donald has both. Brash and Reid's Original Poetry
this is a collection of separate pieces issued in penny
numbers and collected into 4 volumes. A complete
collection like the present is not easily formed.
Of the works of Robert Burns Mr. Macdonald has a
number of editions, some of them uncommon. He has
the first edition of the " Letters to Clarinda," Glasgow,
1802 (suppressed), and the " Address to the Deil," with
answer by Lauderdale, 1795. He has also the works of
the contemporaries of Burns Janet Little, John
Lapraik, David Sillar, etc., all of which have risen in
value by reason of their connection with the poet.
Mr. Macdonald's other poetical possessions include
first editions of the following works : Poems of
Michael Bruce (Edinburgh, 1770, 250 copies printed),
Poems of Robert Ferguson (Edinburgh, 1773), Poems
of Alexander Wilson (Paisley, 1790), Campbell's
Pleasures of Hope (Edinburgh, 1799), the same
writer's Pilgrims of Glencoe (London, 1842), a presen-
tation copy to the Misses Gray, Glasgow, " from their
affectionate cousin, the author," Hogg's Scottish Pas-
toral (Edinburgh, 1801), the first printed of the
productions of the Shepherd, his Mountain Bard (a
presentation copy), Graharne's Sabbath (Edinburgh,
1804), Tannahill's Soldier's Return (Paisley, 1807), the
earliest of Tannahill's works, his poems (1817, with
autograph letter to his friend James Barr " Blythe
Jamie Barr frae Kilbarchan's toun " dated Paisley,
1807), Tennant's Anster Fair (Edinburgh, 1812),
Hugh Miller's Poems, by a Journeyman Mason
(Inverness, 1827), Pollok's Course of Time (2 vols.,
Edinburgh, 1827), Robert Nicol's Poems and Lyrics
(published at Edinburgh in 1835, but printed at the
" Advertiser " Office, Dundee, a very rare volume), also
278 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
copies of the following works bearing autographs, having
notes, or some other special feature investing them
with an interest distinct from other copies of the same
works : Dunbar's Poems (edited by David Laing, 2
volumes, Edinburgh, 1834). This is the editor's copy,
and contains many notes and alterations in his hand-
writing. It has also the supplement and the cancelled
leaves referred to in the preface to the book. Cunning-
ham's Songs of Scotland, 4 volumes, 1825. Inserted
is Cunningham's poem, " The Thistle grew aboon the
Rose " in his own handwriting, and above his signature.
Peter Buchan's Gleanings of Scarce Ballads, Peter-
head, 1825. This is William Motherwell's copy, and
bears many notes by him. Mr. Macdonald has also
Motherwell's copy of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border. He would be a bold man or a heretical one
who would steal a book with so terribly significant a
warning
" William Motherwell says this^book is his
Who shall gainsay him ?
He that dares do it
May the meikle deil flay him."
A manuscript volume of some interest contains the
letters of Captain Charles Gray, R.M., who published
a volume of poetry entitled " Lays and Lyrics,'*
etc. , the first edition of which appeared at Malta in 1836.
It subsequently went through several editions. Another
interesting manuscript volume contains unpublished
songs by Wm. Glen, author of " A Wee Bird cam' to
oor Ha' Door." The volume was written when Glen
was residing in Aberfoyle. Not content with having
the first book printed in Glasgow, Mr. Macdonald
has also the first printed in Stirling. It is George
Buchanan's "Admonition Direct to the Trew Lordis,
Maintenaris of Justice and Obedience to the Kingis
Grace," printed by Robert Lekprevick, King's printer,
who also printed in Edinburgh and Saint Andrews.
An account of Lekprevick, with a bibliographical list
MR. MACDON AID'S LIBRARY. 279
of the productions of his press, was contributed to the
" Stirling Observer " (April and May, 1881), by Mr.
A. C. M'Intyre, and reprinted in pamphlet form. As
only thirty copies of this interesting tractate were
issued, it would be a service to bibliographers to re-issue
it in a larger form and greater number of copies.
A very rare black-letter volume is the Gowrie Con-
spiracy, printed in London by Valentine Simmes, 1600.
It is the earliest account of the plot. The attempt
took place at St. Johnstoun on the 5th of August,
1600, and the account, it will be observed, was issued
in the same year, and is further said to be the king's
own narrative. The first edition, as we have said, is
very rare, and so is the second edition, issued by the
same printer in 1603, but not in black letter. The
work was reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany.
Of Topographical (Scottish) works, Mr. Macdonald
has the very scarce first edition of Martin's St. Kilda,
London, 1698 ; the equally scarce description of the
same island by Buchan, first edition, Edinburgh, 1741;
Dean Monro's Description of the Western Islands,
first edition, Edinburgh, 1774; and some hundreds of
county, town, and village histories. In this department
of literature Mr. Macdonald is probably the only for-
midable rival to Mr. Gray. It would be well if all
rivalries were as friendly. In describing Mr. Gray's
library we gave a list of places represented in his topo-
graphical collection and we need not repeat the list.
Enough to say that Mr. Macdonald has a very fine
and extensive collection.
The following books are all worthy of mention : Up
and Down in the Lennox, by Peter Dun. This appeared
in the "Stirling Observer" during 1879, 1880, and
1881, and has been nicely mounted into a quarto
volume and a title page printed for it. Mr. Dun was
station-master for some years at Port of Menteith, and
published a volume entitled a Summer at the Lake of
Menteith. History of the Family of Buchanan, by
280 THE. LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Buchanan of Auchmar, Glasgow, 1 723. This is the first
edition of a work frequently reprinted. The present copy
formerly belonged to John Graham of Killern, factor to
the Duke of Montrose, who was captured by that bold
marauder Rob Boy while collecting rents at Chapel-
Aroch, near Gartmore. Rob Roy made him pen a letter
to the Duke, demanding that his Grace should cancel
any debt owing by Macgregor to him, and compensate
Macgregor for the destruction of his house. After
detaining his prisoner for about a week Rob Roy
carried him to Kirkintilloch and set him at liberty.
Graham's name appears in the list of subscribers, which
list, by the way, was omitted in all subsequent editions,
and the volume bears his book-plate. Mr. Macdonald
has also a large-paper copy of the reprint published at
Glasgow in 1820. It belonged to John Buchanan, the
" J. B." of Glasgow Past and Present, and an accom-
plished archaeologist, and has many notes in his hand-
writing. A volume of very great value is the first
edition of The Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic
Manuscript, emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay, Lyon
King of Arms, 1542. It was printed in 1822 in an
edition of 100 copies, and was reprinted some years
ago. Gordon's Family of Gordon, two volumes,
1726-7, a rare and valuable work. Memorie of the
Somervilles a fine copy of this work. On the title-
page, in Robert Southey's neat handwriting, is inscribed,
" From Lord Somerville to Robert Southey."
The two following works, edited by Charles Kirk-
patrick Sharpe, are highly curious fifty copies were
printed of each A Pairt of the Life of Lady Margaret
Cunninghame, daughter of the Earl of Glencairn,
Edinburgh, 1826. This is the editor's copy, and has
his autograph and notes. Memorial of the Conversion
of Jane Livingstone, Lady Warristoun, with an account
of her Carriage at her Execution, July, 1600, Edin-
burgh, 1827 ; a presentation copy to William Motherwell.
Mr. Macdonald's copy of Sir Archibald Edmond-
MR MACDONALD'S LIBRARY. 281
stone's Genealogical Account of the Family of Edmond-
stone of Duntreath formerly belonged to Mark Napier,
author of Montrose and the Covenanters ; his copy of
the first edition of Hugh Miller's Old Red Sandstone
was presented by the author to Robert Chambers, as
was also his copy of the Footprints of the Creator. It
is worth noting that the latter book was considered a
reply to the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
of which Robert Chambers was then the reputed and
now the acknowledged author. Accompanying the
volume is a long letter to Chambers from Miller. Mr.
Macdonald has also Miller's Letters on the Herring
Fishing in the Moray Frith, Inverness, 1829, being
the reprint in book form of his first contribution to the
" Inverness Courier."
While speaking of presentation books we may note
a copy of Chambers's Minor Antiquities of Edinburgh,
presented by the author to Miss Agnes Strickland, a
copy of the Auchinleck Tracts, presented by Sir Alex-
ander Boswell to Dr. Jamieson, author of the Dictionary
of the Scottish Language, and a copy of Dr. Living-
stone's Missionary Travels, bearing his autograph, pre-
sented to Captain Beecher, R.N. Books bearing the
autographs of Charles Dickens, William Tennant,
author of Anster Fair, Sir J. Y. Simpson, Dr. Thomas
Chalmers, John Foster, and other less celebrated
persons are also in the library.
The Life and Adventures of the Black Dwarf,
Edinburgh, 1820, is notable as one of the early pro-
ductions of William Chambers ; it was both written
and printed by him in his shop in Leith Walk. An-
other early Chambers volume, but written by Robert,
is Notices of the Most Remarkable Fires in Edinburgh,
1385 to 1824, Edinburgh, 1824. Mr. Macdonald has
also sets more or less nearing completeness of the
works of the brothers Chambers, Sir Thomas Dick
Lauder, J. G. Dalyell, James Maidment, Sir Alexander
Boswell, and Professor Cosmo Innes.
282 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Coining to the literature of Glasgow we find a very
complete collection. From the press of Robert Sanders,
the younger, there are nearly thirty rare and curious
chap-books, some in black-letter, printed between 1696
and 1717, and bound in two volumes. These present
us with the earliest form of the chap-book. The very
temporary purpose which chap literature was intended
to serve, the miserable paper on which they were
invariably printed, and the entire absence of any desire
to preserve them on the part of the class who purchased
them, have all contributed to make these curious, ill-
written, but highly interesting booklets very difficult
to procure. Their preservation has been left very much
to private effort. Mr. Macdonald's collection of chaps
is very extensive.
Of M'Ure's View of Glasgow, 1736, Mr. Macdonald
has a complete and good copy. He has also a volume
of tracts from M'Ure's library, with the inscription,
" This booke belongs to John M'Ure, clerk to the
Register of Seasins at Glasgow, 24 Aprile, 1713."
The list of contents is written out in M'Ure's own hand.
Amongst other interesting things this volume contains
the first book-sale catalogue known to have been issued
in Glasgow. It has been reprinted by the Archaeo-
logical Society of Glasgow.
A most remarkable trio of volumes bear the title of
" Memorabilia chiefly relating to Glasgow and the
Clyde, with manuscript notes by Peter Mackenzie
of the "Reformers' Gazette," and John Buchanan
LL.D., banker, Glasgow. They contain all sorts of
newspaper and other cuttings, dealing with subjects
connected with the city. To describe their contents is
beyond us in the space to which we are necessarily
limited. After looking through them the thought
suggests itself that it would be much easier to enume-
rate what is not in them than what is. Another
remarkable volume in Mr. Macdonald's library is a
very thick folio into which are mounted about 500
MR. MACDON 'AID'S LIBRARY. 283
broadsides. They are on all subjects royal proclama-
tions, executions, last dying speeches, etc. and relate
principally to Glasgow. Our attention was called to
one entitled "Address to the Inhabitants of Great
Britain and Ireland," signed " By order of the Com-
mittee of Organization for forming a Provisional
Government," and dated "Glasgow, 1st April, 1820."
This copy was posted on the gate of the engineering
works of Messrs. Claud Gird wood & Co., Commercial
Road, Hutchesontown, late on Saturday night, and was
taken down by Mr. Girdwood on Monday morning ; it
was preserved in his family for half a century and then
presented to Mr. Macdonald.
Of exceptional value is Mr. Macdonald's copy of the
first edition of Zachary Boyd's " Last Battell of the
Soule in Death." It contains the Latin dedication to
King Charles, which, from the following note which
appeared in Messrs. Ellis & White's catalogue relating
to David Laing's copy, would appear to be almost
unique : " It is well known to collectors that old
Scottish books are more difficult than any other to find
in faultless condition ; and among old Scottish books
there are perhaps few rarer in fine condition than this
curious work by Zachary Boyd. The present is pro-
bably the finest copy known, being six inches in height
(with many rough leaves, and for the most part clean).
. . . The possessor may congratulate himself on
having the finest copy in existence. The Latin Dedi-
cation to King Charles, of which only one copy exists,
is inserted in facsimile at the end of the second volume."
As Mr. Macdonald's is not the copy referred to in
the above note, there are, therefore, two copies of the
dedication in existence. The gem of the collection, how-
ever, is a copy of the same Zachary Boyd's " Cleare
Forme of Catechising before the giving of the Sacra-
ment of the Lord's Supper." To this are subjoined two
compends of the "Catechisme fit for Little Children,
by M. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of God's Word, at
284 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Glasgow" printed by George Anderson, Glasgow,
1639. It is the first book printed in Glasgow (the
first production of the Glasgow press was a pamphlet of
eight leaves, see page 146) and no other copy is known.
Gabriel Neil, the faithful biographer of Boyd, had
never seen a copy, and it is probable had never heard of
the work, unless the following entry in his list of
Boyd's printed works be meant for it : " A small
Catechism on the Principles of Religion, 18mo." It is
a 12mo volume of 120 pages, and is dedicated " To the
Most Religious and Noble Ladie the Countesse of
Argyle, etc." In the course of the dedication, Boyd
takes occasion to refer to her ladyship's husband, " the
Noble and Potent Earle whose vertues have most
Oriently shined in our Generall Assembly, which his
Lordship did much honour with his presence, and
help with his counsell." The compends are inscribed
to the daughter of the " Noble and Potent Earle,"
Lady D. Anne Campbell, " of tender yeeres." The
earl whose " vertues Oriently shined" was Archibald,
eighth Earl, afterwards created first Marquis of Argyle,
who was executed in 1661. The book is quite perfect,
and undoubtedly unique. Mr. Macdonald is the pos-
sessor of one of the three copies extant of the first
Glasgow Directory. It was published by John Tait,
stationer, in 1783. The title reads, "John Tait's
Directory for the City of Glasgow, Villages of Ander-
ston, Calton, and Gorbals ; also for the towns of
Paisley, Greenock, Port-Glasgow, and Kilmarnock,
from the 15th May, 1783, to the 15th May, 1784.
Glasgow : Printed for John Tait, stationer, the pub-
lisher, 1783." The Kilmarnock list arrived too late
for insertion. The volume was reprinted in 1871,
when it was stated that only one copy of the original
was known to exist. It was in the library of the
late Adam Sim of Cultermains, and was reproduced
by permission of Mr. Sim's executors. The third
copy was in the library of the late John Buchanan,
MR. MACDONALD'S LIBRARY. 285
who, when the reprint was issued, wrote an interest-
ing letter to the newspapers giving an account of the
early Glasgow directories, and refuting the statement
that Mr. Sim's copy was the only one in existence.
Before Tait's Directory was reprinted, two other
claimants to the honour of issuing the first Glasgow
Directory made their appearance. First, Jones'
Directory for 1789, which gave place to the same
publisher's Directory for 1787, which in its turn was
vanquished by the one we have been describing. In
connection with this, we may mention Mr. Macdonald's
valuable series of maps and plans of the city. They
begin with Barry's plan of Glasgow, which appeared
in Gibson's History of the City, 1777 ; the next is
M 'Arthur's (1779) map a larger-sized one appeared the
year previous; next follows Lumsden's map (1784), a
very rare map ; then follows Richardson's map of Glas-
gow and seven miles round (1795). This map is
extremely interesting, because it gives the names of
the proprietors of estates round Glasgow. The other
maps are, that which appeared in the first edition of
Denholm's History, 1797 ; that in Chapman's Picture
of Glasgow, 1806 ; that in M'Feat's Guide to Glasgow,
1821; that in Wade's History, 1822; Dr. Cleland's
Map of the Ten Parishes of Glasgow, 1822 ; Smith's
Map of the City, 1828 ; and many more of later date.
Views in Glasgow and Neighbourhood, lithographed
by David Allan, with letterpress by J. M. Leighton,
1835 : Fairbairn's Relics of Ancient Architecture in
Glasgow ; Nichol's (of Montrose) Views in Glasgow ;
and other illustrated works on Glasgow are in the
library.
A rare little volume is that entitled "Glasgow
Homer, yclept Blind Alick," Glasgow, 1830, with
characteristic portrait of Alick, staff in hand and
violin under his arm. Only 24 copies were printed.
Another curiosity is the " Warning of the Eternal
Spirit to the City of Glasgow," 1711.
286 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
An interesting Glasgow pamphlet is "A Sermon
Preached at the Opening of the Synod of Glasgow
and Air, at Glasgow, 9th October, 1792, by William
Dunn, A.M., Minister of Kirkintilloch . Glasgow :
Printed for and sold by Brash & Reid, 1792."
The author in an advertisement says : " It is now
offered to the public and dedicated to the friends of
the Constitution in Church and State and of the people,
that such as have thought proper to approve of it may
be more satisfied that their approbation was not alto-
gether misapplied ; and those of different principles may
be convinced that their censures were not well founded."
The publication and dedication of the sermon led to
the author being tried and sentenced to imprisonment
in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh for three months.
Mr. Dunn was a good and worthy man, much be-
loved in his parish, and his memory has scarcely yet
died out. His requiem was sung by a local poet, Wm.
Muir of Campsie, whose poems were published in Glas-
gow in 1818, and are of much merit and little known.
A volume of considerable local interest is the first
Police Act for Glasgow, 1800 In this copy the names
of the first Commissioners are written in, and a map is
inserted showing the division of the city into wards.
Mr. Macdonald has the numerous works of Dr.
James Cleland on Glasgow, and also the spirited con-
futations of Mrs. Agnes Baird. These latter, of which
Mr. Macdonald has a complete set, are extremely scarce.
Mr. Macdonald has devoted some attention to the
collection of Glasgow periodicals. The following is a
list of those in his possession dating before 1854 :
1750-1 Gillies' Exhortations to 1795? Poetry, Original and Se-
the Inhabitants of the South lect. 4 vols. (circa 1795,
Parish of Glasgow. 2 vols. Brash & Reid).
1770-2,3 The Glasgow Magazine, 1795 The Culler.
one number issued in 1770 ; 1800 ? The Polyhymnia
continued in 1772 as the (circa 1800).
Glasgow Universal Mag- 1804 The Theatrical Register,
azine, 1772-3. 2 vols.
1783 Glasgow Magazine. 1805 The Selector. 4 vols.
MR. MACDONALD'S LIBRARY.
287
1806 The Gleaner.
181 1-2 The Glasgow Magazine.
3 vols.
1812? The Druid.
1813 The Monthly Eepository .
The Student.
The Wanderer.
Attic Stories.
The British Magazine.
The Spirit of the Union.
The Enquirer.
Glasgow New Miscellany.
The Literary Eeporter.
1817
1818
1818
1819
1819
1821
1822
1822
2 vols.
1822 The Literary Melange.
2 vols.
1824 Theatrical Observer.
1824 M'Phun's Glasgow Mag-
azine.
1824 The Emmet. 2 vols.
1824 The John Knox.
1824 The Western Luminary.
1825 The Conjurer.
1825-6 Heath's Northern Look-
ing Glass.
1826 Chronicles of the Isles.
Edited by Gabriel Neil and
Walter Duncan.
1826 The Academic.
1827 The Ant. Original and
Selected. 2 vols.
1828 The College Stethoscope
and Literary Index.
1829 Brownlie's Police Eeports.
1829 Au Teachdaire Gae'lach.
2 vols.
1829-32 The Thistle. 3 vols.
1830 Glasgow Athenaeum.
1830 The Camera Obscura.
1830 The Opera Glass.
1831 The Herald to the Trades'
Advocate.
1831-7 The Reformers' Gazette.
7 vols. 8vo.
1832 The Quizzing Glass.
1832 The Literary Museum.
1832 The Literary Rambler.
1832 The Day.
1832-3 The Chameleon, by Thos.
Atkinson. 3 vols.
1832 The Glasgow Punch.
1833 Bennett's Glasgow Mag-
azine.
1835 The Salt Water Gazette.
1835 Glasgow Journal.
1836 Companion to the Ne-
cropolis.
1839-40 Peel Club Papers.
1841 The Chartists' Circular.
1842 The Eclectic Miscellany.
1842 The Banner of the West
and Oddfellows' Register.
1846 Paul Pry.
1847 The Daily Exhibitor.
1848-9 The Satirist and Glasgow
Punch.
1848 The Dramatic Review.
1850 The Athenaeum and
Clydesdale Miscellany.
1850 The Freeman.
1850-4 Northern Notes and
Queries.
The copy of The Chameleon, 1833, is of more than
ordinary interest because of a letter attached, written
by Thomas Atkinson, the editor about the last letter
he wrote. Of a kindred interest is the catalogue of
the sale of his furniture at his house, 1 1 Miller Street,
and the preface to an intended work, to be called The
Legacy. This preface was suppressed. Atkinson was
a well-known Glasgow bookseller and wrote largely,
288 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
both in poetry and prose. Daniel Macmillan, the
founder of the well-known London publishing house of
that name, was apprentice with him for some time.
Of somewhat peculiar interest is a pamphlet on
Spiritualism, written by Sir James Bain, Lord Provost
of Glasgow 1874-7. It was issued privately in 1864,
and the author afterwards thought fit to withdraw it.
Among the curiosities of the Glasgow division are the
little books for children issued in Glasgow by the Lums-
dens and other firms. The earliest is entitled The History
of Master Jackey and Miss Harriot, to which is added
a few maxims for the improvement of the mind, dedi-
cated to the good children of Europe, Asia, Africa, and
America; Glasgow, J. and M. Robertson and J. Duncan,
1785. It consists of thirty-one pages, and is embellished
with 24 cuts. As showing the pabulum provided for child-
ren in these days, and that illustrated books for children
are not a nineteenth century idea altogether, we subjoin
a list of books published by Messrs. Robertson & Dun-
can, copied from the last page of Master Jackey.
Tom Thumb's Play-Book - |d. New England Primer 2d.
The London Cries - - Id. Gulliver's Voyage to Lilli-
Entertaining Fables for put - - 2d.
Children - - Id. The Lilliputian Masquerade 2d.
Nurse True Love's Christ- The History of Little King
mas-Box - - Id. Pippin 2d.
The Puzzling Cap - - Id. Fairy Tales - 2d.
Tom Thumb's Folio - - Id. The Fairing, or Golden Toy 3d.
Jacky Dandy's Delight - Id. A Bag of Nuts Eeady
Death and Burial of Cock Cracked - - 3d.
Eobin - Id. The Eoyal Primer - - 3d.
The Father's Gift - - Id. Sugar Plumb ; or, Sweet
The Child's Guide to his Amusement - 4d.
Letters ; or, The Horn- The Picture Exhibition - 4d.
Book Improved - - 2d. The History of the Holy
Tom Thumb's Exhibition - 2d. Bible - 6d.
Some works of a miscellaneous character yet re-
main to be noticed. Increase Mather's Kometogra-
phia ; or, a Discourse concerning Comets, Boston,
1683, is an early specimen of New England printing.
MR. MACDONALD'S LIBRARY. 289
The art was introduced into Boston in 1676. A
Counterblaste to Tobacco, by King James, imprinted
at London by R. B., 1604 ; a perfect copy of the first-
edition. It consists of thirteen leaves. It is very
seldom seen now, and Mr. Arber had recource to a copy
in the Bodleian Library when he reprinted the work.
Rules of Good Deportment or of Good Breeding, by
Adam Petrie, Edinburgh, 1720 ; the first edition, now
very rare. The work was reprinted in 1835, with a
preface by Lord Dundrennan ; 45 copies printed.
Another curious work by the same author, and bearing
a similar title, is Rules of Good Deportment for Church
Officers, Edinburgh, 1730. Scot's Fencing Master, by
Sir William Hope, Edinburgh, 1687 ; the first edition.
Monteath's Theatre of Mortality, 1704-13; the first
edition, contains the scarce star leaves.
A volume of broadsides and proclamations of a most
remarkable description has recently been added to Mr.
Macdonald's library. It begins with the murder of
Archbishop Sharp, and continues to 1696. It contains
the latest proclamations of James II. of England, and
the earliest issued by William and Mary. A number
of them relate to Covenanters, and one of them, printed
three days after the event, gives an account of the
taking of Argyle at Inchinnan Bridge.
As we said at the commencement, this library is
essentially a Scottish one, and we think our birds'-eye
view will bear out our statement. But it is not to be
supposed that it is entirely Scottish. The presence of
important works chiefly relating to Scotland decided us
to give attention to them in preference to other works,
of perhaps greater value, but of less interest. These
have occupied us so long as to leave only room to
mention that the library also contains first editions of
most of the works of Dickens and Thackeray, and the
best editions of many other standard authors.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
LIBRARY OF BERNARD B. MACGEORGE, ESQ.,
WOODSIDE CRESCENT.
A Library of Fine Art and First Editions Fine
Collection of Blake s Works Original Letter and
Poem by Blake, never before printed Extensive and
fine Collection of the Works of John Ruskin Mag-
nificent Collection of Etchings by Meryon Other Fine
Art Books First Editions Byron, Moore's copy of
the rare volume of Poems, 1807 ; Lines on the Birth
of a Son to Mr. Hoppner Shelley, Beckford on
Queen Mob Keats Tennyson Collier s Works and
Reprints Grays Elegy Scott Rogers, Amusing
Notes on Human Life, by Beckford Boccaccio's De-
cameron Swift, Tale of a Tub, Gullivers Travels
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Johnson Goldsmith
Beckford' s Vathek Lamb Dickens Thackeray
Undine, illustrated by Thackeray Scottish Books-
Glasgow Books Album containing Letters by Dickens,
Dumas, and Reade Poems in autographs of Long-
fellow and Swinburne Conclusion.
THIS is a handsome library. All the books are in
superb condition, beautifully bound and many enriched
with valuable additions, rendering them unique. Were
we inclined to be alliterative we would say that it is a
library of fine art and first editions. Standard works
in other branches of knowledge than art, and in other
than first editions, are of course in the library, but
high above every other these two features stand
prominent. We need make no apology for devoting
most of our space to what are the characteristics of the
MR. MAGGEORGE'S LIBRARY. 291
library, and leaving the imagination of the reader to
fill up the background of the picture with all the ac-
cessories of a good general library, simply assuring him
that if he be reasonable in his filling in he will not find
the catalogue disappoint him. The library is in every
respect a modern one. It does not range back farther
than about one hundred and fifty years, and the poets,
painters, and humorists of that period are most fully
represented. Within these self-imposed limits Mr.
Macgeorge has had the pleasure of making many con-
quests, and his library can well rank with the best in
its own special province. It is indeed a library for a
bibliophile to revel in, abounding as it does in proof-
plates and tall copies.
Adopting a usage which has the sanction of good au-
thority, we will divide our discourse into heads, a firstly
and a secondly, and the first of these again into sub-
heads, firstly, secondly, and thirdly. Our first main
division is Art, and its sub-divisions are Blake, Ruskin,
and Meryon.
The collection of Blake's works in Mr. Macgeorge's
possession is a large and very valuable one. All the
volumes are in exquisite condition. The whole of the
Blake collection formerly in the library of Lord Beacons-
field, and which once belonged to the author of the
Curiosities of Literature, is here, and also a few volumes
from the Beckford library. We think it but just to
name some of the finest of the Blakes. The Book of
Job : large paper, and proof plates. This is perhaps
the most powerful of Blake's works. Blair's Grave :
plates in two states, prints and proofs before letters.
Songs of Innocence : with original drawing of title-page
inserted. Songs of Experience. These two volumes are
lovely to look upon, with their firie harmony of colour
and quaint caligraphy. Little Tom the Sailor : a speci-
men of what Blake called wood-cut on pewter. The
Gates of Paradise : this is earlier than the ordin-
ary copies, including that in the British Museum.
292 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
The Vision of the Daughters of Albion : has extra title
and plate added. Hayley's Triumphs of Temper : large
paper, and his Ballads, also large paper. The First
Book of Urizen, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Mrs.
Godwin's Original Stories, Burger's Leonora, and
Young's Night Thoughts.
Mr. Macgeorge is also the possessor of a precious
memento of Blake in the form of a letter and poem in
which the great poet-artist gratefully acknowledges his
indebtedness to Flaxman. It is of distinct biographical
and poetic worth, and as it has not to our knowledge
been printed before, we do ourselves the high honour
of publishing it. The letter is addressed on the out-
side to Mr. Flaxman, Buckingham Street, Fitzroy
Square, and the postal date is 12 o'clock, 12 Sept.,
1800. It reads
My Dearest Friend, It is to you I owe All my present Happiness.
It is to you I owe perhaps the Principal Happiness of my life. I
have presumed on your friendship in staying so long away and not
calling to know of your welfare, but hope, now every thing is nearly
completed for our removal to Felpham, that I shall see you on Sunday,
as we have appointed Sunday afternoon to call on Mrs. Flaxman at
Hampstead. I send you a few lines which I hope you will excuse.
And as the time is now arrived when men shall again converse in
Heaven and walk with angels I know you will be pleased with the
intention, and hope you will forgive the poetry.
To my Dearest Friend John Flaxman these lines.
I bless thee, O Father of Heaven and Earth, that ever I saw Flax-
man's face.
Angels stand round my Spirit in Heaven, the blessed of Heaven are
my friends upon Earth.
When Flaxman was taken to Italy Fuseli was given to me for a
season,
And now Flaxman hath given me Hayley his friend to be mine, such
my lot upon Earth.
Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in childhood and
shew'd me his face,
Ezra came with Isaah the Prophet, but Shakespeare in riper years
gave me his hand,
Paracelsus and Behmen appeared to me, terrors appeared in the
Heavens above,
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And in Hell beneath, and a mighty and awful change threatened the
Earth.
The American "War began. All its dark horrors passed before my
face
Across the Atlantic to France. Then the French Revolution com-
menc'd in thick clouds,
And my Angels have told me that seeing such visions I could not
subsist on the Earth,
But by my conjunction with Flaxman who knows to forgive Nervous
Fear.
I remain, for ever yours,
WILLIAM BLAKE.
The collection of Ruskin's works is splendid in its
extent and condition. One great folio contains a large
number of original pencil drawings signed and dated,
<lone by Ruskin in his youth. The subjects of them
have been found in the Lake Country, Yorkshire, Ox-
ford, Cambridge, Scotland, Switzerland, and elsewhere,
And their treatment shows unmistakeable indications of
a master hand. Another fine folio is the Examples of
Venetian Architecture. All the plates are proofs on
India paper, with etchings of some, and two splendid
portraits of the great art critic, one of which is a remarque
proof of Herkomer's picture, have been inserted. The
somewhat little known first edition of the Modern
Painters is here. It is in one volume, and was issued in
1843 by a "Graduate of Oxford." Mr. Macgeorge's
copy of the five-volume edition is of special value as the
gift from one great writer to another " Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, with John Ruskin's affectionate regards." It
is an exceptionally fine copy, and is one of the few
early ones having the misnumbered plate, valued for
their fine impressions. Plate 47 in volume 4 the
Quarries of Carrara was numbered 49. The mistake
was discovered early, but not before a few copies had
been issued. Some of the plates of the Stones of Venice
are in two states, and many others of the volumes have
special features of value. The collection is probably
as large as any in existence, numbering altogether
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over two hundred volumes and pamphlets. Nearly
everything that Mr. Ruskin has written is in the
library, not only in the original editions but in subse-
quent ones. Works to which he contributed by pen
or pencil, reviews, magazines, catalogues, albums, blue
books, transactions of societies, with sketches of his
life and work, bibliographies, etc., are present, forming
an apparatus for the study of Ruskinism of a most
comprehensive kind.
The library also contains a magnificent and complete
collection of etchings by the great French artist
Charles Meryon in the earliest and subsequent states,
many of them unique. There is no exaggeration in
saying that the collection is unsurpassable. The ex-
treme rarity of Meryon's etchings is well set forth
by Mr. Frederick Wedmore in his charming little
book, " Meryon and Meryon's Paris."
" Meryon executed during his four great years, from 1850 to 1854,
some dozen and a half, or twenty plates, which in their ensemble
guarantee his fame. A quite limited number of impressions having
been taken in the course of successive years, M6ryon himself at last
destroyed the plates ploughed deep burin lines across them, in a
moment of despair, as Mr. Hamerton picturesquely informs us. I
thank Heaven he did. For the truth is, if that was madness, there
was much method in it. The plates were used up hopelessly ; and
though no doubt they might have been again retouched, steeled, and
so reproduced by the thousand in the poorest of their forms, the artist
in destroying them did in the main but protect us from the eventual
outpouring, in the interests of the shop, of masses of misleading
impressions, libels upon his art. His works are rare the best of
them, in the best states, very rare ; but there are enough of them, as
there are enough of Rembrandt's and of the Liber prints of Turner, to
be seen by those anxious to see, and not too many to be cherished
and held as precious things. Etchings are works of highest art only
on the condition that the impressions submitted are of finest quality.
The sharpness of the lines, the clearness of the lights, the richness of
the transfer from copper to paper these things, in their proper com-
bination, are only possible while the plate remains flawless. And
though impressions from Meryon's plates must now always be rare^
the plates were not destroyed too soon."
Coming at a considerable distance after these three
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great names in respect to the extent of the collections,
the following artists and art writers are represented by
fine works, some by a score of examples and some by
two or three. J. M. W. Turner a magnificent copy
of the Harbours of England, artist's proofs, very large
paper, some of the plates in two states ; some of his
finest works, illustrations in proof to Scott, Campbell,
Rogers, and the Annual Tour. Many separate proofs
with touches and notes, and some of his pencil draw-
ings, are present.
Many of Cruikshank's illustrations ; some of Row-
landson's work ; Bewick's Birds, Quadrupeds, and
Fables, in original editions, large paper, and finest con-
dition possible ; much of Leech's work ; the three
editions of Hamerton's Etchers and Etching, with his
other works ; Sir William Stirling Maxwell's Annals
of the Artists of Spain ; Entry of Charles V. into
Bologna, 1529, privately printed, and several of his
other works, are all in the library.
A very fine copy of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painters,
5 volumes, 4 to, printed at Strawberry Hill, is here,
also the re-issue by Major, proof plates on India paper.
Of Deuchar's Etchings there is a large paper copy.
Houbraken and Vertue's Heads of Illustrious Persons
is a beautiful copy from Shandon, the former home of
several of Mr. Macgeorge's books. All the fine works
of Mrs. Jameson, some of those of Richard Doyle, and
Pickering's edition of Walton, and Cotton's Angler,
with plates in two states, are in the collection.
Hill's Etchings in Flanders and Holland, 1816, has
a double set of plates and several etchings, making it
altogether a unique volume. La Reliure Franyaise,
by MM. Marius-Michel, is a most elaborately and pro-
fusely illustrated work on bookbinding, wholly printed
on Japan paper, which has the singular merit of being
bound by the authors, and a fine piece of binding it is
in blue morocco.
Our second head is First Editions, and a very
296 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
potent text it ought to be in the present instance.
The difficulty is where to begin. At the risk of
harking back chronologically further on, we elect to
commence with the Byronic books. The long array
of Lord Byron's works begins with the rare volume of
poems published at Newark in 1807. Moore relates
that Byron sent to press a small quarto volume of
poems in 1806, a copy of which he transmitted to his
friend Dr. Pigot. Dr. Pigot found fault with one of
the poems, and Byron in his presence committed the
whole of the edition, with the exception of two or
three copies, to the flames. " Considering himself
bound to replace the copies of his work which he had
withdrawn, as well as to rescue the general character
of the volume from the stigma this one offender might
bring upon it, he set instantly about preparing a
second edition for the press." The volume was issued
early in 1807, as we find Byron forwarding a copy to
Dr. Pigot on January 13. Only one hundred copies
were printed, and the whole were for friends. It is
needless to say that the appearance of a copy for sale is
very infrequent. The present one belonged to Moore,
the friend and biographer of Byron, and. has a few
autograph notes in pencil, together with a memorandum
of Byron's inserted. In the same year and place was
published Hours of Idleness. This was Byron's first
published work. It contained some new pieces, but
twenty of those which appeared in the previous volume
were left out. A fine large paper copy is in the
library. Issued at six shillings, it cannot now be
obtained at as many pounds. A most savage notice
of it appeared in the " Edinburgh Review," which
stung Byron into a bitter reply in that trenchant
satire, " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." The
first edition of this appeared early in 1809, without
name or date. It was printed by Cawthorne in
London, and almost immediately ran out of print. A
new edition, enlarged and bearing the author's name,
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came out in the same year from the same printer. He
also printed a third and fourth edition in 1810. Mr.
Macgeorge has all. The first and second cantos of
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage appeared in 1812, in
quarto, and in the same year a second edition was
issued in octavo. Canto the third saw the light in
1816, and canto the fourth in 1818. All these are in
the library. Of Byron's next production, the "Waltz,
an Apostrophic Hymn, by Horace Hornem, Esq.,
1813, Mr. Macgeorge has an octavo edition printed
very shortly after the first. The poem appeared
anonymously, and Lord Byron though fit at first to
disavow being the author of it. Mr. Macgeorge has
also fine copies of the first editions of Byron's other
separate pieces, which are too well known to require
mention here.
More rare than most of his works, although of hardly
any poetic worth, is a little volume containing the four
lines which Lord Byron wrote on the birth of John
William Rizzo Hoppner, the son of K. B. Hoppner,
English Consul-General at Venice. They have been
printed before, but are so few that they may well be
given again.-
On John William Rizzo Hoppner, born at Venice
on the eighteenth day of January, 1818.
" His father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so ;
"With (still to keep him in good case)
The health and appetite of Rizzo."
So delighted were the parents of young Hoppner
with the lines, that they had them translated into
Greek, Latin, Italian (also Venetian dialect), German,
French, Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew, Armenian, and
Samaritan, and the whole printed in a little volume
executed in the Seminary of Padua. Each version has
a page to itself, and the whole book consists of eight
leaves. Including memoirs and criticism, Mr. Mac-
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george's Byronic volumes number something over one
hundred.
Similarly complete are the works of Shelley. The
first is " Queen Mab," privately printed in 1813. This
copy has the title-page, so often wanting as to have
given rise to a statement that the work was issued
without one. The truth is the title-page was taken
out by Shelley himself, to avoid prosecution for the
sentiments given utterance to in the book. Mr. Mac-
george has Beckford's copy of the first published edition
of " Queen Mab," 1821. It has several unsparing notes,
the longest and most important of which is
" Verses of such power and tendency are well worthy to obtain the
highest premium from the Satanic School, the first moment that,
thanks to the liberality and tolerance of the present sera, these evil
genii become a body corporate arrayed in direct opposition to our
moral and religious societies. This is, indeed, the very sort of pro-
duction which may be supposed to have come forth on the eve of the
avenging Deluge, just before the second father of mankind entered
the ark, when the original milk of human kindness had stiffened into
a poisonous curd, and the abominable human animal, drunk with
crime and with arrogance, with the strength of the lion and the hoofs of
the ass, kicking off every trammel, pillaged, tortured, and violated
without restraint, spat in the face of Nature, and denied his God."
" Laon and Cythna" was printed in 1817, but ap-
peared in 1818. Some lines in it giving offence, these
were altered and the work re-issued in the same year
under the title of the " Revolt of Islam." So care-
lessly was the change carried out that some few copies
bear the date 1817, instead of 1818. Mr. Macgeorge's
is one of these. In 1819 came " Rosalind and Helen"
and the " Cenci," Italy being the imprint of the latter.
In 1822 his tribute to the memory of Keats,
" Adonais," was printed at Pisa. The present is an ex-
tremely large copy. Many other Shelley volumes are
in the collection. Mr. Macgeorge has also the original
editions of Mrs. Shelley's (Mary Wollstonecraft God-
win) novels, of which the most notable is " Franken-
stein," 1818. A valuable feature of all these Byron
MR. MACGEORGE'S LIBRARY. 299
and Shelley volumes is that they are uncut copies.
The same is true of almost all the books here.
In one respect it is easy to form a set of the works
of Keats they are few, on the other hand, they are
difficult to get. His first published collection of poems
was issued in 1817; "Endyrnion" followed in 1818;
and his only other separate publication was entitled
" Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and other
Poems." It was issued in 1820. All these, in fine
form, are in the library, as well as the various complete
editions of his works, and lives, memorials, and other
biographical works.
The list of Lord Tennyson's works begins with a
large paper copy of the extremely rare volume entitled
" Poems by Two Brothers," published anonymously in
1827. The brothers were the poet laureate and
Charles Tennyson. An enterprising firm of book-
sellers in Louth gave the youthful authors ten pounds
for the copyright of their little book. The volume con-
sisted of 228 pages, containing 102 poems. Lord
Tennyson has never reprinted his contributions, and a
single copy of this rare volume is now worth more
than the Tennyson's received for the whole issue.
Next in date comes the Cambridge Prize Poem,
"Timbuctoo," in 1829; followed in 1830 by "Poems
chiefly Lyrical " ; in 1833 by " Poems"; the " Tribute,"
1837; "Poems," 2 volumes, Moxon, 1842; the same
by the same publisher, 1843 ; again by the same publisher,
1846 ; "The Princess," 1848 ; and so on to the very latest
volume issued, "Becket." One thin little volume requires
mention, although not issued with the poet's sanction.
It is entitled "Poems, 1830-1833," and contains the
poems which were left out in subsequent editions, and
the different readings of those altered. It came out in
1862, but was suppressed and the publisher fined
heavily. In this copy a report of the whole of the
proceedings in the Court of Chancery is mounted.
Among books about the poet laureate and his
300 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
writings the most notable volume is " Tennysoniana "
in its original form, with the pages which were omitted
in the published copies by desire of Lord Tennyson,
1866, very likely an unique copy.
Of the earlier poets there are good editions. Beau-
mont and Fletcher, Massinger, Heywood, Shirley, Ben
Jonson, Webster, Greene, Peele, Marlowe, Middleton,
etc., are present in beautiful and highly prized volumes.
-Shakespeare is here in J. P. Collier's privately printed
edition "purest text" and other editions, and
the whole of Mr. Collier's reprints of early English
literature, red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, and brown
series, are in the library. In addition to these, Mr.
Macgeorge has all the other works issued by Mr.
Oollier.
Very fine copies of the second and third editions of the
works of Burns, and of the suppressed first edition of the
*' Letters of Clarinda," Glasgow, 1802, are here. The ex-
tremely rare thin quarto in which the immortal " Elegy
written in a Country Churchyard" first appeared is
present, and so also are some of Wordsworth's early
volumes "Lyrical Ballads," 2 vols., 1800; "Poems,"
2 vols., 1807 ; the " Excursion," 1814 ; the " White Doe
of Rylestone," 1815 ; and " Peter Bell," 1819. The first
edition of Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope," 1799, and
the illustrated edition of his works (with proof plates),
issued by Moxon in 1837, merit attention. A splendid
collection of fine copies and first editions of Sir Walter
Scott's poetical and prose works are in the library.
They number altogether 174 volumes. Of "Human
Life," by Samuel Rogers, 1820, there is a remarkable
copy. It formerly belonged to Mr. Beckford, and some
caustic but withal amusing notes have been written by
him on the fly-leaves. The following may serve as a
sample. The words in italics are Beckford's :
PAGB
27. . . . . cries Ho. . . / cry Hum,
Surely 'tis time good Rogers to Jtave done.
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32. Oh when she turns and speaks her voice is far,
Far above singing ! . . Is not this far below poetry ?
ib. ....... On the door
Sickness has set her mark.
Sickness her mark, not knowing how to write.
" All this is very sweet and very praiseworthy in some points of
view, and for lullaby and gentle warblings not inferior to poor Bother-
by's soothing syrup (so invaluable to mothers), but I should not have
expected such panada from an intimate friend and dedicator of the
tremendous Byron, nor so many dull, prosaic, hobbling lines from the
author of several small but very pleasing poems."
The volume has the further addition of an excellent
portrait of Rogers drawn in water colour, under which
Beckford has written, " The Yellow Poet." Rogers's
"Poems," 1830, and his "Italy," 1834, are, of course,
here, splendid copies with proof impressions of the
plates, and fine specimens of the elder Riviere's best
binding. The " Italy " was a presentation copy.
Coleridge is present in the original editions of his
works, Browning the same, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in
all the separate issues, including " Hand and Soul,"
1850, which bears an inscription by William Rossetti.
All the works of Swinburne are also in the collection
in the shape in which they originally appeared and
subsequent editions.
Still continuing among first editions, but leaving
poetry for prose, we find ourselves transported back
from this present year of grace to 1620, in which year
was published the first translation into English of
Boccaccio's " Decameron." It consists of two parts,
one of which is usually dated 1625. A peculiarity of
the present copy is that both parts are dated 1620. It
is a fine copy. In 1704 the first edition of Dean Swift's
" Tale of a Tub " appeared, of which there is a copy in
the library, as there also is of the " Travels of the re-
nowned Captain Lemuel Gulliver," first published in
two volumes, 1726-7, with map of the fictitious coun-
tries of Lilliput, Laputa, Brobdignag, etc. A few
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years before this there was published another book
destined to undying fame, which is here, " Robinson
Crusoe/' by Defoe. Our next author is Dr. Johnson,
whose " Rasselas " was published in 1759. First edi-
tions of some other of his works, and fine editions of his
collected works, are also in the collection. He is fol-
lowed by Goldsmith, of whose Citizen of the World
(1762), Traveller (1765), Essays (1765), Vicar of Wake-
field (1766), Good Natured Man (1768), Deserted
Village (1770), and Animated Nature, copies are here
in the finest condition and the largest paper obtainable.
There are first editions of some of Smollett's works, and
a superb copy on large and thick paper of the first edi-
tion of Beckford's " Vathek."
Of the works of Charles Lamb, there are, besides
first editions of his collected works, John Woodvil,
Adventures of Ulysses, Elia, Album Verses, etc.,
three copies of the latter which belonged to Mr. Moxon.
One of them is a proof, with corrections by the author,
and another has a note to Coleridge from Lamb re-
specting a portrait of Milton belonging to Lamb, and
then on exhibition in a shop in London. The message
is written on the back of one of Mr. Moxon's cards.
First editions of the separate works of Dickens and
Thackeray, many of them in parts as originally issued,
and some having coloured plates or other enhancing pe-
culiarities are on the shelves. Fouque's "Undine," 1835,
contains illustrations in water colour by Thackeray that
have never been published. They are authenticated by
a note in the handwriting of Edward Fitzgerald. " The
drawings in this volume were made by William
Thackeray, as we sat together two mornings in the
spring of 1835 or 1836 at the house of his step-father,
Carmichael Smith, in Albion Street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don." The illustrations are in colour, and are very
spirited. Most beautiful copies of Northcote's " Fables, "
in original boards, and with plates in two states, are
among the first editions. The list also includes the
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separate works of Carlyle, George Eliot, Lytton, John
Gibson Lockhart, and many writers of less note. The
first edition of Lane's translation of " The Arabian
Nights' Entertainment," in parts as issued, is amongst
them also, and the new edition by the Villon Society
keeps it company.
Mr. Macgeorge has many important Scottish works, as
Grose's Antiquities, Pennant's Tour, Baronial Antiqui-
ties of Scotland, by Billings, Innes's Critical Account
of the Inhabitants of Scotland, Martin's Voyage to St.
Kilda, 1698, his Western Islands, 1703, some of Laing
and Maidment's works, all J. Hill Burton's works,
Memorie of the Sommervilles, National Manuscripts
of Scotland, Hogg's Jacobite Relics, large copy
of first edition, and many other works. All the
leading works on Glasgow are present. Amongst them
are a copy of the exceedingly rare Memorabilia, 1835,
the Glasgow Looking- Glass, 1826-7, some of the fine
folios printed by the Foulises, Fairbairn's Relics of
Ancient Architecture in Glasgow, and four volumes of
Glasgow portraits from the exhibition of 1868, contain-
ing finely-executed photographs.
Mr. Macgeorge is one of the six possessors of vellum
copies of the poems of Alex. Scott, printed at Glasgow,
1882. Among the unclassable treasures is a volume
of very remarkable interest. It is the album of a lady
who was intimately acquainted with some of the most
celebrated litterateurs of our time. On the first page
is a little French poem entitled " Dolorida," and signed
Algernon Charles Swinburne. It lately appeared in a
Christmas annual called " Walnuts and Wine," with a
translation into English, and drew from Mr. Swinburne
an emphatic disclaimer of the authorship. We believe
the fact to be that Mr. Swinburne merely transcribed
the poem.
The following airy little poem in the autograph of
Longfellow may have been printed before, but at the
risk of repetition it is here inserted :
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The brook is voluble with song
As it murmurs down the mountain ;
And strange soft airs the winds prolong,
Replying to the fountain ;
And the jubilant birds from each leafy spray
Sing till they sing their lives away.
What is the song of brook and breeze ?
And that sets the fountain flowing ?
And that the birds sing out of the trees
Whenever the south wind is blowing ?
Oh jubilant heart, the answer is plain,
'Tis Love, fond Love that awakens the strain !
Grand Hotel, July 22nd, 1868.
Contributions from Charles Dickens, Alexander Dumas,
pere, Charles Reade, and others are also in the volume.
Mr. Macgeorge has all the works of J. H. Jesse,
and a very large and fine copy of Johnson's " Highway-
man," originally from the Perkins library. The usual
bibliographical works are in the library, and all of
Dibdin's works are among them. We take leave of
this most charming library with profound regret. So
rich and rare, it would well afford subject-matter for
an entire volume. It cannot be too emphatically im-
pressed that in addition to the rarity and splendour of
the books, every volume is in its pristine size and purity.
We confess to thinking that if ever there was an occa-
sion when a poor bibliophile might forget the difference
between meum and teum it would surely be in the pre-
sence of a luxurious collection like that formed by Mr.
Macgeorge.
DR. M'GRIGOR'S LIBRARY. 305
CHAPTER XIX.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER BENNETT M'GRIGOR, ESQ., LL.D.,
WOODSIDE TERRACE.
Character of the Library Arrangement and Appear-
ance Department of Theology and Philosophy
Some rare Works by Luther Bassandyne Bible
Poetry Proof Copy of Tennyson's " In Memomam "
Works on Scotland Glasgow Almanacs Switzer-
land and the Alps Jerusalem and the Holy Land,
list of eighty-four foreign Works from 1502 to 1874
General History Biography Fine Arts Fiction
Classical Writers A Imanacs Bibliography
Pamphlets.
THIS is essentially a working library. It contains not
many rare books, and these few have not been procured
on account of their scarcity. First editions or very
curious books not having received much attention from
Dr. M'Grigor, his library will have but little attraction
for the mere curiosity-hunter. Its solid, enduring merits
are on the other hand very considerable. In the com-
prehensiveness and catholicity of its contents, and also
in the mere number of its volumes, it will be exceeded
by few private libraries in the city. It is an admirable
example of a general library. The best editions of the
best books, and none but fine copies, have been finely,
some handsomely, bound. So large and well-selected
a library commands our attention and admiration, if it
does not excite our appetite for the rare and wonderful.
If any venturesome reader has followed us thus far in
our alphabetical stroll, and kept awake, he will doubt-
less think that he has had enough for the nonce of the
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306 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
curious and marvellous, and will feel grateful to the
learned doctor for beneficently interposing. The con-
sideration of Dr. M'Grigor's collection will also, we
hope, have the secondary effect of giving to our volume
some of that balance and proportion which so specially
distinguish the library itself.
In July, 1875, Dr. M'Grigor printed a handsome
catalogue of 378 pages, quarto, containing the titles of
about 8,000 volumes, since which time he has added
several thousands more.
The library, in location, is divided into two portions,
the larger being found in what may be termed the
library proper, and the remainder arranged in the
drawing-room upstairs. While the books on the ground
floor are not by any means to be called ill-bound or
shabby, the drawing-room section is composed entirely
of handsomely bound books. Few things decorate a
house so admirably as handsome books, well arranged;
and, in the present instance, a beautiful room has been
made more beautiful by the presence of elegant books
symmetrically disposed. The outside garnishing is of
the most varied hue. Rows of volumes are resplendent
in all the brilliancy of tree - calf, morocco, or russia.
Bright red is toned by quiet brown, dark blue and
green form a beautiful Contrast, while here and there
a volume with white title-pieces peeps out from
amongst the rest.
While however possessing much in common with all
libraries of a general character, Dr. M'Grigor's has some
characteristics peculiar to itself. It is rich in ecclesias-
tical works written before the year 1000. These have
been secured, in the first place, for their own interest,
and in many instances, secondly, as illustrating the
subject of another large section of the collection, viz.,
Jerusalem and Palestine. The mail-clad crusader of
the Middle Ages sought by force of arms to wrest from
the infidels possession of the Holy Land, but here the
sacred country has been most peaceably annexed with-
DR. M'GRIGORS LIBRARY. 307
out the discomfort or the danger of an armed expedi-
tion. Three hundred works contain the sum of the
Palestine journeying, painting, and exploring which
the Christian centuries have witnessed. One hundred
and fifty works relate solely to Switzerland and the
Alps, and classical and theological writers are strongly
represented. These are the outstanding features of
Dr. M'Grigor's collection.
In Theology, Philosophy, and Ecclesiastical History
we may select the following authors whose principal
works are in the library, as giving some idea of the charac-
ter of the collection : Thomas a Kempis, Dean Alford,
Anastasius of Antioch, Dr. Thomas Arnold, St.
Augustine, Dr. F. C. Baur, Richard Baxter, Charles
Beard, Dr. A. Benisch, Bishop Beveridge, J. J.
Blunt, J. H. Blunt, Dr. Peter von Bohlen, H. Bonar,
Bossuet, Thomas Boston, Robert Boyle, Benjamin
Brook, David Brown, James Brown, William Brown,
Dr. A. B. Bruce, Baron Bunsen (26 volumes), John
Bunyan, Bishop Burnet, Edward Burton, Joseph
Butler, Principal Caird, Prof. E. Caird, John Calvin,
Dr. John M'Leod Campbell, Cassiodorus, Dr.
William Cave, Dr. Thomas Chalmers, Dr. A. H.
Charteris, Rev. T. K. Cheyne, William Chilling:
worth, St. Chrysostom, Dr. Adam Clarke, Nicolaus
Clemangis, Clement of Alexandria, Bishop Colenso,
W. J. Conybeare, Dr. George Cook, Samuel Cox,
Dr. John Cunningham, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyprian,
James Darling, Dr. Samuel Davidson, T. W. Rhys
Davids, J. Llewelyn Davies, George Dawson,
Thomas Dempster, Petrus Dens, Dr. W. F. Dickson,
Dr. Marcus Dods, Dr. J. J. I. Dollinger, James
Donaldson, J. S. Dowling, Dr. J. W. Draper, James
Drummond, Dr. Thomas D wight, Dr. John Eadie, C.
J. Ellicott, E. B. Elliott, Dr. John England, Thomas
Erskine of Linlathen, Eusebius Pamphilus (18 volumes),
G, H. A. von Ewald (14 volumes), Bishop Ewing,
Joannes Faber (Sermones, Apud Friburgum Brisgan-
308 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
drae, 1529), Dr. Patrick Fairbairn, Canon Farrar, Abbe
Fleury, Thomas Fuller, Dr. Giles, Bishop Gillis, Dr.
J. F. S. Gordon, Dr. E. M. Goulburn, Dr. Richard
Graves, W. R. Greg, J. Gretser, George Grub, Dr.
Thomas Guthrie, Dr. W. T. Hamilton, Dr. A.
Hausrath, Dr. William Hanna, Julius Charles Hare,
Helius Eobanus Hess (In Evangelici Doctoris Martini
Lutheri Laudem Defensionem Elegise, etc., Erphurdiae,
1521), Dr. Peter Heylin, Godfrey Higgins, Hippolytus,
Richard Hooker, Rev. John Howe, Rev. T. S. How-
son, Irenaeus, St. Jerome, Josephus (13 volumes),
Benjamin Jowett, Justin Martyr, M. M. Kalisch, C.
F. Keil, Dr. Theodore Keim, Dr. Alexander Keith,
Bishop Keith, Charles Kingsley (30 volumes, includ-
ing other besides religious works), John Kirkton
(Sharp's edition of his History of the Church of Scot-
land), John Kitto, John Knox, Dr. A. Kuenen,
Lactanitus, Archbishop Laud, W. E. H. Lecky, Dr.
Robert Lee, Bishop Leighton, Bishop Lightfoot,
Martin Luther (Acta Patris Martini Lutheri apud
D. Legatum Apostolicum, Augustae, I518,jirst edition;
Appelatio F. Martini Luther ad Concilium, 1518 ;
Ad versus Execrabilem Anti - Christi Bullam, Wit-
tenberg, 1520, first edition; Tessaradecas Consola-
toria pro Laborantibus et Oneratis, Augsburg,
1528) ; D. Joannes Mabillon (Acta Sanctorum
Ordinis, S. Bendicti, 9 volumes, folio, 1668-1701);
Dr. Alex. M'Caul, D. M'Donald, Alexander Mac-
laren, John Maclaurin, Dr. Norman Macleod, Dr.
Thomas M'Crie, Dr. H. L. Mansell, Dr. Richard
Mant, James Martineau, F. Denison Maurice (77
volumes and pamphlets, including a sermon on preach-
ing in manuscript and a large number of works to which
he contributed, also many volumes and pamphlets for
and against him), Methodius, Bishop Middleton, Dr.
William Milligan, Dean Milman, Joseph Milner, J.
D. Morell, Dr. J. L. von Mosheim, Daniel Neal, Dr.
J. Mason Neale, Augustus Neander, F. W. Newman,
DR. M'GRIGORS LIBRARY. 309
Cardinal Newman, Origen, Robert Paisley, Dr.
William Paley, Dr. John Pearson, W. H. Pin-
nock, E. de Pressense, Leopold Ranke, James Reid,
Dr. Thomas Reid, Ernest Renan, J. H. Rigg, J. C.
Robertson, F. W. Robertson, Henry Rogers, M. J.
Routh, Dr. Michael Russell, Dr. Philip Schaff, John
Service, Dr. W. Robertson Smith, Sozomen, Dean
Stanley, Dr. John Stoughton, Dr. D. F. Strauss, Isaac
Taylor, Bishop Jeremy Taylor, Bishop Temple, Ter-
tullian, Theodoret, Dr. Andrew Thomson, Dr. W. M.
Thomson, Henry Thornton, C. de Tischendorf, Arch-
bishop Trench, H. B. Tristram, Usingius (Libellus F.
Bartholomei de Unsingen Augustiniani de Merito
Bonorum Operum, Erphurdii, 1525), Dr. C. J.Vaughan,
D. J. Vaughan, George Waddington, M. E. C. Walcott,
Clement Walker, Bishop Warburton, W. G. Ward,
Dr. B. Weiss, Julius Wellhausen, Archbishop Whate-
ley, Dr. W. Whewell, Bishop Wordsworth. The
library also contains many volumes of Migne's Pat-
rol ogise Cursus Completus, the Maxima Bibliotheca
Veterum Patrum et Antiquorum Scriptorum Ecclesias-
ticorum, with indices and apparatus, 30 vols., folio,
Paris, 1677-1715; Dr. Smith's Ecclesiastical Diction-
aries, and such series as the Sacred Books of the East,
the Theological S.S. Translation Fund Library, the
Anti-Nicene Christian Library, and the publications of
various religious societies. Twenty-five Bibles are
entered in the catalogue. One has special interest.
The " Bassandyne " Bible, called so after the name
of the printer of the New Testament, Thomas Bas-
sandyne, was the first Bible produced at the Scottish
press. It is referred to at page 93. This copy,
however, like nearly all others, is imperfect.
In Poetiy there are some good editions of Burns,
including a copy of the second edition which formerly
belonged to Lord Dundrennan, also good editions of
Sir David Lyndsay, Ossian, Ramsay, Campbell, and
other Scottish poets. All the first editions of the
310 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
works of James Graham, author of " The Sabbath,"
are in the library. Dr. M'Grigor has also an unique
copy of an unfinished play entitled " Wallace," by the
nephew of the author of "The Sabbath," printed
apparently from newspaper slips, and acquired from
the Maidment collection. The various poems of Sir
Theodore Martin are mostly presentation copies, some
of them, such as " Madonna Pia," 1860, and "Verses
original and translated," 1863, being also privately
printed. Of Dr. Walter Smith's poems Dr. M'Grigor,
to whom " Olrig Grange " was dedicated, has numer-
ous copies, proof, and others, and his copy of David
Gray's poems, edited by Henry Glassford Bell (1874),
is one of twelve having two extra sheets of poems,
which are in no other edition. Robert Browning is
present in nearly every edition of his various works
as they appeared separately and collectively, beginning
with " Paracelsus" in 1835, and ending with his most
recent volume. Of Lord Byron, besides the collected
edition of his works, there are a number of first
editions of his separate pieces, including the " English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers." Shelley, Cowper,Crabbe,
Mrs. Hemans, Hood, Lord Lytton, Praed, and Words-
worth are in comparatively recent editions. Herbert,
Milton, Pope, Prior, Churchill, and Rowlands are in
good old form. A fine series of the works of Cole-
ridge, some authoritative editions of Shakespeare,
including J. P. Collier's last edition, in eight volumes,
small 4to, of which only 55 copies were printed for
subscribers ; some of Roger's poems, including a copy
of his "Poems," 1834, illustrated by Turner, bought
at Rogers' sale, and one of his " Italy," 1830 ; a few of
Joseph Ritson's works, and many first editions of
Tennyson's works are also in this division. Among
the latter may be specially noted a copy of the
early proof sheets of " In Memoriam," showing many
material variations from the first edition issued in
1850. Goethe and Schiller take up some consider-
DR. M'GRIGORS LIBRARY. 311
able space, both German and English versions being
on the shelves. Dante and other foreign poets appear
in ordinary editions. This class also includes the
original edition of Dodsley's old "Plays," with
Hazlitt's reprint, "The British Theatre," Hunterian
Society publications, and those of the Percy Society,
with the two suppressed parts.
Bearing on the history of Scotland there are many
works. First in importance is a handsomely bound
copy of the Maitland Club publications, some of the
issues of the Bannatyne and Spalding Clubs, and
the Scottish Burgh Records Society. All the leading-
Scottish historical writers bear these company. Boece
(Bellenden's translation, 1821), Buchanan, Burton,
Chambers, Fordun, Holinshed, Innes (Cosmo), Innes
(Thomas), Laing, Pinkerton, Robertson, Tytler, and
many others. " The Antiquities " of Captain Grose,
in twelve volumes, and Pennant's Tours are the leading
works in the topographical section. Other works of
a kindred nature are Chalmers's " Caledonia " (large
paper), Sinclair's " Statistical Account of Scotland,"
the " New Statistical Account of Scotland," Douglas's
" Peerage and Baronage of Scotland," the three parts
of the " National MSS. of Scotland," and an exten-
sive collection of archaeological works, including the
series of Chronicles and Memorials published under
the direction of the Lord Clerk Register. A score of
works on Mary Queen of Scots, and amongst them
some of the best modern contributions to the history
of her period, is a good many more than we have a
right to look for in any library not Mr. Guild's. There
are fifty-four entries in the catalogue under Glasgow.
They refer to the best of the well-known books about
the city, and need not be detailed. Among the
pamphlets to be hereafter mentioned, there are about
180 relating to Glasgow. Dr. M'Grigor has not made
the collection of Glasgow periodicals a specialty, and
such as are in the library have probably been inherited.
312 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
As, however, an attempt has been made in these pages
to name as large a number of these interesting produc-
tions as possible, we mention those named in the
catalogue. The Glasgow Magazine, vol. I. (all pub-
lished), 1795 this is probably the only copy in
existence; The Literary Melange, or Weekly Register
of ' Literature and the Arts, 1822; Glasgow Free
Press, 1822; The Saltwater Gazette, 1835. Of the
Glasgow University Calendar, Dr. M'Grigor has thick
paper copies, a privilege he shares with thirty-two
others. The number given of Glasgow books does
not include almanacs, of which there are a number
1786. The Glasgow Almanack a sheet.
1801. Do. do.
1802. The British Almanack and Glasgow Register, Edinburgh.
1803. Do. do. do. do.
1804. The New Glasgow Almanack, Edinburgh.
1805. Do. do. do.
1806. The British Almanack and Glasgow Eegister, Edinburgh.
1807. Do. do. do. do.
1808. Do. do. do. do.
In a note to a little volume, published in the Family
Library, " Family Tour through South Holland, up
the Rhine and across the Netherlands to Ostend,
1831," Dr. M'Grigor says that it was the first book
that gave him a desire to travel. Since that perusal,
the chance seed has brought forth much fruit, if we
may judge from the number of works of travel in the
library. Beginning with our nearest neighbour, there
are some fine books on France, and moving eastward
hardly a country in Europe is unrepresented. In the
Alps we make our first halt, for there are no less
than 150 works in about 180 volumes on Switzerland
and the mountain ranges of that and the neighbouring
countries, including those of Scheutzer, Saussure,
Agassiz, and Forbes, a set of the Journal of the
Alpine Club, of which Dr. M'Grigor is a member,
and almost all the works of note published on the
DR. M'GRIGORS LIBRARY. 313
Alps during the last forty years. There are a large
number of illustrated works on this subject, such as
Coleman's " Scenes from the Snow Fields," 1859, and a
unique copy of Bisson Freres' " Photographs of Mont
Blanc and the valley of Chamouni," with title page
and index specially printed, as well as an extensive
series of maps, including the Government surveys of
Switzerland, the Government survey of St. Gallen, and
many others.
The library is also rich in works on the famous cities
of Europe. It possesses important works relating to
Edinburgh, London, Paris, Pompeii, Rome, St.
Petersburg, and other famous places. Those on Paris
number 22 volumes; those on Rome, as many, in-
cluding Sir William Gell's Topography of Rome and
its Vicinity, 3 volumes, 1834 ; Burns's Rome and the
Campagna; Francis Wey's Rome; and the whole of
the late Mr. Parker's publications. Among those on
Pompeii is Sir W. Gell's " Pompeiana," a copy which
once belonged to the late Mr. Macready. There are a
large number of works treating of Central Asia and
the Khanates to the east of the Caspian, with most
of the recently-published maps of this district, includ-
ing several editions of the great Map of Turkestan
by Colonel Walker.
But as we briefly indicated at the outset, the most
striking feature of the whole library is undoubtedly
the collection of works on Jerusalem and the Holy
Land. They number in one shape or another about
300 works, and form, probably, the largest private
collection on the subject in existence. To give an
adequate view of the whole collection would be diffi-
cult, and without a complete catalogue perhaps impos-
sible. As in the case of other special collections, we
have made a selection of the more important books.
In the present instance only foreign works and of not
later date than 1874 are given. They are arranged in
the order of the publication of the works.
314 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
1502. Breydenbach, Bern. de. Sanctarum peregrinationum in montem
Syon, ad venerandum Christ! Sepulchrum in Jerusalem . . .
opusculum. Third edition, plates. Sm. folio, Spires.
1525. Gabriel. Compendiosa quedam, nee minus lecta jocunda
descriptio urbis Hierusalem. Small 4to, Sine loco.
1563. Reisnerus, Adamus. Jerusalem vetustissima ilia et cele-
berrima totius mundi ci vitas ex sacris literis et approbatia
historicis ad unguem descripta. Woodcuts. 4to, Francofurti.
1565. Leo, Jacobus Jehuda. De Templo Hierosolymitano Libri
IV. Plan and Plates. Sm. 4to, Helmaestadi.
1593. Bartholomaus de Saligniaco. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae,
hoc est, Sanctae Terrae Kegionumque Finitimarum Descriptio.
Sm. 4to. Magdeburgi.
1593. Ribera, Franciscus. De Templo et de iis quae ad Templum
pertinent Libri quinque. Post 8vo, Antwerpiae.
1595. Lipsus, Justus. De Cruce Libri Tres ad sacram pro-
fanamque historiam utiles, una cum notis. Second edition.
Woodcuts. Romae.
1596-1604. Villalpandus. Hieronymi Pradi et Joannis Baptistae
Villalpandi e Societate Jesu in Ezeckielem Explanationes, et
apparatus Urbis ac Templi Hierosolymetani, Commentariis et
Imaginibus illustratus. 3 vols. Map and plates. Folio,
Romae.
1611. Gesta Dei per Francos, sive Orientalium Expeditionum et
Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia. 2 vols., folio,
bound in one. Maps. Hanoviae.
1619. Adamnanus. De Situ Terrae Sanctae .... studio Jacobi
Gretseri. Small 4to, Ingolstadt.
1619. Cotovicus, Joannes. Itinerarium Hierosolomytanum et
Syriacum. Woodcuts. Sm. 4to, Antwerpiae.
1621. Furrer, Christophorus. Itinerarium ^Egypti, Arabiae, Palaes-
tinae, Syriae, Aliarumque Regionum Orientalium. Plates.
Small 4to, Nurimbergae.
1639. Quaeresmius, Franciscus. Historica Theologica et Moralis
Terrae Sanctae Elucidatio. 2 vols., folio, Antwerpiae.
1653. Allatius, Leo. 2YMMIKTA sive Opusculorum Graecorum et
Latinorum, Vetustiorum ac Recentiorum, Libri Duo, contain-
ing, inter alia (concerning Jerusalem), Phocas, Epiphanius,
Perdicca, Anonymus de locis Hierosolymitanis, Eugesippus,
and WOlibrandus ab Oldenborg. 12mo, Col. A grip.
1682. Adrichomius. Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum
Historiarum. Folio. Maps, and plan of Jerusalem. Col. Agrip.
1689. Heidmannus, Christophorus. Palaestina sive Terra Sancta.
Maps. Sm. 4to, Hannoviae.
J)R. M'GRIGOR'S LIBRARY. 315
1704. Sanson, Nic. Geographia Sacra, etc. Maps. Folio,.
Arnstelaedami.
1714. Relandi (Hadrian!) Palaestina ex Monumentis veteribus
illustrata. 2 vols., sm. 4to bound in 1. Maps. Trajecta
Batavorum.
1739. Hasins, Johannes Matthias. Regni Davidici et Solomonaei
Descriptio Geographica et Historica .... Consideratio-
Urbium Maximarum veterum et recentiorum. Maps.
Folio, Nurimbergae.
1740. Le Quien, R. P. F. M. Oriens Christianus in quatuor Partes
digestus, quo exhibuntur Ecclesiae, Patriarchae, ceterique
Presules totius orientis. Maps. 3 vols., folio, Parisiis.
1743-6. Kortens, Jonas. Reise nach Gelobten Lande. MitzweiSup-
plementen. Plans. Halle, 1743. Vierter Supplement. Halle,
1751. Drittes Supplement. Plan. Halle, 1746. Bound in
1 volume. Post 8vo.
1789. Plessing, Johan Friedrich. Ueber Golgotha, und Christi
Grab. Map. 8vo, Halle.
1807. Brocquiere, Bertrandon De La. The Travels of .... to-
Palestine, etc. Translated by Thomas Johnes. 8vo, Hafod
Press.
1812. Chateaubriand, F. A. Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem et de-
Jerusalem & Paris. Second edition. Map. 2 vols., 8vo, Paris.
1816. AH Bey. Travels between the years 1803-1807. Translated.
2 vols., 4to, London.
1829. Michaud. Bibliotheque des Croisades. 4 vols., 8vo, Paris.
1831. Pettrachia. Tour du Monde ou Voyages du Rabbin Pet-
trachia de Ratisbonne, dans le douzieme Siecle. Publics en
Hebreu et en Fran<jais accompagnes de Notes. Par M. E.
Carmoly. 8vo, Paris.
1833. Olshausen, D. Justus. Zur Topographic des alten Jerusalem..
Plans. 8vo, Kiel.
1836. Jalal-Addin. The History of the Temple of Jerusalem.
Translated by the Rev. J. Reynolds. Oriental Translation.
Fund. 8vo, London.
1840-1. Benjamin of Tudela, Rabbi. The Itinerary. Translated
and edited by A. Asher. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo, London and Berlin.
1841. Dupuis, Abbe Andre. Introduction au Plan de Jerusalem et
de ses Faubourgs. 8vo, Paris and Nantes.
1843. Coquerel, Athanase. Topographic de Jerusalem. 8vo, Stras-
bourg.
1843-9. Faber, Frater Felix. Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae,.
Arabiae, et Egypti Peregrinationum. 3 vols. 8vo, Stutt-
gardiae.
316 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
1845. Schultz, Dr. Ernest Gustav. Jerusalem. Plan. Berlin.
1846. KrafFt, W. Die Topographic Jerusalem. Plans. 8vo, Bonn.
1847. Salvader, J. Histoire de la Domination Komaine en Judee et
de la Ruine de Jerusalem. 2 vols. 8vo, Paris.
1848. Itinerarium Antonini Augustiet Hierosolymitanum ediderunt
S. Parthey et M. Pinder. Plans. 8vo, Berolini.
1849. Lamartine, Alpbonse de. Voyage en Orient. 4 vols. in 2.
8vo, Paris.
1849. Schaffter, Albert. Die Achte Lage des Heiligen Grabes.
Plan. 8vo, Berne.
1849. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Bethlehem in Palastina. Plan. Post 8vo,
St. Gallen und Berne.
1849. Cartulaire de 1'Eglise du Saint Sepulchre de Jerusalem, public
d'apres les MSS. du Vatican, par M. Eugene de Roziere. 4to,
Paris.
1850. Schwartz, Rabbi Joseph. A descriptive Geography and brief
Historical Sketch of Palestine. Translated. Maps and
plates. 8vo, Philadelphia.
1851. Thetmar. Iter ad Terrain Sanctam anno 1217. Edidit Titus
Tobler, M.D. Duod. St. Galli et Bernae, 1851.
1851. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Golgatha : Seine Kirchen und Kloster.
Plan and plates. 8vo, St. Gall, und Berne.
1852. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Die Siloahquelle und des Oelberg. Plan.
Post 8vo, St. Gallen.
1852. Fallmerayer, Dr. Denkschrift iiber Golgotha und das Heilig-
Grab. Plan of Jerusalem. 4to, Miinchen.
1852. Lelewel, Joachim. Geographic du Moyen Age. Maps.
4 vols. bound in 2, with Atlas in oblong quarto. 8vo,
Bruxelles.
1853-8. Ibn Batoutah, Voyages d'. Texte Arabe accompagn6 d'un
traduction par C. Defremery et le Dr. B. R. Sanguinetti.
4 vols. 8vo, Paris.
1853. Saulcy, F. de. Voyage autour de la Mer Mort et dans les
Terres Bibliques execute de Decembre, 1850, a Avril, 1851.
2 vols., with quarto volume of maps and plates. 3 vols. Paris.
1854. Michon, M. L'Abbe J. H. Voyage Religieuse en Orient.
Second edition. Plans. 2 vols. 8vo, Paris.
1854. Van de Velde, C. W. M. Narrative of a Journey through
Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852. Translated. 2 vols.
Plates. 8vo, Edinburgh.
1853-4. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Zwei Biicher Topographic von Jerusalem
und seinen Umgebungen. 2 vols. Plates and plans. 8vo,
Berline.
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1856. Munk, S. Palestine. Description Geographique, Historique,
et Archeologique. 8vo, Paris.
1856. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Denkblatter aus Jerusalem. Plates and
maps. 8vo, Constanz.
1859. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Dritte Wanderung nach Palastina in
Jahre 1857. Imp. 8vo, Gotha.
1860. Bo-wrasse, M. L'Abbe J. J. La Terre Sainte, Voyage dans
1'Arabie Petree, la Judee, la Samarie, la Galilee, et la Syrie.
Plates. Imp. 8vo, Tours.
1860. Vogue, Comte Melchior de. Les Eglises de la Terre Sainte.
Plates and plans. 4to, Paris.
1861. Joanne, Adolphe. Itin6raire Descriptif, Historique, et Arch^o-
logique de 1'Orient. Maps and plans. 8vo, Paris.
1861. Unruh, Gustav. Das alte Jerusalem und seine Bauwerke.
Plans. 8vo, Langensabza.
1862. Eusebius, Pamphilus. Onomasticon. Graece cum Latina
Hieronymi Interpretatione. Ediderunt F. Larsow et G.
Pai'they. Fcap. 8vo, Berolini.
1862. Schmidt, C. Geschichte der Stadt Jerusalem vom Jahre 2,000
vor Christus bis auf unsere Tage. Post 8vo, Honerswerder.
1863. Antoninus, Martyr. De Locis Sanctis quae ambulavit. Circa
A.D. 570. Edited by Titus Tobler. 8vo, St. Gallen.
1863. linger, F. W. Die Bauten Constantius des Grossen am heiligen
Grabe zu Jerusalem. Woodcuts. 8vo, Gottinger.
1864. Bovet, Felix. Voyage en Terre Sainte. Fcap. 8vo, Paris.
1864. Pierotti, Ermete. Jerusalem Explored. Translated by T. S.
Bonney. 2 vols. Folio, London.
1864. Daniel, L'Igoumene Eusse. Pelerinage en Terre Sainte (1113-
1115.) Russian and French. Par Abraham de Noroff.
Plans. 4to, St. Petersburg.
1864. Vogue, Comte Melchior de. La Temple de Jerusalem. Mono-
graphic du Haram-ech-Cherif suivie d'un Essaie sur la Topo-
graphie de la Ville Sainte. Plates (some coloured), photograph
of Interior of Dome of the Rock inserted as frontispiece.
Folio, Paris.
1865. Azais, L'Abbe. Pelerinage en Terre Sainte. 8vo, Paris
and Nimes.
1865. Furrer, Conrad. Wanderungen durch Palastina. Maps.
Post 8vo, Zurich.
1865. Saulcy, F. de. Voyage en Terre Sainte. Plans. 2 vols.
Imp. 8vo, Paris.
1865. Theodericus. Libellus de Locis Sanctis editus circa A.D. 1172.
Cui accedunt breviores aliquot descriptiones Terrae Sanctae.
Edited by Titus Tobler. Fcap. 8vo, St. Gallen and Paris, 1865.
1868. Arnaud, E. La Palestine Ancienne et Moderne, ou Geo-
graphic, Historique et Physique, de la Terre Sainte. Coloured
maps. 8vo, Paris.
318 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
1868. Bibel Atlas, by Dr. Theodor Menke, in Achte Blattern. Sm.
fo., Gotha.
1866. Coulomb, M. L'Abbe P. J. Le Calvaire et Jerusalem d'apres
la Bible et Josephe. Map. 8vo, Paris.
1866. Bitter, Carl. The Comparative Geography of Palestine
and the Sinaitic Peninsula. Translated and adapted to the
use of Biblical Students, by William L. Sage. 4 vols. 8vo,
Edin.
1866. Rosen, S. Das Haram von Jerusalem und des Tempelplatz
des Moria. Plans. 8vo, Gotha.
1866. Saulcy, F. de. Les Derniers Jours de Jerusalem. Plates and
plans. Imp. 8vo. Paris.
1867. Derenbourg, T. Essai sur 1'Histoire et la Geographic de la
Palestine d'apres les Thalmuds et les autres sources Rabbin-
iques. Premiere partie. Histoire de la Palestine depuis
Cyrus jusqu'i Adrian. 8vo, Paris.
1867. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae.
Imp. 8vo, Leipzig. With supplement, Dresden, 1875.
1867. Thierry, Amedee. Saint Jerome, La Societe Chretienne a
Rome et 1'Emigration Romaine en Terre Sainte. 2 vols. 8vo,
Paris.
1869. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Palaestinae Descriptiones ex Saeculo IV.,
V., et VI.
Itinerarium Burdigala Hierosolymam.
Peregrinatio S. Paulae.
Eucherius de Locis Sanctis.
Theodorus de Situ Terrae Sanctae. Post 8vo, St. Gallen.
1870. Lagarde, Paulus de. Onomastica Sacra. 2 vols in 1,
Gottingae.
1874. Tobler, Dr. Titus. Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae ex Saeculo,
VIII., IX., XII., et XV.
S. Willibaldus.
Commemoratorium de Casis Dei.
Bernardus Monachus.
Innominatus VII.
Johannes Worzilburghensis.
Innominatus VIII.
La Citez de Jherusalem.
Johannes Polonor.
Nach Hand- und Druckschriften herausgegeben von Titus
Tobler. Map. Cr. 8vo, Leipzig.
To the foregoing must be added nearly every work in
English of any value on the subject, including the
Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, complete sets of the
DR. M'GRIGORS LIBRARY. 319
publications and maps of the Palestine Exploration
Fund, the Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palsestina-Vereins,
and the exquisite publications of the Society de 1'Orient
Latin, with all that has yet appeared (12 vols. folio) of
the great French work Recueil des Historiens des
Croisades, and the beautifully illustrated works of
Mons. Kenan on Phenicia, and the Due de Luynes
upon the Dead Sea, etc., etc. Perhaps also under this
branch may most fitly be noted a large paper copy of
Gesenius' Thesaurus Linguae Hebraeae et Chaldaeae,
Leipsic, 1840, bound in two volumes folio, and Haji
Khalfae's Lexicon of Arabic Authors, in 7 vols. 4to,
published for the Oriental Translation Fund, Leipsic,
1835-58.
History is represented by fine copies of the works of
Sir Arch. Alison, Dr. Arnold, Bishop Burnet, Carlyle,
Clarendon, Cousin, Dyer, Freeman, Froude, Frois-
sart, S. R. Gardiner, Gibbon, William Godwin,
Grote, Guizot, Hallam, Lecky, Macaulay, Merivale,
Milman, Motley, a complete set of Notes and
Queries ; Rughworth's Historical collections ; the
publications of the Camden Society ; and many
other books. Noble's House of Cromwell bears the
bookplate of Edward Gibbon the historian, and O'Con-
ner's State of Ireland is notable as containing the address
to the Irish nation which was to have been the manifesto
to the Pope in the event of the success of the Rebel-
lion in the year 1797. A number of contemporary
works on the life and reign of King Charles I. are
worthy of special notice. One of them, " The Life and
Reign of King Charles, or the Pseudo-Martyr Dis-
covered," London, 1651, bears on the fly-leaf in one
handwriting, " A damm'd libill made by a villaian who
did eate ye K' Bread," and in another the answer, " a
silly reflection made by a Blockhead who knew not the
Happiness of our Constitution," no bad epitome of the
spirit of each of the contending parties.
In Biography the list of names is long and important.
320 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
General biography contains such works as the " Bio-
graphic Generale," and the two editions of the " Bio-
graphia Britannia," while the individual biographies
include such works as Masson's " Life of Milton " and
the "Me'moires de Due St. Simon," 20 volumes, be-
sides many works of more moderate dimensions.
Casting our eye over the works relating to Art, we
observe a proof copy of Roberts' s Egypt, Nubia, and
the Holy Land, in 6 volumes, imp. folio ; beautiful copies,
of the Landscape Annuals, 10 volumes; Mrs. Jameson's
Sacred and Legendary Art ; Legends of the Monastic
Order ; Legends of the Madonna ; and the History
of our Lord, as exemplified in works of art, etc. ;
Lodge's Portraits, 12 volumes, 4to, 1835; Viollet-le-
Duc's Dictionnaire Raissonne'e de 1' Architecture Fran-
caise du xi e . au xvi e . siecle ; The Vanity Fair
Album ; Paul Lacroix's fine works ; Ruskin's Modern
Painters, Stones of Venice, Seven Lamps, and some
others of his works ; William's Greece, and Turner's
England and Wales and Southern Coast. Dr.
M'Grigor's copy of the Modern Painters is one of the
very few early copies in which plate 47 in Volume IV.
is numbered 49 by mistake. The error was quickly
discovered and corrected, and as a consequence uncor-
rected copies are scarce, and the impressions of the
plates exceptionally valued.
A much-despised form of literature finds a place in
Dr. M'Grigor's library. He has a great many blue-books.
He has also many trials. Chief amongst them are
Howell's collection of State Trials, 34 volumes; Causes
Celebres et Interessantes, 26 volumes; a number of
pamphlets relating to the trial of James Stuart of
Dunearn, and reports of some of the principal trials of
the last hundred years.
The leading novelists are represented by complete
sets of their works. Of Beckford's " Vathek " there is
the first edition (1786), and Dr. Doran's copy of a
reprint. There are first editions of most of Scott's,
DR. M'GRIGORS LIBRARY. 321
Thackeray's, Dickens', Trollope's, and George Eliot's
novels. There is also a copy of the Villon Society's
" Thousand and One Night's Entertainment."
Classics remind us most nearly of theology in the
thoroughness of the selection. The editions are good
whether early or modern, and are not limited to one.
Of most of the ancient writers there are two, three,
and sometimes half-a-dozen editions. Under Aeschy-
lus there are ten entries in the catalogue, under
Aristophanes five, under Catullus six, under Cicero
ten, under Demosthenes two, under Euripides five,
under Herodotus six, under Hesiod two, under Homer
four, under Horace nine, under Juvenal four, under
Livy five, under Lucretius three, under Plato seven,
under Plautus two, under Sophocles five, under
Tacitus six, under Thucydides three, under Virgil
seven, under Xenophon eleven. There are also such
accessories to a classical collection as Du Cange's
" Glossarium Mediae et Infiniae Latinitatis," seven
volumes, quarto, the " Facciolati Lexicon," Sophocles'
Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods,
the Classical, Biographical, and Geographical Diction-
aries of Dr. Smith, and the magnificent volumes of
the Palaeographical Society, including both the
general and oriental series.
Coming to the last of our divisions Miscellaneous
we find yet many books to notice. Going over the
catalogue we first come across a page and a half
devoted to almanacks, some of which we noted under
Glasgow, and the early ones of those remaining we
now give :
1724. Almanack de Milan. Brussels.
1 744. Eider's British Merlin. With MS. Notes by a Judge on Circuit.
1768. ' Edinburgh Almanack.
1778. Do. do.
1791. London Calendar. Thick sheet.
1794. Universal Scots Almanack. Sheet. Edinburgh.
1796. Do. do. do. do.
1805. Do. do. do do.
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1809. General Almanack of Scotland and British Register, Edin.
1810. Do. do. do. do. do.
1812. Edinburgh Almanack and Imperial Register, Edin.
1813. General Almanack of Scotland and British Register, Edin.
Sixteen entries appear in the catalogue at Arnold
(Matthew), fourteen appear at Helps (Arthur), eight
at Hone (William), ten at Johnson (Samuel), nine at
Mill (John Stuart), and under the names of Landor,
Lockhart, Muller (Max), Swift, and Voltaire are
entered the most important of their writings, and of
the works about them. Bibliography is present in
the well-known works of Allibone, Beloe, Brunet,
Brydges, Burton, Lowndes, and Watt ; in the
"Retrospective Review," and in the catalogues of
the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, and the Royal
Institution and London Libraries. Dr. M'Grigor has
sets of some magazines, including the " Edinburgh
Review," and has also a most extensive collection of
pamphlets. They number close on 800, and are
bound in 69 volumes. The subjects of these books in
miniature are very various. Two volumes relate to
the Holy Sepulchre, several volumes are of a political
character, some are ecclesiastical, one concerns the
establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in
England, two or three are on the Sabbath question, a
number relate to the movements in which Frederick
Denison Maurice took part, some are legal, some
statistical, and many local. The whole of their titles
are printed in the catalogue and occupy sixty- three
pages.
This brings us to the end of our survey of this
very important and valuable library.
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CHAPTER XX.
LIBRARY OF THOMAS ADAM MATHIESON, ESQ., GROSVENOR
TERRACE.
Mr. Mathieson's connection with Hutchesons' Hospital
General remarks on his Library Ruskin Poetry
Scottish Books Glasgow Books Strang's Progress
of Glasgow Glasgow Looking-Glass Herald to the
Trades' Advocate Wynd Church Case Interesting
and amusing Pamphlets Conclusion.
MR. MATHIESON is well known as a former prominent
member of the Town Council of Glasgow, where he
sat as one of the representatives of the third ward
during six terms of office 1866 to 1884. He was
made River Bailie in 1868, a Magistrate in 1870,
and in 1878 elected to the office of Preceptor of
Hutchesons' Hospital, an educational charity founded
in 1641 by two Glasgow writers, George and
Thomas Hutcheson, brothers.
During Mr. Mathieson's tenure of office the noble
volume in which Mr. William Henry Hill, the much-
esteemed clerk to the institution, has told its history
so admirably, was published. It is dedicated to Mr.
Mathieson, who took much interest in its compilation.
Several books have been written about the Hospital,
in the course of the two hundred and forty-two years
of its existence, but none with the fulness and ability
characteristic of Mr. Hill's, which, in respect to his-
torical accuracy and comprehensiveness, as well as
material bulk, eclipses all its predecessors. It must
therefore be a circumstance of much pleasure to Mr.
Mathieson that his name is inseparably associated
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with so monumental a record of an institution in
which he took so very great interest.
The writer may be permitted in this place to express
his unfeigned regret that he has been unable to include
in this volume an account of Mr. Hill's fine library,
and if anything would tempt him to inflict on a suffer-
ing public another volume of Glasgow library history
it would be the prospect of placing on record the
extent and richness of Mr. Hill's collection, the
gatherings of three generations of antiquaries.
Mr. Mathieson was a member of the Libraries Com-
mittee of the Glasgow Corporation from its first ap-
pointment on the reception in 1874 of the Mitchell
bequest until he left the Council in 1884, and from
1878 he was sub-convener. He took a keen and
intelligent interest in the library, and rendered it
much ungrudging service. He was also a member
of the board of directors of Stirling's Library from
November, 1883, to November, 1884, being one of
the representatives elected by the Town Council.
Counted by volumes, Mr. Mathieson's library is not
very large (fully 2,000 volumes) estimated by the
intrinsic worth of its contents it is valuable. It is not
remarkable for tall copies or rare first editions unless
they happen to be the best, but consists mainly of the
works of authors of acknowledged repute, in good
editions and appropriately fine bindings. We say
mainly because, as will hereafter be shown, it has
some curiosities which do not fall under the above
category. It strikes one as the library of a gentleman
who has no hobby in literature at least save, indeed,
it be a liking for all good books, and a weakness for
an artistic piece of binding. Selecting his books with
care, paying a good price, and in the matter of bind-
ing considering the labourer worthy of his hire, Mr.
Mathieson has much reason to be pleased with his
library. We like the deliberate, well-planned method
of forming a library. It gives the owner time to
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become acquainted with his purchases, to read his
books, to appreciate or reject them, and is after all
the true way in which to make a good collection.
Indiscriminate buying with haste is certainly effica-
cious in quickly amassing a large number of books,
but in the process, the great purpose of every book
to be read is overlooked, and there is a danger that,
wanting this acquaintance and affection between the
books and their possessor, he may tire of them as
rapidly as he acquired them.
But to return to the present collection. It is
arranged in three large mahogany bookcases, one of
which is of very fine workmanship. Mr. Mathieson
is an ardent Ruskinian, and perhaps the most pro-
minent feature certainly the one he regards with
greatest pleasure of his collection is a large and
handsome array of the works of the great art critic.
They number over one hundred volumes, are all in
original editions, with fine impressions of the plates,
and are bound in the beautiful fashion sanctioned by
the master. Not content with Ruskin's own works, Mr.
Mathieson has also many of the works incidentally
mentioned in his writings. Chief amongst these are
" Engravings of the Frescoes of Giotto in Padua,"
Twenty-five beautiful quarto photos, of Amiens Cathed-
ral, which form a complete body of illustrations for
" The Bible of Amiens " ; Ludwig Richter's charming
illustrations of the Seasons, the Lord's Prayer, and
Sunday.
The library contains some other fine books in this
class Fine Art. Philip Gilbert Hamerton's beautiful
works are here " Etchers and Etching," the "Graphic
Arts," " Landscape," his latest volume, and all the
other works which have proceeded from the same pen.
Fine copies (first editions) of Mrs. Jameson's " History
of our Lord," " Sacred and Legendary Art," " Legends
of the Monastic Order," " Legends of the Madonna,"
Lavater's essays on "Physiognomy," 5 volumes, quarto;
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Bell's "Anatomy of Expression," 1806, quarto, are
also on the shelves.
Poetry is represented by a very complete collection
of poets, old and new, in modern editions. The indi-
vidual works need hardly be mentioned, but some of
the long sets deserve notice. Of Pickering's Aldine
edition of the British Poets, in 53 volumes, there is a
beautiful copy bound in full morocco, each author in a
different shade of colour, the whole having a charming
effect. The same publisher's issue of the separate
works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is here in 22
volumes, uniformly bound ; also the largest sized
edition of Dr. Grosart's Fuller Worthies' Library,
39 volumes. Sir Walter Scott's works are in fifty-
two volumes, octavo. This fine edition is made up of
the novels and romances, with notes and illustrations,
in 41 volumes, Edinburgh, 1820-33, and the poetical
works, 11 volumes, Edinburgh, 1830. The whole are
in uniform binding. Among the separate works we
may note very fine copies of Butler's " Hudibras " and
Ramsay's " Gentle Shepherd."
The books relating to Scotland are numerous. They
include superb copies of Billings' " Baronial Anti-
quities of Scotland " ; " Scott's " Border Antiquities
of England and Scotland," and his " Provincial Anti-
quities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland," all
first editions, large paper copies, and uniformly
bound, making a most handsome set. " The National
Manucripts of Scotland," 3 volumes, folio; Kay's
" Edinburgh Portraits " ; Cardonnel's " Picturesque
Antiquities of Scotland," 1788-93, and " Numismata
Scotiae," 1786; Chalmers's '"Caledonia," 3 volumes,
1807-24; all the works of the eminent lawyer and
antiquary, Cosmo Innes, and many histories and works
of a miscellaneous kind.
The local books include the various histories of
Glasgow by Brown, Gibson, Denholm, Wade, Chap-
man, together with Cleland's various works, " The
MR. MATHIESON'S LIBRARY. 327
Old Country Houses of the Glasgow Gentry " ;
Macgeorge's "Old Glasgow" and "Armorial Insignia ";
a large paper copy of M' lire's " View " (reprint) ;
Stuart's " Views and Notices of Glasgow " ; M'Lel-
land's " Cathedral " ; several accounts of the Town's
Hospital, and many other works which are to be found
in most local collections. It is worth remarking that
Chapman speaks in 1820 of Glasgow as the second
city in the British Isles.
A copy of Swan's " Views of Glasgow " has
a special value to Mr. Mathieson, as having belonged
to his father, whose name appears in the list of
subscribers. Some rare and curious Glasgow peri-
odicals are here The " Thistle," 1829 ; the " Emmet " ;
the " Reformers' Gazette," 6 volumes, and others. A
very handsome copy of the original edition of the
"Memorabilia of Glasgow," 1835, is here, and also
"Minutes of Glasgow Town Council, 1588 to 1697."
This interesting volume of newspaper cuttings contains
an introduction by Motherwell, from which the follow-
ing are quotations : " When we publish all we mean to
do, we can assure our readers they will possess an
invaluable store of curious information regarding early
times and manners. . . . which peradventure, they
never would have enjoyed had we not sat doggedly
down to dig it out for them." " Some things which,
we believe, will turn much to the delectation and
profit of those who are curious in local history, and
feel pleasure in tracing ancient manners, and surveying
the aspect of society as it was known to their fore-
fathers."
il The Progress of Glasgow, in Population, Wealth,
Manufactures, etc., being the substance of a paper read
before the Statistical section of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, in Edinburgh, on
Tuesday, the 6th August, 1850. By John Strang,
LL.D., Glasgow," 1850. This is the author's copy.
It was issued as a preliminary publication to feel the
328 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
way for the annual statistical report which succeeded
it, and was carried on by Dr. Strang to 1862, and by
Mr. West Watson to 1880. These reports are of
immense value as presenting a concise statistical view
of the city for each year, and it is to be hoped that
their publication, which has been stopped temporarily,
may soon be taken up again. But the volume with
which we are more immediately concerned has an
interest which belongs to none of its successors.
It was the first work of its kind, and attracted much
attention. An elaborate notice, occupying a couple of
columns, appeared in a Paris paper, " L' Illustration
Journal Universel," and a most cordial letter from the
writer, M. C. Martino, is mounted in at the end of the
volume. The " London Daily News " gave a summary
of the paper, and devoted a leading article to it of a
most appreciative kind. Congratulatory and com-
mendatory letters reached the author from all quarters,
amongst the writers being the present Duke of Argyle,
the late Duke of Hamilton, James Euing, etc. The
writer of the leader in the " Daily News " was William
Weir, once editor of the " Glasgow Argus." A letter
from him in reference to the doctor's work finds a place
among the letters above-noted at the end of the volume.
It is a most genial epistle, gently scolding the doctor
and other Glasgow friends for not calling on the writer
when in the Metropolis, and lamenting his inability to
get another glimpse of the city of which he had so many
pleasant recollections.
Probably few copies of the clever satirical illustrated
sheet, the " Glasgow Looking-Glass," 1826-27, are
exact counterparts of Mr. IVEathieson's. In it the
illustrations are coloured throughout, adding much to
its comical appearance. This publication, as is well
known, was in the latter stage of its existence called
the " Northern Looking-Glass." It is very amusing,
the men and manners of the city being portrayed with
much graphic humour. The present copy is from the
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library of the late Mr. Adam Sim of Coulter- Mains,
many of whose books are now in the libraries of
Glasgow T gentlemen.
Among the Glasgow periodicals in the library is one
of which we do not remember to have seen many copies.
It is entitled " The Herald to the Trades' Advocate,"
and was one of the many journals called into existence
by the trades' union movement. The first number was
issued in September, 1830, and the last in May of
1832. In one of the numbers for 1832 it is related
that so eager were the inhabitants of the city to
know the result of the division in Parliament, that
Sir D. K. Sandford and another gentleman met the
stage-coach at Bothwell, and mounted on fleet horses
galloped into Glasgow with the news about twenty
minutes before the arrival of the coach.
Mr. Mathieson has another volume of much local in-
terest. It contains seventeen pamphlets (dating from
1762-4) on the Wynd Church case, a disputed settle-
ment which occasioned much discussion in the city
about the middle of the last century. It seems that by
arrangement the choosing of ministers for the churches
of the city lay with the general session of Glasgow and
the Town Council jointly, in accordance with a scheme
called a model agreed to in 1721. But the Council
do not seem to have been satisfied with this plan, which
in disputes put them in a minority, the session consist-
ing of about four times as many persons as the Council,
and on the Wynd Church being rebuilt in 1761 to meet
the church needs of an increased population, they
resolved to have the patronage as formerly. This
action led to a most protracted case. After many
meetings and unseemly wranglings, the case went to
the Presbytery, from the Presbytery to the Synod,
where the action of the Council was sustained, and from
thence to the Assembly. The ultimate result was
that the Council retained the patronage in their own
hands.
330 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Many pamphlets appeared during the three years
the contest lasted, some of them serious, some
satirical, and some amusing. The first one in this
volume is entitled " A Seasonable Address to the
Citizens of Glasgow upon the present important ques-
tion, whether the Churches of the City shall continue
free, or be enslaved to Patronage." After adducing
many arguments against the action of the Council the
writer makes an appeal to the ladies, " the most beauti-
ful part of this beautiful city." In high-flown language
he thus salutes them, " For you, we toil through the
maze of life, in all the circling variety of mercantile and
industrious arts; for you, we hazard our lives and
fortunes on the watery element, wander through foreign
climes, and are proud to return laden with spoils for
you. We now court your gentle but powerful alliance.
Nature has arrayed you with a profusion of charms and
a thousand nameless graces, which give an irresistible
sanction and influence to whatever you speak or do.
Did you then declare to your husbands and lovers that
you disdained the man who, when he wanted to
worship his Maker, sneaked away to hear a preacher
whom he despised, and to receive instructions from one
who was forcibly imposed over him by the arbitrary
will of another ; but that you esteemed the man who
insisted to hear a minister whom he himself elects as
well as maintains. Hints of this nature dropped from
your persuasive lips would do substantial service, con-
joined with your fair example ; and we would, with
gratitude, accept the important tribute at your hands.
Ignorance, awkwardness, pedantry, false politeness,
peculiarly odious to your sex, will steal into your
pulpits if patronage is established : whereas, if a popular
plan of election prevails you will get the minister you
wish ; you will secure what I know you delight in,
social gravity, shining piety, flaming oratory." By far
the wittiest production in the volume is " An Exhorta-
tion to the General Session of Glasgow. By a Model-
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ler," 1763. The writer ironically espouses the cause of
the Session. Detailing the enormities of the Town
Council he says, " The first innovation I shall mention
is the Episcopal Chapel, which was erected some years
ago, and is still tolerated, to the unspeakable offence of
many of the friends of the model. ... I have
even heard it whispered that the people of that
persuasion have an intention to erect a popish in-
strument of music, upon which tunes are to be audibly
played on the Lord's day within this chapel." Here
is a delicious piece of fooling " The next innova-
tion .... is the new method in which the
Psalms are now sung. I know this has given great
and grievous offence to many well-meaning men and
women besides myself. A devout Christian hath now
no longer an opportunity of distinguishing himself by
drawing out a note for a considerable time after the
rest of the congregation have finished ; but must ac-
commodate his fervour to new-fangled tunes : whereas,
I am perfectly of opinion that it is the duty of every
person who has the fear of God before his eyes to pro-
long the last note of each line as long as his breath
and his lungs will permit. And I do aver, that to
bring harmony into the Kirk is diametrically opposite
to the spirit and essence of presbytery."
Another amusing pamphlet is in the form of a pro-
spectus of a new dictionary adapted to the times. Two-
pages of specimens are given from which we cull the
following :
" PEACEABLE MEN. People who have no opinion of
their own, but willingly submit to anybody who is
disposed to lead them. Men fit to be councillors.
" MEN OF SENSE. People of the same opinion with
the Council.
Firebrands. \
Ideots. f -o i f j-rf . .
F th " t /"People of a different opinion.
The Mob. I
332 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
This volume of pamphlets is valuable as recording a
notable piece of city history.
Sets of the works of the Rev. Dr. Ralph Wardlaw,
and Dr. Macnish, the author of the Anatomy of Drunk-
enness, are in the library. Among the former is a copy
of the " Responsibility of the Heathen," being a reply
to some startling statements by Brougham in his
rectorial address at Glasgow in 1825. There is also
a fine large paper copy of Henderson's Scottish Pro-
verbs, 1832.
Good general books of history as Burton, Green,
Grote, etc., also travel, theology, and philosophy,
and works in other classes adorn the shelves; many
of Jeremy Bentham's works are present ; some curious
medical works; Isaac Taylor's works, 17 volumes;
Mackay's Popular Delusions, 3 volumes, 1841, and
other works. Handsome editions of the works of
Dickens, Thackeray, Lytton, and other modern novel-
ists are here, as also is the first edition of Lane's
translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainment.
Nearly all the books are most elegantly bound, some
by eminent London and others by local bookbinders.
They have a fine appearance, and the whole library
evidences that tender care which we should look for
in a collector whose bookplate bears the motto from
Milton, " A good book is the precious life-blood- of a
master spirit."
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CHAPTER XXI.
LIBRARY OF JAMES BARCLAY MURDOCH, ESQ., HAMILTON
PLACE, LANGSIDE.
Mr. Murdoch Similarity and Dissimilarity of Scottish
Libraries Poetry and the Drama The Muses Wel-
come Scottish Songs and Ballads Works of Laing
and Maidment Important Copy of the Poems of
Burns Scottish History, Topography, and Biography
Copy ofBoyd's "Last Battell of the Soule," with rare
1628 title-page, once the property of Gabriel Neil,
Boyd's biographer Glasgow Books and Periodicals
Chap-Books, two highly interesting volumes Works
Illustrated by Cruikshank George IV. Pamphlets,
extraordinary collection Hones Publications Be-
wick Zoology, Geology, and General Science Le-
gends and fairy Tales Bibliography Conclusion.
THIS library takes honourable rank among the libraries
of the district, and is as well-known as many larger col-
lections. Mr. Murdoch has been connected in a more
or less responsible way with all the important West of
Scotland societies of his time, and is probably one of
the most familiar figures in local literary and scientific
circles. He worthily represents a family long and
honourably connected with Glasgow. His forbears
time and again filled the highest offices in the magis-
tracy of the city. One of the more active members of
the Council of the Hunterian Club, he has edited
the important transcript of the Bannatyne Manu-
script, issued in 4 volumes by the Society, and
has also jointly edited various other publications
of the Club. Mr. Murdoch has been for a number of
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years hon. secretary, and editor of the Transactions, of
the Geological Society of Glasgow, and discharged
similar honorary, though not sinecure, duties for many
years in connection with the Proceedings of the Glas-
gow Natural History Society. His library is a reflex
of his needs, and is therefore an eminently practical
collection. It numbers between four and five thousand
volumes, and its most pronounced features are Scottish
and scientific.
All Scottish collections necessarily have much in
common, and the description of one good one would
sometimes seem to admirably suit many more. This
is, however, a mere superficial view, and like most
surface observations is considerably away from the
truth. As no two persons are alike, however nearly
related, so no two collections of books are alike,
although on precisely the same subject. One collector
is more fortunate than another, has more leisure, more
money, or more experience. The result is that each
collection only duplicates another in the things easiest
to procure, and is really the complement of any
other in the rare things which have only been secured
after much waiting and watching. Keeping this in
mind we have striven to picture each library with its
own special treasures grouped in the front, never for-
getting at the same time to indicate the composition of
the background.
Taking Mr. Murdoch's collection seriatim in the
order of our classification, the first considerable class
is Poetry and the Drama. The more important works
in this department are a fine black-letter folio Chaucer,
London, 1598 ; A Poetical Rapsodie, by Francis Davi-
son, 1611, a scarce book ; of the first edition (1602), only
one copy is known this is the third edition. The first
collected edition of the works of John Taylor, the Water
Poet, folio, London, 1630; Certaine Small Workes of
Samuel Daniell, London, 1611; Richard Brath wait's
Arcadian Princesse, 1635 ; the Poems of Michael
MR. MURDOCH'S LIBRARY. 335
Dray ton, 1637 ; Aleyn's Historie of that Wise and
Fortunate Prince, Henrie of that Name the Seventh
King of England, 1638; Richard Crawshaw's Steps
to the Temple, London, 1648 this is the second
edition, " wherein are added divers pieces not before
extant"; the first was issued in 1646 : and more valuable
than all these, " The Second Tome of the Palace of
Pleasure, conteyning manifolde store of goodly His-
tories, Tragicall matters, and other Moral 1 argument,
very requisite for delight and profit. Chosen and
selected out of diuers good and commendable
Authors. By William Painter, Clarke of the Ordi-
nance and Armarie, Anno 1567." It is in black
letter. The first volume of this work was issued
in 1566, and the two volumes continued to be reprinted
separately. Hazlitt ("Handbook to Pop. Lit.") says
that the second volume is considered even scarcer than
the first. " A more desirable acquisition," he also says,
" to a collector of early English literature than the two
volumes in perfect and sound state could scarcely be
named." The whole work was reprinted by Joseph
Haslewood, in three volumes, 1813. The last of John
Payne Collier's editions of Shakespeare's works (" pur-
est text") is in the library, (55 copies printed) and also
all the reprints edited by Collier, red, blue, green, yellow,
magenta and brown, together with his other works. The
copy of the facsimile of the first edition of Hamlet (1603),
lithographed by the direction and at the expense of
the Duke of Devonshire, and of which only forty
copies were issued, is a presentation one to Peter
Cunningham, the author of the " Life of Nell Gwyn."
Another gift from Mr. Collier to the same author is
the very rare volume containing the suppressed parts of
the Percy Society's publications. All the volumes of
the latter, as well as those of the Shakespeare Society,
the Hunterian Club, and the Early English Text
Society, are on the shelves. There are also consider-
able contributions from the publications of the Rox-
336 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
burghe Library, the Spenser Society, and others. A
number of Mr. J. 0. HalliwelPs original works and
reprints are also in the collection.
Among the more notable single works of later date
than those with which we began our notice may be
mentioned the following rare books. Thomson's " Sea-
sons," the first collected edition, 1728 ; the several
parts of this were issued separately before this date,
under the titles of the " Four Seasons" this is a fine
copy ; " Streams from Helicon," by Alexander Pen-
nicuik, London, 1720, the second edition; "The Hours
of Idleness," by Lord Byron, Newark, 1807 this is
the rare volume of which we make mention in various
places in this book; it was the first published work
of the noble author's, and met with a most generous
reception from the public and the press with one re-
markable exception the " Edinburgh He view." To
the strictures of the great quarterly Lord Byron re-
plied in " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."
" Queen Mab," by Shelley, 1821, the first published
edition; "Amyntas," translated from the Italian of
Tasso, by Leigh Hunt, 1820 the first edition ;
"Poems," 1830-1833, Montreal, 1862; this is the
extremely rare little volume of alterations made on the
poems of Lord Tennyson in editions subsequent to that
of 1830. This Canadian resuscitation of dropped verses
was imitated to his cost by John Camden Hotten of
London, who was fined heavily, and interdicted from
selling the volume. A very pretty little volume,
unique in its way, contains fine impressions of all the
plates which accompany the 14 volumes of Cumber-
land's " British Drama." First editions of some of
Swinburne's Poems, and those of other nineteenth
century writers, are also in the poetical division.
We would next draw attention to some repre-
sentative volumes of a large gathering of poetical
collections. The earliest of these is a curious work
by a Mr. Leveridge, engraved throughout, styled a
MR. MURDOCH'S LIBRARY. 337
Collection of Songs, 2 volumes, London, 1727. The
following also may be named : Chappell's " Ancient
English Ballads " ; " Hartshorne's " Ancient Metrical
Tales," 1829; Utterson's "Select Pieces of Early
Popular Poetry "; "The Bishopric Garland," 1834-
150 copies of this were printed for private circulation
at the expense of Sir Cuthbert Sharp. In this place
we may also mention a fine large paper copy of the
Percy Folio Manuscript, and a beautiful copy of
Chappell's " Music of the Olden Time." Mr. Mur-
doch's library contains perhaps a larger number of the
works of Joseph Ritson than any other library in the
district. They form an almost complete set, amounting
in the aggregate to about fifty volumes.
Scottish poetry we may introduce with a very rare
volume, " TheMuse's Welcome to the High and Mightie
Prince lames by the Grace of God King of Great
Britaine at his M. happie Returne to his old
and native Kingdome of Scotland after XIIII. yeers
absence in anno 1617, by John Adamson," Edinburgh,
Thomas Finlayson, 1618, folio. This should not be
confounded with the " Muses Threnodie," by Henry
Adamson, Edinburgh, 1638, also a book of extreme
rarity. The present is a very fine copy.
Watson's choice collection of Comic and Serious Scots
Poems is an extremely rare book. We noticed it at
some length on page 274, and only repeat here that
it was issued in three parts in 1706, 1709, and 1711.
The edition of the first part was a small one, and a
second edition was brought out in 1713. It is the
earliest of the many printed collections of Scottish
poems. Watson was also the author of a " History of
the Art of Printing," Edinburgh, 1713, which con-
tains a short account of printing in Scotland. There
are a considerable number of editions of the various
collections made b) T Allan Ramsay, besides those of
his own poems, of which there is present the first
edition, Edinburgh, 1720; the "Evergreen," first
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338 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
edition, 1724; "The Tea-Table Miscellany," first
London edition, 1727.
The next collection was Thomson's " Orpheus
Caledonius, or a collection of the best Scotch Songs,
set to Musick," London, 1 733, 2 volumes. This is the
second edition; the first appeared in 1725, folio. The
first, second, and third editions of Herd's Collection of
Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads,
etc., issued respectively in 1769, 1776, and 1791 ; the
first and third are scarcer than the second ; the
third is not so well known as the other two, as it has
not the usual preface, and is best known by the names of
the publishers, Lawrie and Symington. Among other
collections of poems and songs in the library are the
scarce work called " The Charmer," 1752 ; the present
is the earliest edition known, although it bears to
be the second ; Caw's " Poetical Museum," Hawick,
1784, respecting which John Trotter Brockett has
appended on this copy the following note : " This is
David Constable's copy. Many of the Border Ballads
afterwards published in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border, edited by Sir Walter Scott, first appeared in this
curious collection " ; Jamieson's " Popular Ballads
and Songs," 1806; Kinloch's collection of " Ancient
Scottish Ballads," 1827 ; the various volumes of Pinker-
ton ; Peter Buchan's scarce collections of Songs
and Ballads ; Child's " English and Scottish Ballads,"
as also the same author's new and exhaustive work on
ballads so far as issued, besides the various volumes
associated with the names of Chambers, Finlay, Lyle,
Motherwell, Hogg, Cromek, Whitelaw, Sir Walter
Scott, Mackay, Aytoun, and many others. It may be
mentioned in passing that several of these volumes
were at one time in the possession of William Mother-
well, and bear his characteristic and well - known
signature.
The " Knightly Tale of Golagrus and Gawane, and
,other Ancient Poems," has great significance to the
MR. MURDOCH'S LIBRARY. 339
Scottish bibliographer. It was the first production of
the printing-press in Scotland. Walter Chepman and
Andro Myllar, who printed it, received a patent from
James IV., and appear to have set up their press
in the year 1508. No traces of their work, however,
survive other than the above, and another work, the
famous Aberdeen Breviary. Dr. Laing reprinted
the volume from the only copy known that in the
Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. A fire in the pub-
lisher's premises destroyed so many copies of the
reprint as to render those remaining of some rarity
and value. The copy here, like all others, shows traces,
although faint, of the conflagration. Many of the works
reprinted and edited by Dr. David Laing are in the col-
lection. Some of these we may name Select Remains
of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, 1822 (108
copies printed) ; Various Pieces of Fugitive Scottish
Poetry, 1823-5 (72 copies printed); the second collection
of the same, 1853 (70 copies printed); Early Metrical
Tales, 1826 (175 copies printed). There are also a
number of James Maidment's works, including the
original edition of the " Scottish Pasquils,"1827-8, and
the more bulky reprint of 1868; the "North Countrie
Garland," 1824 (30 copies printed) ; the " New Book
of Old Ballads," 1844 ; " Scotish Ballads and Songs,"
and " Scotish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Tra-
ditionary."
An important copy of the second edition of the
poems of Burns is in the library. In the bard's own
handwriting at the places where blanks were originally
left in the poems are filled in the names of persons
and places really pointed at, whose exact identity it
was not thought judicious to reveal. Most of these
allusions have long been known, but if there were any
doubts here we have them dispelled on the indubitable
authority of Burns himself. This copy of his poems-
bound in the original rough calf and with a number of
blank leaves at the beginning and end as if for MS.
340 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
additions bears on a fly-leaf the name of Robert
Ainslie. One of Burns' friends bore this name, and it
is not too much to assume that this copy was pre-
pared specially for him, as some such purpose must
have influenced the poet in filling in the blanks.
Mr. Murdoch has also the third edition, London,
1787 ; the last edition revised by Burns, Edin., 1794 ;
the Songs and Ballads of Burns, published by Clarke,
London, 1823, a scarce book ; and many other editions.
The poems ascribed to Burns, Glas., 1801 ; the first
edition of the Letters to Clarinda, Glasgow, 1802
(suppressed by desire of Clarinda, Mrs. Maclehose) ;
Ainslie's Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, 1822;
Burnomania, by Rev. Dr. Peebles, who bitterly
attacked the poet ; and a large number of volumes ot
Burnsiana. Among the works of individual writers
there are a number of rare first and early editions, of
which we may name three Drumrnond of Hawthorn-
den's Poems, London, 1656; the Poems and Lyrics of
Robert Nicol, 1835, published at Edinburgh, but
printed at Dundee ; and the Poems by the Rev. Mr.
Logan, 1781, one of the ministers of Leith, contain-
ing the ode to the cuckoo, around which the din of
contending partizans has raged so loudly, some de-
claring for Michael Bruce, and others maintaining
Logan's right to the beautiful poem.
A volume whose whereabouts we would indicate is
a substantial quarto of 136 folios, interleaved. It
bears the following title, and is wholly in the hand-
writing of Peter Buchan, of Peterhead : " Ancient
Scottish Tales, Traditional, Romantic, and Legendary,
hitherto unpublished, from the recitation of the ancient
sybils in the North Countrie, by Peter Buchan."
Accompanying the volume is a very candid letter from
Robert Pitcairn, editor of the Scottish Criminal Trials,
to whom Buchan had sent the volume for perusal.
Pitcairn says that in the hands of a skilful editor the
volume might be made fit for publication.
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In Scottish History and Biography there are some
fine works. All the volumes of the Maitland Club
publications relating to the West of Scotland are in
the collection. Some of these, as the Paisley Chartulary ,
Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, Wodrow's Biographia, Mis-
cellany of the Maitland Club, etc., have become rare
and valuable. Mr. Murdoch is the possessor of the
greater number of the letters which were printed in
the club's volume, known as the Cochrane Corre-
spondence, regarding the affairs of Glasgow, 1745-6.
Many of them are of the very highest interest. His
club books also include the unfinished and unpublished
Pollok Papers, which is extremely scarce. Of the
publications of the other Scottish clubs there are nearly
all the Spalding and a considerable number of the
Bannatyne and Abbotsford volumes, all the New
Club series, and those of the Hunterian Club and the
Scottish Text Society.
Mr. Murdoch is a Fellow of the Society ot Anti-
quaries of Scotland, and has a set of their Proceedings,
as also of the publications of the Ayrshire and Wig-
tonshire Archaeological Society. A few volumes re-
late to the unhappy Queen Mary, one of them being
the rare Martyre de la Royne D'Ecosse, Edimbourg,
Chez lean Nafield, 1587, with some leaves supplied in
manuscript, of which the writing is very old if not
contemporary. More strictly topographical works
are Chalmers' Caledonia ; a very fine large paper
copy of Adam de Cardonnel's Picturesque Anti-
quities of Scotland, 1788 ; Grose's Antiquities
of Scotland ; Pennant's Tour in Scotland ; Stuart's
Caledonia Romana ; Swan's Lakes of Scotland ;
a large paper copy, with proof plates on India paper, of
Mackie's Abbey of Paisley; the three editions of
Crawford's Renfrewshire, 1710, 1782, and 1818 the
second was edited and continued by Semple, and the
third by Robertson they are all very scarce, especially
the first ; Ramsay's Views in Renfrewshire, large
342 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
paper, 1839; Taylor's Levern Delineated; Robertson's
Description of Cuninghame ; Reid's County of Bute,
large paper ; the first and second editions of Nimmo's
Stirlingshire, 1777 and 1817; Lauder's Moray Floods,
first edition ; Ure's Rutherglen and East Kilbride,
1793; Paterson's Counties of Ayr and Wigton;
Nicholson's History of Galloway, Kirkcudbright, 1841,
2 volumes ; the Old and the New Statistical Accounts
of Scotland, and other works. "Lacunar Strevelinense,
a Collection of Heads etched and engraved after the
carved work which formerly decorated the Roof of the
King's Room in Stirling Castle," 1817, a fine book,
may be mentioned here, although it hardly belongs to
topography. A number of the leading modern bio-
graphical works and family histories are on the shelves.
Amongst them the Stirlings of Keir, by Dr. William
Fraser, with Riddell's Comments on the Keir Perform-
ance ; the Maxwells of Pollok, by Dr. Fraser ; Robert-
son's Ayrshire Families, with the rare supplement,
and many others. A very fine copy ot Smith's Icono-
graphia Scotica may also be noted.
Probably the most notable volumes among Mr.
Murdoch's Glasgow books are his two copies of
Zachary Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule in Death."
The first is in one volume, and contains the very rare
title-page bearing the date of 1628 ; and the second,
like most other copies, is in two volumes, dated 1629.
The earlier of the two, which is slightly imperfect and
rather a poor copy, has the following inscription :
" Gabriel Neil. This valuable volume the gift to me
of Dr. J. G. Fleming, of Glasgow, from the library of the
late J. Balmanno, M.D. 15th January, 1857." By
the date it will be seen that the volume came into Mr.
Neil's possession, and probably for the first time under
his notice, about two years after his last Boyd publica-
tion, the "Four Poems from Zion's Flowers," 1855, which
explains why he speaks in both his reprints of 1629 as
the date of the first appearance of the Last Battle.
MR. MURDOCH'S LIBRARY. 343
A manuscript note inserted in the volume in the hand-
writing of Stephen Williamson, a famous Glasgow
collector, the sale of whose books in 1865 created
some stir, says that the volume contains " the rare
1628 title-page, of which only two copies are known."
It is, however, hardly so scarce, as four copies of it are
mentioned in this book, but it is, nevertheless, of very
great rarity. The whole of the prefatory matter which
appeared in the 1629 issue is also in this 1628 volume,
but little importance need be attached to this circum-
stance, as several pages have been misplaced and the
volume has been carelessly rebound. The copy of the
1629 issue is in splendid condition. For further infor-
mation respecting this work and its author we would
refer the reader to pages 250-3, where the double issue
of the book is spoken of at some length.
The Glasgow collection contains some specimens of
the works of several of the early printers. A wonder-
fully fine black-letter copy of " Blind Harry's Wallace,"
Sanders, 1665, deserves mention not only on account of
its rarity but because of its remarkably fine condition.
Mr. Murdoch has also many volumes from the press
of the brothers Foulis, including the fine folio edition
of the works of Milton, Thomson, Gray, and Parnell,
etc, a perfect set of Brash and Keid's Original and
Selected Poetry, three volumes of similar tracts issued
by Chapman in 1 799, and a set of the Glasgow Univer-
sity Album. A manuscript volume of sermons
preached in Glasgow by different ministers about the
end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the
eighteenth centuries is worthy of notice.
The Glasgow periodicals in the collection are nume-
rous, but are all, or nearly all, included in the list of
similar volumes noted in Mr. Macdonald's and the Mit-
chell Library collections. They include Northern Notes
and Queries; The Dramatic Review, a complete set; The
Thistle, a complete set; Dr. John Knox Stewart's Chemi-
cal Experimentalist; Glasgow Satirist, and many others.
344 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
The library is rich in histories of the city. Begin-
ning with the original edition of M' lire's View,
there are the histories and other works of Gibson,
Brown, Denholm (first, second, and third editions),
Wade, a large paper copy of Glasgow Delineated,
Pagan, Mackenzie, Reid (" Senex "), Macgeorge,
Stuart, and others.
Among miscellaneous Scottish books we note the
first editions of Mactaggart's Gallovidian Encyclopedia,
Kelly's Proverbs, Henderson's Proverbs, Ramsay's
Proverbs, and other works of a similar kind. The
collection of chap-books is large on a rough estimate
numbering about 500 separate chaps. The imprints
are those of nearly all the places where these fugitive
publications were issued Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paisley,
Stirling, Falkirk, Haddington, Carlisle, Newcastle,
Morpeth, Dublin, etc. It is impossible in a brief
sketch to say anything of individual chaps that alone
would require a volume, but we may devote a few
lines to one rather notable book in Mr. Murdoch's
possession. It contains chaps, one of them in manu-
script, nearly all of them from the facetious pen of
Dougal Graham, and all of exceeding rarity.
Various readings of each of the pieces are written
on the margins in the handwriting of the learned
Scottish antiquary, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who
evidently had intended the gathering for the purposes
of a collected edition of this author's writings, a
work since carried out by Mr. George MacGregor.
After passing from Sharpe's ownership thevolume came
into the possession of the distinguished Scottish book-
collector, the late Adam Sim, of Coulter.
Of very great interest to historical students of the
North of England is an almost complete collection of
the antiquarian works relating to the history and
antiquities of the northern counties of England,
written by M. A. Denham, and privately printed at
Newcastle, 1846-59. Very few copies of some of these
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able contributions to archaeology were struck off, and so
large a collection of them is unusual.
There are here in all about 105 works in about 130
volumes and pamphlets, principally original editions,
illustrated by the versatile and indefatigable pencil of
George Cruikshank. Some of these are extremely
scarce, some are in large paper, and all are in spotless
condition. A set of three volumes centre in themselves
the double interest of containing the early efforts
of the great caricaturist and of relating to the most
celebrated of the causes celebres of this century. They
contain sixty-two pamphlets all on the unhappy dispute
between the Prince Regent and his consort. It is an
extraordinary collection, and a remarkable indication of
the very great interest felt in the case. Every one of
the sixty-two were published in the same year, 1820,
an average of more than one per week. They were
nearly all on the side of Queen Caroline, and the de-
pictions of " the first gentleman of Europe " are more
amusing and graphic than elegant or complimentary.
Many of the pamphlets were published by William
Hone.
Among the many Cruikshankian volumes are a set
of Roscoe's Novelists' Library, Points of Humour,
Tales of Humour, Life in London, Memoirs of
Orimaldi, The Humorist, Ingoldsby Legends, Hans
of Iceland, The New Bath Guide, Sunday in London,
and Reid's beautiful Catalogue of the Works of Cruik-
shank.
Mr. Murdoch has also many other things published
by Hone, including his Every-Day Book, Table-Book,
and Year-Book in original editions.
Bewick is well represented, and the desiderata of all
Bewick collectors, i.e., fine large paper copies of the
Birds, Quadrupeds, are present. A large paper copy
of the Bewick Catalogue by Hugo is also among the
volumes.
The Fine Art division includes handsome copies of
346 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Ruskin's Modern Painters, Stones of Venice, in ori-
ginal editions, besides others of Raskin's works; Harner-
ton's Etchers and Etching, first edition ; Boaden's
volume on the portraits of Shakspeare, a large paper
copy, all the plates on India paper and some extra ones
inserted ; Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's Etchings;
Geikie's Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and
Scenery ; sets of Punch, and Hood's Comic Annual.
The department of Science is a large and fine one.
Taking Natural History first, it is here represented by
full sets of the Zoologist, the Ray Society's publica-
tions, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Bree's Birds of
Europe, Morris's British Birds, and Eggs and Nests of
British Birds, Hewitson's Eggs of British Birds,
Yarrell's British Birds and British Fishes, Couch's
British Fishes, Stainton's Natural History of the
Tineina, 11 volumes, Gray's Birds of the West of
Scotland, and many others.
There are a considerable number of works on sport,
principally on shooting and fishing, including several early
books; Venable's Experienced Angler, London, 1668;
Chetham's Angler's Vade Mecum, London, 1700;
Saunders' Compleat Fisherman, London, 1724; Max-
well's Wild Sports of the West, 2 volumes, London,
1832 the original edition ; Scrope on Deer-Stalk-
ing, the rare original edition ; St. John's Tour in
Sutherland, 2 volumes, 1849; the same author's Natural
History and Sport in Moray, first edition, and also
the beautiful reprint, Edinburgh, 1881; Colquhoun's
Moor and the Loch; Colonel Campbell's Old Forest
Ranger, etc., in all upwards of 100 volumes.
Geology, and by that we also include such allied
branches of scientific study as Palaeontology and
Fossil Botany, is an extensive section. The prin-
cipal works are a set of the Palgeontographical
Society's publications; Sowerby's Mineral Conchology,
6 volumes; the same writer's Genera of Recent and
Fossil Shells; Morris's British Shells; and the Geo-
MR. MURDOCH'S LIBRARY, 347
logical Works of Jukes, Ramsay, Buckland, Mantell,
Lyell, Murchison, M'Coy, Geikie, Sedgewick, Green,
De la Beche, Scrope, Forbes, and others. There are
many botanical works, amongst them a splendid copy,
on large paper, with proof plates on India paper, of
Strutt's Sylva Britannica. Many works in general
science are in the library, amongst them most of
Darwin's works, White's Selborne, in various editions ;
Waterton's works, including an original edition of his
Wanderings. The section also contains sets of the
Reports of the British Association for the Advancement
of Science, the Transactions of the Philosophical Society
of Glasgow, the Geological Society of Glasgow, and
other scientific bodies.
Mr. Murdoch has formed an extremely interesting
and extensive collection of works on Legends and
Fairy Tales.
In Fiction there are many first editions of notable
novels, including nearly all the separate works of
Dickens and Thackeray.
The usual well-known works of Dibdin, Lowndes,
Collier, Halliwell, Beloe, and Hazlitt are amongst the
Bibliographical works. The Dulwich College Cata-
logue, a large paper copy of the first edition of the
Bookhunter (only 20 copies), and a copy of the
Philobiblion, 2 volumes, printed and published at New
York by G. P. Philes, 1862-3 (entirely on India paper),
and a large number of priced sale catalogues, are also
among the number.
We now come to the last scene of all, and are sur-
prised to find that some of our remaining notes refer to
books which a more scientific classification than ours
would have found room for before this. However,
here we have got, and as one place is about as good as
another, they may as well be spoken of now. Funebria
Florae, the Downfall of May Games, by Thomas Hall,
London, 1660, is a rare old book which ran through
three editions in the course of two years. The
348 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Dancing Master, or Directions for Dancing Country
Dances, 3 volumes, London, 1716, oblong 12ino, is alto-
gether an odd book. It is much less polite than our
modern ball-room guides, and uses the words " woman "
and " man " where our more cultured age would say
"lady" and "gentleman." Dialogues of Creatures
Moralised, 1816; this is a scarce reprint, under the
editorship of Joseph Hazlewood, of an old book. Sir
William Stirling Maxwell's beautiful catalogue of
the books of Proverbs, Emblems, Epitaphs, etc., in the
library at Keir is in the collection ; only seventy-five
copies of it were printed. Mr. Murdoch has also the
collected works of many writers on diverse subjects, and
complete sets of the original editions of the whole of the
works of several authors who, like Hugh Miller, wrote
on many topics, and also such fine series of reprints of
early writers as are so well represented by Mr. Russell
Smith's Library of Old Authors. Take it all in all,
this is a many-sided collection of high practical and
monetary value.
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CHAPTER XXII.
LIBRARY OF THOMAS RUSSELL, ESQ., CLEVEDEN, KELVINSIDE,
AND ASCOG, BUTE j ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF PARLIA-
MENT FOR THE CITY OF GLASGOW.
General Remarks Printed Catalogue of the Collection
"Ship of Fools'' Chaucer's Works "Rede me" etc.,
no other copy Spenser s " Fairy Queen " Douglass
Translation of Virgil Chapman's Translation of
the Iliad and Odyssey Shakespeare's Poems, jirst
edition, 1640 First Edition of "Paradise Lost"
Autograph of Milton Hannays " Nightingale" -
" Vision of Piers Plowman " First Edition of
Lithgow's Travels Southwell's " St. Peter's Com-
pkiint" Gascoigne, Churchyard, and other early
writers Coleridge Life and Acts of Bruce Burns
Wallace Songs Collier's Reprints Nugae
Derelictae First Edition of Hollinsheds Chronicle
Boyd's "Last Battell of the Soule in Death,"
with rare 1628 title-page Boyds " Four Letters of
Comfort " Glasgow Books Ruskin Conclusion.
THIS is a library having much in common with that of
Mr. Alexander Young, described further on. The two
collections, while differing in many respects as to indi-
vidual books, are alike in subject and about co-equal in
extent. First and early editions of the popular litera-
ture of England and Scotland have been the principal
quest of Mr. Russell, and he has been rewarded with a
very considerable measure of success.
His collection contains some very rare volumes and
some very fine ones. The greater number are hand-
somely bound, some are printed on vellum, and some on
350 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
satin. Nearly the whole library is at Cleveden, only
a few general books remaining at Ascog. The most
valuable works and a selection of those most handsome
in appearance are located in an elegant room on the
ground floor, in closed bookcases of fine workmanship.
In 1870 Mr. Russell printed a catalogue of his books,
and subsequent additions becoming numerous, he had
a new catalogue prepared in 1883. This latter lies
before us. It is a small quarto of 129 pages, printed
in the " Buteman " office, Rothesay.
Some manuscripts are in the library. They are
chiefly Books of Hours done about the beginning of the
sixteenth century, and are all very beautifully executed
and bound.
So large is the collection of sixteenth and seven-
teenth century works that we have been obliged to
single out for mention only those books which are of
more than common interest ; and of so little moment
is it to divide the early popular literature into classes,
while the advantage of keeping it together is clear,
that we have also chosen to deal with early editions,
irrespective of subject or manner of treatment.
The earliest printed volume in the library is the first
Latin edition of Sebastian Brandt's " Ship of Fools,"
called in Latin, " Stultifera Navis," and printed by De
Olpe at Basle in 1497. It is a small quarto, in black
letter, and is rare. The first English edition is also
here. It came from the press of the famous London
printer, Richard Pynson, in 1509, and is a most notable
and rare black-letter folio. Mr. Russell has also
Cawood's edition, London, 1570, which is also in black
letter. Chaucer is here in four fine old folios, all in
black letter. The first was printed in 1542 by John
Reynes, " dwellynge at the synge of saynte George in
Pauls church-yarde " ; the second in 1561, by lohn
Kyngston; the third in 1598, by George Bishop ; and
the fourth in 1602, by Adam Islip.
A work of which we have not been able to trace
MR RUSSELL'S LIBRARY. 351
another copy has found a place in Mr. Russell's col-
lection. The title is in verse, and reads
" Eede me, and be not wrothe,
For I speke no thynge but trothe."
The book bears no name or date, but the author was one
William Roy, and the edition is supposed to be that
printed at Worms in 1 526. It consists of 72 leaves, and
has a satirical woodcut on the title, displaying the arms
of Cardinal Wolsey. On the last page are the arms of
the Pope. Mr. Hazlitt (" Handbook to Pop. Lit."),
who does not mention having seen a copy, quotes the
title, and says that the work appears in a list of books
(preserved among the manuscripts at Lambeth) pro-
scribed in 1531. This copy, if it be that printed at
Worms, and there is reason to think so, may therefore
be unique. Another edition of what is evidently the
same book appeared at Wesel in 1546. A copy of it
sold in 1845 at 25.
Of very high value and interest is the first edition
of Spenser's great poem, the Fairy Queen. It
was issued in two parts, the first in 1590, and the
second six years afterwards. A copy of it was among
the books of Ireland, the Shakespeare forger, and was
the subject of much interest when exposed for sale.
Spenser annotated by Shakespeare would have been
indeed a treasure. A few great books stand out from the
crowd of minor ones, and temptingly allure the collector.
Such are the first folio Shakespeare, the first edition of
Burns, and the first edition of Spenser's Fairy
Queen. The present is in every respect a complete
and fine copy. Some others of Spenser's works are
also in the library, including the first and only separate
editions of " Colin Clout's come Home again," London,
1595, and "The Fowre Hymmes," London, 1596.
Another great book, hardly inferior in importance to
any of the above three, save the Shakespeare folio, is the
first edition of Virgil's " .^Eneid," 1553, translated out of
352 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Latin into Scottish metre, by Gawain Douglas, Bishop
of Dunkeld, and as the title quaintly puts it, " vnkil
to the erle of Angus." It was the first translation of
a classic into a British tongue, preceding any translation
into English, and was the work of a scholar in a tur-
bulent time and an ignorant age. It is a rare book,
and a precious one. The fine edition brought out
by the celebrated Scottish scholar, Thomas Ruddiman,
in 1710, is also here. Another important translation
was George Chapman's version of the Iliad and
Odyssey of Homer. Fine copies of both are in the
library. They are undated, but are supposed to have
been published about 1610. The former was printed
for Nathaniel Butter and the latter by Richard Field
for the same. Mr. Hazlitt relates (" Handbook to
Pop. Lit.") that Steevens bought of a bookseller, for
five shillings, Chapman's own copy, with his corrections,
and also that Pope's copy, which cost him three shil-
lings, and afterwards belonged to Warton, was sold in
1869 at 12 5s. Mr. Russell has also the "Whole
Works" of Homer issued about 1616, and containing
the Iliad and the Odyssey in one. Of Chapman's own
works several are in the library. Amongst them the
" Funeral Song on the Death of the Prince of Wales,"
1612; the first and only edition of the " Widowe's
Teares," 1612; and Ovid's "Banquet of Sense," a
coronet for his " Mistress Philosophy " and his
" Amorous Zodiake," 1595.
The rare first edition of Shakespeare's Poems, 1640,
is in this collection. It has besides the usual title the
undated one, and also the eleven leaves after the word
Finis, containing some poems by others. The present
is a fine large copy. The "Rape of Lucrece," London r
1665, is also here, with the rare frontispiece. A copy
was sold in 1856 at 25 10s.
Quite a number of valuable editions of Milton's
works are in the library. The first edition of Milton's
"Paradise Lost," London, 1667, is present, with the
MR. RUSSELL'S LIBRARY. 353
first title-page. There were several title-pages printed,
all bearing the same year. Editions of 1668 and 1669,
and the beautiful folio produced by the Foulises, are
also here. The first and second editions of Milton's
Poems, London, 1645 and 1671; the first edition of
"Paradise Regained," London, 1671; the first edition
of " Comus," London, 1637; and the first edition of
the " Lycidas," which is at the end of a collection of
poetical tributes to the memory of Mr. Edward King,
who was drowned, published at Cambridge, 1638, are
also in the library. This latter volume bears Milton's
autograph one of rare occurrence.
A volume of extraordinary rarity is Patrick Han-
nay's " The Nightingale Sheretine and Mariana,"
London, 1622. Of this there are only about six per-
fect copies, and several of them are in public libraries.
This copy has the engraved title which is wanting in
some of the copies. The title is divided into compart-
ments. In the upper is a portrait of Queen Anne of
Denmark, and in the lower a portrait of the author.
Mr. Hazlitt says ( <( Pop. Lit."), 1867, " Bindley's copy,
which sold at his sale for 35 14s., cost him 6s. ; Arch-
deacon Wrangham's fetched 40, and he gave 12s. for
it. ... Altogether, perhaps, six perfect copies may be
in existence." A reprint of this volume, edited by Dr.
David Laing, was presented to the Hunterian Club by
Mr. Russell. Two copies were printed on vellum, one
of which is here. Another interesting book, or rather
morsel of a book, for it is but a fragment of four leaves,
is " Adam Bel, Clyrn of the Cloughe and Wyllyam of
Cloudesle." It has no date or imprint, but is
supposed to be about 1557. "The voyce of the
laste trumpet, bio wen by the seventh Angel (as
is mentioned in the eleventh of the Apocalips)
callyng at estate of men to the ryght path of
theyr vocation ; wherein are conteyned xii. lessons to
twelve severall estats of men ; which if they learne and
folowe, al shall be wel, and nothing amis." This work
23
354 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
was written by Robert Crowley, printer, and after-
wards pastor of St. Giles', Cripplegate, London. The
earliest edition given by Mr. Hazlitt is 1550, and he
adds, doubtingly, that Lowndes mentions an edition in
1549. This is a copy of the edition referred to by
Lowndes. This same Robert Crow ley printed the first
and second editions of the famous "Vision of Piers
Plowman, 1550." Mr. Russell has the first and also
the edition of 1561 printed by Owen Rogers, with the
Creed of Piers, which was then printed for the first
time. The Creed occupies the last sixteen leaves, and
is frequently wanting. The authorship of the " Vision "
is enveloped in a mist which is not likely to clear away
now, but the work is generally ascribed to Robert
Longland or Langland. A very rare volume, and one
of which mention is made in several places in this work,
is the " Seven Sobs of a Sorrowfull Soule for Sinne,"
by William Hunnis. The present (1797) is the second
edition of the work under this name of the first we
do not know if a copy exists. Several editions of it
appeared subsequent to 1797. Mr. Russell has another
and a more rare work by the same author, " A Hyve
Fvll of Hunnye," London, 1578.
A copy of George Herbert's " Temple," London,
1633, is a volume of much value, few copies being-
known. It is the first published edition ; of the privately
issued one of the previous year the copy which be-
longed to Mr. Huth is the only one known. A. very
rare book is Samuel Rowland's " Diogenes Lanthorne."
" In Athens I seeke for honest men,
But I shall find them God knows when :
He search the Citie, where if I can see
One honest man, he shall goe with me."
London, 1607. A rare edition of William Lithgow's
" Rare Adventures and painful Perigrinations of long
ninteen yeares travayles from Scotland to the most
famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Africa, etc.,"
London, 1632, is here. Many subsequent editions
MR RUSSELL'S LIBRARY. 355
were printed, and some even of these are scarce.
Several of Robert Southwell's works are in the col-
lection, including the edition of "Saint Peter's Com-
plaint," printed by John Wreittoun at Edinburgh, 1634,
and of which only one other copy is known.
Other rare and important books may be noticed briefly.
Of Gower's Confessio A mantis there is an edition
printed at London in 1554; of Lydgate's translation
of the Fall of Princes, an early edition, 1554 ; of
Lydgate's translation of Guido de Colonna's Siege and
Destruction of Troy, the second edition, London, 1555 ;
of Jasper Heywood's version in English of Seneca's
Thy ester, the first edition, London, 1560 ; John Hey-
wood's Spider and the Flie, London, 1556, only
edition; the same writer's " Woorkes," 1566; Hard-
ing's Chronicle in metre, " fro the first begynnyng of
Englade, vnto the reigne of Edwarde the fourth," Lon-
don, 1543; The Canticles or Balades of Salomon,
phrase-lyke declared in Englyshe Metre, by William
Baldwin, London, 1549 (this volume was printed by
the author, " seruant with Edwarde Whitchurche ") ;
Zodiake of Life, by Marcellus Pallingenius, translated
into English by Barnabee Googe, 1561 ; another edition,
1565 ; another, 1588 ; Myrrour for Magistrates, London,
1563, the second edition ; another edition, 1571;al587
edition of the first part, which was issued after the
second, and a complete edition containing both parts in
1610, with the rare dedication to the Earl of Notting-
ham of the '' Winter's Night's Vision," which is gene-
rally wanting, and also the equally rare dedication to
" Ladie Elizabeth Clere," prefixed to "England's Eliza."
The Satires of Horace, Englished by T. Drant, and is-
sued under the title of a Medicinable Morall, that is
the two Bookes of Horace, his Satyres, London, 1566,
and the Epistles and Satires of Horace, 1567;
Thomas Preston's Lamentable Tragedy, mixed ful of
pleasant mirth, conteyning the life of Cambises King
of Percia [imprinted at London by John Allde]. It
356 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
bears no date, but was entered in the Stationers' books
between July, 1569, and July, 1570, 23 leaves, very
scarce ; George Gascoigne's Posies, the first edition
authorized by the author, 1575 an edition was issued
in ] 572 during his absence in Holland also his Whole
Workes, 2 volumes, 1586-7 (includes the Droome of
Doome's Day, 1586), a very rare book indeed; the
second edition of Thomas Churchyard's Chippes, 1578,
very rare ; the still more rare Lamentable and Pitiful!
Description of the Wofull Warres in Flaunders since
the Four Last Yeares of the Emperor Charles the Fifth,
his Raigne, first edition, 1578; and the very rare volume,
Churchyard's Challenge, London, 1593, containing
twenty-one of his pieces he chose the title because his
right to the authorship had been disputed ; The Bee-
Hive of the Romishe Churche : a Worke of al good
Catholikes too bee read, and most necessary to be vn-
derstood, translated out of Dutch into English by Geo,
Gilpin the Elder, 1580 this, the first edition, is ex-
tremely rare it was dedicated to Sir Philip Sydney ;
Seneca, His Tenne Tragedies, translated into Englysh,
1581 ; L. A. Seneca the Philosopher, his Booke of
Consolation toMarcia, translated into an English poem
[by R. C.], London, 1 635, 25 leaves the translator's
name is supposed to have been Robert Codrington ;
Whitney's Emblems, Leyden, 1586; Robert Greene's
Spanish Masquerado, London, 1589, and several
other of Greene's works ; Arte of English Poesie, Lon-
don, 1589 this important book was written many
years before its appearance in print ; George Ripley's
(Canon of Bridlington, Yorkshire) Compound of Al-
chemy, London, 1591 ; Abraham Fraunce's Countesse
of Pembroke's Yuy-church, London, 1591; the third
part of the Countesse of Pembroke's Yuy-church, Lon-
don, 1592; and the Lawier's Logike, London, 1588
(the identical copies described in the Bibliotheca Anglo-
Poetica, but re-bound) ; Gabriel Harvey's Four
Letters and Certaine Sonnets, especially touching
MR. RUSSELL'S LIBRARY. 357
Robert Greene and other parties by him abused, 1592
one of the sonnets is by Spenser ; ^Esop's Fables,
Paraphrased by John Ogilvy, nearly 100 plates, folio,
London, 1665; Aleyn's Battles of Crescy and Poictiers,
1633, and History of Henry the Seventh, 1638 ; Allot's
England's Parnassus, 1600; Samuel Austin's Naps
upon Parnassus, 1658 ; Nathaniel Baxter's Sir Philip
Sydney's Omania, 1606; the first collected edition of
Comedies and Tragedies of Beaumont and Fletcher,
1647; Bodenham's Belvedere, or the Garden of the
Muses, 1600 and 1601; five works by Richard Brath-
waite, 1614-15-21, and 1666 ; Thomas Carew's Poems,
four editions, 1640, 1651, 1670, 1772; seven works of
John Cleveland, 1647, 1654, 1659, 1662, 1677, 1687;
seven of the works of Samuel Daniel, 1585, 1602,
1603, 1605, 1609-23, and 1611 ; the first and second
editions of Sir William Davenant's Madagascar, 1638
and 1648, and his works, 1673; John Davies's first
work, Mirum in Modum, 1602, and four other of his
works; two of the works of Sir John Davies, 1602,
1622 ; Dekker's " Entertainment to King James, 1604,
and the Wonderful Yeare 1603, wherein is showed the
picture of London lying sicke of the Plague," 1603 ;
John Donne's Poems, 1633, 1635, 1639, 1654, 1669,
1719, and others of his works; Michael Dray ton's rare
ft Gratulatorie Poem to the Majestie of King James,"
London, 1603 ; his Poems, 1603, 1605, 1610, 1619,
1637; his Poly-Olbion, 1622; twelve of Tom
D'Urfey's works, including his Pills to Purge Melan-
choly ; the first translation of the Lusiad of Camoens
into English, done by Sir Richard Fanshaw, London,
1655 ; Thomas Hall's Funebria Florae, the Downfall
of May Games, London, 1661 (a presentation copy
from the author, with his inscription on back of title) ;
several of Sir John Harrington's works, including the
New Discourse of a Stale Subject, London, 1596; and
works by Gabriel Harvey ; nineteen of Thomas Hey-
wood's works, beginning with his Great Britaine's
S58 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Troy in 1609 ; some of Ben Jonson's separate works ;
some of Sir Thomas Overbury's works ; several of
John Taylor the "Water Poet's; Edmund Waller's
works ; no less than twenty-eight of the works of George
Wither (all before 1700) ; and many other works of
merit and value.
Taking the foregoing pages as including the early
poetry in the library, which they do, with much else
besides, we will sum up and bring our description of
the class to a close by mentioning Scottish poetry,
collections of songs, and the works of modern poets.
The collection of the first editions of the separate works
of Coleridge is one which must have cost much time,
labour, and money to form. It begins with the Fall
of Robespierre, 1794, a very rare volume; and the
Proposals for Publishing by Subscription ; Imitations
from the Modern Latin Poets, with a critical and bio-
graphical essay on the Restoration of Literature, a
most extremely scarce document. They number alto-
gether 47 volumes, and are bound uniformly. Col-
lected editions of the works of Byron, Cowper, Shelley,
and others, and all the works, in original editions, of
Swinburne and Tennyson, and some of those of Robert
Browning, are on the shelves.
Of the poetical accounts of the Life and Acts of
Bruce, variously designated as the " Most Victorious
Conqueror," " Renowned and Brilliant Prince," etc.,
there are six copies here, some of them by Barbour and
some by Gordon, but none of them earlier than 1714.
The first Edinburgh, first London, and several other
editions of Burns's poems are present, with several
volumes of reprints and Burnsiana. Dalyell's Scotish
Poems of the sixteenth century, 1 80 1, large paper; Robert
Farley's Kalendarium Humanae Vitoe, London, 1638 ;
and his Lights Moral Emblems, London, 1638 ; most
of Hogg's works in original editions ; Leyden's edition
of the Complaynt of Scotland, his Poetical Remains,
and other works ; Sir David Lyndsay's works, several
MR. RUSSELL'S LIBRARY. 359
editions ; also Henryson, Duiibar ; first edition of
Ossian, 1760; another edition, 1762, 1776, and other
editions; Bamsay's Poems, first edition, 1721-8 ; Ever-
green, 1724, and early editions of his other works;
Alexander Scott's Poems, Laing's edition, 1821, and
the Glasgow edition of 1882, the latter on vellum ; Sib-
bald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, 4 volumes, 1802;
ten editions of Wallace, by Blind Harry, beginning with
London, 1637; Certain curious Poems, principally by
James M'Alpie, Sheriff-Substitute of Renfrewshire,
1694, edited by W. Motherwell, Paisley, 1828, 30 copies
printed. Doubt has been expressed as to whether
M'Alpie had anything to do with this, or indeed that
there ever was such a person. This copy contains an
original manuscript deed, dated 1705, and signed by
M'Alpie. Ten entries appear under ballads, contain-
ing some scarce volumes. Seventy-four entries appear
under songs, some of the titles of which are quaint and
sweet Musical Miscellany, London, 1729-31 ; The
Syren, London, 1737 ; The Universal Musician, Lon-
don, 1738; The Nightingale, London, 1742; The Warb-
ling Muses, London, 1749 ; The Thrush, London, 1749 ;
The Linnet, London, 1749 ; The Brent, or English
Syren, London, 1765; The Charmer, Edinburgh, 1765-
82; Steven's Choice Spirits Chaplet, Whitehaven,
1771 ; Merry Companion, Newcastle, 1772 ; Charms of
Cheerfulness, Carlisle, 1778; The Bullfinch, London ;
Cheerful Companion, Perth, 1780 ; Grinning made
more Easy, Oswestry ; Vocal Magazine, London, 1781 ;
Convivial Songster, London, 1782 ; The Goldfinch,
Glasgow, 1782; The Busy Bee, London; The Vocal
Enchantress, London, 1783; Calliope, London, 1785;
The Skylark, London, 1791 ; The Bouquet, York,
1792; Banquet of Thalia, York, 1792; Edinburgh
Musical Miscellany, 1792-3; Scots Nightingale ; Whim
of the Day, 1790 to 1805; Myrtle and Vine, Lon-
don, 1803; The Apollo, London, 1814; Laugh-
able Songster, London, 1814 ; The Dandy, Cork, 1820 ;
3GO THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
The Lotus, Edinburgh, 1830; The Thistle, London,
1833 ; The Poesie, Glasgow, 1834 ; Whistle-Binkie,
Glasgow, 1842. The library also contains nine of
Peter Buchan's rare publications and several of Allan
Cunningham's works. Collections of poems are
numerous. Sixty-eight entries appear in the cata-
logue under J. O. Halliwell; allJ. P. Collier's Reprints
of Early English Popular Literature, red, green, blue,
yellow, magenta, and brown series ; twelve of his
miscellaneous works, and sixteen of his original works
are in the collection. The Library of Old Authors is also
here. There are fifty-nine entries at James Maidment.
The most rare of these is Nugae Derelictae, Edin-
burgh, 1822, a joint production of Maidment and Robert
Pitcairn. In the preface Mr. Maidment says that
owing to the small number of copies printed of some of
the pamphlets in the volume, not more than six
complete copies exist. One is in the Abbotsford col-
lection ; Mr. Thomas Thomson had a copy which
is now in the Grenville collection, British Museum ;
Mr. Whiteford Mackenzie has a copy ; Mr. Maid-
ment and Mr. Pitcairn had each a copy (both
now in the possession of Mr. Russell) ; and Mr. J.
Wyllie Guild has a copy. The first, third, and
fourth editions of Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry, issued respectively in 1765, 1775, and
1794, are on the shelves. All the rare works issued by
David Laing are here, and so also are the numerous
productions, poetical and otherwise, of John Pinkerton,
including a unique and most magnificent volume contain-
ing the 204 plates issued with his Collection of Voyages
and Travels, engravers' proofs upon India paper. The
volume formerly belonged to one of the principal en-
gravers engaged on the work. The Aldine edition of
the British Poets, 35 of Joseph Ritson's works, Wat-
son's Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems,
1709-11-13; Arber's English Reprints; the publica-
tions of the Percy Society, with the suppressed parts; and
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those of the Hunterian Club, Spenser Society, Ballad
Society, and Early English Text Society, are all here.
In Scottish history and topography there are many
fine works, including the very rare first edition of
Holinshed's Chronicles, and a large paper copy of
Chalmers's Caledonia.
Mr. Russell is more than ordinarily strong in original
editions of Rev. Zachary Boyd's works. He has a
-copy of the " Last Battell of the Soule in Death," 2
volumes, Edinburgh, 1629, with the much spoken of
1628 title-page. This title-page is inserted after the
prefatory matter, just before the beginning of the book,
and is in this respect the counterpart of Professor
Ferguson's copy. We owe Mr. Russell an apology for
not mentioning his copy in our introduction, but we
were unavoidably compelled to finish that part of the
book before we had an opportunity of examining the
-copy at Cleveden. Mr. Russell is also the fortunate
possessor of the only copy known of Boyd's " Four
Letters of Comfort for the Deaths of the Erie of
Hadingtoun and of the Lord Boyd," printed by
George Anderson, Glasgow's first printer, at Glas-
gow in 1640. It formerly belonged to Mr. Maidment.
A reprint was issued in 1878, of which 150 copies were
printed, six of them on vellum. One of the six is here.
The other notable Boyd volume in the collection is
"Two Sermons for those who are to come to the Table of
the Lord," printed at Edinburgh by John Wreittoun
in 1629. Everything relating to the old minister of
the Barony who preached at Cromwell, and received
payment in kind from the Protector, being invited to
dinner, and afterwards treated to a prayer of three
hours' duration, is interesting, and of at least local
value. His works are extremely difficult to get save
in reprints, and even these are rising in price.
Mr. Russell has a good copy of the first history of
Glasgow, " M' Ore's View," 1736, and also copies of the
various other histories and sketches of the city written
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by Denholm, Cleland, Strang, Pagan, Stuart, Held,
Wade, Mackenzie, Macgeorge, and Hill. He has the
"Memorabilia of Glasgow," 1835, and "Glasgow
Looking-Glass" and "Northern Looking-Glass," 1825-6.
History is well represented, that of England especially
so. All the well-known histories are on the shelves,
and the reign of Charles I. and the time of the Com-
monwealth is illustrated by over one hundred works,
the greater number of them contemporary with the
events related.
In Fine Art we have to chronicle a very large and fine
collection of works by and relating to John Kuskin.
They number about one hundred and fourteen, and
are in fine condition and beautifully bound.
In this division are also a complete set of both series
of the Arundel Society, Hamerton's " Etchers," the
first, second, and third editions ; his " Graphic Arts,"
and other works ; Sir William Stirling Maxwell's
" Annals of the Artists in Spain," " Antwerp De-
livered in 1577," " Procession of Pope Clement VII."
and the " Emperor Charles V. at Bolognia," and other
works ; and the beautiful works of Paul Lacroix.
Of works of Fiction there is a fair selection. All Sir
Walter Scott's novels are here in their original form.
There are a number of Chap-books in the librar}^
hailing from Glasgow, Paisley, Stirling, Newcastle,
Alnwick, and Manchester presses.
Bibliography is well represented. Works by Dib-
din, Lowndes, Hill Burton, Brydges, and others are
present. There are numerous sets of collected works
in the library, and many works of a miscellaneous kind
which we must content ourselves with recording in this
general sentence. The works we have named will
show that the library is very rich in early poetical
and historical works, and also in several other depart-
ments of literary production, but a further examination
would also show that present-day literature and the
modern side of history, philosophy, etc., is not by any
means neglected.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
LIBRARY OF MATHEW SHIELDS, ESQ., SECRETARY OF
THE GLASGOW STOCK EXCHANGE.
Character of the Collection Witchcraft Kirkcudbright
Case Bovet's " Pandcemonium " Scottish Poetry
Homes "Douglas" Burns Clark's Version of the
Song of Solomon Defoe's " Caledonia" The Pock-
manty Sermon Knoxs " Historic of the Reforma-
tion" Jirst edition Covenanting Tracts " Terrible
Newes from Scotland"- Patrick Walker Letter
from a Blacksmith on the Religious State of Scotland
Biography Darien Tracts Pri.nce Charles's Ac-
count of the Battle of Falkirk Scottish Topography
Glasgow Books Glasgow Periodicals Views of
Glasgow Poems on Glasgow Paisley Books Scot-
tish Trials Tinclarian Doctor Chap-books Con-
clusion.
YET another Scottish library. We remarked in a
previous chapter on the improbability of two collections,
although on the same subject, so exactly coinciding as
to render examination of one of them unnecessary
and valueless, and this library is an apt illustra-
tion of the truth of our contention. It is almost
unreservedly Scottish, has been formed during the last
twenty years, a period which has also witnessed the
birth and growth of three other Scottish libraries
described in this book, and yet is dissimilar to these in
so many respects, and possesses so strong an individual-
ity as to richly reward examination and to demand
separate description.
It is not a collection of the most approved histories;,
indeed it has few of these, but consists almost wholly
364 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
of the materials for such. There is hardly a book or
pamphlet but what has special value as illustrating
some episode or portion of Scottish national or local
history more fully than any larger general work. Not
a volume seems to have strayed in. There is a story
connected with each, or a reason for its presence, and
the possessor is able to tell it a first-rate voucher of
the care bestowed in the formation of 'the collection.
That the history of a country consists not only in
the record of Court movements, in the chronicling of
treaties and wars, but in also giving a picture of the
people, has been so generally accepted as to have be-
come a truism. It is this under- current, as it were, of
history, the domestic annals of the country, that is
related in Mr. Shields' books, and usually by con-
temporaries of the events.
The Covenanting struggle is graphically told in one
series of small books ; another relates to the union of
Scotland and England ; yet another to the unfortunate
Darien enterprise ; another to the rebellions of 1715
and 1745, and another to the Reform agitation of 1816 ;
while single books and tracts innumerable deal with
less prominent events. A section, and a considerable
one, contains books and pamphlets relating to Glasgow
histories, views, periodicals, reports, guide-books, and
the works of local poets who have written on local
subjects. One other peculiarity of the library is that
most of the volumes are small in size, duodecimo and
octodecimo being most common. Small, numerous,
and of importance, the work of description is rendered
difficult and arduous.
Dividing the books into classes in accordance with
our scheme, our first subject is Witchcraft, with which
we include superstitious beliefs. The narrative of the
"Sufferings and Relief" of Christian Shaw, daughter
of the laird of Bargarran in Renfrewshire, is of course
in the collection, but having been referred to at length
at page 272, need only be mentioned here.
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On the 27th May, 1743 or 1744, six young men
who lived near the town of Kirkcudbright, "six
very prophane and blasphemous young men," . . .
proceeded to the churchyard about midnight and
took the sacrament in the name of the Devil, despite
a voice which was heard to warn them to turn and
repent ere it was too late. No sooner had they
begun than " there were heard most dreadful and
astonishing Cries and Bellowings, with many dismal
groans, enough to melt a heart of stone ; which struck
such a dreadful surprize on the Rev. Mr. Simmons and
his family, who lived near the church-yard, that they
could not ly at ease in their beds, so he went unto the
church-yard, and there he saw the bread and wine, but
none of the young men till next morning, when he and
his family went unto the church-yard again, and there
they saw the young men lying blind, with blood run-
ning out of their mouths and ears." This wonderful
story is solemnly attested by Mr. Simmons, who
preached a sermon on it on the following Sunday, and
other persons of local repute, and fully related in an
eight-page tractate, headed " Terrible Judgments ; or
the Blasphemers' Reward," 1741.
Another relation of an equally improbable character
is given in a pamphlet entitled "An Account of some
strange apparations had by a godly man in Kintyre,
who hath been blind six years," 1737. This was often
reprinted, and so late as 1820. Another very popular
chap was that containing an account of a conference
between Rev. Mr. Ogilvie, minister of Innerwick, and
the ghost of Mr. Maxwell, the Laird of Cool. Of a
like character are, " A Fearful Relation of the Wonder-
ful state of James Grant " ; " Dr. Mitchel's Strange
and Wonderful Discourse Concerning the Witches and
Warlocks of West Calder " (about 1720) ; and " An True
Account of the Wonderful Signs of God's Judgments,
etc.," Glas., 1714. Two very rare books on second-sight,
known generally through reprints in the Miscellanea
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Scotica, are the first editions of a " Treatise on Second
Sight," by Theophilus Insulanus, Edin., 1763 ; and "A
brief Discourse concerning the Second Sight, commonly
so called," by the Rev. John Fraser, late minister of
Tiree, Edinburgh, 1707. This latter was printed by
Andrew Symson, author of " A Large Description of
Galloway," and other works. He was originally an
Episcopalian minister in Galloway, and afterwards a
printer in Edinburgh.
Coming to more general works, the third edition of
Scot's Disco verie of Witchcraft, 1665 ; the third, but
first complete edition of Glanvil's Sadducismus Trium-
phatus, 1689 ; Gayle's Select Cases of Conscience
touching Witches, 1646 ; Bekker's World Bewitched,
1695 ; a Discourse on Witchcraft occasioned by the
Bill for the Repeal of the Statutes bearing on
Witches, London, 1736 ; Sinclair's Satan's Invisible
World Discovered, Edin. 1789; Defoe's Compleat
System of Magick (by Andrew Moreton, a nom deplume
of Defoe's), London, 1730; his Secrets of the Invisible
World laid open, 1770, and his translation of the Abbe
Bourdelon's History of the Ridiculous Extravagances
of Monsieur Oufle, London, 1711, are present. The
earliest volume on witchcraft in the collection is Peter
de Loier's curious " Treatise on Spectres," published
at London in 1605.
A believer who gives reasons for the faith that
is in him is welcome. Such an one appears to be
Richard Bovet, Gentleman, who wrote a book called
" Pandsemonium, or the Devil's Cloyster," London,
1684. The first part of the work is devoted to a
general consideration of the subject, the second to the
relation of instances. These number fifteen, and
are very wonderful. To the greater number Bovet
adds an "advertisement," in which he avows his be-
lief in the visitations and affirms the truth of the
relations. In one of the examples it is told that four
children, amongst other extraordinary actions, vomited
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY. 367
forth pins, where-anerit our author gravely says, " But
what can possibly be thought of the vomiting of pins ?
If there could be imagined any natural distemper that
could breed brass wyre in the body, it would be hard to
imagin how they should come to be pointed and headed
without an artificer." Another work having the merit
of appearing contemporaneous with the events related
is Curll's " Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and
Witchcraft/' 2 volumes in one, London, 1715. It con-
tains among other things a reprint of the account of
Christian Shaw's case.
Leaving witchcraft for Poetry, in this class are va-
rious collections and editions of the old Scottish poets
edited by Pinkerton, Ritson, Maidment, Laing, and
others. Among the older books are Blind Harry's "Wal-
lace," Glasgow, 1685, 1756, and Perth, 1790; Hamilton
of Gilbertfield's Poetical History of Wallace, Aberdeen,
1774; Barbour's " Bruce," Glasgow, 1737; Gordon's
"Bruce," Edinburgh, 1718, Glasgow, 1753; Harvey's
" Bruce," 1768; Lyndesay's Works, Glasgow, 1712,
and Edinburgh, 1776 ; Hamilton of Bangor, Foulis,
1741 ; Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling's
" Monarchicke Tragedies," 1616; Gawain Douglas'
translation of the ./Enid of Virgil, Edinburgh, 1714
(Ruddi man's fine edition) ; Watson's Collection of
Scots Poems, Edinburgh, 1713, 1709, 1711; Colvil's
"Whigg's Supplication," Edinburgh, 1711; Meston's
" Knight of the Kirk " 1723; "Christ's Kirk on the
Green/' 1718 ; " Fragments of Ancient Poetry," Edin-
burgh, 1760 (the first Ossianic publication of Mac-
pherson) ; A Collection of poems in the broad Buchan
dialect, 1785; " Albanus, or the Poetical Tour of
Scotland," Dumfries; 1805 ; Alex. Pennecuik's Collec-
tion of Scots Poems, Edinburgh, 1759, and Streams
from Helicon, 1720; Dr. Pennicuik's "Geographical
Description of Tweeddale, and Scotish Poems," Edin-
burgh, 1715; "Jamie and Bess," by Shirrefs, Aber-
deen, 1787; Robert Ferguson's Poems, illustrated
SG8 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
by Bewick, 2 volumes, Alnwick ; and Campbell's
" Pleasures of Hope," Edinburgh, 1799 (first edition).
The following books deserve particular mention : An
early edition of the authorized version of the Psalms,
Glasgow, 1666, black letter ; the Psalms of King
David, translated by King James, Oxford, 1631, 12mo.
This is the first edition of King James' Psalms, and is
very rare. A second edition was published at London
in 1636, folio, and is better known than the earlier one
from being generally bound up with the famous Jenny
Geddes' Prayer-Book, Edinburgh, 1637. Mr. Shields,
it may be here mentioned, has a fine copy of the
prayer-book. " The very learned Scotsman, Mr.
George Buchanan's Fratres Fraterrimi, three books of
epigrams, and book of miscellanies, in English verse,
with the illustrations of the proper names and mytholo-
gies therein mentioned, by Robert Monteith," Edin-
burgh, 1708. A collection of several poems and verses
composed upon various occasions by William Cleland.
printed in the year 1697. Cleland was lieutenant-
colonel of a Cameronian regiment, and was killed at
Dunkeld. A copy of this work, with the title in manu-
script, is entered in the " Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica."
The present copy is not quite complete. A curious
volume of poetry is in this library, " Some Select
Meditations in Spiritual Songs," 1759, by " William
Wilson, schoolmaster in the parish of Douglas," who
was the author of an account of the battle of Bothwell
Brig, Glasgow, 1751. Wilson was a good specimen of
the " David Deans " type of Scotsman, and his stern,
uncompromising testimony appears in "A Collection
of the Dying Testimonies of Holy and Pious Chris-
tians," published at Kilmarnock in 1806, a book which
strongly impressed Lord Macaulay.
Here also are fifteen pamphlets and broad-sheets
concerning the famous controversy over the pro-
duction of Rev. John Home's play of "Douglas."
Some of them are on single sheets, and were likely
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hawked about the streets, a method of vending which
does not conduce to the preservation of the thing sold.
One is the handbill written by Dr. Alex. Carlyle,
and referred to in his autobiography, entitled "A
full and true History of the bloody Tragedy of
Douglas." It was said that the perusal of this sheet
induced many persons to go and see the play. The
pamphlets, with one or two exceptions, are different
from those mentioned in the chapter describing Mr.
Gray's library, but as the case was there entered into
at some length it need not again be more than re-
ferred to.
There are here some interesting Burns volumes.
The rare Glasgow edition (T. Duncan, Saltmarket,
1801) ; this volume is eked out with two humorous
poems, evidently Paisley work ; the 1802 edition
(Stewart & Meikle, Glasgow), with which the first
edition of the " Letters to Clarinda " was published
this edition of the " Letters to Clarinda," as is well
known, was suppressed by desire of Clarinda (Mrs.
Maclehose) ; an early Irish -edition, Belfast, 1793;
and the first Paisley edition, 1802, published by Robert
Smith, are also here ; the Berwick edition, 2 volumes,
1801; Rev. Hamilton Paul's edition, Air, 1819;
Clark's edition, London, 1823, containing ten facetious
pieces ; the " Poems ascribed to Burns," Glasgow,
1801 ; " Burns' Poetical Miscellany," published by
Stewart & Meikle, Glasgow, 1800 (this appeared in
parts during the three years immediately preceding
" The Jolly Beggars " appeared here for the first time);
" Burnomania," by Dr. Peebles ; and also the works of
Janet Little, David Sillar, and James Fisher (Dumfries,
1790), contemporaries and friends of Burns; "Hew
Ainslie's Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns," and a
number of biographies. A relative of the poet's, John
Burness, was the author of several plays and poetical
pieces. Among those here are " Thrummy Cap,"
one of the most popular of chaps; and a comic drama
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in three acts entitled " The Hermit, or the Dead come
to Life," Edinburgh, 1808. On the title-page the
author describes himself as a private in the Forfar
Militia.
We may rapidly notice some minor poets who belong
to the city of St. Mungo and district. " The Wise or
Foolish Choice : or the Wisdom of choosing Christ,
and the Folly of choosing the World for our portion,
discovered and asserted by Solomon the Wise," Edin-
burgh, 1703. This is the Song of Solomon "done in
metre by one of the ministers of the Gospel in
Glasgow" John Clark, minister of the Tron Kirk.
It is strange to see an old Scottish divine write with
so much warmth of expression. Probably the carnal
man had broken loose in the treatment of so luxurious
a subject. His language is, however, sometimes
ludicrously commonplace, as for instance where he
makes the bridegroom say
" Thy ev'n-shorn teeth in double row,
Each in its proper case,
Not one too short, or hanging low,
Or squinted from its place,
Resemble much a num'rous flock
Of sheep that fruitful be,
New wash't, new past the shizars' stroke,
A comely sight to see."
The book is one not often seen. "True Christian
Love," Glasgow, 1764, is notable as the only poetical
publication of the Rev. David Dickson, a well-known
and prolific theological writer of the seventeenth cen-
tury. " Scotland's Glory and Her Shame," Glasgow,
1816, is a poem giving an account of the amusements
and manners of the Scottish people in the last century.
The author is sorely grieved at the state of the country,
and especially deplores such rude customs as penny
weddings, of which by the way he gives a most
interesting description. From a note it would appear
that the work was first printed in 1752, but we have
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY. 371
never heard of a copy bearing that date. Mr. Shields
has also the " Poems of William Muir of Gampsie,"
Glasgow, 1818, a poet of more than ordinary merit;
M'Indoe's " Wandering Muse," Glasgow, 1813, which
contains many local allusions ; Lochore's " Tales
in Rhyme," Glasgow ; all the separate works of
Alexander Rodger, the admired local poet; Poems
and Songs of Walter Watson, Glasgow, 1823;
Robert Galloway's Poems, 1788 ; Poems by John
Cherry, 1807; various pieces by William Harriston
on local subjects, and many others. A curious little
Glasgow book is "A Choice Collection of Songs to be
sung by Freemasons, some never before published,"
1755.
As samples of the attacks on Scotland at the com-
mencement of last century we may notice " A Modern
Account of Scotland," and " Sawney the Scot," a play
" originally written by Mr. Shakespeare, altered and
improved by Mr. Lacy " ; and on the other hand
Defoe's " Caledonia, a Poem in honour of Scotland,
and People of that Nation " (2nd edition, 1748). The
barrenness of the material available for a defence of the
Scots against the flood of abusive literature which
poured from the printing-presses of the time may be
imagined from the circumstance that Defoe, with
every wish to be favourable, could find nothing else to
say in praise of the Scots than to laud the deeds of
arms accomplished by their countrymen on the Con-
tinent, and he could not help playing the part of the
candid friend, pointing out to them the natural riches
and advantages of their country, and the rewards
which would follow if they roused them from their
indolence. A well-known collection of ludicrous
pieces concerning Scotland is that called " Jemmy
Carson's Collection," of which many editions appeared.
The one here was published at Dublin in 1759.
Amongst other things it contains the famous sermon
on the " Wouns of the Kirk of Scotland," delivered by
372 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
James How, minister of Strowan, in 1638, which,
from the following passage, is known as the Pockrnanty
Sermon :
" The} 7 did nafc only mak a horse of the Kirk of Scotland, but ah 1
my Brethren, they made Baalam's ass of her. ... it pleased the
Lord to apen blind Baalam's een, but what was gotten ahint him,
wat ye ? There was a Pockmanty ! And what was in it, wat ye ?
There was the Buke of Common Prayer, the Canons, and tine-High
Commission. Bonny gear, thou kens : But the ass fell a plunging,
and out gangs the Pockmanty, it hings by the strings 01* yea side,
and affgaes blind Baalam, and he hangs by the hough on the ither
side. . . . Bat my beloved, let not the fat swinger get on again, for
he will certainly get on his Pockmanty alse."
Many collections of Scots ballads and songs are in
the library, amongst them earty editions of Ramsay's
Evergreen and Tea-table Miscellany ; Thomson's Or-
pheus Caledonius, 2 volumes, London, 1733; Poems in
the Scottish Dialect by several celebrated Poets, Glas-
gow, 1748 (an uncommon Foulis) ; The True Loyalist,
1779 (a scarce collection of Jacobite songs, some of which
are not in Hogg's Jacobite Relics) ; Caw's Poetical
Museum, Hawick, 1784 ; Struthers' Harp of Caledonia,
3 volumes, and British Minstrel, 2 volumes, 1821;
Select Collection of Scottish Ballads, 4 volumes, Perth,
1790 the work was issued by the Morisons of Perth,
many of whose publications are in this collection; Herd's
Ancient Scotish Songs and Ballads, 1791 ; Ritson's
Scottish Songs, 1794; Select Poems arid Ballads,
Glasgow, 1778, and the more modern collections of
Chambers and .others.
We have had the good fortune to meet in our biblio-
graphical survey with two copies of the extremely
rare first edition of Knox's History of the Reforma-
tion in Scotland. One is in the Mitchell Library,
and the other is in this collection. The printing
of the volume, which was being done by Vautrolier,
was stopped by order of Archbishop Whitgift with the
intention of rigidly suppressing the book. The present
copy is complete so far as printed (pages 17 to 560 in-
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY. 373
elusive), and has the remainder of the history in manu-
script of evidently contemporaneous date. Very few
copies of the book are known, and not a single perfect
one that is, with pages 1 to 16 and those following
560. The Mitchell copy was previously in the posses-
sion of Mr. Shields, who found it in a heap of rubbish
on the floor of an old-book shop.
Works on the religious history of Scotland are ex-
ceedingly numerous in this collection. They relate
principally to the Covenanting period, but a small group
concern the religious state of the country during the
eighteenth century.
The Covenanting tracts divide naturally into two
series those referring to the military operations of the
civil war period, and those controversial ones of a later
date between presbyterians on the one side and episco-
palians on the other. We may quote the title of
one tract amongst many :
Terrible Newes from Scotland. London, 1647.
This is supposed to have been written by Sir Anthony Weldon. It con-
tains perhaps the most extraordinary description of Scotland ever printed.
He interprets his deliverance from the country as a special mark of God's
favour, and in testimony of thankfulness he issues the present publication.
The country, he says, "is too good for those that possess it, and too bad
for those that will be at charge to conquer it." He charges the inhab-
itants with uncleanliness "There is store of fowle, fowle houses, fowle
linnen, fowle dishes and pots, fowle napkins and trenchers, fowle sheets
and shirts." Regarding the appearance of the country he says, "As for
fruit, for their grandmother Eve's sake they never planted any, and for other
trees, had Christ beene betrayed in this laud, as doubtless he should have
been, had he come a stranger amongst them, Judas had sooner found the
grace of repentance than a tree to hang himself on."
Here are all the works, so far as can be traced,
of the noted presbyterian minister Alexander Shields,
author of "A Hind Let Loose/' The first edition (1687)
of the Hind is present, and the copy of the " True and
Faithful Relation of his Sufferings, 1715," which pre-
viously belonged to David Laing. Shields went out
as chaplain to the Scots colony at Darien, but did not
live to return. All the original editions of Patrick
Walker's extraordinary biographies of Peden, Cameron,
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and of other Scots ministers; Old lives of Thomas Hog,
Robert Blair, John "Welch, Rutherford, Renwick,
Livingstone, and others are also here.
^5 '
Among the Covenanting pamphlets are many separ-
ate sermons by prominent testifiers, Alex. Peden,
James Renwick, David Williamson, Richard Cameron,
Gilbert Rule, John Wilson, Michael Bruce, and Donald
Cargill. One notable pamphlet is that in which
mention is made of the Wigton martyrs a number of
years earlier than was supposed by Mark Napier, who
commented on the absence of contemporary testimony
and laboured to disprove the alleged drownings. This
pamphlet, written by an Episcopalian, Mathias Symson,
contains a distinct acknowledgment of the fact. Other
volumes of interest are Naphtali, 1680, and Glasgow,
1721, much extended; Cloud of Witnesses, third edi-
tion, Glasgow, 1730 (Dr. Laing's copy); Joshua Redi-
vivus or Mr. Rutherford's Letters, 1671 ; Fanatical
Moderation, or unparalelled villany, a faithful narrative
of the barbarous murder committed upon Dr. James
Sharpe, Lord Archbishop of St. Andrews, 3rd May,
1679, by James Mitchell, 1711. This was a most extra-
ordinary case ; Mitchell was arrested several years after
the attempt, but in the absence of testimony would
have been set free. He was, however, induced to confess
on promise of his life, which promise was afterwards
denied, although it yet remains on the Council records.
(The volume also contains an account of the life, trial,
and execution of the notorious Major Weir and his
sister); Life of Archbishop Sharp, 1719 (a scarce book
reprinted in the Miscellanea Scotica) ; another Life of
Sharp, 1779; Memoirs of Viscount Dundee, by an
Officer of the Army, 1714 (reprinted in the Miscellanea
Scotica) ; Life of James Mitchell of Dykes, Ardrossan,
Glasgow, 1759 ; Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises of Eliza-
beth Wast, Glasgow, 1757 (a religious enthusiast, who,
when a dog bit her, exclaimed " Thy hand, O Lord, has
been laid heavy upon thy servant," and at another time
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declared that her sins hung about her like a draff-
pock round her neck) ; Life and Experiences of Marion
Laird, an unmarried woman in Greenock, Glasgow, 1781
(Buckle says of her, " a tortured victim of the doctrines
enunciated by the clergy"); and of the same character,
Choice Sentences of Emilia Geddie, Glasgow, 1720 ; A
Rare Soul Strengthening Cordial, by Jas. Stevenson,
Glas., 1726; and The Arcanum, Dairy, 1815 (an ex-
cellent collection of pamphlets enunciating the prin-
ciples of the Cameronians). Amongst the scurrilous
books against the Presbyterians are, Dr. Pitcairn's
comedy The Assembly (1st edition), Edinburgh, 1722 ;
The Memoirs of Magopica ; The Scotch Presbyterian
Eloquence (with the Answer), 1789 ; and A Satyre on
the Stool of Repentance (in rhyme), about 1690.
The following three little volumes throw consider-
able light on the condition of the people during the
last century. The Acts of the Town Council of the
City of Edinburgh for Suppressing of Vice and Im-
morality, made since the happy Revolution, especially
since the year 1700, Edinburgh, 1742, 18nio; Act of
the Synod of Glasgow and Air, met at Glasgow,
October 5th, 1726, for Reviving Piety and Suppressing
Immorality, etc., Glasgow, 1746 some of the sins
mentioned are running unentered goods, perjuries at
custom-houses, and abuses at penny weddings and
lykwakes ; A Letter from a Blacksmith to the
Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland, in
which the Manner of Publick Worship in that Church
is considered : its Inconveniences and Defects pointed
out and Methods for Removing them humbly pro-
posed, London, 1758. This is a sensible and moderate
appeal to the Church to put an end to the abuses which
disgraced the religious services and especially the cele-
bration of the Sacrament. The picture presented of
the debauchery attending these occasions abundantly
justifies the vigorous onslaught made upon them twenty
years later by Burns.
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Among the Theological books we mentioned several
biographies, and we will now briefly enumerate some
remaining works in the same department. Hume's
House of Douglas and Angus, 2 volumes, 1748 ; History
of the House of Gordon, by C. A. Gordon, Aberdeen,
1754; Memoir of Major Alex. Ramkims, a Highland
officer now in prison at Avignon, London, 1719 (a
soldier of fortune whose name WMS probably Rankin,
distance from the press and illegibility of handwriting,
perhaps, accounting for the mistake) ; Memoirs of
Montrose, by George Wishart ; Life and Death of
King James V., 1710 (reprinted in the Miscellania
Scotica) ; The Countess D'Anios' Secret History of
Mack-Beth, King of Scotland, London, 1708 ; Me-
moirs of the Life of Lord Lovat, London, 1746 ;
Memoirs of Captain John Creighton, 1731 and 1748.
Of the Pamphlets on the union between Scotland
and England we can only spare space to mention
three " Interest of Scotland," by William Seton of
Pitmedden, 1700; "An Accompt Current between
Scotland and England Balanced," by John Spreull,
Glasgow, 1705; "The Reducing of Scotland by
Arms and Annexing it to England as a Province
Considered," London, 1705.
Darien books are so seldom seen that we will be ex-
cused for inserting out of eleven in the possession of
Mr. Shields five which do not appear in the account
of Professor Ferguson's library :
Defence of the Scots Settlement 'at Darien Answered, by Philo-
Britan, London, 1699.
History of Caledonia : or the Scots Colony in Darien, by a Gentle-
man lately arrived, London, 1699.
A Just and Modest Vindication of the Scots Design for the having
Established a Colony at Darien, 1699.
Scotland's Right to Caledonia (formerly called Darien), 1 700.
Representation and Petition of the Council-General of the Indian and
African Company, Edinburgh, 1700.
^'.'Amongst the rebellion pamphlets in the collection
none match in interest the Journal of Prince Charles's
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY. 377
march from the time his army entered England, 8th
November, till its return 10th December, 1745, and his
description of the battle of Falkirk. Perceiving the
advantage of being able to transmit to the nation his
own version of his doings, he procured a printing press,
which was carried with the army, and, as occasion de-
manded, used for the production of proclamations,
journals, and accounts of affrays, for distribution
among his adherents and the population of the dis-
tricts and towns passed through. The account of the
battle of Falkirk was printed on the historic field of
Bannockburn. It gives, by way of comparison, the
report of the battle furnished by authority to the
"Caledonion Mercury," and desires the "partial and im-
partial world to read both relations and then give
verdict according to their consciences." Needless to say,
the two narratives are much at variance with each
other.
Other volumes relating to the rebellion are
Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer, 1746 (first
edition) ; The Wanderer, or Surprising Escape, etc.,
Dublin, 1747; A Full Collection of all Poems upon
Charles, Prince of Wales . . . published since his
arrival in Edinburgh, 17th September till 1st Novem-
ber, 1745 ; The Chronicles of Charles the Young Man;
Full Collection of the Proclamations and Orders pub-
lished by the authority of Charles, Prince of Wales,
in two parts, 1745-6 ; True and Full Account of the
Battle fought at Gladsmuir (no date or imprint) ;
Account of the Battle of Culloden, London, 1749 ;
Authentick Account of the Conduct of the Young
Chevalier, London, 1749 ; A Letter from Lord P d t
to Lord L v t, October 28, 1745, with Answer; Kay's
History of the Rebellion of 1745, London, 1749;
Journey through part of England and Scotland after
the Army of the Duke of Cumberland, by a Volunter,
1747; and History of the Rebellion, 1745-6, by
Andrew Henderson, London, 1753.
378 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Other works of interest bearing on the history of
Scotland we must be content to despatch in a para-
graph. Account of the Massacre of Glencoe, 1704 ;
and a number of original documents connected
with the official inquiry into the affair ; The His-
tory of the Campagnes 1548 and 1549, being an
exact account of the martial expeditions perform'd in
those days by the Scots and French on the one side,
and by the English and their foreign auxiliaries on the
other, done in French by M. Beague, printed at Paris,
1556, Edinburgh, no printer's name, 1705 (this gives a
graphic account of the Scots, their mode of dress, their
daring, and their cruelty to the English) ; Watson's
Historical Collections of Ecclesiastical Affairs in Scot-
land, London, 1657 ; Monypennie's Scottish Chronicle,
Edinburgh, 1633; Scot's Staggering State of Scots
Statesmen (first edition), 1754 ; Skene's Royal Bur-
rows, Aberdeen, 1680 ; Richard Burton's various
books ; History of the Picts, by Maule of Melgum,
Edinburgh, 1706 ; Scotiae Indiculum, 1682 ; Scots
Acts, 3 volumes, 1682-1731 ; Memoirs concerning
the Ancient Alliance between the French and
Scots, 1751 ; Innes's Critical Essay on the Inhabi-
tants of Scotland, 1729 ; Feuds and Conflicts of
the Clans, Foulis, 1764; Topham's Letters from
Edinburgh, 1774-5; Creech's Letters on Edinburgh,
1793 ; and the several translations from the Icelandic
by the Rev. James Johnston relating to Haco's expe-
dition to Scotland, printed at Copenhagan, 1782, and
on the same subject, Chronicon Manniae, Perth, 1786.
Scottish Topography we must also briefly notice. It
is a large section, including many early and interesting
works. The following may be named : Les Delices
de la Bretagne et 1'Irelande, Leide, 1707 (the Scottish
portion of this is a tiny reproduction of Slezer's views) ;
Speed's England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, 1627
(the maps of Scotland, which are somewhat fantastic,
were drawn by Peter Kerr ; they are, we believe, the
ME. SHIELDS' LIBRARY.
earliest rnaps of Scotland); Geographia Scotiae, 1749
(maps of counties and islands of Scotland) ; North of
England and Scotland in 1704, Edinburgh, 1818 (100
copies printed); Martin's St. Kilda, 1698; Martin's
Western Islands, 1703 ; Macaulay's St. Kilda ;
Brand's Orkney and Shetland, Edinburgh, 1701 ; Wal-
lace's Orkney, 1693 ; Semple's edition of Crawford's
Renfrewshire, Paisley, 1782 ; Reliquae Divi Andrae,
St. Andrews, 1797 ; Graham's Sketches of Perthshire,
1806 ; Ure's Rutherglen, 1793; Nimmo's Stirlingshire,
1817 ; Mackay's Abbey and Town of Paisley, 1825 ;
Levern Delineated, by Taylor, 1831 ; Weir's Greenock,
1829 ; Monteath's Dunblane Traditions, 1835, and
others of minor note.
We find here all the histories of Glasgow
M'Ure's (first edition, 1736), Gibson's, Brown's, Den-
holm's, Cleland's, Wade's, Mackenzie's, Pagan's,
Strang's, Reid's, and others; also Chapman's Picture of
Glasgow ; Glasgow Delineated ; Short Account of the
Town's Hospital at Glasgow, 1742 ; History of Glas-
gow Green, by W. C. Pattison, 1845 ; Northern
Sketches and Glasgow Characters (1810).
In addition to Dr. Cleland's larger works on the
city, we find also most of his smaller productions,
some of them now difficult to get. These include the
Historical Account of the Steam Engine and its
application in propelling vessels, etc., 1825. Another
work bearing on the same subject is also here : " Nar-
rative of the loss of the Comet steam packet near
Gourock on the river Clyde, 21st October, 1825,"
Greenock, 1825, as well as another account of the
same wreck, published at Edinburgh in the same year.
Among the tracts are a considerable number on
the political agitation which resulted in the rising
at Stra'ven, and the execution of Baird and Hardie
at Stirling, but which was not finally subdued for
many years after these events. The titles of these are
characteristic " Gotham in Alarm," " More News
380 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
from Gotham," etc. The pamphlets and booklets do
not all relate to Glasgow, but include reports of meet-
ings at Paisley, Kilbarchan, Renfrew, Johnstone, and
other neighbour! nor towns.
o *^
Two dumpy volumes contain cuttings selected from
the " Glasgow Mercury," 1778, 1779, 1784, 1785, all
on local subjects (including many advertisements), and
very curious and interesting.
Among Glasgow books of a miscellaneous nature we
note David Laurie's books on the Gorbals and Lauries-
ton, the narrative of the proceedings in the case of
Rodger and others v. Harvie for the recovery of the
liberty of the banks of the Clyde, 1829 ; Ancient Glas-
gow, 1854 (reprinted from "Glasgow Gazette"), on
vellum, one of a very few copies ; and " Margaret
Alexander's Buik." This MS. volume is a sort of
common-place book of poems, proverbs, and odds and
ends. It had also been used as a domestic account
book, and .contains names of various tradesmen who
are to be found in the list of shopkeepers given in
M'Ure's History, 1736.
Mr. Shields has a number of Glasgow periodicals and
an extensive collection of views of Glasgow. The peri-
odicals, of course, include many that are already men-
tioned in these pages, but the following three are not
in any of the lists given : Philosophical Tattler, 1826 ;
New Opera Glass, 1830 ; Pepper Box, 1840.
VIEWS OF GLASGOW.
The Prospect of ye Town of Glas- A View of Glasgow from the
gow from ye North East, Soxith-east, Academy, Glasgow,
Slezer, 1693. 1762 (large Etching, pre-
The Prospect of the Town of sumably by Robert Paul).
Glasgow from ye South, Slezer, The Trongate of Glasgow in 1774,
1693. after a drawing by James
The Colledge of Glasgow, Slezer, Brown.
1693. View of the Cathedral Church
Glasgow (from the south), a of Glasgow, Byrne and
reduced reproduction of Slezer. Hearne, 1779.
Glasgow (from Windmill Croft), Cathedral (and Ruins of Castle),
about 1750. Sandby, 1780.
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY.
381
Old Bridge and Water Port, Glas-
gow, drawn and etched by
James Brown, about 1780.
View of the Cathedral and Epis-
copal Palace at Glasgow.
Hearne and Byrne, 1783.
Infirmary (from Bell of the Brae).
Fittler, about 1795.
Glasgow (from Clyde Place),
about 1790.
Glasgow Cathedral, G. Walker,
1796.
Interior of the Tontine Coffee-
Room ; arrival of newspapers,
etching, about 1800.
Cathedral of Glasgow (from the
Molendinar), Wm. Brown,
about 1824.
The City of Glasgow (from
Strathbungo) J. Clark, 1824.
Glasgow, with Stockwell Bridge,
about 1830.
The New Bridge, Broomielaw, H.
Wilson, about 1834.
The Trongate of Glasgow, about
1830.
The Trongate of Glasgow, T. D.
Swarbreck, 1837.
Cathedral and part of the City of
Glasgow from the Craig Park,
D. O. Hill, 1831.
St. Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow ;
Interior of Glasgow Cathedral,
David Roberts, about 1840.
Glasgow (from the Green during
the Fair), W. Harvey, about
1845.
The City of Glasgow in 1853, G.
M'Culloch.
DRAWINGS BY DAVID SMALL, 1884.
Old Houses in Rottenrow (5).
Union Court, Rottenrow (2).
Old House in Castle Street (back
view).
Close No. 267 High Street.
Old Mansion House, close No.
267 High Street.
Close No. 245 High Street.
Corner of Nicholas Street and
High Street.
Oldest House in Trongate.
M'Nair's Land, King Street.
Princes Street.
Gibson's Court, Saltmarket.
Muinford's Theatre.
Timber-fronted House, close No.
30 Saltmarket.
Also, Allan and Ferguson's Views in Glasgow and
Neighbourhood, 1835; Leighton's Views on the
Clyde, folio, large paper copy, proofs on India
paper ; Glasgow, illustrated by Scott, with descriptive
text by Cullan, 1834 ; Swan's Views, 1829 ; Stuart's
Views, 1848; Nichol's Views, Montrose, 1840; and a
Timber-fronted House, close No.
122 Saltmarket (2).
Court in Greendyke Street.
Old Houses in Charlotte Street.
"Old Burnt Barns" Tavern,
Great Hamilton Street.
Saracen's Head Inn.
Old Houses in Dowhill.
Calton Entry (2).
King Street, Calton.
Kirk Street, Calton.
"Old Ale House," Cochrane
Street.
Molendinar, from Dry gate
Bridge.
Houses along the Molendinar.
382 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
number of views selected from Fairbairn's Relics of
Ancient Architecture in Glasgow, 1848. Many of
the pictures in the above list are unique, and others of
them are very seldom seen for sale. That showing the
interior of the Tontine Coffee Room on the arrival of
the newspapers illustrates a scene described by
" Senex " in " Glasgow Past and Present."
So many poems have been written on the city of
Glasgow that we wonder no one has ever reprinted them
in a volume together. As a help towards a list we
note the following, all in this library :
In Johnston's Epigrams, Aberdeen, 1685, there is a poem of 48 lines.
Clyde's Welcome to his Prince, by Allan Ramsay poem of 66 lines.
Glotta, by James Arbuckle, Dublin, 1728 ; Glasgow, 1791 poem of
334 lines.
The Clyde, by John Wilson, Glasgow, 1764.
John Highlandmen's Remarks on Glasgow, by Dougal Graham.
Glasgow, by John Mayne, London, 1803 poem of 40 stanzas of six
lines each. This first appeared in 1797 (Glasgow, Brash & Reid),
and consisted then of only 14 stanzas of the same length.
Beauties of Glasgow, Edinburgh, about 1800 poem of 96 lines.
The City Mirror; or, Glasgow in Miniature, Glasgow, 1821; three
parts 936 lines.
The Govan Festival, Glasgow, 1832.
Finnieston Walk, by George Bell, Glasgow, 1815.
Humours of Glasgow Fair, by Gabriel Neil, 1823.
Ghost of the Trades' Land, probably also by Neil.
Arn's Well, in the " Emmet," 1824.
Glasgow, by Alexander Smith.
Poems, by Robert Galloway, 1788. Contains a poem on Glasgow
Fair, and one on Lunardi's ascent from Glasgow in a balloon.
No town in the kingdom has been so remarkable for
its poets as Paisley, and for many years, from the close of
last century onwards, its presses teemed with native
productions in volumes and separate tracts, all hav-
ing a strong local flavour many of them satirical or
humorous illustrative of the character and life of
the people.
The present collection contains various scarce edi-
tions of the principal writers, and, besides, others of
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY. 383
interest not commonly known. Of these we note
Several pieces by James Maxw T ell, who styles himself
" Poet in Paisley," among them " The Divine Origin of
Poetry," 1790, containing an attack on Robert Burns ;
Original Scottish Rhymes, by David Webster, 1824
and 1835 ; A Panegyric on the Town of Paisley, 1765 ;
Simple Scottish Rhymes, by William Finlayson of
Pollokshaws, 1815 ; Poems and Criticisms, by Archi-
bald Fyfe, 1806; The Fates of Alceus, by William
Crawford, 1828 Crawford's poem is of great merit;
several pieces by Thomas Gumming, 1818 ; Isabella,
and other poems, 1827, by William M'Laren, a friend
of Tannahill (also his Life of Tannahill, 1815) ; Poems
by James King, another friend of Tannahill ; Random
Rhymes, by Robert Clark, 1842; Paisley Portraits ;
The Town's House on Market Day and other pieces,
by M'Gillvray, " the rhyming baker," and other
better known poetasters. The Weaver's Struggle,
1813, The Weaver's Lament, and The Toom Meal
Pock, are the bitter cry of the distressed weavers on
the decline of their trade ; and in some prose tracts,
such as Block's Conversations with Millar, A Curious
Catechism, etc., we find them looking to reform as a
cure for their ills. The distresses of trade at this time
seem to have originated the strong political feeling for
which Paisley was so long noted. The reformed local
government is satirized in Councillors in their Cups, or
the Reformed Transformed, 1842 ; and as skits of a
facetious nature we may mention The Leg of Mutton,
and Soiled Leaves, among many. There is here a
copy of Chesterfield's Maxims, with the bold autograph
" Alexander Wilson " upon it ; also several of Wilson's
coarser poems in the original tract form.
Paisley has produced a number of periodicals. Of
these we find The Paisley Repository, no date (about
1806-11), and The Annual Miscellany, 1812, both
edited by John Millar (whose autograph is on the
former), and of considerable antiquarian interest ; The
384 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Scotchman, 1812 (in the Scottish dialect) : The
Gaberlunzie, 1825, edited by Archibald Crawford;
The Comet, 1823 ; The Paisley Miscellany, 1823 ; The
Tickler, 1828 ; The Paisley Magazine, 1828, ably edited
by Motherwell; The New Paisley Repository, 1853,
published by the eccentric bookseller, William Ander-
son, who seems to have written all the original matter it
contains. This copy has bound up with it some curious
manuscript rhymes by Anderson, and the autographs of
several Paisley poets; and the Paisley Wallet, 1856.
Among other Paisley books are The Scotch Haggis,
1829 (Mr. Shields has also the curious and scarce
Scotch Haggis, Edinburgh, 1822, an entirely different
work) ; The Harp of Renfrewshire, 1819 ; Account of
an Aerial Voyage from Glasgow in the year 1785,
1813 ; Declaration of the "Witnesses that Survived
the late Persecution, 1777. We may also notice An
Account of the Travels of John Magee, pedlar and
flying stationer, 1826 ; and a small collection of pam-
phlets on the Paisley Assemblies, 1817, one of them
the first publication of William Motherwell. Here are
also the more modern publications of David Semple,
John Parkhill, and David Gilmour.
Among reports of trials are Five rare pamphlets
(Edinburgh and London, 1705) on the case of Captain
Green, executed for alleged piracy (this is the subject
of an interesting chapter in Dr. Hill Burton's Criminal
Tritils) ; a series of tracts on the Porteous Riots, 1736 ;
a poetical pamphlet (Edinburgh, 1696) on the case of
Thomas Aitkenhead, executed on a charge of atheism ;
Trial of Thomas Muir for sedition, 1793 ; the Tele-
graph ; a poetical Epistle from Thomas Muir of
Botany Bay to the Hon. Henry Erskine, and the
Paisley Declaration of Reform, the circulation of
which was one of the charges against Muir, are in-
cluded. The Life of James M'Kaen, shoemaker,
executed at the Cross of Glasgow for the robbery and
murder of James Buchanan, the Lanark carrier, 1797 ;
MR. SHIELDS' LIBRARY. 385
the principal trials in Glasgow for murder, dating from
1828 downwards, including several rare pamphlets on
the Madeline Smith case ; Trial of Mackoull for rob-
bing the Paisley Union Bank of 20,000 ; Trial of
Burke and Hare, complete edition, and several street
ballads on the case ; Kingan v. Watson, 1823 (the ex-
traordinary local anonymous letters case), and the case
of Stuart of Dunearn, who shot Sir Alexander Boswell
in a duel. This is a unique volume, consisting of
cuttings from " The Glasgow Sentinel," in which news-
paper the abusive article and songs by Boswell were
published.
There are here about thirty of the curious publica-
tions of " The Tinclarian Doctor," William Mitchell,
tinsmith or tinker in Edinburgh and Glasgow (obit
1740). Among these are " The History and Mistery
of the Great Tinclarian Doctor," supposed to be
unique ; his True Description of the People of
Glasgow ; and his " Thanksgiving Day for his M.
King George concerning the Salt Tax, oho ! and also
his Sermon preached at the Abbay to a drunken con-
gregation concerning a pair of breeks, oho ! " Dr.
Chambers in his Domestic Annals mentions the great
rarity of Mitchell's productions, only one piece being*
in the British Museum.
This library contains one of the largest collections
of Chap-books in the West of Scotland. It in-
cludes many rare and almost unknown articles from
the presses of the following towns : Aberdeen, Air-
drie, Ayr, Beith, Dairy, Dumfries, Dundee, Edin-
burgh, Falkirk, Glasgow (of dates 1714 to 1825),
Greenock, Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Newton-Stewart,
Paisley, and Stirling ; also, Belfast, Birmingham,
Coventry, Dublin, London, Newcastle, Waterford,
Whitehaven, and York. They are of all kinds
poetical, religious, and facetious many rudely illus-
trated, and include a set, so far as known, of Dougal
Graham's works in early editions.
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386 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
While the brothers Foulis issued their fine editions
of the Classics, the Saltmarket presses were supplying
pabulum to the common reader in the form of coarsely
printed and bound 18mos, many "adorned" (?) with
rude woodcuts. Some of these were the popular
romances of the Elizabethan age, others, native produc-
tions. As specimens may be noted Gesta Romano-
rum, Argalus and Parthenia, The Scots Rogue,
History of the Bucaniers, The Nine Worthies, Robin-
son Crusoe, The Seven Wise Masters and the ubiqui-
tous Pilgrim's Progress. These and others of dates
1713 to the close of the century, are here.
Among the books by Scottish writers, or on Scottish
subjects, not included in our classification we may
mention Lithgow's Travels, 1640 ; Irving's Historiae
Scotiae Nomenclatura, Edinburgh, 1697, and his ex-
traordinary Medicina Magnetica, Edinburgh, 1656 ;
Ferguson's Scots Proverbs, Edinburgh, 1785; and of
books relating to James VI., his Court and Character,
by Sir A. Weldon, 1650; Truth brought to Light,
1692, and his Apopthegmes, or Table-Talke, 1643.
Of more modern works relating to this country we
have only space for a few, viz. : The various works
of Cosmo Innes, Robert Chambers' Scottish works in
early editions, Mactaggart's Galovidian Encyclopedia,
1824; The Laird of Logan, Glasgow, 1835-7 (first
edition), and various antiquarian books.
Among the Glasgow printed books are Beaumont
and Fletcher, 2 volumes, Urie, 1768 ; Otway, Foulis,
1745; The Gentle Shepherd, Foulis, 1745; Sidney's
Defense of Poesy, Urie, 1752; Selden's Table Talk,
Foulis, 1755; The Marquis of Worcester's Century of
Inventions, Foulis, 1767 ; Lindsay's Chronicles, Urie,
1749; ^Esop's Fables (with woodcuts), Urie, 1752;
The Beggar's Opera, Urie, 1750 ; and Gulliver's
Travels, Knox, 1759.
There are some rare pamphlets on Stockbroking,
dated from 17 19 to 1768; and a selection of old
MR. WORDIE'S LIBRARY. 387
English poetry, the drama, and miscellaneous books,
in early editions, as Herri ck's Hesperides, 1648 ;
Fuller's Good Thoughts, 1657 ; Bishop Hall's Charac-
ters, 1607 ; Milton's Poems, first illustrated edition,
1711; More's Utopia, 1637; Samuel Wesley's
Maggots, 1685; Fontaine's Tales, Edinburgh, 1763;
Grammont's Memoirs, 1714 ; and the pretty edition of
Rabelais, 5 volumes, 18mo, 1750. Altogether the
collection is curious and interesting.
CHAPTER XXIV.
LIBRARY OF JOHN WORDIE, ESQ., BUCKINGHAM
TERRACE.
Nature of the Collection General Collections of Pro-
verbs Anecdote Illustrating the State of old Scottish
Inns Classical Proverbs Eastern Proverbs Pro-
verbs of Modern European Nations English, Scot-
tish, and Gaelic Proverbs Ana Scottish Books
Works of T. S. Muir Orkney and Shetland
Language John Grub Conclusion.
As a general library this collection would be well worth
describing, but our purpose is not to add another
general collection to the typical ones already given, but
to follow Mr. Wordie into a department of book-col-
lecting in which, in this city at least, he is alone. It
would not be difficult for an ingenious lover of books
to give good and sufficient reason for almost every
possible form of book-collecting which was not book-
mutilating, but certainly his task would be easiest
when defending those who choose a useful subject and
follow it out exhaustively. A black-letter man, or an
uncut man, who is black-letter or uncut and nothing
388 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
else, requires a skilful advocate ; but the collector of
books on one subject needs no defence. He renders a
distinct and valuable service to the reading world, and
the more unusual the subject the greater the merit.
Mr. Wordie's special love has been the literature of
proverbs, epigrams, and books related thereto, and in his
study of these he has gathered many works on language.
The library is also notable for the large number of
books it contains on Orkney and Shetland and the
Western Islands of Scotland.
Our parcemiological studies may very properly begin
with works of a polyglot nature, containing the pro-
verbs of more than one nation. From these we will
proceed to classical proverbs, from thence to those of
Eastern origin, modern foreign proverbs following, and
the proverbs of England and Scotland succeeding, those
in the language of the Gael bringing up the rear. The
earliest general collection here is a work printed at
Duaci in 1604, of which the following is the full title :
" JEnigmata et Griphi veterum ac recentium, cum
Notis Josephi Castalionis I.C. in Symposium : Adhaec
Pythagorae Symbola, et Joan. Aegidii Nuceriensis Ada-
giorum Gallis vulgarium hac recenti editione auctorum
in lepidos et emunctos Latinae linguae versiculos tra-
ductio." It went through many editions under the
title of " Les Prouerbes Communes." The next work
is a very important one, and one rarely found complete.
It is in three volumes, published at Frankfurt in 1610,
1611, and 1612 respectively, and the first volume
bears the following title, the other volumes varying
slightly : " Florilegium Ethico-politicum nunquam
antea editum ; nee non P. Syri ac Lucii Senecae Sen-
tentiae aureae ; recognoscente Jano Grutero ad MSS.
Palat. et Frising. Accedunt Gnomae Paroemiaeque
Graecorum,itemProverbia: Gerrnanica, Belgica, Italica,
Gallica, Hispanica."
Duplessis says of it that " the work is without doubt
the most voluminous collection that exists of Maxims,
ME. WORDIE'S LIBRARY. 389
Sentences, and Proverbs." The next collection is an
anonymous work, " Nomenclator Trilinguis cum Pro-
verbiis Miscellaneis," London, 1703 ; and the next is
that which d'Israeli, in his " Curiosities of Literature,"
assigns to Dr. J. Mapletoft, and terms excellent. The
title reads " Select Proverbs. Italian, Spanish, French,
English, Scottish, British, etc., chiefly moral. The
foreign languages done into English, .... hints
which may possibly serve to make a wise man yet
wiser, a bad man good, and a good man better." This,
the first edition, was published at London in 1707.
41 Proverbial Sayings, or a Collection of the Best
ENGLISH PROVERBS
JOHN RAY.
SCOTS PROVERBS
ALLAN RAMSAY.
ITALIAN PROVERBS
ORLANDO PESCETTI.
SPANISH PROVERBS
FERDINAND NUNEZ.
with the wise sayings and maxims of the ancients," London, 1800,
is a combination of four very representative and
esteemed collections of the proverbs of four nations
who have each contributed much to the common stock
of proverbial wisdom. Mr. Wordie has also another
edition of this work, but without a date. " Select
Proverbs of all Nations, illustrated with notes and
comments, by Thomas Fielding," London, 1824. Du-
plessis speaks most highly of this book, as being
" a small collection made with much order, care,
and intelligence. The work is preceded by an excel-
lent introduction, written with a simplicity which is
not devoid of elegance, and demonstrates the practical
utility of proverbs." He also adds that " it is a book
w r orthy in every respect to be admitted into the most
choice library."
In Mery's " Histoire General e des Proverbes," Paris,
3 volumes, 1828-9, a very humorous description is
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given in French from an English author of the state
of the old Scottish inns, and those who kept them,
which is worthy of translation and re-quotation :
" In arriving there from Ireland I landed at a miserable village
(? Portpatrick), consisting of nearly a dozen huts in the style of those
of the Hottentots. The principal house was a hotel, kept by a Count.
All the villagers assembled to salute me, thinking from my suite and
my appearance that I must be a great lord. The Count hurried to
hold my stirrup and assist me to dismount ; then turning to his
oldest son, who wore no breeches, he said to him : my lord, lead the
gentleman's horse to the stable, and ask your sister, Lady Betsy, to
draw for him a pint at two sous, for I presume that the gentleman
would wish to drink our best beer. I had to pass the night there,
and make a supper of burned potatoes and rotten eggs. This excepted,
the host was wonderfully civil ; he forced me to accept the half of
his bed. His room, was not magnificent ; an old casket served for a
seat, and the bed wanted curtains. Lady Betsy condescended to ask
my pardon for the poor state of the room ; assuring me that many
persons of great quality had lodged there. She further added that
though the bed clothes were dirty and black, still it was not four
years since they had been washed by the Countess her mother and
the Lady Matilda Caroline Ange-Eleonore Sophia, one of her sisters ;
she then wished me good night, and promised that the Viscount her
brother would not fail to grease my boots."
The other collections are Caroline Ward's " National
Proverbs in the principal languages of Europe," Lon-
don, 1842; Cahier's " Quelque six unille Proverbes et
Aphorismes usuels emprintes a notre age et aux siecles
derniers," Paris, 1856, a comprehensive book ; Bonn's
"Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs," London, 1867; and
Tegg's " Proverbs from Far and Near," London, 1875.
The classical proverbs begin with the " Anthologica
Gnornica: Illustres veterum Graecae Comoediae Scrip-
torum Sententiae," of Christianus Egenolphus, printed
at Frankfurt in 1579. It is valued on account of the
charming woodcuts by Hans Sebald Behan, one of
"the Little Masters." "Dionysii Catonis Disticha,"
Paris, 1580, is a collection of moral maxims, and was
of great reputation in the Middle Ages. It was then
thought to be the work of the elder Cato, but modern
critics ascribe it to a grammarian or litterateur of the
MR. WORDIE'S LIBRARY. 391
second century who bore the name (whether assumed
or not is unknown), which he probably owed to the
severity of his morals. The " Proverbiorum Centuriae
XIV." of Germanbergius, Basil, 1583, is here, and
the following three editions of the great work of
Erasmus : " Adagiorum," etc., 1606, no place, folio ;
another, Amsterdam, 1650; and another from the
same place, 1663. Other works worthy of note are
" Carminium Proverbialium," London, 1603 (also
another London edition, 1637, which Lowndes ascribes
to James Carmichael) ; "Paroimiai Ellenikai, Adagia
sive Proverbia Graecorum . . . ab Andrea Schotti,"
Antwerp, 1612 this is by far the best collection of
Greek proverbs there is the author would seem to
have been a Scotsman; -"Phraseologica Anglo-Latina,"
together with " Paroemiologica Anglo-Latina," by
William Walker, London, 1672; "Proverbs chiefly
taken from the Adagia of Erasmus .... illustrated by
examples from the Spanish, Italian, French, and
English Languages," by Robert Bland, London, 1814 ;
Latin Proverbs and Quotations, by Alfred Henderson,
London, 1869.
The Eastern languages in which collections of pro-
verbs are here are Arabic, Persian, Syric, Tamil, Ben-
gali and Sanscrit, Chinese, and West African. The
first is represented by Burckhardt's admirable work
on " Arabic Proverbs ; or, the Manners and Customs
of the Modern Egyptians," London, 1830, and
Quaritch's reprint and other works. Persian is repre-
sented by Levino Warnerus, <; Proverbiorum et Senten-
tiarum Persicarum," Leyden, 1644 ; Syric, by Burton's
" Unexplored Syria," volume 1 of which contains an
appendix of " Proverbia Communia Syrica"; Tamil, by
Percival's " Tamil Proverbs with their English trans-
lation, containing upwards of 6,000 proverbs," 1875
(the first English issue); Bengali and Sanscrit, by
Morton's " Collection of Proverbs, Bengali and
Sanscrit," Calcutta, 1832; Chinese, by Scarborough's
392 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
"Collection of Chinese Proverbs," Shanghai, 1875;
and West African, by Burton's " Wit and Wisdom
from West Africa ; or, a Book of Proverbial Phil-
osophy," etc., London, 1865. There are also some
works of a general nature on the proverbs of the whole
of the East.
Considering the proverbs of modern European
nations as in a sense a common stock, they may be
taken in the chronological order of the works without
an elaborate division into countries. The earliest is
Lopez de Mendoza's " Proverbios," printed at Anvers
in 1594 ; it is extremely scarce. Of four years' later
date is Richard Percivale's " Dictionaire," London,
1599. Tomaso Buoni's " Nuovo Thesoro de Pro-
verbii Italiana," Venice, 1604, is here. Duplessis says
this edition exists, but he evidently never had seen one.
Several editions appeared within a few years of the
date of this one. The Oudins, Antoine, and Caesar
are of course represented, the latter by " Refranes o
Proverbios Espanoles Traduzidos en lengua Fran-
cesa," Lyons, 1604, and the former by " Recueil des
Phrases Adverbiales et autres locutions," Paris, 1647 ;
and " Curiositez Francoises pour Supplement aux
Dictionnaires ou Recueil de Plusieurs belles proprietez,
avec une infinite de Proverbes and Quolibots, pour
1'Explication de toutes sortes de Livres," Rouen, 1656.
All three are works of considerable reputation. " Re-
franes o Proverbios en Romance, que colligio, y glossb
el Comendador Hernan Nunez," Lerida, 1621.
Nunez was professor of rhetoric and Greek at the
university of Salamanca. To the following work
Sterne was much indebted " Les Bigarrures et
Touches du Seignour des Accords [ou Etienne
Tabourot decede en 1590 a '43 ans] avec les Apophteg-
mes du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes Dijonnoises."
This edition, the first, was published at Rouen in 1640.
An agreeable volume for " se divertir agreablement
dans les compagnies " is " Les Illustres Proverbes
MR. WORDIE'S LIBRARY. 393
Historiques ou Recueil de diverse questions curieuses,"
Paris, 1655. "Select and choice observations. .. .
and certain choice French Proverbs," London, 1657,
is a work concerning which some confusion exists,
Lowndes (Bonn's edition) says that the first edition is
supposed to have been issued in 1647. The present
copy has nothing to indicate whether it is the first
edition or not, but the absence of intimation clearly
supports the supposition that it is realty the first
appearance of the w T ork.
The eighteenth century works call for little remark.
" Dictionaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque,
Libre et Proverbial, &c., &c., par Philibert- Joseph le
Roux," Lyons, 1735. Another edition of this work is
-also here, Pampelune, 1786. "Almanach des Pro-
verbes pour FAnnee, 1745; Compose, suppute, et
calcule exactement par le scientifique Docteur Car-
touchivandec Astronome privilegie suivant les Astres,"
Anvers, 1745, is another work from which Sterne bor-
rowed liberally. " Dictionnaire des Proverbes Fran-
cois et des facons de parler comiques, burlesques, et
familieres, &c., avec 1'explication et les etymologies les
plus averees. P. J. P. D. L. N. D. L. E. F," Paris,
1749. The owner of these bewildering initials was
Joseph Panckouke, and, eked out, the mysterious
letters read "Par Joseph Panckouke, libraire, natif de
Lille en Flandre." Brunet gives 1740 as the date of
the first edition, but Querard says he is in error. This
was probably the first edition. Mr. Wordie has also
an Amsterdam edition, 1751, and one issued at
Utrecht in 1757, both of which are styled " Quatrieine
edition." "Proverb! Italian! e Latin! Raccolti da
Orlando Pescetti," a Venetian edition without a date of
this well-known compilation. "Adagios, Proverbios,
Rifaos e Anexims da lingua Portugueza, Tirados dos
Melhores Authores Nacionaes e recopilados por ordeni
alfabetica por F. R. I. L. E. L., Lisbon, 1780.
" Matinees Senonois ou Proverbes Francois, Suivis de
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leur origins &c.," [by the Abbe Tuet], Paris, 178D
an excellent work.
Getting into the nineteenth century we have two
editions of " Mesangere's " Dictionnaire des Proverbes
Franais," Paris, 1821 and 1823, the first being with-
out his name; the "Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs,"
compiled by John Collins, London, 1823, containing a
very good collection of the best Spanish proverbs, and
affording to the English reader some idea of the rich
mine of Spanish proverbial literature ; Logan's " Col-
lection of Italian Proverbs," London, 1830 ; Crapelet's
"Proverbes et Dictons populaires avec les Dits du
Mercier et des Marchands, et les crieries de Paris aux
XIII. et XIV. siecles," Paris, 1831; " Cent Pro-
verbes," Paris, 1845 this has a picture of a head
showing three faces ; the illustrations, the beauty of
which renders the book much sought after, are by
Grandville, and the heads are those of three out of the
four authors of the letterpress, who, according to
Barbier (" Dictionnaire des Anoymes "), were Florgues,
Taxile Delord, Arnould Theirry et Aime'dee Achard ;
" Proverbes Travestis ou la Morale en Carnival/'
Paris, no date (contains coloured lithographs of scenes
in the carnival, each accompanied by a proverb) ; " Pro-
verbes Basques," by Arnauld Oihenart, Bordeaux,
1847 (second edition; of the first, issued in 1638, only
one perfect copy is known) ; "La fleur des Proverbes
Franfais recueilles et annotes, par M. G. Duplessis,"
Paris, 1851 (this, by the author of the valuable bibli-
ography of proverbs, is a modest but wonderfully
good collection of proverbs; a book on the same lines
dealing with Scottish proverbs would supply a want) ;
" Haccolta di Proverbi Toscani," by Guisti, Florence,
1853; "Proverbes Bearnais," by Hatoulet, Paris,
1862 ; " Les Livre des Proverbes Frai^ais .... par
M. le Roux de Lincy," Paris, 1859. This is the stand-
ard collection of French proverbs, and leaves nothing
to be desired. The proverbs are arranged under four-
MR WORDIE'S LIBRARY. 395
teen heads to facilitate reference, and have the
authority for the proverb attached so far as known.
The appendix contains some of the more important
manuscript collections, notably one in the library of
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Then follow the
proverbs to be found in French authors of the twelfth to
the eighteenth centuries, and lists of the proverbs cited
in the farce of Patelin, in the poetry of Regnier, in La
Fontaine, and in the comedies of Moliere and Reg-
nard. A very good bibliography closes the book.
Some further works require mention Quitard's
"Dictionnaire Etymologique Historique et Anecdotique
des Proverbes et des Locutions proverbiales de la
langue Francaise," Paris, 1842 ; the same author's
" Etudes Historiques Litteraire et Morales sur les
Proverbes Frangais et le language proverbial," Paris,
1860 ; and his "Proverbes sur les Femmes 1'Amitie et
le Marriage," Paris, 1861 ; a reprint of Earl Rivers' trans-
lation of Cristyne de Pisan's Moral Proverbs ; Burke's
" Spanish Salt ; a collection of all the proverbs which
are to be found in Don Quixote," London, 1877;
" Recueil de 3176 Prouverbi, sentensa, massima, consen,
parabola, buoi-rnot, precet," etc., Nice, 1878 this is a
collection of proverbs in the dialect of the town of Nice ;
and Bennett's "Proverbs with Pictures," London,
1877.
Leaving foreign countries and coming to our own
<~j o o
native isles, about the first English work containing
proverbs which we meet is Camden's " Remains con-
cerning Britain," London, 1605, a copy of which is here ;
but the father of English proverb lore is undoubtedly
the Rev. John Ray, the celebrated botanist and zoologist,
whose collection of English proverbs first appeared
in 1670 at Cambridge. The second edition was issued
eight years later at the same place ; both are here.
According to Bonn's edition of Lowndes' Manual the
date of the third edition is 1737, but Mr. Wordie has
a copy bearing to be the third edition and dated 1742.
396 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
He has also the fourth and fifth editions, London,
1768 and 1813, an 1818 edition not mentioned by Bohn,
and " Bonn's Handbook of Proverbs," in which Bay's
book is incorporated. It is worth mentioning that
the 1818 copy once belonged to Theodore Hook. Fol-
lowing Ray came James Ho well, to whose " Lexicon
Tetraglotton " Duplessis, in his " Bibliographic Pare-
miologique," the best bibliography of proverbs in
existence, devotes no less than ten pages. The title
is worth quoting, " Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-
French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary .... with another
volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said Toungs
(consisting of divers cornpleat tomes), and the English
translated into the other Three, to take off the reproch
which useth to be cast upon her, that She is but barren
in this point, and those Proverbs she hath are but flat
and empty," etc., London, 1660, small folio. The
proverbs have also a separate title-page in which their
several characters are set forth moral, physical,
topical, temporal, and ironical. Fuller in his
" Worthies of England," the first edition of which
O J
was published at London in 1662, gives at the end of
each county the proverbs pertaining to the district. A
copy is in this collection.
Our next work is "The Moral Reflections upon Select
English Proverbs" of Oswald Dykes, London, 1708.
Palmer's Moral Essays on some of the most significant
Proverbs English, Scotch, and Foreign, London,
1710 may be included, although not exactly a col-
lection of proverbs. Gnomologia : Adagies and Pro-
verbs ; with sentences and witty sayings, etc., by
another Thomas Fuller, was a book popular enough to
be frequently reprinted. Mr. Wordie has three
editions the first, London, 1732; another, Glasgow,
1814 (to which is added Ramsay's Collection of Scot-
tish Proverbs) ; and a London edition, 1817. From
this time the number of works increases. We have in
1787 "fat" Captain Grose's Provincial Glossary, with
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a Collection of Local Proverbs, etc. ; another edition
in 1790 (London), and another in 1811 (London) ; The
Moralist's Medley, 1803, a work of little consequence ;
Sancho ; or the Proverbialist, London, 1816, a story
told in proverbs ; " Antiquates Curiosae, the etymology
of many remarkable old sayings, proverbs, and singu-
lar customs explained," by Joseph Taylor, London,
1819, a curious writer; his Instructive Companion
and Weather Guide are also here ; Nares' Glossary of
Obsolete Words and Phrases, 1822 ; Select Proverbs
of all Nations, by Thomas Fielding, London, 1824.
Varieties of Literature from the Portfolio of John
Brady, London, 1826, is an entertaining work which
contains a chapter on proverbs ; " Old English Sayings
new T ly expounded in prose and verse," by Jefferies
Taylor, London, 1827 ; An Essay on the Archaeology
of our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, by John
Bellenden Ker, 2 volumes, London, 1837, with sup-
plementary volumes, 2 volumes, Andover, 1840. Ker
endeavoured to trace our popular phrases and nursery
rhymes to an anti-popish origin, and expended much
labour in elaborating his whimsical theory with
amusing result. He was taken to task severely by
Thomas Wright in a chapter on popular sayings in his
" Essays on subjects connected with the literature, etc.,
of England in the Middle Ages" (London, 1846), to
which criticism Ker replied not in the best of temper
in his supplementary volumes. Several unimportant
and the tw r o following important works of later date are
in the collection HalhwelTs Dictionary of Archaic
and Provincial Words, Proverbial Phrases, etc., 2
volumes, London, 1846; English Proverbs and Pro-
verbial Phrases, by W. C. Hazlitt, London, 1869.
The first collection of Scottish Proverbs was that
made by Rev. David Fergusson, sometime minister at
Dunfermline. The first edition appeared in 1641.
Very few, perhaps not more than two or three, copies
are in existence, and the splendid proverb collection of
308 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Keir does not contain one. Mr. Wordie has two
editions, Edinburgh, 1785, and Glasgow, 1799. The
next collection was that of Jarnes Kelly A Complete
Collection of Scotish Proverbs explained and made
intelligible to the English reader, London, 1721. A
second edition appeared in 181S, very poorly got up.
Mr. Wordie has both. Allan Ramsay succeeded
Kelly. This library contains seven editions the first,
Edinburgh, 1737 ; another, Edinburgh, 1750 (with
Ritson's autograph) ; another, Edinburgh, 1776 (with
the Gentle Shepherd) ; another, Glasgow, 1785 ;
another, Edinburgh, 1797; another, Paisley, 1812;
and the last is also a Paisley edition, but without a
date. Nothing was done for Scottish proverbs for
nearly one hundred years. In 1832 William Mother-
well issued Andrew Henderson's Collection, and pre-
fixed a valuable introductory essay. A large paper
copy of it is here. The next and latest work is the
Proverbs of Scotland, by Alexander Hislop, Edinburgh,
1868. This is dedicated to Sir William Stirling Max-
well, whose lecture on the proverbial philosophy of
Scotland, delivered at Stirling, 1855, is the only
separate publication on the proverbs of Scotland.
There has been but one collection of Gaelic proverbs,
that by Donald Macintosh. Edinburgh, 1785 ; second
edition, Edinburgh, 1819 (Franklin's Way to Health,
translated into Gaelic, accompanies both editions), as
that by Sheriff Nicolson, Edinburgh, 1881, is
avowedly based on Macintosh's book. The valuable
and beautiful catalogue of books relating to proverbs,
emblems, apothegms, epitaphs, and ana in the Keir
library, privately printed, 1860, is of course here, and
a curious volume entitled Lemmata Proverbialia,
London, 1851, quarto, which contains a list of the pro-
verbs, mottoes, and sayings inscribed on various places
in the library and house at Keir. It is printed on one
side of the paper in red ink. Ten copies only were
thrown off, one of them on vellum. We may note by
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the way that the library also contains Sir William
Stirling Maxwell's magnificent Life of Don John of
Austria, 2 volumes, small folio, 1883 ; his Songs of the
Holy Land, privately printed, Edinburgh, 1846 ; and
The Stirlings of Keir and their Family Papers, by
William Fraser, 1858. A manuscript collection of
proverbs, folk lore, and popular rhymes referring
to Scotland is here. It was compiled by the late
G. R. Kinloch, editor of Ancient Scottish Ballads,
very probably with a view to publication, and is of
much interest.
The literature of Ana is related closely to proverbial
lore, and both throw much light on each other. Ana
has been defined to be collections of thoughts, of
familiar sayings, and of the smaller works of prominent
men. It made its appearance about the end of the
seventeenth century, and the list of ana published,
especially in France, would be a long one. True,
many works exist that do not merit mention, but a
bibliography of ana might be made an interesting
volume. The following works carrying the specific
s name ana on the title-page are here :
Addisoniana. London, 1803. Maintenoniana. Amsterdam, 1773.
Arliquiniana. Paris, 1694. Mooriana. London, 1803.
Benthamiana. Edinburgh, 1 843. Nandaeana and Patiniana. Am-
Bievriana. Paris, 1814. sterdam, 1703.
Brookiana. London, 1804. Poggiana. Amsterdam, 1720.
Baconiana. London, 1679. Perriniana. Geneva, 1669.
Carpenteriana. Paris, 1724. Rousseana. Paris, 1810.
Encyclopediana. Paris, 1791. Scaligerana. Cologne, 1695.
Fungnsiana. London, 1809. Scrapeana. York, 1792.
Genlisiana. Paris, 1820. Seldeniana. Chiswick, 1818.
Huetiana, Paris, 1822. Sheridaniana. London, 1826.
Longuerana. Berlin, 1754. Sorberiana. Paris, 1696.
Menagiana, Amsterdam, 1693. Walpoliana. London, N. D.
"Warreniana," London, 1824, a curious compilation of
parodies in praise of Warren's blacking. The English
work entitled "The French Anas," London, 3
volumes, 12mo, 1805, is a meritorious performance ; it
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is now scarce. Other works here, though not bearing
the name of Ana, may be noticed
Maxims of State, by Sir Walter Raleigh. London, 1651.
Politcuphia ; or, The Wits' Commonwealth. London, 1661.
Speculum Patrum. London, 1659.
The Remarkable Sayings, Apothegms, and Maxims of Eastern
Nations, by Monsieur Galland. London, 1695.
Pensees Ingenieuses des Anciens et des Modernes. Paris, 1692.
Nouveau Kecueil d'Apophthegmes ou Bons Mots, Rencontres
Agreables et Pensees judicieuses des Anciens et Modernes.
Toulouse, 1695.
The great French Collection of Anecdotes in 18
volumes, Paris, 1767-69, is here, and is quite a
mine of wealth for professional story-tellers or diners
out. " Dictionnaire Enc} r clopedique d' Anecdotes, par
Edmond Guerard, 2 volumes, Paris, 1872. This is a
well-arranged collection, is designed for the use of
pressmen, and has so complete an index that it must
be a very obscure subject on which an appropriate
anecdote may not be fished out. A quotation from
" Prosper Merimee " may fitly close this paragraph, and
feeling many readers will agree " Je n'aime de with
the 1'histoire que les anecdotes."
Among many works on Scotland and Scottish places
and things we may name Baronial Antiquities, by
Billings ; Drummond's Sculptured Monuments of
lona; Ancient Scottish Weapons; and Old Edinburgh;
Lacunar Strevelinense; Kay's Portraits (first edition) ;
Crombie's Modern Athenians; Innes's Critical Essay
upon the Inhabitants of Scotland; Drummond of Haw-
thornden's History of Scotland; Gordon's Itinerariuin
Septentrionale ; some of the publications of the Spald-
ing Club, including the Sculptured Stones of Scotland ;
some of the Maitland Club publications; Sibbald's
Scotia Illustra, 1684; Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland, 1855 to 1881 ; Hill's History
of Hutchesons' Hospital ; Pitcairn's Criminal Trials ;
all the works of Andrew Jervise and Cosmo Innes ;
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Hume's House of Douglas and Angus, 2 volumes,
1743 ; Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, 2 volumes,
1733 ; Johnson's Scots Musical Museum ; Mactaggart's
Gallovidian Encyclopaedia, 1824 ; Pitcairn's Assembly,
the Montrose Peerage Case, 3 volumes, folio ; and
reports of some other celebrated Scottish trials. A
True Narrative of the Sufferings and Belief of a
young girl (C. Shaw), Edinburgh, 1697 ; several
editions of Thomas Rymer's Prophecies ; Sinclair's
Invisible World, Edinburgh, 1789; Waldgrave's An-
cient Scottish Prophecies, 1831 ; and Fynes Moryson's
Itinerary, London, 1617, folio. Mr. Wordie has all
the works of T. S. Muir of Leith, " Unda," a list of
which we do not remember to have seen, and there-
fore give
Privately printed in a limited issue for presents.
Saint Kilda, 1858. Barra Head, 1866.
The Ferry House, 1864. Rubbings from Monumental
The Lighthouse, 1864. Slabs and Brasses, 1871.
Beehive House in St. Kilda, 1861. Two Tellings to Pet, 1876.
These relate almost entirely to the remains in Scot-
land of early ecclesiastical buildings, with interesting
accounts of Mr. Muir's journeys in search of such
remains.
Published.
Descriptive Notices of some of the Ancient Parochial and Collegiate
Churches of Scotland. London, 8vo, 1848.
Notes on Remains of Ecclesiastical Architectural and Sculptured
Memorials in the Southern Division of Scotland. Edinburgh,
8vo, 1855.
Characteristics of old Church Architecture, etc., on the Mainland and
Western Islands of Scotland. Edinburgh, 4 to, 1861.
The unusual interest which has been manifested
during recent years in works on the sea-girt regions
of Orkney and Shetland warrants us in giving a list of
those on Mr. Wordie's shelves :
Wallace, Rev. James, A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Edin-
burgh, 1693.
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Wallace, James, M.D., Account of Orkney. London, 1700.
Brand, John, Description of Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh, 1701.
Letter from a Gentleman on Oppression by the Clergy. 1710.
A. Voyage to Shetland. London, 1751.
True and Exact Description of the Island of Shetland. London, 1753.
Fea, James, The Present State of the Orkney Isles. Edinburgh, 1775.
Account of the New Mode of Fishing. Holyrood, 1775.
Jamieson, Robert, The Mineralogy of Shetland and Arran. Edin-
burgh, 1798.
Barry, Rev. George, The Orkney Islands. Edinburgh, 1805.
Neil, Patrick, A Tour through Orkney and Shetland. Edinburgh,
1806.
Sutherland, Duchess of, Views in Orkney and North-East of Scotland.
1807.
Edmonstone, Arthur, Zetland Islands. Edinburgh, 1809.
Laing, John, Voyage to Spitzbergen and Shetland. London, 1815.
Peterkin, Alexander, Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishopric
of Orkney. Edinburgh, 1820.
Peterkin, Alexander, Notes on Orkney and Shetland. Edinburgh,
1822.
Hibbert, Samuel, Description of the Shetland Islands. London, 1822.
Traill, Rev. Walter, Vindication of Orkney. Edinburgh, 1823.
Hibbert, Samuel, Tings of Orkney and Shetland. Edinburgh, 1829.
M'Kenzie, James, The Grievances of Orkney and Shetland. Edin-
burgh, 1836.
Dunn, Robert, The Ornithologist's Guide to the Islands of Orkney and
Shetland. London, 1837.
Catton, James, History and Description of the Shetland Islands.
Wainfleet, 1838.
Deeds Relating to Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh, 1840.
Statistical Account of Orkney and Shetland. 1842.
Edmonstone, Thomas, Flora of Shetland, Aberdeen, 1845.
Monteith, Robert, Description of Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh,
1845.
Baikie, W. B., and Heddle, M., Orkney Natural History. Edin-
burgh, 1848.
Torfaeus, Thormodus, Ancient History of Orkney, Caithness, and the
North. Translated by the Rev. Alexander Pope. Wick, 1866.
Edmonstone, Thomas, The Shetland and Orkney Dialect. Edinburgh,
1866.
Gorrie, Daniel, Winters and Summers in the Orkney Islands. Lon-
don, 1868.
Reid, John T., Art Rambles in Shetland. Edinburgh, 1869.
The Orkneying Saga. Edinburgh, 1873.
Cowie, R., M.D., Shetland Descriptive and Historical. Edinburgh,
1874.
Saxby, Henry, The Birds of Shetland. Edinburgh, 1874.
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Burton, R. H., Ultima Thule. 2 vols, London, 1875.
Ferguson, James, The Brochs of the Orkney Islands. London, 1877.
Gifford, Thomas, Description of the Zetland Islands. Edinburgh,
1879.
Low, George, A Tour Through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland.
Kirkwall, 1879.
Ferguson, R. M., Rambling Sketches in the Far North. London.
1883.
Tudor, John R., The Orkneys and Shetland. London, 1883.
The works on Language are considerable in number.
They comprise grammars, dictionaries, vocabularies,
glossaries, and miscellaneous philological works, and
relate to the following languages and dialects : Arabic,
Danish, English, French, German, Gipsy, Greek, Hin-
dustani, Hungarian, Latin, Scottish, Swedish, Turkish,
and Zulu.
The following title merits quotation at length:
"Orations on Various Select Subjects, by Mr. John
Grub, late Schoolmaster of the Parish of Wemyss,
in Fifeshire, as performed by his Scholars after the
usual Examination on Harvest Vacation Days, and on
Shrove Tuesdays, in place of Cockfigliting" Edinburgh,
1794. Mr. Grub, who was a man of good parts, had
the misfortune to injure one of his knees so severely as
to necessitate the amputation of the leg. But "it's an ill
wind that blaws naebody good." Mr. Grub during his
confinement " experienced very uncommon and humane
attention from a young woman in the house where he
lodged, and upon recovery of his health married her
who during his distress had treated him with such
tender kindness."
In conclusion we may say that the library contains,
amongst other works, a considerable number of chap-
books; some early and fine copies of the novels of Scott,
Dickens, and Thackeray; Gawain Douglas's Transla-
tion of Virgil's ^Eneid, Edinburgh, 1710 ; some of the
Lee Priory publications; Strutt's Sports and Pastimes,
his Royal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities; some of Dib-
din's works ; many Bibliographies, including a number
404- THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
of valuable catalogues; the Reports of the Historical
Manuscript Commission; and many other works on
many other subjects. Mr. Wordie's is a compact lib-
rary, carefully selected, in good condition, useful as a
general collection, and rich in its own special depart-
ments.
CHAPTER XXV.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER YOUNG, ESQ., LYNDOCH
PLACE.
Size and Character of the Collection New Testament,
Psalms, Paraphrases, and Prayer-books Googes
" Popish Kingdome " Rogers' s Translation of " The
Imitation of Christ " Witchcraft Early English
Popular Literature Chaucer lt Piers Plowman"
"A Dicers Opinion of the making of Dice and
Cards " Spenser Entry of James I. into London
Decker Rowlands Greene Overbury Shake-
speare Taylor, the Water Poet Anthony Munday
Milton Beaumont and Fletcher Herrick Suck-
ling Byron Scottish Books Sir W. Alexander,
Earl of Stirling Boyd's " Last Battell of the Soule "
Barbour's "Bruce" First Edition of Burns s
Poems Hollinshed 's Chronicles M'Ure's View of
Glasgow Glasgow Books Printing, by Wynken de
Worde, Pynson, and Treveris Hakluyt's Voyages
Robinson Crusoe Gullivers Travels Classical
Writers Douglas's Translation of Virgil's dEneid
Chapman s Homer Dibdin's Works.
WHEN Mr. Young began book-hunting it was not the
luxury it is now ; a rare and valuable volume could
occasionally be picked up for a moderate sum, and
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 405
treasures sometimes lurked in the cheap boxes where
nothing now rewards the weary searcher. So keen a
hunter as Mr. Young was not likely to miss bagging
some fine specimens, but be that as it may, an intelli-
gent examination of his collection of books at once
shows that a liberal expenditure must have assisted
a fine taste and an untiring assiduity before so many
choice volumes could have been brought together.
The library numbers about 5,000 volumes, the
rarest of which are arranged in three book-cases.
Eager and liberal in the acquisition of books, Mr.
Young has also paid earnest devotion to the beautiful
as exemplified in the art of the bookbinder. Almost
every volume is handsomely bound, and fine examples
are present of the work of Bedford, Pratt, Ram-
age, Riviere, De Coverley, and other eminent book-
binders. The mere artistic effect is charming and
the feast of the eye is perfect, but the beauty of the
outward form is but in every instance symbolic of the
inward value.
Like many other book buyers, Mr. Young has in his
collecting accumulated duplicates. Twice he has
cleared his shelves of them, first in 1873 and again in
1884. One thousand three hundred volumes were
brought to the hammer at the first sale and 1,000 at
the second. Both sales were held in Glasgow in the
auction rooms of Messrs. Duncan Keith, Buchanan &
M'Cloy, where a goodly number of fine libraries have
been dispersed. At these book sales may be seen
wealthy local book buyers, giving evidence and this
volume is another testimony that in this busy, money-
making city a taste for literature is often cultivated
along with a turn for commerce.
While as becomes a Scotsman Mr. Young has not
been inattentive to the literature of his country, his
sympathies have lain chiefly in the direction of early
English literature. So prominent is his library in this
department that the other features of the collection
406 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
seem dwarfed, although they are by no means un-
important.
Surveying the library according to the scheme laid
down in the Introduction, the first to be noticed are
the theological and philosophical works. The earliest
printed of these is a copy of the New Testament by
Tindal and Erasmus, from the press of Thomas
Gaultier, London, 1550. It is of considerable
rarity. There is a copy in Stirling's Library. Of
the Psalms of David Mr. Young possesses a number
of editions, some with and some without the
Liturgy, of which ten are of great importance. The
first three are those having John Knox's Genevan
Liturgy for the use of the Kirk of Scotland prefixed,
printed respectively by Vautrolier, London, 1587 ;
by Richard Schilders, printer to the States of Zeeland,
Middleburgh, 1594; and Andro Hart, Edinburgh,
1622. The Psalms in each edition are set to music.
The next two are from the press of the famous Aber-
deen printer, Edward Raban, the one a tiny volume
of which the following is the leading title (there being a
separate title at the commencement of the text) :
" The Psalmes of David in Scottish metre, with a per-
fect Table for xxiij. years to come, and an exact
Kalendar for ever, also morning and evening prayers,
together with many other ; Aberdeene : Printed by
Edward Raban for David Melvill, anno 1626, 18mo."
This is a little book of extreme rarity, and was bought
bound with an edition of the New Testament of the
same size, printed at London by Bonham, Norton and
Bell in 1627. The other is "The Psalmes of David
in prose and metre according to the Church of Scot-
land ; the Psalmes in prose on the margin according to
the new translation, 1610. In Aberdeene, imprinted
by Edward Raban for David Melvill, 1633, with privi-
ledge set to music." This is the edition usually bound
up with Knox's Liturgy of the same date. The sixth
is a very rare and most interesting little 24mo volume,
ME. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 407
bound in old calf with steel clasps. "The whole
Booke of Psalmes in prose and metre trulie compared
with the Hebrew Text. Hereunto is adjoined an exact
Kalendar, etc., etc. Printed at Edinburgh by Andro
Hart, 1617." What makes this little volume of es-
pecial interest is that it has the initials " A. H."
stamped within a circle in the centre on each side of
the old binding, and quite probably belonged to the
printer himself. The seventh is an English edition,
printed by Richard Yardly and Peter Short for the
assignes of W. Seres, 1590, 12mo. The eighth is
a Scottish 24mo edition, Edinburgh, printed by Robert
Bryson, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of
Jonah, anno dom. 1641. And the remaining two
are King James' version printed by Turner, Ox-
ford, 1631, with portrait of the King and from his
pen ; and Bishop King's version of the Psalmes, Lon-
don, printed by Edward Griffin, 1651. This was
Narcissus Luttrell's copy and has his autograph.
Kindred volumes to the foregoing are two very
rare and interesting editions of the Paraphrases,
the first being that printed in 1745, remitted for
consideration by the General Assembly to the
Presbyteries of the Church, per minute of 18th
May, 1745; and the second is an edition of the
Paraphrases as approved, printed in 1756. In each
of these volumes there are only forty-five pieces
in place of sixty- seven as in the version now in use.
Of the few copies of the Confession of Faith in this
collection, the earliest is one printed at Edinburgh
by Evan Tyler, printer to the King's most Excellent
Majesty, 1650. Lee in his "Additional Memorial,"
1826 (p. 78), says that such copies of the Confession
of Faith as are to be found between 1649 and 1672
were printed by printers who pretended to no patent.
This one is printed betwixt the two dates stated, and
bears to be printed by the King's printer. The next
book to be mentioned is a rare one, " The Catechisme
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or Manner to teache Children the Christian Religion,
made by the excellent Doctour and Pastour in
Christe's Church, John Calvin, wherein the minister
demaundeth the question, and the chylde maketh
answere. Printed at London by Rouland Hall,
dwellynge in Guttar Lane at the sygne of the Halfe
Egle and the Keye, 1563." But of much greater
interest is the Prayer Book, commonly called " Laud's
Prayer Book," which Charles I. and that unfortunate
prelate essayed to impose upon the Scottish people,
and which occasioned the famous exploit of Jenny
Geddes. It is a small folio, printed by the King's
printer, Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1637, and has the
Psalms of King James, London, 1636, bound up
with it. In the latter, by a mistake of the printer,
nearly three lines of psalm 109 were omitted, and the
leaf was cancelled. Mr. Young's copy is a fine one
and worthily bound. The Mitchell Library has a
copy, as has also Stirling's Library. The other theo-
logical books of interest are not numerous enough to
justify classification, and may therefore be taken in
the order of their publication. Two works by Sir
Thomas More come first. They are " The Confuta-
cyon of Tyndale's Answere," London, 1532 a list of
" fawtes escaped in the pryntynge " is given at the end
and " A Dyalogue of Comfort against Tribulacion,"
Antwerp, 1673. Two other of More's works may be
noted here, although not belonging to this class ; they
are the first edition of his works, London, 1557, and
the first and third editions of the English translation
of the " Utopia," 1551 and 1597. Two books by John
Bale, Bishop of Ossory, follow " The first two Partes
of the Actes, or Unchast Examples of the English
Votaryes," London, 1550-51, in black letter; and the
" Pageant of Popes, Englished by J. S." [John Stud-
ley], London, 1574, also in black letter. The above is
the third edition of the Votaryes. The first appeared
in 1546, and the second two years later. Of the
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" Pageant " there was but one separate issue. Of
special interest to students of ecclesiastical history and
controversy is the great Scottish Reformer's " Answere
to a Great Nomber of Blasphemous Cauillations written
by an Anabaptist," Geneva, John Crespin, 1560. At
the time of its publication Knox was in Scotland,
valiantly leading the attack on popery and its institu-
tions. The larger number of his early writings were
printed at Geneva, which was then a haven for the
persecuted reformers of Europe. Crespin also printed
some of Calvin's works. A work of some rarity is
Barnabe Googe's translation of " The Popish King-
dome, or Reigne of Antichrist, written in Latin verse
by Thomas Naogeorgus," London, 1570. In the pro-
spectus of a reprint of the book issued in 1880 it is
stated, " Of this exceedingly rare and curious work
only one perfect copy is known to exist, viz., that in
the Cambridge University Library." The following
books need be little more than mentioned: Sir
Thomas Wilson's Rule of Reason, London, 1563 ; A
Treatise of Morall Philosophie, contayning the sayinges
of the Wyse, London, 1564; The Discovery of the
Holy Inquisition, London, 1568 ; The Imitation of
Christ, by Thomas A'Kempis, translated by Thomas
Rogers, London, 1580. (This translation is referred to
by Dibdin in his introduction to the edition of 1828,
pp. 104-6. He says "Wood makes the first edition
with a date 1584, but that Mansel has it 1583." This
is earlier than either. Dibdin says also : " A clean
and perfect copy of this translation, unless preserved in
a public library, is probably not in existence. I have
made use of two copies of the same date 1596, both in
a wretchedly imperfect and soiled condition." This
edition is both clean and perfect.) A Thankfull Re-
membrance of God's mercy in an historicall collection
of the great and mercifull Deliverances of the Church
and State of England since the Gospel beganne here
to flourish from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth, by
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George Carleton [Bishop], London, 1637 ; The Whole
Duty of a Christian, 1668 ; and Cotton Mather's
Magnalia Christi Americani, or the Ecclesiastical
History of New England, London, 1702. Southey
speaks of it " as one of the most singular books in this
or any other language. Its puns and its poems, its
sermons and its anagrams, render it unique in its
kind."
Three works on Demonology and Witchcraft are worth
noting. " The Discouerie of Witchcraft," by Reginald
Scot, London, 1584, black letter ; " Daemonologie, in
forme of a Dialogue, diuided into three bookes," Walde-
grave, Edinburgh, 1597. This second was written by
King James VI. of Scotland, and is justly considered
a poor piece of work. Scot's views were directly op-
posed to those of the King, who, taking advantage of
his royal position, ordered the " Discouerie " to be
burned. Many copies perished in this manner, and
consequently this edition the first has an accidentally
enhanced value. The two later editions of Scot, 1651
and 1665, are also in this collection. Mr. Young has
also the 1603 edition of the King's book. The third
work is the Rev. Joseph Glanvill's " Sadducismus
Triumphatus ; or, a full and plain Evidence concerning
Witches and Apparitions," London, 1681. The author
contends for the reality of witches and apparitions, and
has been cited by Dugald Stewart as an instance of
the " possible union of the highest intellectual gifts
with the most degrading intellectual weaknesses."
As has been already said, the strong point of this
library is the department of early English literature,
consisting chiefly of poetry, drama, and romances. The
space devoted to it here may be accepted as a fair indi-
cation of the position it occupies in the whole collection.
The earliest printed book of this class is Voragine's
" Golden Legend," imprinted by Wynken de Worde
(Caxton's successor), " In Flete Strete at the Sygne
of the Sonne," 1527, small folio; several editions of
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 411
it appeared before this one, three of them printed by
Caxton, and two by De Worde. It was translated by
Caxton, at the command of William, Earl of Arundel.
The next work is Gower's "Confessio Amantis," of
which this collection can boast of the second and third
editions. The first was printed by Caxton in 1483,
the second by Thomas Berthelette in 1532, and the
third by the same printer in 1554. The father of
English poetry is represented by five folio editions of
his whole works, all in black letter, and one separate
work. The earliest is entitled " The Workes of Geffrey
Chaucer, newlye printed, with dyuers works which
were neuer in print before : as in the table more playnly
doth appere. Prynted by John Reynes, dwellynge at
the syne of Saynte George, in Paul's Churchyarde,"
1542. There were copies of the same edition issued in
the same year with the names of different printers.
The " Plowman's Tale" first appeared in the 1542
edition or editions. The next is an undated edition,
which has the " Plowman's Tale," and was issued
shortly after 1542. The following is the colophon :
" Imprinted at London by Thomas Petit, dwelling in
Paules Churche Yarde, at the Sygne of the Mayden's
heed Cum priuilegio ab imprimendum solum." The
other three folios are those of 1561, with woodcuts
to the prologues, 1602 and 1687. " Amorum Troili et
Cresidae, libri duo priores, Anglico-Latini," Oxon.,
1635; this was a translation into Latin by Sir Francis
Kinaston of Chaucer's " Troilus and Cresside," of
which only books one and two were printed. The
complete MS. was sold at Mr. Singer's sale, in 1860,
to the late Mr. James Crossley of Manchester.
We have now done with Chaucer, and pass to an
author who wrote contemporaneously with him, but
whose work did not receive the immortalizing impress
of the printer until after Chaucer's time. We speak of
Robert Langland or Longland, to whom the remark-
able allegorical poem, " The Vision of Piers Plowman,"
412 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
is generally ascribed. The first and second editions
were printed by Robert Crowley in the same year,
1550, at London. The latter is in this collection. The
poem is supposed to have been written about 1362, and
the author added to it in 1377, and again in 1393.
This work was recognized as a voice from the people
expressing the prevailing discontent with bondage,
oppression, and impurity in Church and State, and
was widely read. Our next book is also an allegorical
poem, " The Spider and the Flie," by John Heywood,
London, Jo 56. The spider represents the Protestants
and the fly the Catholics. In this library are also an
edition of the same writer's Works, London, 1598, and
two productions of a more prolific author of the same
surname, Thomas Heywood, " Troia Britanica ; or,
Great Britaines Troy," London, 1609 ; and the " Hier-
archic of the Blessed Angels, their Names, Orders, and
Offices," London, 1635, both in small folio. "The
Tragedies gathered by John Bochas of all such
Princes as fall from theyre estates," etc., translated
by John Lidgate, black letter, folio, printed by John
Way land, London, about the year 1558. This copy
is in fine condition. A famous work is the " Ship
of Fools," or, in this copy, more quaintly called
the " Shyp of Folys," by Sebastian Brandt, trans-
lated into English by Alexander Barclay, a priest.
This is the second edition of this translation, London,
1570, black letter, folio. It contains some pieces not
in the first edition, which was printed by Pynson in
1509. Gascoigne is represented by three works the
second issue of the first authorized edition of his
"Poesies," differing from the first issue only in the
title-page, London, 1575 ; " The Steele Glas," London,
1576, bound up with the preceding ; the first edition of
" The Droome of Doomes Day," London ; " The
Mirror for Magistrates," first published in 1559, was
the joint production of eight writers, of whom the
most eminent was Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst.
MR, YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 413
It was edited by William Baldwin. Other editions
appeared in 1563, 1571, and an additional part, edited
by J. Higgins, taking chronological precedence of that
already issued was published in 1574, after which date
the first issued portion was styled the last part and the
last issued the first part. Another, called the second
part, wholly written by Thomas Blenerhassett, was
printed in 1578, in London, by Richard Webster.
This last is in this collection ; it is the only sepa-
rate edition, and is said to have been the only book
printed by Webster ; an edition dated 1587, printed in
Fleete Streete by Henry Marsh, assignee of Thomas
Marsh, which contains the parts edited by Baldwin
and Higgins, and Haslewood's fine edition, 1815,
are also here. Another book with a somewhat
similar title, but by a different author, is " The Mirror
of Magistrates for Cities," by George Whetstone,
1584. It recounts the efforts of the Emperor Alex-
ander Severus to check the vices which were prevalent
in the Roman capital, and which were traced to the
great number of gaming and drinking-houses which
abounded, and also contains "A Touchstone for the
Time, describing many perillous Mischiefes bred in the
Bowels of the Citie of London." Hazlitt quotes the
following interesting note from Mr. Skegg's catalogue
regarding it : " At folio 32 in this very rare and
curious volume we have 'A Dicer's opinion of the
making of dice and cards ' as follows : ' In so much on
a time I heard a distemperate dicer sodenly swear y*
he faithfully beleeued y* dice were first made of the
bones of a witch, cards of her skin, in which there
hath euer sithence remained an inchantment, y* who-
soeuer once taketh delight in either, he shall neuer
haue power vtterly to leaue them/ " George Turber-
ville is represented by " The Heroycall Epistles of the
Learned Poet Publius Ouidius Naso, in English
Verse, anno doniini 1569," imprinted at London by
Henry Denham ; and his " Noble Art of Venerie "
414 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
and " Book of Falconrie," both printed by Purfoote in
1611, and bound by Ramage, the former in red and
the latter in green morocco. A very scarce book is
Anthony Monday's " English Romayne Life," Lon-
don, 1582. It is reprinted in the seventh volume of
the Harleian Miscellany. Another scarce book is
" The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three
Bookes. The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of
proportion, the third of ornament," London, 1589.
Mr. Hazlitt says of it (" Handbook to Pop. Lit."),
" This important book, which was written many years
before its appearance in print, is republished in
' Ancient Critical Essays.' Between sig. N and sig. o
in two or three known copies are four cancelled leaves
marked j. ij, and iij, and the last unsigned. A perfect
copy should have 133 leaves, including the table and
the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. In the Grenville
collection is the copy presented by the author to Ben
Jon son." This copy is quite perfect, but has not the
cancelled leaves. The next book is from the house
of the renowned Leyden printer, Christopher Plantin.
It is entitled " A Choice of Emblemes and other
Deuises, for the moste parte gathered out of Sundrie
writers, Englished and Moralized, and diuers neuly
deuised, by Geffrey Whitney," 1586. The " Emblems"
is said to have been used by Shakespeare, which was
extremely probable. It has been reprinted by photo-
graphy. In it a story is told " of three women who
threw dice to ascertain which of them should first die.
She who lost affected to laugh at the decrees of fate,
when a tile suddenly falling put an end to her exist-
ence " (quoted by Mr. Hazlitt in " Pop. Handbook "
from Douce's " Illustrations of Shakespeare "). Some
early copies of the works of the author of " The Fairy
Queen " are in the collection. " The Shepheardes
Calender, conteining Twelue ^Eglogues, proportionable
to the twelue Monethes," 1581, black letter ; imprinted
at London by Thomas East for John Harrison the
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 415
younger, dwelling in Pater Noster Roe at the sign of the
Anker, and there to bee sold. This is the second edition
of the earliest printed of Spenser's works. " The Faerie
Queene," London, printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590;
the second part of the " Faerie Queene," London, same
printer, 1596. These two volumes form the first
edition of Spenser's great poem. Ireland the Shake-
spearian forger had a copy with manuscript notes,
which he said were by Shakespeare. This copy after-
wards belonged to Sir Francis Freeling. The follow-
ing note in the Freeling sale catalogue is quoted by
Hazlitt : " These volumes attracted more notice,
curiosity, and veneration from the believers in the
Shakespeare forgery than any of the printed books
in the pretended Shakespeare library. ' Spenser/
illustrated with notes by Shakespeare, was hailed as
an inestimable treasure." Ireland in his " Confessions,"
p. 196, says that a gentleman offered sixty pounds for
the copy.
" Complaints, containing sundrie small Poems of the
World's Vanities," also printed by Ponsonbie, London,
1591 the only separate edition issued ; " Colin Clouts
Come Home Againe," by the same printer, London,
1595 the only separate edition. With it is printed
" ' The Mourning Muse of Thestylis/ by Lodowick
Bryskett, of which no separate edition is known. It
includes also ' An Elegie, or friend's passion for his
Astrophell ' [by Mathew Roydon ?]. Bryskett's poem
was licensed to John Wolfe in 1587 separately, and very
probably piinted by him ; but no such impression has
yet come to light." (Hazlitt's "Handbook of Pop.
Lit.") There is also in this collection the first collected
edition of Spenser's works, London, 1611, folio;
several modern editions, including an uncut copy of
Pickering's fine edition, 5 volumes, 1822. Eight works
by various authors bring us to the end of the six-
teenth century printing in this class. First comes Sir
John Harrington's "New Discourse on a Stale Subject,
416 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
with the Metamorphosis of Ajax," London, Richd.
Field, 1696 ; next conies John Lylly's " Euphues the
Anatomy of Wit/' London, 1597, and " Euphues and
his England," London, 1582. This is the fifth edition
of the first mentioned. Of the first edition, printed in
1579, no complete copy is known. The first edition of
the " England " was issued in 1580. Early editions of
both works are rare. Our next works are Gabriel
Harvey's " New Letter of Notable Contents," London,
1593 ; and " Pierces Supererogation, or A New Praisse
of the Olde Asse," London, 1593. These two works
are in extremely fine condition, the paper being as
fresh and crisp as the day it was issued, nearly 300
years ago. Our next bears the quaint title of the
" Silke Wormes and their Flies." It is described on the
title-page as being written by T. M., a Countrie Farmer
and an apprentice in Physicke, London, 1599. The
author was Thomas Moffat. A curious work on the
morality of acting is " Th' overthrow of Stage-playes
by the way of controuersie betwixt D. Gager and D.
Rainoldes, wherein all the reasons that can be made
for them are notably refuted ; th' objections aunswered ;
Wherein is manifestly proued that it is not onely un-
lawful to be an Actor, but a beholder of those
Vanities, etc.," 1599. Two works, dated 1600, and
both printed at London, conclude the century's print-
ing. The first, rarely found in so good condition as
the present copy, is Allot' s " England's Parnassus ; or,
the Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their
Poeticall Comparisons." The other is " Godfrey of
Bulloigne," translated by Fairfax. This tale of the
Crusades was first translated into English by Caxton,
and also printed by him in 1481.
The entry of James I. of England into London in
1604, to take possession of his kingdom, was celebrated
with much magnificence, and we begin the seven-
teenth century with two works relating to the occa-
sion (1) Ben Jonson's "part of King James, his Royall
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 417
and magnificent Entertainement through his Honor-
able Cittie of London," London, 1604 ; and (2) Decker's
" The Magnificent Entertainment : Giuen to King
lames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick
the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties Triumphant
Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable
Citie (and Chamber) of London," etc., London, 1604.
Decker is also represented by three other of his works
" The Dead Terine ; or Westminster's Complaint
for long Vacations and short Teannes," London, 1608;
- The Belman of London," 1640, London ; " Villanies
discovered by Lanthorne and Candle-light, and the
helpe of a New Cryer called per se O," London,
1610. The rapid growth of interest in dramatic litera-
ture during the present century is strikingly shown in
the case of this book. A copy sold in 1798 brought but
one shilling, whereas one disposed of in 1856 at Sothe-
by's was knocked down for 6 15s., and the book has
since much increased in value. The following work is
interesting chiefly as the only work by the writer,
Sir W. Harbert, the younger, which we possess. "A
Prophesie of Cadwallader, last King of the Britaines :
containing a Comparision of the English Kings with
many Worthy Romanes, from William Rufus till
Henry the fift," etc., London, 1604, printed by
Thomas Creede. A contemporary and opponent of
Decker's was Samuel Rowlands. His works are ex-
ceedingly scarce, first editions of some of his airy trifles
bringing very large sums. In this collection is the
1642 edition of his " Doctor Merry-man : or Nothing
but Mirth"; the fifth edition of " Diogines Lan-
thorne," London, 1628, black letter, and an excep-
tionally fine copy of the only edition of " Martin
Mark- All, Beadle of Bridewell : and his Defence
and Answere to the Belman of London, etc.,"
London, 1610, black letter. In this work, which is
partly in prose and partly in verse, Rowlands accuses
Decker of stealing the materials of his " Belman of
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418 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
London " from Harman's " Caueat, or Warening for
Common Cursetors," unjustly, as the " Belman " is
based on a piece attributed to Greene, entitled " The
Ground worke of Connycatching." Greene was a pro-
lific writer. Mr. Hazlitt gives the titles of thirty-nine
separate pieces, of the most of which many editions
appeared. We refer to the following as being in this
collection, viz. : " Ciceronis Amor. Tullies Love/'
London, 1616 seventh edition, the first was published
in 1589 ; "Arcadia, or Menaphon ; Camillaes Alarum
to Slumbering Evphves in his Melancholy Cell at
Silexedra," London, 1616, black letter; " Neuer too
Late : or, a Powder of Experience : sent to all youth-
ful gentlemen, to roote out the infectious follies that
ouer-reaching conceits foster in the spring-time of their
youth," London, 1621; "A Quip for an Upstart
Courtier ; or, a Quaint Dispute between Velvet-
breeches and Cloth-breeches," 1625. One edition
contains the attack on Gabriel Harvey which occa-
sioned the bitter dispute between him and Greene,
lasting for several years, and continued fiercely after
the latter's death by his friend, Thomas Nash. It was
translated into Dutch and appeared at Leyden in
1601 under the title of " Een Seer Vermakelick
Proces Tusschen Fluweele-Broeck ende Laken-Broek."
" Philomela, the Lady Fitz water's Nightingale," Lon-
don, 1615 Farmer's copy (1798) sold for 8s. 6d., and
was resold at the Roxburghe sale (1812) for 5.
Next we mention " Ghost haunting Conny Catchers :
with the merry Conceits of Dr. Pinchbacke, a not-
able Makeshift," London, 1626, black letter, which
has been ascribed to Greene. Of Michael Dray ton,
the author of the " Poly-Olbion," this collection
contains the fifth edition of his poems, issued in 1613,
six years after the first edition. A copy of Sir Thomas
Overbury's "A Wife now a Widdowe," London, 1614,
is worthy of attention. It is the second edition of this
popular work, of which nearly a score of editions were
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 410
issued in the first fifty years after its appearance. Mr.
Young has also a copy dated 1618, which Mr. Hazlitt
does not mention. The tragical end of Sir Thomas is
well known. He was imprisoned in the Tower at the
procurement of his quondam friend the Earl of Ro-
chester, who caused him to be poisoned there, Septem-
ber 15, 1613.
The foul deed was discovered three years later, when
the minor participators in the crime were executed.
Rochester, now Somerset, and his countesswere also tried
and condemned, but received a free pardon from the King.
His murder produced a plentiful crop of literature, of
which the following was probably the most important :
"Sir Thomas Overberries Vision. With the Ghoasts
of Weston, Mris. Turner, the late Lieftenant of the
Tower, and Franklin. By R. N." [Richard Niccols],
Oxon., 1616. It was reprinted in the Harleian Miscel-
lany, and from this copy in facsimile, with an intro-
duction by the late Mr. Maidment, and presented
by Mr. Young to the Hunterian Club. This
book is of extreme rarity, only one or two copies
being known to exist. Mr. Maidment says in his
introduction " It is conjectured not to have been
printed for sale, Niccols being by no means certain
what use ' My Lord Chief Justice Coke, the very
quintessence of law,' as Weldon sarcastically calls
him, might have made of it. This may explain its ex-
treme rarity." In this collection there is also Niccols'
" Expicedium, a funeral oration upon the death of the
late deceased Princesse of famous memorye Elizabeth,"
4to, 16(>3. Early editions require mention here of
William Slaty er's Palae Albion, London, 1619; Mar-
lowe's Troublesome raigne and Lamentable death of
Edward the Second, London, 1622 ; Sir Philip Sidney's
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, London, 1623 ;
Whole Works of Samuel Daniel, Esquire, in Poetrie,
London, 1623 ; Phineas Fletcher's Purple Island,
Cambridge, 1633 (first edition) ; and the same writer's
420 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Locustes or Apollyonists, 1627 ; Hocus Pocus (an early
book on legerdemain), London, 1635. Of the works
of the greatest of England's poets Shakespeare-
there is in this collection some rare volumes. Probably
first in importance is the second folio edition, London,
printed by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot, and are to
be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Paul's
Churchyard, 1632. It was a trade book, each book-
seller putting his name on the copies he subscribed for.
Next to the first folio (1623) it is the most important
text, and although of much less money value than that
now rare volume, a fine copy brings a considerable
;>um. This is a fine copy, bound by Cape. There is
also a fine copy of the fourth folio edition, London,
1685, printed by Herringman, Brewster and Bentley,
Amongst Mr. Young's numerous Shakespearian posses-
sions, the "Poems." London, 1640, 17nio, with the fine
portrait of Marshall ; " King John," London r
1622, 4to ; and " Sir John Oldcastle," London, 1600,
4to, require special mention. The Poems comprise
many things which Shakespeare did not write, includ-
ing pieces from Heywood's " History of Women,"
1624. The " King John " is the third separate edition.
With its two predecessors, it has been called spurious,
" Sir John Oldcastle " was at first ascribed to Shake-
speare, but it has long ago found a place amongst the
numerous things possessing the negative Shakespearian
interest of having attained notice through an unscru-
pulous use of the poet's name, thus showing, his own
dictum to the contrary, how much lies in a name. From
Shakespeare to John Taylor, the Water Poet, is
a considerable transition, for which the chronological
sequence of Mr. Young's books and not the narrator is
to blame. A fine copy is here of the whole works of
Taylor, containing sixty-three pieces, corrected and
revised by the author, London, 1630, folio. Separate
editions of many of the pieces in this volume are not
now known to exist. Of Donne's poems there are in
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this collection the first and third editions, published in
1633 and 1639 respectively, the former containing the
portrait by Lambert, and the latter the fine one by
Marshall. The following early books can be but little
more than mentioned : " The Byrth of Mankynde,
otherwise named the Woman's booke," by Thomas Ray-
nold, phisition, London, 1634, 4to. The author was
John Jones, M.D., but one Thomas Raynolde, M.D.,
claimed and republished it as his own ; Quarles's
" Emblems," London, 1635 (first edition). "There are
many later editions of these Emblems, but the first and
second are the only really valuable ones, more especially
the former. Quarles, however, was merely a borrower
from Herman Hugo, as the latter was from Alciatus "
(Hazlitt's " Handbook to Pop. Lit."). " Miseries of
Enforst Marriage," by George Wilkins, London, 1637 ;
" The Excellency of Good Women," London, 1613 ; and
"Opinion Diefied," London, 1613, both by Barnabe
Rych, and the Blacke Booke, London, 1604, a very
rare work ; " The Palmerin D'Oliva. Shewing the
Mirrour of Nobilitie, the Map of Honour, Anatomie
of rare Fortunes, Heroicall Presidents of Loue, Won-
der of Chivalrie, and the most Accomplished Knight
in all Perfection. Presenting to noble minds their
courtly desire, to Gentiles their expectations, and to
the inferiour sort how to imitate their vertues, handled
with modestie to shun offence, yet delightfull for Recrea-
tion. Written in Spanish, Italian, and French, and
from them turned into English by A. M." [Anthony
Munday], London, 1637. "The Palmerin of Eng-
land, the no lesse rare than excellent and stately
History of the Famous and Fortunate Prince Palmerin
of England. Declaring the birth of him, and Prince
Florian du Desent his brother, in the Forest of Great
Britaine, the course of their lives afterward in pur-
suing Knightly adventures and performing incompar-
able deeds of chivalry. Wherein Gentlemen may find
choise of sweet inventions, and Gentlewomen be satisfied
422 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
in courtly expectations. Translated out of French by
A. M. [Anthony Munday]" London, 1639, black letter;
" New Yeeres Gift, by Necrophile," 1638, with rare por-
trait of Jeiferie Hudson, the dwarf, under which are
the following lines :
" Gaze on with wonder, and discerne in me
The Abstract of the World's Epitome " ;
Robert Farley's Kalendarium Hvmanae Vitae, Lon-
don, 1638 ; the same writer's Lychnocavsia sive
Moralia Facum Einblemata ; Lights Moral Emblems,
London, 1638 ; Poems occasioned by a melancholy
vision vpon divers Theames enlarged, which by seuerall
arguments ensuinge is showed, by Humphrey Mill,
1639 ; Poems Sacred and Satyricall, by Nathaniel
Richards, London, 1641 ; A Lytel Treatyse Of the
Byrth and Prophecye Of Marlyn, London, 1641. This
was first printed by Wynken de Worde in 1510.
Milton is represented by the first and second editions
of his Poems, London, 1645, 1673, the first edition of
"Paradise Lost/' 1668, third title-page, and the second
edition of " Paradise Regained," London, 1680, and a
beautiful copy of Pickering's small 8vo edition of 1825,
5 volumes. Beaumont and Fletcher appear in the first
folio edition of their works, 1647, which contains thirty-
six plays appearing in that volume for the first time. Of
Herrick there is the first edition of his " Hesperides,"
which is really his works, as is indicated by the sub-
title, " The Works both Human and Divine of Robert
Herrick, Esq.," London, 1648. The Divine Poems
have a separate title, dated 1647, and are called " His
Noble Numbers." A curious book is " Wit's Recrea-
tions for Ingenious Head-pieces," London, 1645.
Several editions of it exist with slightly varying titles.
No dramatic library would be complete without
some of the gay and amorous effusions of Sir John
Suckling, and a fine copy of his " Fragmenta Aurea :
a collection of all the Incomparable Peeces written by,"
him "and published by a Friend to perpetuate his
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 423
Memory," London, 1648, removes that possible re-
proach from this library. Brief mention will suffice
for Emanuel Ford's " Parisimus, the Renowned Prince
of Bohemia," London, 1649, 4to, and the first and only
edition of Thomas Weaver's " Plantaganet's Tragicall
Story ; or, the Death of King Edward the Fourth.
With the unnaturall Voyage of Richard the Third,
through the Red Sea of his nephew's innocent bloud,
to his usurped Crowne," London, 1649. Regarding the
next book, Thomas Stanley's " Poems," printed in the
year 1651, Mr. Hazlitt gives the following interesting
note " Scarcely two copies of those few remaining
correspond exactly. . . . Some copies read : London,
printed for Humphrey Moseley, etc., 1652 ; which title-
page was probably set up when the author had ceased
to present copies to friends and parted with the re-
mainder of the stock to Moseley. There was only one
impression." This copy does not bear Moseley's name.
Hazlitt also pertinently observes respecting our next
book, " Le Prince d' Amour, or, the Prince of Love ;
with a collection of several Ingenious Poems and Songs
by the wits of the age," London, 1660, that the poems
and songs are chiefly not by the wits of the age. Other
seven works will bring to a close this survey of early
popular literature. The first of these is entitled " West-
minster Drollery; or. a Choice Collection of the Newest
Songs and Poems," London, 1672. Mr. Young has
also Brome's "Covent Garden Drollery," London, 1672.
The next book is the first collected edition of Sir
William Davenant's "Works," folio, London, 1673.
A portrait of the author which faces the title-page
shows a singularly bull-dog looking face. Of the
famous " History of Reynard the Fox," first translated
into English and printed by Caxton, there is here the
first part of a late edition, 1701, in black letter, with
quaint engravings. There is also the second and third
parts, 1681 and 1684, then first added, the latter bear-
ing the title of " The Shifts of Reynardine the son of
424 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
Reynard the Fox," 4to, all in one volume. A remark-
able feature of this copy is that all the parts are
entirely uncut. Of another celebrated book also
translated and printed by Caxton, Raoul le Fevre's
" Destruction of Troy," the eleventh edition, Lon-
don, 1684, black letter, is in this collection. The
penultimate book is Robert Gould's " Poems, chiefly
consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles," London,
1689, and the last is " Don Juan Lamberto ; or a Comi-
cal History of our Late Times," in two parts, by Monte-
lion, Knight of the Oracle, etc., London, 1695. It has
been set down as the work of Thomas Flatman, and is
also attributed to Milton's nephew, John Philips.
There were several editions before this one, and it has
been reprinted in Somers' " Collection of Tracts." Our
notice of the early poetry has been so extensive that
we must perforce be brief in dealing with the poetical
productions of modern times. First, then, we have
a fine copy of the first edition of Bishop Percy's
" Reliques of Ancient Poetry," 3 volumes, 1764 ;
Samuel Rogers's "Poems" and "Italy," illustrated by
Stothard and Turner, 1830-34, two beautiful volumes;
the very rare volume by Lord Byron "Poems on
Various Occasions," privately printed at Newark in
1807, shortly before the publication of the "Hours of
Idleness " in the same year ; Byron's Poetical Works,
8 volumes, and Life, 3 volumes, with illustrations
by Finden, Turner, Stanfield, and others an edition
difficult to get with the illustrations ; a facsimile of the
manuscript of Keble's " Christian Year." It was pro-
hibited before publication, and consequently no copies
got into the market. Mr. Young owes his copy to an
accidental source. Smith's "Led bury and Wassail
Bowl," first edition, and illustrated by Leech ; many edi-
tions of Tennyson's works, and the tract issued by Hotten
in 1862 containing the lines omitted in editions of the
poet's works issued subsequent to 1830. This, as has been
mentioned before, was suppressed and the publisher fined.
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In this collection there is also a full set of Mr. Payne
Collier's valuable reprints of Early English Poetry,
including his 4to Shakespeare completed shortly before
his death.
In Scottish Poetry Mr. Young has some exceedingly
interesting and choice things. Taking them chrono-
logically, our earliest author is Sir William Alexander,
Earl of Stirling, of whose works Mr. Young has five
volumes representing four works. The earliest is his
" Aurora ; containing the first fancies of the author's
youth," London, printed by Richard Field, 1604. It
is the only edition. In the author's works, 1637, the
" Aurora " is left out. The next work is " The Mon-
archicke Tragedies ; Croesus, Darius, The Alex-
andrcean, lulius Caesar," London, printed by Valentine
Simmes for Ed. Blovnt, 1607 ; it is the second edition.
Mr. Young has also the third, issued in 1616, 12mo.
The third differs considerably from either of the
previous editions. It is priced at 21 in the Bibl.
Anglo-Poet. The next by date is " Doomesday ; or,
the Great Day of the Lord's ludgement." Printed by
Andro Hart, Edinburgh, 1614. In the same year an
edition appeared at London, but it was only the Edin-
burgh edition with a new title-page. A rare volume,
and one full of interest to West Country book lovers,
is the first edition of Zachary Boyd's " Last Battell of
the Soule in Death," printed at Edinburgh by the
heires of Andro Hart, 1629. This work has been
mentioned several times in this volume already, and
it will therefore be sufficient to say that Mr. Young's
is a fine copy. Mr. Young has also Boyd's fulsome
panegyric on Charles the First, the full title of which
is " Rex Pater Patriae instar Pelicani liberos suos
fovere debet, ad Carolum Regem Oratio Panegyrica, a
Zaccharia Bodio ; Edinburgh!, Excudebat J. Wreit-
toun, 1633." This is of great rarity. Drummond of
Hawthornden is represented by his poems, London,
1659, and several modern editions. A very fine copy
426 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
of Bar-hour's "Bruce" is in the collection; it is from
the press of Robert Sanders, Glasgow, printer to the
City and University, 1672, 12 mo, black letter. Sanders
was a good printer, and this edition of B.irbour is per-
haps the best specimen of his work. It is not the
earliest copy of Barbour in the library, as there is that
printed by Andrew Anderson at Edinburgh in 1670.
There is also the copy which previously belonged to
George Chalmers of William Lithgow's edition of
" Blind Harry's Actis and Deids of Sir William
Wallace," Edinburgh, 1648, black letter. Two editions
of Sir David Lyndsay's works, both printed at Glas-
gow, the first in 1696 by Robert Sanders, senior, and
the second by Robert Sanders, junior, in 1712, the
former a black letter, enrich the collection. There is
also an English edition of Sir David Lyndsay's " A
Dialogue between Experience and a Courtier of the
Miserable state of the Worlde ; Compiled in the Scot-
tish tung by Sir David Lyndsay, Knight, a man of
great learning and science. First turned and made
perfect English, and now the second time corrected
and amended according to the first copie. 1 mprinted at
London in Newgat Market, within the New Rentes, by
Thomas Purfoot, an. dom. 1581," black letter. An-
other issue of the Sanders press is the " New Wife of
Beath," 1705, black letter, eleven leaves, a localization
of Chaucer's "Wife of Bath." We will but mention
the following books, which, although to be found in
many other libraries, are yet here inso fine a condition
as to deserve notice : Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius,
London, 1733, 2 volumes; Johnson's Scots Musical
Museum, 4 volumes ; Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd,
Glasgow, 1758; Tea-table Miscellany, 2 volumes,
1775; Evergreen, 2 volumes, Edin., 1761; Herd's
Scottish Songs, etc., 1776 ; Poetical Museum, published
by Caw at Hawick, 1784 ; Morison's edition of Scottish
Ballads, Perth, 1790 ; Dalyell's Poems of the Six-
teenth Century, 2 volumes, Edinburgh, 1801; Ley-
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den's edition of The Coinplaynt of Scotland, Edin-
burgh, 1801, large paper copy; Macpherson's edition
of Wyntoun's Chronykill of Scotland, 2 volumes, 1795 ;
Sibbald's Chronicles of Scottish Poetry, 4 volumes,
1802, uncut; Gilchrist's Scottish Ballads, 2 volumes,
and Songs, Edinburgh, 1815 ; Kinloch's Scottish
Ballads, 1827, uncut ; Maidment's Scottish Pasquils,
Edinburgh, 1827-8 ; Poems by a Journeyman Mason,
Inverness, 1829; Court of Session Garland, 1839;
bound with this is Edinburgh, a poem, and the Thistle,
1840, which is very rare, with the names of the persons
mentioned in the poem filled in ; Alexander Scott's
Poems, Glasgow, 1882, one of six on vellum, most
beautifully bound in morocco by Ramage ; Pinkerton's
Ancient Scottish Poems, Ballads, and Tragic Poems,
7 volumes. We have reserved for the last a plum a
first edition of Burns's Poems. The circumstances of
its publication are narrated in the chapter dealing with
Mr. Gray's library, and it will be sufficient to say here
that Mr. Young's copy is a beautiful one and in every
way perfect. Fine uncut copies of the second and
third editions are also in the collection.
Leaving the realms of Poetry at last, we may now
bestow a glance on History, which, however much
imagination may occasionally enter into its composi-
tion, has little to do with the divine art of Poesy.
Of great value and interest is a very fine copy of the
first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles of Englande,
Scotlande, and Irelande, London, 1577, 2 volumes,
folio. It contains numerous woodcuts, and is very
much different from the second and several sub-
sequent editions, which are castrated and otherwise
altered. It is this book, and this edition of it,
that Shakespeare is said to have used not a reliable
guide, certainly and it has therefore obtained the
name of " the Shakespeare edition." The other Scot-
tish historical books may be grouped ; they are-
Gordon's Itinerarium Septrionale, 1726, with Sup-
428 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
plements, 1732 ; several volumes of the Maitland Club
publications ; the Cartulary of Cambuskenneth ;
Chalmers's Caledonia, large paper copy ; Gregory's
Highlands and Islands ; Lauder's Moray Floods,
Ure's Rutherglen and East Kilbride ; the Pro-
ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,
and of the Ayr and Wigtonshire Archaeological
Society; and the National Manuscripts of Scotland,
3 volumes, folio. The Biographical and miscel-
laneous Scottish books include a fine uncut copy of
Hume's House of Douglas and Angus, 2 volumes,
1748; Malcolm's Geneological Memoirs of the House
of Drumrnond; Memorie of the Somervilles, uncut
copy ; Anderson's History of the House of Hamilton,
large paper ; Eraser's costly works on the families of
Lennox, Colquhoun, the Booke of Cterlaverock, Max-
well of Pollok, and The Montgomeries ; also the
Bruces and the Comyns ; Kay's Edinburgh Portraits,
both editions ; first edition of the Lives of the
Lindsays, 4 volumes ; a large paper uncut copy of the
Miscellanea Scotica, 4 volumes. We note also a copy
of the first edition of M'Ure's View of the City of
Glasgow, than which no finer copy exists. It is perfect,
which means that it contains the portrait of M'Ure,
the Arms of the City, and the two folding plates,
which are rarely all to be found in copies, and the
Dedication (not paged) to the Duke of Argyll, placed
near the end of the volume ; a large thick paper copy
of the reprint of M'Ure's View; an uncut copy of
Gibson's History of Glasgow, with map ; uncut copies
of the first, second, and third editions of Denholui's
History of Glasgow ; Brown's History of Glasgow ;
Stuart's Views and Notices of Glasgow ; first editions,
uncut, of the Memorabilia of Glasgow ; and Strang's
Glasgow and its Clubs ; a large paper copy of Mac-
george's Old Glasgow ; the Old Country Houses of
the Glasgow Gentry ; the Old College ; arid the Glas-
gow Directory for the years 1811, 1815, 1816, 1817,
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1820, 1821. Before finally quitting Scottish literature
three works of a miscellaneous description require
mention Lawes and Acts of Scotland, printed by
Waldgrave, Edinburgh, 1597 ; Jamieson's Scottish
Dictionary, first edition, 4 volumes ; and a large paper
uncut copy of Henderson's Scottish Proverbs, with
addenda, in the original paper boards. Ritson's
Spartan Manual, Glasgow, 1873, deserves mention
as a fine piece of printing, and also because this copy
is on vellum, the only one so printed.
A fine copy of the " Chronicle of England," printed
in 1528 by Wynken de Worde, is our first work in
General History. Caxton was the printer of the first
and De Worde of the second edition of Raunulph
Higden's " Polychronycon ; conteynyng the Berynges
and Dedes of many Tymes," translated into English by
John de Trevisa, a Benedictine monk, of which the
third edition is in this collection. It issued from the
press of Peter Treueris, Southwerke, 1527, folio, black
letter, and is a reprint page for page of De Worde's
edition, but with the edition of some woodcuts. Of
Hakluyt's "Account of the Principal Navigations,
Voyages, and Discoveries made by the English Nation,"
we note the first edition, London, 1589, folio, a very
rare book ; also the first edition of Grafton's " Chronicle
at Large, and meere History of the Affayres of Eng-
lande and Kinges of the same," London, 2 volumes
bound in one, 1568, 1569, folio; first and only edition
of Reynold's " Chronicle of all the noble Eiriperours of
the Romaines from lulius Caesar to Maximilian, with
the great Warres of lulius Caesar and Pompeius
Magnus," London, 1571 ; Fynes Moryson's " Itinerary,
containing his Ten Yeeres' Travel through Germany,
Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark,
Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland,
and Ireland," London, 1617, folio. Sir William
Dugdale's " History of St. Paul's Cathedral," London,
1658. folio, first edition, " valued on account of contain-
430 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
ing better impressions of the plates, several of which
(Nos. 5, 6, 9, 11) were lost and re-executed for the later
edition by an inferior artist. Nos. 7 and 10 are omitted
in the second edition." (Lowndes' Bib. Man., Bonn's
Ed.). A very curious and interesting work is John
Weever's "Ancient Fvneral Monvments within the
Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the
Islands adiacent, etc.," London, 1631. A manuscript
of the work containing matter not printed in the book
is in Somerset House. The index is often wanting, but
this copy has it. A second edition was published in
1661, and a third in 1767. A book of a similar kind is
Robert Monteith's "Theater of Mortality; or, the
Illustrious Inscriptions extant upon the Monuments in
the Gray Friars Church Yard, etc., in Edinburgh and
its suburbs," Edinburgh, 1704. A further " Collection
of Funeral Inscriptions over Scotland," Edinburgh,
1713, 2 volumes in one. The next book is " The Most
Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called
Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored by Inigo
Jones, etc.," London, 1725, folio. Fine copies are in
this collection of Nisbet's "Heraldry," 2 volumes, 1816;
11 Life and Typography of Caxton," by Blades, 2
volumes, 1861; Strutt's "Dresses and Habits of the
People of England," 2 volumes, large paper, with
illuminated edges; Hazlewood's reprint of "Painter's
Palace of Pleasure " ; Lacroix's beautiful works on
French Costume and Customs ; Stirling's "Artists
of Spain " ; uncut copy of " Punch and Judy," illus-
trated by Cruikshank, first impressions of the plates ;
Pickering's fine edition of Walton's " Angler " ;
Phaer's "Regiment of Life," 1553, and Dr. Peter
Lowe's " Chirurgerie," London, 1612. A very earl}"
work of a semi-medical nature is the " Judycyall
of Uryne," supposed to be printed by Wynken de
Worde about 1512 there are few copies of it extant.
The department of Law includes the following early
works : " Boke of the Justyces of Peas," printed by
MR. YOUNG'S LIBRARY. 431
'Wynken de Worde in 1506; " Natura Brevium,"
printed by Pynson ; Abraham Fraunce's " Lawiers
Logicke," London, 1588 ; "The Mirrour of Policie : a
Worke no lesse profitable than necessary for all Magis-
trates and Governors of Estates and Commonweals,"
London, 1594; and a fine copy of the "Letters of
Juriius," printed by Bensley, with portraits and en-
graved title-pages. Charles Johnson's " History of
the Lives and Actions of the most famous Highway-
men, Murderers, Street-Robbers, etc.," London, 1734,
folio, may also be included in this class.
I n Fiction we have Skelton's " The First English Trans-
lation of Don Quixote," London, 1612-20, 2 volumes;
the first edition of " Robinson Crusoe," London,
1719-20, 3 volumes, also an edition published in 1820,
with plates by Stothard, 2 volumes, large 8vo ; the
first edition of <v Gulliver's Travels," London, 3 volumes,
1726-7; the first edition of Lane's "Thousand and
One Nights' Entertainment," 1839 ; and the Villon
Society's edition of the same.
Of the works of Classical writers in this library
the following are the most notable : " Quintillan,"
printed by Aldus in 1514; " Thucydides," translated
by Niccols, London, 1550; Gawin Douglas's trans-
lation into Scottish metre of Virgil's " ^Eneid,"
London, 1553; Phaer's translation of the "JEneid,"
the first edition, London, 1558, and another edition
dated London, 1607; Nicholas Hawarde's " Translation
of the Roman Chronicle of Eutropius," London, 1664;
" Seneca: his Tenne Tragedies, translated into Engylsh,"
London, 1581, black letter the editor of this volume
was Thomas Newton ; "The Whole Works of Homer,"
translated by Chapman, London, printed by Nathaniel
Butter about 1616, folio; "The Three Orations of
Demosthenes, chief orator among the Grecians, in
fauour of the Olynthians, with those his fower Orations
against Kiu<r Philip of Macedonie, Englished out of
Greeke by Thomas Wylson," London, 1570; and the
432 THE LIBRARIES OF GLASGOW.
" Electra of Sophocles," translated by Charles Wace,
printed at the Hague. 1649 this copy contains the
portraits of Charles II. and the Princess Elizabeth,,
which are only in a few copies.
One last paragraph dealing with some works of a
miscellaneous kind and we will have done. " Praise
of Folie," by Erasmus, London, 1549; Bishop's
"Beautiful Blossoms," London, 1577; the first
English edition of Montaigne's " Essays," London,
1603, folio ; a fine set of the works of Joseph Ritson ;
first editions of Hood's "Up the Rhine"; "JWhims
and Oddities, and Whimsicalities ;" " The Retro-
spective Review," 18 volumes; Dibdin's "Biblio-
mania"; " Bibliographical Decameron"; "Bibliotheca
Spenceriana" ; "Aedes Althorpianae " ; the " Cassano
Catalogue" ; " Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Pic-
turesque Tour in France and Germany " ; " Biblio-
graphical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in the
Northern Counties of England and of Scotland " ;
"The Library Companion," second edition, large paper;
" Reminiscences of a Literary Life " ; and his edition
of " The Typographical Antiquities of Ames and
Herbert" form a fitting conclusion to this account of
a remarkably well -selected, valuable, and handsome
library.
INDEX.
Aaron, P., see Aron P.
Abano, Petrus de, 190.
Abbotsford Club publications, 24, 100, 158, 229,
243, 341.
Abell, J., Songs, 189.
Aberdeen's first printer, E. Raban, 2S, 187, 202,
203, 205, 238, 406. Other printers, 115, 202, 20 5.
Aberdeen Breviary, 339.
Actors, estimation of in Scot, in 18th century,
225.
Adagios, Proverbios, etc., F. R. I. L. E. L., 393.
Adam Bel, Clym of the Cloughe, 353.
Adam, Alex, Glas. printer, 148.
Adam, Jean, Miscellany Poems, 276.
Adams, James, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Adams, Robert, assist. Mit. Liby., 113.
Adamson, Henry, Muses Threnddie, 337.
Adamson, John, Muse's Welcome, 337.
Adamson, Patrick, Poemata Sacra. 203.
Adlung, J., 184.
Advocate's Liby., Edin., 24, 322.
.Eschylus, printed by Aldus, 218 ; by Stephanus,
2lo.
-iKsop's Fables, 357, 386 ; also consult references
given at Bewick.
Agricola, M., Musica Instrumentalis, 182.
Agrip|ia, C., La Philosophic Occulte, and other
works, 216.
Ainslie, H., Pilgrimage to Land of Burns, 340, 369.
Ainslie, Robert, friend of Burns, 340.
Ainsworth, H., Psalms, 188.
Aitkenhead, Thomas, pamphlets on case of, 384.
Albanus, or the Poetical Tour, 367.
Albert!, Leon B. de, De Re Aedificatoria, 90.
Albertus Magnus, De Secretis 196.
Albion, Daughters of, Blake, 292.
Albrechtsberger, J. G., 184.
Album containing writings by Longfellow, Swin-
burne, and others, 303-4.
Alchemical works, 29, 194, 208-13.
Alciatus, Emblemata, 93, 421.
Aldine series of Poets, 21, '.'40, 264, 326, 360.
Aldus, Venetian printer, 195, 197, 198, 203, 210,
218, 431.
Alexander, Margaret, her Bulk, 380.
Aleyn's Henry VII., 335, 337 ; other works, 307.
Allan, David, the Scottish Hogarth, 149.
Allan, D., Views of Glasgow, 285, 381.
Allot, Robert, England's Parnassus, etc., 41 ii, 420.
Almanacs, 96, 168, 312, 321-22.
Alps, works on the, 28, 313.
Ambrps, A. W., Geschichte, 180.
American Psalmody, 188.
Amiens Cathedral, views of, 325.
Ana, collection of, 399-400.
Anacreon, 218.
Anderson, Andrew, Glas. printer, 148, 426.
Anderson, George, first printer in Glas., 26, 147,
148, 151, 203, 284, 361.
Anderson's Diplomata Scotiae, 108, 154, 158, 228.
Anderson's House of Hamilton, 15(3. 226, 428.
Anderson's Brit. Topography, 24, 227.
Anderson, William, Paisley publisher, 384.
Anderson's University, 176, 177.
Andrea, V., Mythologia Christiana, 215.
Anecdotal literature, 30, 399-400.
Anglirg, books on, 29, 117, 163.
Anguilbert's Mensa Philosophica, 196.
Annual Tour, Turner, 295.
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, 19, 97, 309.
28
Anti-Jacobin, 239.
Antiquaries of Scotland, proceedings, 158. 260,
341, 400, 428.
Apparitions, books on, 216.
Aquinas, Thomas, 89.
Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Lane's ed., 110,
267, 303, 332, 431 ; Villon Soc, ed., 30. 267, 303,
321, 431.
Aratus' works (Morel), 218.
Arber's Reprints, 20, 122, 167, 289, 360.
Arbroath, Round about the Round O, 241.
Arbuthnot Missal, 109, 229.
Arcadelt, J., Madrigals, 189.
Arcanum, The, 375.
Archeeologia Scotica, 111, 158.
Architecture, hooks on, 117, 162.
Argalus and Parth^nia, 386.
Argyle, Arch., 1st Marq. of, and his Countess,
2S4, 289.
Argyle, Duke of, letter to Dr. Strang, 328.
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, 93.
Aristaenetus' works, (Plantin;, 218.
Aristotle's works in Stir. Liby., 30, 74.
Arne, T. A., Judith, 185, 190, 191.
Aruois. Countess D', History of Mack-Beth, 376.
Arnold, J.. Essex Harmny, 190.
Arnold, Matthew, work*, 322.
Arnold, Samuel, Redemption, 185 ; Cathedral
Music, 186.
Aron, P., Toscanello, 182.
Art, Fine, 28, 117, 125, 130, 149, 158, 161-2, 290-0,
320, 325-6, 345-6, 302.
Arts, Useful, 164.
Arte of English Poesie, 414.
Arteaga, S, 180.
Arthur, King, History of, 199.
Arthur, Prof., MS. copy of Lectures, 12S.
Arundel Society Publications, 362.
Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer, 377.
Ashmole, Elias, works, 210, 212.
Asia, Central, works on, 313.
Asioli, B., 184.
Assaying of Metals, books on, 213.
Assembly, General, Proceedings of, Glas., 1638,
and Edin., 1639, MSS., S4.
Assembly, Declaration of the, Glas., 1638, 146, 203.
Astrology, boks on, 215.
Astronomy, books on, 117, 164.
Atkinson, Thos., 287-88.
Aubrey, John, Miscellanies, 216.
Auchiuleck Press, works issued at, 229, 258, 281.
Audsley's Arts of Japan, 161.
Augurello, Carmina, Art of Goldmaking, 197,210.
Auld, William, lib. of Stir. Liby., 71, 72, 90.
Austin's Naps upon Parnassus, 357.
Autographs, 30, 128, 136, 152, 192, 196, 236, 258-62,
273, 280, 281, 303-4, 353, 384, 407.
Avison, C., 185.
Ayr and Wigtonshire Arch. Assoc., 341, 428.
Azevedo, A., F. David, 181.
Bach, J. S., 181, 185.
Bacon, Roger, alchemical works, 203, 212.
Bailey's Festus, 1st ed., 240, 273.
Bailey's Northern Directory, 250.
Bain, Sir James, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103 ;
opens Mit. Liby., 118 ; don. to Mit. Liby., 120 ;
on spiritualism, 288.
Baini, G., Palestrina, 182.
Baird, Agnes, refutations of Cleland, 2Sf>.
INDEX.
Baldwin's Canticles of 'Salomon, 355.
Bale, John, English Votaryes, etc., 408.
Balfour, Rev. Robert, dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44.
Ballad Society, 20, 167, 361.
Ballads, collections of, 338, 359-60, 372.
Balmanno, Dr., dir Stir. Liby., 80, 342
Bannatvne Club Publications, 24, 95, 109, 159,
229, 242, 311, 341.
Bannatyne MS. ed. by Murdoch, 333.
Barha, A., works, 214.
Barbedette, H., Chopin, 181 ; Mendelssohn, 182.
Barbereau, A., 184.
Barbour's Bruce, 22, 202, 204, 222, 242, 269, 255,
367. 426.
Barclay's translation of Ship of Fools, 350, 412.
Barnby. Joseph, 185.
Barnett, J. F., 185.
Baronetage, Scottish, books on, 228.
Barr, Jamie, 277.
Barrett, F. T., lib. of Mit. Liby., 25, 113.
Barry's Plan of Glasgow, 285.
Basevi, A., 184.
Baskerville, printer, Birmingham, 149, 196.
Baxter, Nath., Sydney's Omania, 357.
Baxter's World of Spirits, 216, 271.
Beaconsfield, Earl of, 291.
Beague's History of the Compagnes, 378.
Beaumont's Treatise of Spirits, 216.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies, etc., 357,
422 ; works, Urie, 386.
Beauvais, Vincent des, Speculum Quadruplex,
(1473), 198.
Bechenhaub's Index of St. Bonaventure, 91.
Beckford's Vathek, 302, 320 ; Notes on Rogers's
Human Life, 300-1 ; Shelley's Queen Mab, 298.
Beecher, Capt., 281.
Bee-Hive of the Romish Church, Gilpiii, 356.
Beethoven, L.van, 181, 185, 191, 192.
Be<rgar't* Opera, Urie, 386.
Behan, Hans S., Little Master, 390.
Bekker's World Bewitched, 366.
Bell's Ana'omy of Expression, 32C.
Bell, M., Partner of Walter Stirling, 33.
Bell, William, Glas. printer, 148.
Bellini, V., 181, 191.
Bennett, Sir W. S., 185.
Bennett's Proverbs with pictures, 395.
Bentham, Jeremy, works, 332.
Berggreen, A., Psalmebog, 189, 191.
Berlioz, H. 185.
Bertram, Bailie, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Berzelius, 213.
Bessarion, Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis,
197.
Beverland, Hadrian, auto., 218.
Bewicks, works illustrated by the, 29, 204, 233,
234, 254, 255-6, 267, 295, 345.
Bexfleld, W. R., 185.
Beyle, H., Hadyn, 181 ; Mozart, Rossini, 182.
Beza, Confessione della Fede Christiana (Queen
Mary's copy), 244.
Bibles and New Testaments, 18, 88-9, 93-4, 117,
123, 159-60, 237, 270, 309-10, 325.
Bible, Bassandyne, 93, 309-10; Bedell's (first
Irish) Bible, 129, 159 ; Bishop's, 94 ; Breeches,
94 ; Cranmer's (1541), 93 ; Dore, 238 ; Fittler's,
237 ; Immaculate, 221, 263.
Bibliographical Society for Scotland, 24-5.
Bibliographies, 30, 111, 167,207, 217-18, 257-8, 267,
304, 322, 347, 362, 403-4, 432.
Bickham, Muiscal Entertainer, 191.
Billings' Baronial Antiquities of Scot., 95, 108,
158, 201, 2-->8, 249, 265, 303, 326, 400.
Billington, Mrs., Memoirs, 181.
Binders, some famous, 195.
Binding, 267-8.
Bingley, W., Musical Biography, 181.
Biography, 28, 117, 151, 155-7, 160, 253, 266, 319-20,
341.
Birch's lives, with port, by Houbraken, 162, 206,
295.
Birds, books on, 29, 163, 346.
Birmingham Free Libraries, 113.
Bishop, John, Repertorium, 186.
Bishop's Beautiful Blossoms, 432.
Bishopric Garland, 337.
Bisson Freres' Photographs of Mount Blanc,
313.
Black Ac.ts, The, of Scot., 157-8.
Blacke Book, The, 421.
Black Dwarf (1820), 220, 281.
Blackie's report on free libraries, 106-7, 113.
Blacksmith, Letter from a, on the religious state
of Scot., 375.
Blackwood, Adam, works, 202, 247.
Blades' Life of Caxton, 430.
Blaeu's Atlas of the World, 96.
Blair, David, lib. Stir. Liby., 73, 74, 99.
Blair, Robert, Life of, 374.
Blair's Grave, illust. by Blake. 291.
Blake, books illustrated by, 29, 234, 291-2 ; poem
and letter to Flaxman, 292-3.
Eland's Proverbs from Erasmus, 391.
Blaze de Bury, H., Mejerbeer, 182.
Blennerhassett, Thomas, 413.
Blind Harry, see Henry the Minstrel.
Block's conversations with Millar, 3^3.
Blondeau, A. L., ISO ; Palestrina, 182.
blue-books, 16, 320.
Boaden's Shakespeare portraits, 346.
Boccaccio's Decameron, 301.
Bochas, Fall of Princes, 412.
Boccherini L., 192.
Bodenham's Belvedere, 357.
Boerhaave's Elementa Chemiae, 213.
Boethius, Scotorum Historiae a prima Gentis
(1526 or 1527, first ed.), 109, 154; Bellenden's
trans., 265 ; Arithmetica, 182.
Bogle, Bailie, don. to Stir. Liby., 72, 83, 96; vice-
pres. Stir. Liby., 80.
Bogle, Robt., subscription list for Glas. Assembly
Rooms, MS., 86.
Bogle, Wm., dir. Stir. Liby., 71.
Bogup.t's Discours des Sorciers, 216.
Bonn's Foreign Proverbs, 390 ; Handbook of
Proverbs, 396.
Boieldieu, F. A., 181, 191.
Bollandus, Acta Sanctorum, 161.
Boner, Chas., auto., 273.
Book-collecting compatible with any occupation,
14-15.
Book-collector, popular conception of, 14 ; indc-
fatigability of, 21.
Bookhunter, defence of the, 13-16, 387-8.
Book -madness, 14.
Book-sale catalogue first issued in Glasgow,
282.
Books for children, list of, 288.
Books, large-paper copies, 15.
Books, most popular in Scotland (1500-1800), 275.
Books, preservation of, service rendered by private
libraries, 16.
Books, rare editions, value of, 15.
Book of Common Prayer (Jenny Geddes ed.), IS.
48, 94, 95, 115, 153, 368.
Books of Hours, 237, 350.
Borel's Bibliotheca Chemica, 207.
Bornet's latro Chymicus, 205.
Borrichius, O., alchemical works, 212.
Sorrow's Luke's Gospel in Gipsy lang. , 200.
Boston, early printing at, 289.
Boswell, Sir Alex., 153, 242, 281, 3S5.
Botany, books on, 163, 347.
Bouton, E., Lejeuue, 182.
Bovet's Pandsemonium, 216, 366-7.
Boyce, W., 1S5 ; Catheral music, 186.
Boyd, Mr. J., 102.
Boyd, Robert, of Troehrig, 196, 251.
INDEX.
435
Boyd, Rev. Zachary, 26; auto., 19<5; sketch of,
250-1 ; meeting with Cromwell, 361 ; Last Battell
of the Soule, 1628 issue, 26-7, 195, 202, 204, 250-3,
342-3, 361, 1629 issue, 26-7, 232, 283, 342-3, 425 ;
Cleare Form of Catechising, 26, 283-4 ; Four
Letters of Comfort, 26, 361 ; Panegyric to
Charles I., 195, 425 ; Zion's Flowers, 251 ; Two
Communion Sermons, 361.
Brady's Varieties of Literature, 397.
Brand's Orkney, 379, 402.
Brandt's Ship of Fools, 350, 412.
Brash and Reid's poetry, 143, 225, 249, 277, 343.
Brathwaite's works, 334, 357.
Bray, Mrs., Handel, 181.
Brendel, F., 180.
British Museum, 24, 125, 129, 162, 291, 360, 385.
British theatre, 311.
Britten's Architectural Antiquities, 97.
Broadsides, collections of, 28, 233, 2S2-3, 289.
Brockett, J. T., 338.
Brodie, Will., dir. Stir. Liby., 71.
Brome's Covent Garden Drollery, 423.
Bromhall's Treatise of Spectres, 216.
Brown, Alex., dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44.
Brown, Hugh, Glas. printer, 122, 148 ; mis-spells
his name, 274-5.
Brown, James D., assist. Mit. Liby., 113.
Brown, William, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
Brown, Wm., psalm tunes, 187.
Brown's History of Glas., 428.
Browning, Robert, works, 301, 310, 358.
Braces and the Comyns, 109, 226, 242, 265, 428.
Bruce, Michael, poems, 277, 340.
Bruce, Michael, sermons, 374.
Bruce, life and acts of, by Barbour and others,
22, 202, 204, 222, 242, 269, 275, 358, 367, 426.
Brulliot's monogrammes, 254.
Brunschwig on distillation, 213.
Bryce, A. S., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Bryce, John, Glas. printer, 148.
Bryce, J. D., oldest mem. on roll of Stir. Liby. at
1885, 75.
Bryce & Paterson, Glas. printers, 148.
Bryskett, L., Mourning Muse, 415.
Bryson, Robt., Edin. printer, 407.
Bucaniers, history of the, 386.
Buchan, Peter, chap-books, ballads, etc., 225, 231,
265, 278, 338, 340, 360.
Buchan's St. Kilda, 279.
Buchanan, George, various works, 108, 154, 203,
238, 245, 278, 368.
Buchanan, George, dir. Stir. Liby., 82.
Buchanan, James, Lanark carrier, murdered, 384.
Buchanan, John, 280, 284.
Buchanan, Robert, dir. Stir. Liby., 71.
Buchanan's Family of Buchanan, 226, 279-80.
Buckhurst, Lord, 412.
Buckle, nnte of regarding Marion Laird, 375.
Buncle, Thomas, printer and publisher, Ar-
broath, 241.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 23S, 386.
Buoni Proverbii Italiana, 392.
Burckhardt's Arabic Proverbs, 391.
Burger's Leonara, Blake, 292.
Burgh Records Society's publications, 154, 229,
243, 311.
Burghs of Scotland, taxation, 1665, MS., 84.
Burke and Hare, trial, 233, 385.
Burke's Spanish Salt, 395.
Burley"s De Vitae Philosophorum, 197.
Burness, John, relative of Burns the poet, 369-70.
Burnet's Blessedness of the Dead, 270.
Burney, C., 180.
Burns, Rev. Mr., dir. Stir. Liby., 79.
Burns, Robert, 375 ; first edition of his poems,
22, 225-6, 427 ; other editions of his works, 23,
121, 203, 242, 264-5, 277, 300, 310, 339-40, 358,
369, 427 ; collection at Mitchell Library, 22,
124-5, 134-6; facsimile of Cottar's Saturday
Night, 85 ; Letters to Clarinda, 277, 300, 369 ;
influence of on Scottish song, 241 ; Address to
the Deil, 277 ; collection of Burnsiana formed
by J. Gould, 128 ; Burnsiana, 23, 340, 358 ; his
contemporaries. 23, 223, 242, 277, 369 ; centen-
ary meetings, 128 ; autograph, 260 ; his father's
handwriting, 128; unpublished poem by, 260;
Maxwell's attack, 383.
Eurns's Rome, 313.
Burton, J. H., works, 154, 257, 266, 303, 384.
Burton, Richard, 378.
Busby, T., ISO.
Butler, C., Principles of Music, 182.
Butler's Hudibras, various editions, 239, 326.
Byrd, W., Psalmes, 184 ; Songs of Sundrie Natures,
189, 190.
Byron, Lord, poems, Newark, 1807, 20, 296, 424 ;
Hours of Idleness, 20, 273, 296, 336 ; Lines on
Hoppner, 297 ; English Bards, etc., 273, 296-7 ;
editions of his other works and collected edi-
tions, 240, 297, 310, 358, 424 ; Byroniana, 240.
Cabbala, Books on, 215.
Csesar, Tonson's ed., 2/i7.
Caffi, F.,180.
Gainer's Proverbes et Aphorismes, 390.
Callimachus, hymns of, Froben, 218.
Calmet sur les Apparitions, 216.
Calvin's Commentaries and other works, 110, 407- S.
Calvisius, S., Melopoeia, 1>2.
Cambuskenneth, cartulary of, 428.
Camden's Remaines concerning Britain, 395.
Camden Society publications, 319.
Cameron, A , Glas. printer, 148.
Cameron, John, works, 202.
Cameron, Richard, sermons, 374.
Cameronians, the, 375.
Camoens' Rimas, 93 ; Lusiad, 357.
Campanella, 215.
Campbell, John, of Clathic, dir. Stir. Liby., 43.
Campbell, Thomas, works, 242, 277, 295, 300, 368.
Canon Law, treatise on, SIS., 83-4.
Capital and Labour, books on, 161.
Cardan, Jerome, works, 215.
Cardonnel's Numismata Scotite, 15S, 326 ; Anti-
quities, 326, 341.
Carew's poems, 357.
Carey, H., Musical Century, 190.
Cargill, Donald, 374.
Carleton's Thankfull Remembrance, 409-10.
Carlyle,Alex., connection with Home's" Douglas,"
224, 369.
Carlyle, Thos., auto., 128, 136, 362 ; works, 303.
Carmichael, A., Glas. printer, 122, 148.
Carmichael, Jas., Carminium Proverbial urn,
391.
Carmichael & Millar, Glas. printers, 14S.
Caroline, Queen, trial of, 345.
Carpani, G., Haydn, 181 ; Rossini, 182.
^arrick, J. D., Sma' Weftianae, 140.
Carson's pieces concerning Scot., 371-2.
Dasaubon on spirits and witches, 216.
3ase, Dr. J., Angelical Guide, 215.
Cassiodorus, Historia Ecclesiastica (1472), 197.
^astalionis, jEnigmata, 388.
astil-Blaze, F. H., 180.
'atalogues, first of Stirling's Liby., 45, 46-61; form
adopted in Mitchell Liby., 116, 117.
Catechisms, 18, 204, 221, 270.
"iatel, C. S., 184.
!ato, D., Disticha, 390-1.
Caulfield's portraits, 257.
Caw's Poetical Museum, 241, 338, 372, 426.
Caxton, 198, 410. 411, 416, 423, 430.
Celsus, works, 218.
Cervantes, Don Quixote, 254, 267, 431.
ihallenger scientific expedition, 163.
Chalmers' Caledonia, 243, 311, 326, 341, 361, 426.
Chalmers, Richard, bequest to Mit. Liby., 121-2.
436
INDEX.
Chalmers, Rev. Dr. T., dir. Stir. Liby., SO, pam-
phlet on Leslie controversy, 280-1 .
Chambers Brothers, various works and publica-
tions of, 229, 24-J, -JCo, 2S1, 3~-2, 386.
Chameleon, 287.
Chap-books, collections of, 28, 220-1, 231, 253, 282,
344, 3(32, 3*5.
Chapman, George, 352, 431.
Chapman, Robert, Glas. printer and publisher,
141, 14$, 203 ; Picture of Glas.. 285, 379.
Chapman & Duncan, Glas. printers, 148, M43.
Charles I., works on, 28, 319, 362.
Charles, Prince, the young Pretender, books re-
lating to, 370-7 ; his'journal, 376-7.
Charmer, The, 241, 338.
Chatsworth Library, catalogue, 123.
Chatterton's works, 240.
Chaucer's works, early editions, 92, 334, 350, 411.
Chemistry, books on,'l64, 194, 206-13.
Chepman & Myllar, first printers in Scot., 339.
Cherry, John, poems, 371.
Cherubini, M., 181, 184, 191.
Chesterfield's Maxims, 383.
Chevi*, E., 184.
Chevreul on chemistry, 207.
Child's ballads, 264, 338.
Child, W., Psalms, 184.
Children, books for, list of, 288.
Chipp, E. T., 185.
Chiromancy, books on, 215.
Chiswick press poets, 240.
Choice songs and ayres, 190.
Chladni, E., 184.
Cholera epidemic, 1832-33, statistics relating to,
in Glas., MS., 95.
Chopin, F., 181.
Chorley, H. F., 180.
Choron and Fayolle, 181, 184.
Chouquet, G., 180.
Christ's Kirk on the Green, 367.
Christian, duty of a, 410.
Chrysostom's sermons, 87.
Chrystal, Robert, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Churchyard's Chippes, and other works, 356.
Cicero's works (1492, 1496), 81 ; (1529), 115 ;
Foulis, 110, 150.
Cities, famous, works on, 313.
Clans, feuds and conflicts, 378.
Clarindd, see Burns.
Clark, George \V., secy, and dir. Stir. Liby., 81, 82.
Clark, Rev. John, Song of Solomon in metre, 370.
Clark, R., random rhymes, 383.
Clark, Wm., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Classical writers, works of, SO, 151, 218, 321, 431-2 ;
printed by Brothers Foulis, 149.
Classification of the books in the libraries, 16-17.
Classification of books in Stir. Liby., 77 ; in Mit.
Liby., 116.
Cleland's works on Glas., 286, 326, 379 ; map of
Glas., 285.
Clelaud, Wm., poems, 368.
Cllment, F., 180 ; Musique Religieuce, Diction-
naire Lyrique, 181.
Cleveland's works, 357.
Clio and Euterpe, 190.
Cloud of Witnesses, 270, 374.
Clyde, dispute concerning banks of, 380.
Co'bbett's Political Register, 161.
Cochrane, Rev. Matthew, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Cochrane correspondence, MS. letters, 341.
Cockey, Wm., secy. Stir. Liby., 71, 81.
Cocleus, Tetrachordum, 182.
Codrington, R., 356.
Coleman's Snow Fields, 313.
Coleridge's, S. T., works, 21, 301, 326, 358.
Collier s reprints, and original works, 19, 20, 258,
300, 310, 335, 360, 425.
Collins, John, Spanish proverbs, 394.
Collins, Sir Wm., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103, 174.
Colquhoun, Bailie, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Colquhoun, James, dir. of Stir. Liby., 83 ; mem.
of Mit. Liby., 174.
Colvil's Whigg's Supplication, 203, 367.
Comes Anioris, 190.
Comet, steamer, loss of, 379.
Commerce, books on, 161.
Commons, House, MS. jnl. of, 85.
Commonwealth, works on the, 362.
Complaynt of Scotland, 203, 223, 265, 358, 427.
Couchology, works on, 346-7.
Confession of Faith, 18, 153, 237, 269, 407.
Conington's Analysis (chemistry), 213.
Connal, Michael, vice-pres. and dir. Stir. Liby.,
80, 81. 82 ; at opening Mit. Liby., 118.
Constable, David, 338.
Cookery, books on, 164.
Cook's Beautiful Seaweeds, 163.
Cooper, catalogue, chemistry, 207.
Corale Constantmi, 186.
Cordiner's Antiquities of Scot., 158.
Corelli, A., Concertos, 192.
Costa, Sir M., 185.
Councillors in their cups, 383.
Couperin, P., 192.
Court of Session Garland, 242, 276, 427.
Cousse maker, C., 180.
Covenanters, posters, broadsides, etc. on, 229,
289 ; books, 364, 373-4 ; sermons by, 374.
Cowan, Dr., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Cowper's works, 35S.
Craigie. Bailie, dir. Stir. Liby., 79.
Cramer, C. F., Mozart, 182.
Crapelet's proverbes, 394.
Crawford, Arch., Paisley publisher, 384.
Crawford, Thomas, Glas. printer, 148.
Crawford, W., Fates of Alceus, 383.
Crawford's Renfrewshire, 341, 379.
Crawturd's Peerage, 156.
Crawshaw's Steps to the Temple, 335.
Creech, John, publisher of Burns' poems, 226 ;
letters on Edin., 378.
Creighton, Capt. John, memoirs of, 376.
Crichton, The Admirable, 203.
Crombie's Modern Athenians, 266, 400.
Cromwell and Z. Boyd, 361.
Crossley, James, 411.
Crotch, W., 184, 185.
Cruikshank, George, works illustrated by, 29,
254, 257, 267, 295, 345, 430.
Crusades, works on, 319.
Cuckoo, Ode to, 340.
Culloden, Battle of, account of, 377.
Cumberland's British Drama, 336.
Cumberland, Duke of, journey of the army of,
377.
Gumming, Rev. John, lib. of Stir. Liby., 64-5,
86, 99.
dimming, Thomas, poems, 383.
Gumming, Thomas, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
CunlilT, R. S., dir. and tieas. of Stir. Liby., 71,81.
Cunningham's Songs of Scot., 265; with auto.,
277 ; works, 360.
Cunningham's Nell Gwyn, 253, 335.
Cunningham, J. M., dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Curll's Magick, etc., 367.
Curwen, John, 184.
Cusins, W. G., 185.
Czeruy, C., 184.
Dalgarno, G., Ars Siguorum, 202.
Dalyell, J. G., works, 180, 229, 281, 358, 426.
Dancing master, The (1716), 348.
Dauiell, Samuel, works, 334, 357, 419.
Dante's Divina Commedia (1481), 89-90, other
eds., 311.
Darien Expedition, tracts on, 201, 376 ; A. Shields
at, 373.
Darwin, Chas., works, 347.
INDEX.
437
Davenant, Sir W., works, 357, 423.
David, Felicien, 181.
Davies, Sir John, works, 357.
Davisson's Oblatio Salis, and other works, -205.
Davison's Poetical Rapsodie, 334.
Day, John, 184.
Dearie, E., 185.
Decoration, books on, 161.
Dee, D., Monas Hieroglyphica, 211 ; on Spirits,
210.
Defoe's novels, 267; Robinson Crusoe, 30, 302,
386, 431 ; Scottish Church history, 151 ; works
on witchcraft, 366 ; Caledonia, 371.
Dekker's works, 357, 417.
Deliciae musicae, 190.
Delrio, Disquisitiones, 108, 210.
Demonology. books on, 215-16, 410.
Demosthenes, orations, 431.
Deuhara's antiquarian tracts, 344-5.
Denholm's Glas., 285, 428.
Denne-Baron, D., Cherubini, 181.
Design, books on, 161.
Deuchar, Alex., British Crests, 234.
Deuchar, David, etchings, 234, 295.
D'Urfey, T., works, 357.
Dibdin, H. E., 188.
Dibdin, T. F., works, 167, 234, 257, 258, 267, 304,
403, 432.
Dickens, C., works, first and other editions, 30,
257, 267, 289, 302, 321, 347, 403 ; auto., 136, 201 ;
letters, 304.
Dickson, Rev. David, explanation of Hebrews,
202, 237-8, other works, 115, 151, 370.
Directories. See Glasgow.
Disraeli, B., 291 ; novels, 267 ; Isaac, 291.
Distillation, books on, 213.
Dodsley's Old Plays, 264, 311.
Doune, J., works, 357, 420-1.
Dort, council of, articles of agreement, MS., a4.
Douglas, Gawain, trans, of Homer, 351-2, 403.
Douglas and Angus, Hume's house of, 110, 156,
226, 265, 376, 401, 428.
Douglas, a play. See Home.
Dowland, J., Micrologus, 182.
Doyle, Rich., artist, 295.
Dramatic works, collections of, 19, 164, 221-2,
239, 264, 300, 387.
Drayton, Michael, poems, etc., 334-5, 357, 418.
Drebbel's De Quinta Essentia, MS. 207.
Drummond of Hawthornden, poems, 340, 425 ;
History of Scot., 400.
Dmmmond's Scottish weapons, 158, 228, 243, 400 ;
Edinburgh, 228, 400 ; monuments of lona, 228-9,
400.
Du Cange's Glossarium, etc., 321.
Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, 72, 9C ; St.
Paul, 429.
Dufresnoy's Traite sur les Apparitions, etc., 21ii.
Dumas, Alex., pere, 304.
Dun, Peter, Up and Down in the Lennox, 279.
Dunbar's poems, 242, 278, 359.
Duncan, A., choir, 187.
Duncan, A., of Lundie, auto., 275.
Duncan, David, Glas. printer, 148.
Duncan, James, Glas. printer, 148.
Duncan, J. <fe A., Glas. printers, 148.
Duncan, J. <fe W., Glas. printers, 122, 148.
Duncan, R. & T., Glae. printers, 148.
Duncan, T., Glas. printer, 369.
Duncan, W., Glas. printer, 126, 148, 203.
Duncan, William, jun., Glas. printer, 148.
Duncan & Co., Glas. printers, 148.
Dundrennan, Lord, 289, 310.
Dundee, Viscount, memoirs of, 374.
Dunlop, Alex. , dir. Stir. Liby, 43.
Dunlop, A., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Dunlop's Confessions of Faith, etc. , 221, 263.
Dunn, William, sermon to Synod of Glas., 2S6.
Duns Scotus. See Scotus, John Duns.
Dupius, T. S., Cathedral music, 186.
Duplessis, Bibliographic Paromiologique, 396
quotations from, 388-9 ; othjr works, 394.
Durham's Clavis Cantici, 204.
Dutch literature, '200.
Dykes, Select English Proverbs, 396.
Early English Text Society, 20, 111, 121, 167, 335,
361.
Ecclesiastical history, works on, 19, 159-60, 306-10.
Edgcumbe, Lord Mount-, ISO.
Edinburgh, Acts of the Council for suppressing
vice, 375.
Edinburgh Courant, 158.
Edinburgh Magazine, Oct., 1786, contains earliest
notice of the poems of Burns, 135.
Edin borough, merchants and trades of, an accompt
of the debate betwixt, MS., 84.
Edinburgh Review, 322 ; and Byron, 296, 336.
Edinburgh Theatre, usefulness of, etc., 225.
Edinburgh, a poem. 427.
Edmond, J. P., account of Aberdeen printers, 200
Edmonstone, family of, 226, 280-1.
Education, books on, 161.
Edwards, H., Sutherland, 180; Rossini, 182.
Egenolphus, Anthologica Gnomica, 390.
Egypt, Description de 1', 160.
Electricity, books on, 163.
Eliot, George, works, 303, 321.
Elizabeth, Queen, character of, by De Vega, 93
portraits of, 254-5, 432.
Ellerton, J. L., 185.
Elphinstone, Geo., and his daut. Beatrice, 32.
Encyclopedias, 166-7.
Engel, Carl, 180.
Engineering, books on, 120, 164.
England and Scotland in 1704, 379.
England's Eliza, 355.
Erard, S. de., 181.
Erasmus, Adagiorum, 391 ; Praise of Folie, 432.
Escudier, 181.
Essex, witches of, 216.
Etchings, collection of, 291-5.
Euing, William, 176, 192 ; dons, to Stir. Liby., 72,
SO, 81,83, 91, 96; vice-pres. of Stir. Liby., 80;
life-mem, of Stir. Liby., 81 ; bequeathes musical
liby., to Anderson's College, 111, 176; duplicates
in his don. to University acquired by Mit. Libv.,
111.
Euing Musical Library, 29, 111, 176-193.
Euripides, Orestes, Foulis, 150 ; tragedies, Aldus,
218.
Eutropius, Roman Chronicle, 431.
Evax, de Gemmis, 214.
Everard, Dr., 215.
Exhibition, London, 1851, etc., works on, 162.
Faber, H., Musicam Praticam, 183.
Faber, X., Melodise Prudentianae, 190.
Fabian's Cronycle (1533), 92.
Fabricius, Bibliotheca Grseca, 115.
Facciolati Lexicon, 321.
Fairbaim's Ancient Architecture in Glas., 203
232, 285, 303, 382.
Fairy tales, 347.
Faithful, Emily, welcome to the Princess of Wales,
240.
Falsing of Dooms, Hill, 230.
Family history, Scottish, 221, 226, 242, 265, 342,
42S.
Family library, 167.
Farley's works, 358, 422.
Fathers. See Maxima Bibliotheca.
Faust, printer, 88.
Fea, J., State of Orkney Isles, 402.
Fersusson, Rev. D., Scots Proverbs, 386, 397-8.
Ferguson, John, dir. and sec. Stir. Liby , .si. N:.
Ferguson, Prof. John, liby. of, 18, 19,21, V 27, 28, "9,
30, 31, 193-219, 365.
438
INDEX.
Ferguson, E., poems, 223, 277, 367-8.
Ferguson, Walter, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Ferrariensis, Petrus, Margarita Preciosa, 210.
Fetis, F. J., 180 ; biographic, Erard, Haydu, 181 ;
Paganini, Tradivarius. 182, 184.
Fevre's Destruction of Troy, 424.
Fiction, works of, 30, 120, 123, 166, 257, 267, 320-1,
332, 347, 362, 431.
Fielding's Select Proverbs, 389.
Fifteenth century printing, 18, 86-91, 195, 196-8,
350-8.
Figuer on Chemistry, 207.
Findlay, Robert, dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44.
Fine Art. See Art.
Fink, G. W., 184.
Finlay's Hellenic Kingdom, MS., and other works,
85.
Finlay and M'Lachlan, Precentor, 187.
Finlayson, Win., Scottish rhymes, 383.
Fisher, James, poems. 369.
Fishes, books on, 29, 346.
Fitzgerald, Edward, 302.
Flagellum Maleficorum, 215.
Flatman's, Thomas, 424.
Flaxman, letter and poems to, by Blake, 292.
Fleming:, Dr. Jos., dir. Stir. Liby., 71, 80, 342.
Fleming, W , v. Glasgow Corporation, 27, 231-32.
Fletcher, Phineas, Purple Island, etc., 419-20.
Florilegium, Ethico-politicum, 3SS-9.
Fludd's works, 211, 214.
Forbes, J., cantus, songs, etc., 190, 273.
Forbes, Patrick, Eubulus, 202.
Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, 97.
Ford's Parissimus, 423.
Fordun's Scotichronicon, 154.
Foreign literature, 200.
Forkel, J. N., 180; Bibliothek and Bach, 181.
Foulis, R. & A., Glas. printers : examples of
their printing and notes on their lives, 29, 96,
110, 115, 141, 148-60, 196, 203, 218, 275, 303, 343,
372, 378, 386.
Foulis, Andrew, jun., Glas. printer, 150.
Fouque's Undine, illust. by Thackeray, 302.
France, works on, 312.
France's Count of Pembroke's Yuy-church. etc.,
356.
Francis, Dauphin of France, helmet and horn
belonging to, 226 ; marriage with Marie Stuart,
236, 244-5.
Frankland's lecture notes, chemistry, 213.
Franklin's Way to Health, 398.
Fraser's, Dr. Wm., family histories, 23, 108, 156,
242, 342, 399, 428.
Frasers's second sight, 366.
Fraunce's Lawier's Logicke, 431.
Freeling, Sir Francis, 416.
Freemasons, songs to be sung by, 371.
Freher's portraits, 206.
French on distillation, 214.
French literature, 200.
French and Scots alliance, 378.
Frescohaldi, G., 192.
Fresenius' chemistry, first English eds., 213.
Fuch's Repertorium, 207.
Fuller's Worthies, 396 ; Good Thoughts, 381.
Fuller Worthies' liby., 326.
Fuller, Thomas, Gnomonologia, 396.
Fux, J. J., 184.
Fyfe, Arch., poems, 383.
Gaelic Bible, psalms, confession of faith, 270.
Gafurius Musicse Disipline, 183; Angelicum, 183;
Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum, 183 ;
Theorica Musice, 183; Pratica Musice, 183.
Gager and Rainoldes on stage-plays, 416.
Galbraith, Joseph, Glas. printer, 148.
Galilei, V., II Fromino, 183.
Galloway, Robert, poems, 371.
Gaufridy,' Louis, confession of, 216.
Gardyne, Alex., don. of Scottish poetry to Mit
Liby., 127, 137.
Garlandia, Joannes de, alchemical works, 209.
Garth, J., 185.
Garvie, W. B., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Gascoigne's works, 356, 412.
Gasperini, A., Wanner, 182.
Gauntlett, H. J., 188.
Gayle's Cases of Conscience, 271 , 366.
Geber, chemical works, 206, 209, 212.
Geddes, Jenny, and the Laud Prayer-book, 18, 48,
94, 95, 115, 153, 368, 408.
Geddie, Emilia, choice sentences of, 375.
Geikie's etchings, 346.
Gell, Sir W., Rome, Pompeiana, 313.
Gellius, Aulus, works, 218.
Genealogy. See family history.
Geographia Scotiae, 379.
Geology, books on, 163, 346-7.
George IV., 345.
Gerber, E. L., Lexikon der Tonktlnstler, 181.
German literature, 200.
Germanbergius, 391.
Gerson, John, tracts, 198.
Gesner, De Remediis Secretis, 213-14.
Gesenius, Thesaurus Hebraese, etc., 319.
Gesta Romanorum, 204, 386.
Ghost haunting Conny Catchers, 418.
Gibbon, Edward, 319.
Gibbons, O., 190.
Gibson, James, Burns Library, secured for the
Mit. Lihy., 124-5, 135.
Gibson's History of Glasgow, 232-33, 285, 428.
Gilbert, W. B., 185.
Gilchrist, Arch., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
Gilchrist's Scottish songs, etc., 427.
Gillies, James, Glas. printer, 148.
Gilmour, David, works, 384.
Gilmour, R. , Psalm-singers' assistant, 188.
Ginguene, Piccinni, 182.
Giotto's Frescoes, 325.
Gipsies, books on, 31, 200.
Gird wood & Co., 283.
Gladsmuir, battle of, 377.
Glanvil's De Proprietatibus Rerum, 90, 197.
Glanville's Sadduceeism, etc., 216, 366, 410.
Glasgow, books relating to in Stir. Liby. , 26, 95-6 ;
in Mit. Liby., 25, 111, 117, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126,
138-41, 146 ; in Ferguson liny., 195, 203 ; in
Gray liby., 231-3 ; in Guild liby., 249 ; in Hill
liby., 266, in Macdonald liby., 2S2 ; in Mac-
george liby., 303; in M'Grigor liby., 312; in
Mathieson liby., 326-31 ; in Murdoch liby.,
343-4; in Russell liby., 361-2; in Shields liby.,
364, 370-1, 379, 380, 381, 282, 384 ; in Young liby.,
428 ; first printing in the city, 26, 146-7, 203,
284 ; early printing, 26, 115, 122, 126, 146-51, 203,
342-3, 386, 426 ; first Greek book printed in, 150 ;
illiterate Glas. printer, 274 ; periodicals, 27,
95-6, 120, 126, 127, 141-4, 145, 286-7, 312, 327-9,
343, 380 ; Journal, 95-6 ; Mercury, 145, 380 ;
Looking-Glass, 303, 328, 362 ; Sentinel. 385 ;
first history, 27, 31, 59, 95, 140, 266, 282, 327, 361,
379, 428 ; directories, 27, 95, 249, 250, 284, 285,
428-9 ; maps and plans, 27, 232, 285 ; Act of
Synod for reviving piety, 375 ; Wynd Church
case, 27, 329-31 ; General Assembly at in 1088,
84 ; psalm-books, 187 ; Dunn's sermon to Synod,
286 ; sermons, 343 ; biographies of city worthies,
141 ; Glas. past and present, 8,2, 249 ; clubs, 140 ;
learned societies, 120, 197, 211, 217, 334, 347 ;
burgh records, 147 ; old country houses, 249,
327, 428; memorabilia, 266, 282, 303, 327. 362,
428 ; views of, 27, 380-1 ; portraits, 303 ; Flem-
ing v. Magistrates, 27, 231-2 ; trials, 146 ; first
Police Act, 286 ; Town Council minutes, 327 ;
banks of Clyde dispute, 380 ; musicians, 179 ;
City Hall programmes, 109, 146 ; physicians and
surgeons, 204 ; town's hospital, 233, 327, 379 ;
INDEX.
439
Hutchesons' Hospital, 187, 323-4, 400; Glas.
Public Library, 73 ; population in 1791, 34 ; uni-
versity, 111, 115, 120, 148, 203, 233, 428; Glas-
gow Homer, 285 ; broadsides, 283 ; University
Calendar, 312 ; University Album, 343 ; alman-
acs, 312 ; aerial voyage from, 384 ; poets, 370-1 ;
poems on, 382.
Glareanus, H., Dodekachordon, 183.
Glen, Win., MS. songs, 278.
Glencoe, massacre of, 378.
Glover, Wm., 185.
God Save the Queen, air of, 273.
Godfrey of Bulloigne, 416.
Godwin, Mary W., stories, 292.
Goethe's works, 121, 200, 311 ; Faust, '-'04.
Gohory, Jacques, 210.
Goldfinch, The, 241.
Goldsmith, O., 1st eds. of his works, 302.
Gologrus and Gawane, 338-9.
Gonzenbach, Rouman Psalms, 189.
Googe, B., 355, 409.
Gordon, Dr., partner of Dr. Stirling, 32.
Gordon, Jane, Duchess, letters, 262.
Gordon's Family of Gordon, 280, 376.
Gordon's Itinerarium, 95, 400, 427.
Gordon's Pharmaco-Pinax, 205.
Gordon's Bruce, 367.
Gotham in Alarm, etc., 379.
Gould collection on the centenary of Bums, 128,
13-5.
Gould, Robert, poems, 424.
Govan, Donald, Glas. printer, 122, 148.
Gower's Confessio Amantis, 355, 411.
Gowrie conspiracy, 279.
Grafton's Chronicle at Large, 429.
Grahame, Arch.,dir. Stir. Liby., 43. 44.
Graham, Dougal, "Skellat Bellman," chap-books,
etc., 22, 129, 223, 231, 344, 387.
Graham's inaugural dissertation, 213.
Grahame's Perthshire, 379.
Grahame's Sabbath, 277, 310.
Graham, John, of Killern, 280.
Graham, Robert, mem. com. Mit. Liby., ]74.
Grammont's memoirs, 387.
Grant, James, wonderful state of, 365.
Grass, Rouman Psalms, 189.
Graun, C. H., 185.
Gray, Rev. Alex., lib. of Stir. Liby., 64, 99.
Gray's Genera of Birds, 163.
Gray, Cap. C., MS. letters, 278.
Gray, David, poems, 310.
Gray, George, liby. of, 219-234.
Gray, James, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Gray's Birds of West of Scot., 346.
Gray's Elegy, 1st ed., 300.
Greek, first Greek book printed in Glas., 150.
Green, Capt., trial of, 384.
Greene, Robert, works, 199, 356, 357, 418.
Gregory's Highlands, 4-28.
GnStry, A. E. M., 181, 191.
Grierson, Henry, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Grillandus, P., 216.
Grosart's Chertsey Worthies' Library, Fuller
Worthies' Library, Huth Library, 167.
Grose's antiquities of Scot., etc., 28, 95, 111, 158.
201, 229, 243, 303, 311, 341 ; Provincial glossary,
396-7.
Grub's orations, 403.
Grynus, Simon, editor of Livy (1531), t'2.
Guerard's Dictionnaire Enclyclopedique d' Anec-
dotes, 400.
Guidius de Gemmis, 214.
Guisti, Raecolta di Proverbi Toscani, 394.
Guild, J. Wyllie, at opening of Mit. Liby., 118 ;
don. to Mit. Liby, 122, 126, 250 ; promotion
of subscription to buy Gould's Burnsiaua, 128 ;
liby. of, 235-262.
Gulliver's Travels, first ed., 30, 166.
Gusebius, Chronicon of, 92.
Gutenberg, John, 88.
Guzzlemus, Prof. Julianus, 91.
Hakluyt's Voyages, first ed., 28, 429.
Bale's Witches and Witchcraft, 271.
Hatevy, J. F., 181 ; Onslow, 182.
Hall, Dr. Alfred, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Hall, Bishop, characters, 387.
Hall's Funebria Florae, 347, 357.
Hall, John, Glas. printer, 148.
Halliwell, James O., ed. of Shakespeare, and
other works, 19, 111, 122, 233, 336, 360, 397
don. to Stir. Liby., 83.
Hamerton, P. G., works, 29, 234, 254, 266, 295,
325, 346, 362.
Hamilton, Duke of, letter to Dr. Strang, 328.
Hamilton, Gilbert, dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44.
Hamilton's life of Wallace, 241-2, 367.
Hamilton of Bangour, poems, 367.
Handel, G. F., 181, 185, 191, 192,.
Hannay, P., Nightingale, etc., 353.
Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, 161.
Harbert's Prophesie of Cadwallader, 417.
Harding's Chronicle, 355.
Harleian Miscellany, 279.
Harp of Renfrewshire, 384.
Harmonia Sacra, 186.
Harp of Scotia, 241.
Harphius, H., Theologia Mistica, 215.
Harrington, Sir John, works, 357, 415.
Harriston's poems, 371.
Hart, Andro, psalter belonging to, 18, 407 ; print-
ing by, 187, 203, 205, 252, 263, 406, 425.
Hartshorne's metrical tales, 337.
Harvey, Gabriel, 356, 357, 416, 418.
Harvey's Bruce, 367.
Harvie and the banks of the Clyde, 380.
Haslewood's ed. of Painter's Palace of Pleasure,
166, 335, 430 ; Mirror for Magistrates, 413.
Hasse, J. A., 185.
Hastie, Alex., M.P., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Hastings, Warren, don. to Stir. Liby., CM.
Hatoulet's Proverbes Bearnais, 394.
Havergal, W. H., 188.
Hawkins, Sir John, History of Music, 162, 180.
Haydn, F. J., 181, 192.
Hayley's works illust. by Blake, 2'.'2.
Hazlitt's English Proverbs, 397 ; note on Painter's
Palace of Pleasure, 335 ; on English Poesie,
414 ; on Stanley's poems, 423 ; other references,
351, 415.
Health, books on, 117, 146, 164.
Heat, books on, 163.
Hedderwick, James, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Hegat, William, Gallia Victrix, 204.
Heguet, G., Boieldieu, 181.
Hellborn, Schubert, 182.
Helmholtz, 162, 184.
Helmout, Van, works, 215.
Helps, Sir Arthur, works, 322.
Henderson, A. & J., Glas. printers, 148.
Henderson's Rebellion (1745-6), 377.
Henderson's Latin Proverbs, 391.
Henderson's Scottish Proverbs, 266, 344, 398, 429.
Hendrie, Dr. George, dir. Stir. Liby., SO.
Henry the Minstrel's Wallace, 22, 202, 204, 222,
242, 269, 275, 343, 359, 367, 426.
Henryson's poems, 202, 242, 359.
Hepburn, A., Glas. printer, 122, 148.
Herald to the Trades' Advocate, 329.
Heraldry, MS. work on, 85-6.
Heraldry, Scottish, books on, 158, 228.
Herbert's Temple, 354.
Herd's Scottish Songs, etc., 137, 223, 241, 265,
338. 372, 426.
Heriot's Hospital, Edin. , Statutes of, 1627, MS. , S4.
Herrick's Hesperides, 387, 422.
Heydon, John, works, 214.
Heywood's works, 355, 357-8, 412.
440
INDEX.
Higden's Polychrunycou, 429.
Higgins, J., 413.
Hiles, H., 185.
Hill, G. W., liby. of, 263-268.
Hill, W. H., Hutchesons' Hospital, 323-4, 400;
liby., 324.
Hill's etchings in Flanders, 324.
Hiller, F., 185.
Hiller, J. A., 184.
Hilton, J., Catch that catch can, 11K).
Hind let loose, 373.
Hislop's Proverbs of Scot., 398.
Historical MS. commission, report, 404.
History, Books on, 28, 110, 117, 123, 221, 242-3,
253, 266, 319, 332, 361, 362, 363-4, 427-30.
Hocus Focus, 420.
Hog, Thomas, life of, 374.
Hogarth, George, ISO.
Hogarth's works, 97, 234, 239.
Hogg. James, works, 277, 303, 358.
Holmshed's Chronicle, early eds., 23, 154, 361, 427.
Holland, Family tour to South, 312.
Hollandus" Testamentum, MS., 207.
Holmes, E., Mozart, 182.
Holy Land, works on, 28, 117, 160, 307, 313-19.
Holy Sepulchre, pamphlets on, 322.
Home's Douglas and criticisms on, 223-5, 368-9.
Homer's works, trans, by Chapman, 30, 352, 431 ;
printed by Aldus, 218.
Hone, Win., various works, 322, 345.
Honorius, Lucidarius (1499), 198.
Hood's comic annual, 346 ; other works, 432.
Hook, Theodore, 396.
Hope's Scot's fencing master, 289.
Hopkins, Mat., discovery of witches, 216.
Hopkins, E. J., 188.
Hopkirk, Mr., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Hoppner, J. W. R., lines on, by Byron, 297.
Horace, satires. Drant, 355.
Hornbook, Doctor, 128, 129, 136.
Horsley, C. E., Gideon, 185.
Horst's Zauber-Bibliothek, 217.
Hotten, J. C , 336.
Houhraken's portraits, 162, 206, 295.
Howell's Lexicon Tetraglotton, 396.
Howell's State Trials, 320.
Howie's Scots Worthies, 157.
Hudson, Jefferie, dwarf, 422.
Hugo, Herman, 421.
Hullah, John, 16-2, 180, 184 ; Concerted music, 186.
Hume, D., History of England, Bowyer'sed., 96,
121 ; Bond for servant's wages, 260,
Hume's House of Douglas and Angus, 110, 156,
226. 265, 376, 401, 428.
Humphrey's Printing, 267.
Hunnis, Wm., Seven Sobs, 273, 354; Hyve Fvll
of Hunnye, 354.
Hunt, Leigh. Amyntas, 336.
Hunterian Society publications, 170,229, 311, 333,
335, 341, 361.
Hurlebusch, Psalmen, 189.
Hutcheson, Charles, Glas. printer, 148.
Hutcheson, Prof. Francis, 149.
Hutehesons' Hospital, founders of, 323 ; music
teacher at, 187 ; history of, 323-4, 400.
Huth, Mr., 354 ; catalogue, 258.
Icelandic literature, 28, 200.
luibert, J., Paganini, 182.
Imperialis, portraits, 206.
Incunabula. See Fifteenth-century printing.
India, works on, 125. 160.
Ingram, John, sub-lib. Mit. Liby., 113.
Innes, Prof. Cosmo, liby. of, purchased for Mit.
Liby., 107-9; notice of, 108; works, 118, 154,
281, 326, 386, 400.
Innes, Hugh, Player's Scourge, 223-5.
Innes, T., Account of inhabitants of Scotland,
109, 154, 229, 265, 303, 378, 400.
nns. Scottish, anecdote relating to, 390.
nstitor, Malleus Maleficarum, 198, 215.
nsulanus on second sight, 365-6.
reland's Jeanne d' Arc, 253.
reland, the Shakespeare forger, 351, 415.
reland, national manuscripts of, 229.
rvine's Medicina Magnetica, 205, 386 ; Historiae
Scotiae, 386.
Isaac, H., Coral Constantini, 186.
Italian literature, 200.
Jackey, Master, and Miss Harriot, 288.
Jackson, Bailie George-, dir. and convener of Stir.
Liby., 74, 83; mem. of com. of Mit. Liby., 174.
Jackson, Wm., of Masham, 185.
Jahn, O., Mozart, 182.
James V., life of, 376.
James VI. version of the Psalms (1631), 368, (1636)
94-5, 115, 417 ; Demonologie, 216, 410 : Counter-
Waste totobacc'j, 289 ; works, 111 ; Apoptheg-
nies, 386 ; Court of, 386 ; poems, 383 ; entry in-
to London, 416.
Jameson, Mrs., works, 29, 162, 234, 295, 320, 325.
Jameson, Wm., junr., don. to Stir. Liby., 65, 83.
Jamieson, Rev. Dr., dir. and vice-pres. Stir.
Liby, 80.
Jamieson, Dr., 281 ; Scottish dictionary, 158, 266,
429 ; Culdees, 229.
Jamieson's Scotish Ballads, 338.
Janua, Joannes de, Summa quae vocatus Catholi-
con, etc., 92.
Jardine's Naturalist's Library, 346.
Jerusalem, works on, 28, 313-19, 347.
Jervise, Andrew, Brechin, purchase of collection
for Mit. Liby., 135 ; works, 400.
Jesse, J. H., works, 304.
Job, Book of, illust. by Blake, 291.
Johnson, Dr., dictionaiies, first and other eds., 164 ;
works, 302, 322.
Johnson's Highwaymen, 304, 431.
Johnson's Epigrammata, 203.
Johnston, James, 378.
Johnston's Scots Musical Museum, 241, 4(i, i'_'i.
Johnston, Thos., don. Mit. Liby., 120.
Johnston's Lexicon C'hemicum, 212.
Jommeli. N., 182.
Jones, Inigo, Stone-Heng, 430.
Jones, John, Byrth of Wankynde, 421.
Jones's Grammar of Ornament, 161.
Jones, Directory of Glasgow. 249-50, 285.
Jonson, Ben., 414 ; works. 358, 416.
Jonston's Inscriptiones Historicae, etc., 154.
Josephus, Wars of the Jews, 87.
Junius, Letters of, 431.
Justices of Pi'as, Boke of, 430.
Juvenal, works, Aldus, etc., 218.
Kapsberger, J., Motets, 184, 190.
Karajan, T. G. von, Haydn, 181.
Kastner, J. G., 184.
Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 95, 156, 22S, 254, 266,
326, 400, 428.
Keats' works, first and other eds., 21, 199, 200,
240, 299.
Keble's Christian Year, 273, 424.
Keir Liby., collection of proverbs, 348, 398.9.
Keith's cata. of Scottish bishops, 95, 157.
Keith & Co., auctioneers, Glas., 405.
Keller, Ambrose, printer, 87-8.
Kelly's Scottish proverbs, 344, 398.
Kempis, Thomas a 1 , Imitation of Christ, 409.
Ker, J. B., Archaeology of Popular Phrases, 397.
Ker, Robert, 229.
Kerkring's Commentary on Valentine'sAntimony,
212.
Kerr, Commissioner, don. Mit. Liby., 125, 129,
140, 141.
Kerr, John, writer, Glas., 140, 141.
Kerr, Peter, maps of Scotland, 378-9.
INDEX.
441
Kerr, William, dir. Stir. Liby., S3.
Khalfae's Arabic Authors, 319.
Khunwrath, Heinrich, alchemical works, 211
Kiese wetter, K., 180.
Kincardine, Janet, Countess of, 238.
King, Edward, 353.
King, James, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
King, J. F., dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Kingan v. Watson, 385.
Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico, 97.
Kinloch, G. R., 427 ; MS. collection of proverbs, 399.
Kircher, A., Musurgia, 183.
Kirkbride press, 206.
Kirk's Secret Commonwealth, 221.
Kneller's Kit-Kat Club, 254.
Knight's Gallery of Portraits, 162.
Knox, Isa C., MS. poem on Bums, 128.
Knox, John, Liturgy, 18, 187, 200, 238, 263-4, 270 ;
406 ; Reformation in Scotland, 153, 372-3 ;
answer to a great nomber, 269, 409.
Knox, James, Glas. printer, 148, 203, 386.
Labarte, Histoire des Arts Industriels, 162.
Lacroix, Paul, works, 29, 122, 162, 234, 267, 320,
362, 430.
Lacunar Strevelinense, 228, 342, 400.
Laer, W. R. de, Fasciculus Temporum, 88.
Laertius, lives of, 91.
Laing, Dr. David, works written and edited by,
22, 110, 137, 202, 242, 265, 276, 303, 339, 360, 367 ;
his copy of the first ed. of Faery Queen, 20 ; of
Boyd's Last Battell, 26 ; other works, 373, 374.
Laird, Marion, life of, 375.
Laird of Logan, 386.
Lamb's works, first and other editions, 30-1, 199,
302 ; note to Coleridge, 302.
Landscape Annual, 320.
Lane. See Arabian Nights.
Language, books on, 29-30, 132, 152, 158, 164-6, 403.
Lapraik's poems, 223, 242, 277.
Lassus, O. de, 182 ; sacred music, 184.
Latimer, Bishop, auto., 196.
Latrobe, C. I., Sacred Music, 186.
Laud Prayerbook, 18, 48, 94, 95, 115, 153, 368, 408.
Lauder, Sir T. p., works, 229, 281, 322, 342, 428.
Lavater's Physiognomy, 29, 119, 254, 325.
Lavoisier, A. L., the chemist, auto., 196.
Law, books on, 123, 130, 152, 157-8, 161, 430-1.
Law's Demonstrationes Logica, MS., 86.
Lawes, Psalms, 184, 1S8, 190.
Lawrie & Symington, publishers, 338.
Lawrie's works on Gorbals, 380.
Layard's Nineveh, 96-7.
Leadbeater, John, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Learned, history of the works of the, 115.
Lee, Robert, and Elonora, 36.
Lee, Dr., note on Confession of Faith, 407.
Lee Priory Press, works issued at, 258, 403.
Leech, John, books illus. by, 29, 295.
Leighton, J. M., Views of Glasgow, 285, 381.
Lejeune, C., 182; psalms, 184.
Lekprevick, R., Scottish printer, 157-8, 278-9.
Lemmata Proverbialia, 398.
Lennox Garland, 225.
Lenz, W., Beethoven, 181.
Leonardus, Camillus, works, 214.
Leonardi de Utino, Sermones, etc., 87.
Leslie's De Origine Moribus, etc., 109, 154, 246.
Leslie, records of the family of, 156.
Leslie, Henry, 185.
Leslie, Prof., Edin., mathematical Chair contro-
versy, 230-1.
Leveridge's collection of songs, 336-7.
Libau, Andreas, chemical works, 212.
Libraries, district, 107.
Libraries, free public, general character of, 106.
Libraries, free public, Parliamentary report, 106.
Libraries, private, preserve in good order rare
books, 16.
29
Library administration, 99-100.
Library of old authors, 348, 360.
Libri catalogue, 258.
Liddell, Andrew, dir. and treas. Stir. Liby., 71, 81 ;
don. to Stir. Liby., 72, 81, 83.
Lidgate, John, 412.
Lilius, Z., Orbis Breviarium, etc., 198.
Lily's Six Court Comedies (1632), 96.
Lincy, les Livre des Proverbes Francais, 394-5.
Lindesay, History of Scotland, 154, 386.
Lindsay's works on coinage, 108.
Lindsay's, lives of the, 428.
Listenius, Rudimenta Musicae, 183.
Lithgow's Poems, 202 ; adventures, 354-5, 386.
Little, Janet, poems, 223, 277, 369.
Liturgy. See Knox.
Livingstone, David, auto., 281.
Livingstone, Rev. Neil, 263.
Livingstone the Covenanter, 374.
Livy, works, ed. by Grynseus, 92.
Lobe, J. C., 184.
Local collections, " Nature "on, 139.
Lochore's Tales in Rhyme, 377.
Lock, treatise, etc., MS., 207.
Locke, John, auto., 196.
Locke, M., Melothesia, 183.
Lockhart, Rev. Dr., dir. Stir. Liby., 79.
Lockhart, J. G., signature of, 128 ; works, 303,
322.
Lodge's portraits, 162, 206, 254, 320.
Logan, David, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Logan's Italian proverbs, 394.
Logan, Rev. Mr., poems, 340.
Logier, J. B., 184.
Loier, P. de, treatise on spectres, 366.
Longfellow, H. W., poem in writing of, 304.
Loris, Henrich. See Glavanus, K.
Lounger, by Mackenzie, 135.
Lovat, Simon, Lord, 376, 377.
Lowe, Peter, Chirurgery, 204, 205, 430.
Loyer, Le, Des Spectres, 216.
Lucretius, Busby's ed. , 96.
Lully, G. B., motets, 184.
Lully, Raymond, alchemical works, 209-10 ; testa-
mentum, MS., 207.
Lumsden, Bailie J., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Lumsden's books, with cuts by Bewick, 204, 233 ;
map of Glasgow, 285.
Luscinius, Musurgia, 183.
Luther, Martin, rare works by, 18, 308 ; Lieder und
Psalmen, 188.
Luttrell, Narcissus, 407.
Luynes, Due de, work on Dead Sea, 319.
Lydgate's Fall of Princes, etc., 355, 412.
Lyly^s Euphues, etc., 199, 416.
Lyndsay, Sir D., heraldic manuscript, 158, 280 ;
works, 202, 204, 222-3, 242, 265, 358-9, 367, 426.
Macalpie's Curious Poems, 223, 242, 359.
M' Arthur's Map of Glasgow, 285.
Macaulay, Andrew, Glas. printer, 148.
Macaulay's St. Kilda, 379.
M'Bane, D., Expert Swordsman's Companion, 234.
M'Callum, John, Glas. printer, 148.
M'Caul, Rev. John, dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44.
M'Caul's notes on Points of Law, MS., 85.
M'Corquodale, Donald, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
M'Crie, Dr. Thomas, auto, letter of, 153.
MaccuUoch, Horatio, 239.
Macdonald, A. G., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Macdonald, Alex., liby. of, 268-289.
M' Do wall, James, Lord Provost, dir. Stir. Liby.,
43,44.
Macfarlan, James, memorial to Palmerston, 136.
Macfarlan, Principal, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Macfarlane, J., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Macfarren, Sir G. A., 184, 185.
M'Feat, publisher of Glas. Directory, 250 ; Glas.
Guide, 285.
442
INDEX.
Macgeorge's works on Glasgow, 112, 233, 249, 327,
428.
Macgeorge, B. B., liby. of, 290-304.
Macgill, Rev. Dr. S., dir. Stir. Liby., 79-80.
M'Gillvray's Fugitive Pieces, 383.
MacGregor, George, editor of " Dougal Graham,"
344.
M'Grigor, Dr. A. B., don. to Mit. Liby., 123, 129 ;
liby. of, 305-322.
Machlinia, London printer, 196.
M'lan's Clans, 158.
M'Indoe's Wandering Muse, 371.
Macintosh's Gaelic Proverbs, 398.
M'Intyre's account of Lekprevick, 278-79.
M'Kaen, James, life of, 384.
Mackaile, Matthew, various works, 205 ; auto., 196.
Mackay's Popular Delusions, 332.
Mackenzie, Alex., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103-4.
Mackenzie, the Religious Stoic, 238 ; writers of
the Scottish nation, 157.
Mackie's Abbey of Paisley, 341, 379.
M'Kim, William, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Macknight, Dr., 230.
Mackoull, trial of, 385.
M'Laren, A., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
M'Laren, Win., friend of Taunahill, 383.
M'Lean, Arch., Glas. printer, 122, 148.
M'Lean, Rev. Mr., dir. Stir. Liby., 79.
Maclehose, Mrs., "Clarinda." See Burns.
M'Lellan's Glasgow Cathedral, 327.
Maclise Portrait Gallery, 254.
Macmillan, Daniel, publisher, 288.
Macnish, Dr., works, 332.
M'Onie, Lord Provost W., dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
M'Pherson, Duncan, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Mactaggart's Gallovidian Encyclopaedia, 344, 386.
401.
M'Ure's History of Glasgow, 27, 31, 59, 95, 140,
266, 282, 327, 361, 379, 428 ; book belonging to,
282.
Madrigal composers, 190.
Magazines. See Periodicals.
Magee, John, pedlar, travels, 384.
Magic, works on, 19, 215-17.
Magistrates, Myrrour for, 355.
Magnetism, books on, 164.
Maidment, James, works written or edited by, 22,
110, 137, 144, 225, 242, 265, 281, 303, 310, 339, 360,
3fi7, 419, 425 ; collection relating to Lanark,
154-5, 155-6 ; collection relating to Perth and
Stirling, 228 ; books bought from, 109.
Maier, Michael, alchemical works, 207, 211, 214.
Mainwaring, Rev. J., Handel, 181.
Mair, Patrick, Glas. printer, 148.
Maitland Club Publications, 24, 72, 95, 97, 109,
159, 229, 242, 311, 341, 400, 428.
Maitland's History of Scotland, 154.
Major's De Historia Gentis Scotorum, first ed.,
200-1.
Malcolm, Alex., writer, Glas., 141.
Malcolm, J. C., printer, Glas., 140.
Malcolm, Robert, contrib. to Sma' Weftiana, 140,
141.
Malcolm's House of Drummond, 428.
Malebran, A., Spohr, 182.
Malebran, M., 182.
Manget, reprints of alchemical works, 212.
Manufactures, books on, 164.
Manuscripts, 18, 83-6, 167, 237, 350 ; Dr. Horn-
book MS., 136 ; chemical, 206-7 ; MSS. used for
endpapers, 87.
Manuscripts, facsimiles of national, 108, 154, 229,
303, 326, 428.
Mapletoft'a select proverbs, 389.
Maps, collection of, 28, 313.
Maps of Glasgow, 27, 285.
Marbodens, De Lapidibus, etc., 214.
Marcello, B., Salmi, 184.
Margarita Davidica, 87.
Marie Stuart, Queen of Scots, collection of books,
portraits, etc., relating to, in Guild liby., 23,
236, 243-9 ; book which belonged to her, 244 ;
portraits, 23, 243, 246 ; catalogue of the collec-
tion, 243 ; works relating to the Queen in Stir.
Liby., 91-2, 93 ; in Mit. Liby., 157 ; in Gray
liby., 229; in M'Grigor liby., 311-12; in Mur-
doch library, 341.
Marlowe, C., Edward the Second, 419.
Marot and Beza, Psalms, 189.
Marpurg, F. W., 184.
Marriage announcements in the Glas. Journal, 90.
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake, 292.
Marshall, A., Fourteen letters, etc., 249.
Marshall, Richard, dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44.
Marshall, W., Glas. printer, 148.
Martin's St. Kilda, 201, 279, 303, 379; Western
Islands, 201, 303, 379.
Martin, J. H., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Martin, Sir Theodore, 21, 23, 310.
Martini, G. B., Storia della Musica, 181.
Martino, M. C., writes on Strang's Glasgow, 328.
Marwick, Dr., Report on Mit. Liby, 104-7.
Marx, A., Beethoven, 181, 184.
Mary Stuart. See Marie.
Mason, J. , Anatomie of Sorcerie, 216.
Mason, Lowell, 188.
Mason, Thomas, senior assist. Mit. Liby., 113 ;
lib. Stir. Liby., 75, 99, 113.
Masson's Life of Milton, 320.
Mather, J., Kometographia, 288 ; memorable
providences, 271 ; Magnalia Christi, 410.
Mathiesou, Thomas A., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103 ;
liby., 323-332.
Mathieu, A., Lassus, 182.
Mattel, 8., Jommelli, 182.
Mattheson, J., Handel, 181, 184.
Matthew of Westminster, 92.
Maule's History of the Picts, 378.
Maurice, F. D., large collection of his writings,
18, 322.
Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum et Anti-
quorum Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, 309.
Maxwell, James, poet in Paisley, 383.
Maxwell, Sir W. S., works, 22, 29, 111, 162, 225,
234, 295, 348, 362, 398, 399, 430.
Meibomius, Antiquae Musicae, 183.
Meikleham, William, lib. Stir. Liby., 64, 99.
Meissner, Naumann, 182.
Mela, De Situ Orbis, 198.
Melvill, David, 406.
Melville, Sir J., of Hallhill, auto., 244.
Mendelssohn, F., 182, 185, 192.
Mendoza, L. de, Proverbios, 392.
Mercurius Musicus, 190.
Merimee, Prosper, 400.
Merlin, W. de Worde, 422.
Mersenne, Harmonie Universelle, 183.
Mery's Histoire des Proverbes, 389-90.
Me'ryon's Etchings, large collection, 291, 294.
Mesangres, proverbes, Francais, 394.
Meston's Knight of the Kirk, 367.
Metallurgy, books on, 163, 214.
Meyerbeer, J., 182, 191.
Meyrick's Ancient Armour, 234, 253.
Michael and Marius, La Reliure Franchise, 295.
Mickle v. Adams controversy, 276.
Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, 309.
Mill, Humphrey, 422.
Mill, J. S., works, 322.
Millar, Alex., Glas. printer, 122, 148.
Millar, John, Paisley publisher, 383.
Miller, Rev. David, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Miller, Dr., dir. Stir. Library, 79.
Miller, Ebenezer, Glas. printer, 148.
Miller, Hugh, works, 163, 199, 242, 277, 281, 348,
427 ; auto., 281.
Miller, John, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103.
Miller, J. R., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
INDEX.
443
Miller, William, Glas. printer, 148.
Miller Street, Glasgow, formation of, 33, 34.
Milton's Paradise Lost, first ed., 20, 352-3, 422 ;
works, 20, 96, 199, 352-3, 387, 422 ; auto., 353 ;
quoted, 332.
Minerals, books on, 214.
Mining, books oil, 214.
Mirror for Magistrates, 412.
Mirror of Policie, 431.
Mirandulanus, J. P., De Auro, 210.
Miscellanea Scotica, 428.
Mitchel's Witches of West Calder, 365.
Mitchell Library, 101-175.
Mitchell, Jas., attempts tomurder Archbp. Sharpe,
374.
Mitchell, James, of Dykes, life, 374.
Mitchell, Stephen, founder of Mit. Liby., 101-2.
Mitchell, William, the "Tinclarian Doctor," 385.
Moffet Well, etc., 205.
Moffat's Silke Wonnes, 416.
Moir, Bailie James, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104 ;
bequest to Mit. Liby., 123-4.
Molendinar Burn, Glasgow, 231.
Molique, B., 185.
Molitor, 215-6.
Monro's Western Isles, 279.
Montaigne's essays, 432.
Monteath's Theatre of Mortality, 289, 430.
Monteath's Dunblane Traditions, 379.
Monteath, Cunningham, secy. Stir. Liby., 81.
Montrose Peerage case, 401.
Monypenny's Scottish Chronicle, 378.
Moore, T., Psalm Singer's Companion, 187.
Moore, Thomas, poet, 296.
Moralist's Medley, 397.
More's works, first ed., 115, 408 ; Utopia, 258, 387,
408 ; other works, 408.
Morhof's Epistola, 207.
Morienus, De Transfigurations Metallorum, 209.
Morisons of Perth, publications by, 202, 229, 372,
426.
Morison, Fynes, Itinerary, 160, 401, 429.
Morison's DeCausis Metallorum, 204, 211
Morley, Thos., Introduction to Practical! Musicke,
183.
Morris's British Birds, 346.
Morrison, Bailie, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
Morton's proverbs, 391.
Morton, Earl, Bassandyne Bible belonging to, 94.
Moscheles, I., 182.
Mossman's bust of Bailie Moir, 124.
Motet Society, ancient church music, 186.
Motherwell, William, minstrelsy and other works,
137, 202, 218, 223, 241, 242, 253, 265, 278, 327, 338,
359, 384, 398 ; auto, and notes, 196, 212, 241, 278.
Mozart, W. A., 182, 191.
Muir, Rev. Matthew, lib. Stir. Liby., 65, 66, 99.
Muir, Thomas, trial, 384.
Muir, T. S., Leith, works, 401.
Muir, Wm., Campsie, poems, 286, 371.
Muller, Max, works, 322.
Munday, Anthony, Palmerin of England, etc.,
414, 421-2.
Mundell, James, Glas. printer, 148.
Munchausen, Baron, adventures (Dore), 254.
Murdoch, Eliz., second wife of Dr. Stirling, 32.
Murdoch, J. B., liby. of, 333-348.
Murray's Scenes in Scotland, 229.
Museum Worsleyanum, 162.
Music, books of and on, 29, 92, 117, 162 ; Euing
musical works, 176-93.
Musica Transalpina, 190.
Musical Antiquarian Society, 192.
Musical biography, 181.
Musical history, 180.
Musical journals, 192.
Musical theory, progress of, 183.
Musicians, dictionary of, 181.
Mysticism, books on, 215.
Naogeorgus, Thomas, Popish Kingdome, 409.
Naphtali, etc., 115, 374.
Napier, John, of Merchiston, 202, 205, 269-70.
Napier <fe Ehull, Glas. printers, 148.
Napier, Mark, 281, 374.
Narea' obsolete words, 397.
Nash, Richard, life of, 253.
Nash, Thomas, 418.
National Covenant (1638), 152-53, 167.
Natte's Scotia Depicta, 156.
Natura Brevium, 431.
Natural History, books on, 123, 152, 161, 162, 163,
346.
"Nature," remarks on local collections in public
libys., 139.
Naude, G., The Instruction, etc., 214, 216.
Naumann, J. A., 182.
Neil, Gabriel, 251, 284, 342.
Neil, Bailie John, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104;
gives premises to Mit. Liby., 112.
Neukomm, S., 185.
New Club Series, 341.
New Wife of Beath, 426.
New Yeere's Gift, 422.
Newlands, J., Glasgow printer, 148.
Newspapers. See Periodicals.
Newspaper management in Glasgow a hundred
years ago, 145.
Nicander, works, Morel, 218.
Nicoll, Richard, works, 419.
Nicholl, ed. of Hogarth, 234.
Nichol's Views of Glasgow, 285, 381.
Nicholson's Galloway, 342.
Nicols, A Lapidary, 214.
Nicol, Robert, poems, 277, 340.
Nicolson's Gaelic proverbs, 398.
Nimmo, Dr., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Nimmo's Stirlingshire, 201, 342, 379.
Nine Worthies, the, 386.
Nisbet, Mary, niece of Walter Stirling, 34.
Nisbet's Scottish Heraldry, 158, 254, 430.
Nissen, G. N., Mozart, 182.
Nithsdale Minstrel, 241.
Niven, David, Glas. printer, 148.
Noble's House of Cromwell, 319.
"Noctes Sma' Weftianae," Strang, 140.
Nohl, L., Beethoven, 181 ; Mozart, 182.
Non-Intrusion pamphlets, 154.
North, Roger, 180.
Northcote's fables, 302.
Notes and Queries, 28, 110, 319.
Novello, V., Pitzwilliam music, 186.
Novels, 30, 120, 123, 166, 257, 267, 320-1, 332, 347,
362, 431.
Nunez, Refranes o Proverbios en Romanae, 392.
Nuremberg Chronicle, 91.
Obsequens, J., De Prodigiis, 216.
O'Connor's State of Ireland, 319.
O'Donovan's Annals of Ireland, 110, 160.
Ogilvie and the Laird of Cool, 365.
Oihenart, Proverbes Basques, 394.
Oliphant, Robert, of Rossie. 33.
Oliver & Boyd's Almanac, 158.
Onslow, G., 182.
Operatic composers, 191.
Oriental Translation Fund, 319.
Orkney and Shetland, list of works on, 401-3.
Ornithoparcus, A., 182.
Orpheus, De Lapidibus, 214.
Orpheus, works, Basil (1523), 218.
Orr, John, Glas. printer, 148.
Ossian's poems, first ed., 22, 242, 359, 367.
Ottley's works on design, 161.
Otway's works, Foulis, 386.
Oudin, A., works on proverbs, 392.
Oudin, C., works on proverbs, 392.
Oulibicheff, A., Beethoven, 181 ; Mozart, 182.
Onseley, Sir F. A. G., Cathedral Music, 186.
444
INDEX.
Outram's Legal Lyrics, 242.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, works, 358, 418, 419.
Ovid, early eds., 30, 257.
Owen's British Fossil Reptiles, 163.
Paganini, N., 182.
Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 166, 335, 430.
Painting, books on, 117, 161.
Paisley Chartulary, 341.
Paisley Magazine, 253, 266, 384.
Paisley poets, periodicals, and general literature,
28, 382-4.
Paisley Repository, 242, 383.
Palseographical Society, 321.
Palseontographical Society's publications, 167, 346.
Palaeontology, works on, 346-7.
Palestine, books on, 28, 117, 160, 307, 313-19.
Palestrina, G. P., 182.
Pallingenius, Zodiake of Life, 355.
Palmer's moral essays, 396.
Pamphlets, collections of, 31, 52, 56, 61, 95, 110,
153-54, 161, 322.
Panckouke, Joseph, Dictionnaire des Proverbes,
393.
Pantheus, alchemical works, 210.
Panton, Dr. Alex., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Paracelsus, works of, 207, 210-11, 215.
Paradise, Gates of, Blake, 291.
Paraphrases, 18, 270, 407.
Paris, books printed at, 92, 109, 115, 154, 201, 203,
207 ; works on, 313.
Parke, W. T., 180.
Parker's works on Rome, 313.
ParkhUl, John, 384.
Parliament, roll of, 1669, MS., 85.
Parliament of Scotland. Thomson's Acts of the,
157.
Parliament, Acts of, 158.
Parliamentary papers, 161.
Parr, Henry, 188.
Parthenia, 190.
Pate, Rev. James, lib. Stir. Liby. , 44, 99 ; his reply
to Dr. Ran kin, 44 ; account of him by Senex, 64.
Patents, publications of Commissioners of, in Stir.
Liby., 98.
Paterson's Epigramrnata, etc., 204.
Paterson's Ayr and Wigton, 342.
Paton, George, Glas. printer, 148.
Paton, W., Glas. printer, 148.
Paton, Walter, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Patrick, R. W. Cochran-, works on Scottish coins,
etc., 109, 158, 253.
Pattison's Glasgow Green, 379.
Paul, Rev. Hamilton, 369.
Paul, Henry, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Paul and Virginia, 257.
Pauly's Les Peuples de la Russie, 160.
Payne's Rights of Man, seditious, 63.
Peacham, H., Compleat Gentleman, 257.
Peden, Alex., sermons, 374.
Peebles, Dr., on Burns, 340, 369.
Peerage, books on, 156, 228, 311.
Pennant's Tour, 265-6, 303, 311, 341.
Pennecuik's Tweeddale, 367 ; Streams from Heli-
con, 336.
Penny weddings, 370:
Pennycuick, Dr. A., 201, 203, 205.
Percival's Tamil Proverbs, 391.
Percivale's Dictionnaire, 392.
Percy, Bishop, 274 ; Reliques of Ancient Poetry,
360, 424.
Percy Society publications, 20, 167, 199, 240, 204,
311, 335, 360.
Percy folio MS., 121, 337.
Periodicals, general, 97, 158, 167-73, 322.
Periodicals, Glasgow, 27, 95-6, 141-44, 286-87, 342,
380.
Periodicals, Paisley, 383-4.
Perkins, witchcraft, 216.
Perry, George, 185.
Perry, Dr., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Perry, Dr. R., dir. Stir. Liby., 82.
Persius, works, 91, 218.
Person's Varieties, etc., 205.
Perthshire, Three nights in, 229.
Perthshire, Maidment's tracts, etc., 228.
Pescetti, Proverb! Italian!, 393.
Peter's Baronage of Angus and Mearns, 156.
Petrarch's works, 115, 200.
Petrie's Good Deportment, 289.
Petus, Sir J., Fleta Minor, etc., 214.
Phaer's Regiment of Life, 430.
Philelphus, F., Epistolae, 198.
Philips, John, 424.
Philology. See Language.
Philosophy, books on, 19, 117, 123, 130,159-60,
307-10, 406-10.
Phosphorus, collection of earliest writings about,
213.
Physics, books on, 163-4.
Piccinni, 182.
Piers Plowman, Vision of, 199, 354, 411-12.
Pierson, H. H., 185.
Pigot, Dr., and Lord Byron, 296.
Pindar's works, 150, 218.
Pinkerton, John, Vitae Antiquae Sanctorum, 95,
157 ; other works, 110, 122, 137, 202, 206, 225,
254, 265, 338, 360, 367, 427.
Pisan, C. de, Moral Proverbs, 395.
Pitcairn's Assembly, 375, 401.
Pitcairn, Robert, Criminal Trials, 341, 400 ; letter
to P. Buchan, 340.
Pittencrief , Craw court at, 242.
Pius II. , Historia Rerum ubicunque Gestarum, 88.
Playfair, James, vice-pres. Stir. Liby., 71.
Playfair, Patrick, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103-4.
Playfair, Prof., 230.
Playford, Skill of Musick, 183 ; Psalms, 188 ; Ban-
quet of Musick, 189 ; Musical Companion, 190.
Pockmanty sermon, Row, 371-2.
Poems on Glasgow, 382.
Poetry, general, 19, 20-22, 117, 123, 132, 104,221-2,
238-42, 264, 273, 300-1, 310-11, 326,334-40, 350-61,
367-72, 386-7, 410-27.
Poetry, Scottish, 21-2, 120, 121, 127, 134, 137, 151,
202, 222-6, 241-2, 264-5, 269, 273-8, S37-40, 358-60,
367-72, 375, 425.
Poetry, foreign, 21, 93, 200.
Poet's corner in Mit. Liby., 22, 120, 121, 127, 134,
137, 151.
Poggio, Liber Facetiarum, 198.
Polish literature, 200.
Political economy, books on, 117, 161.
Politics, books on, 123, 130, 161.
Polko, B., Mendelssohn, 182.
Pollok's Course of Time, 277.
Pollok papers, 341.
Pope's works, 129, 150, 199, 239.
Porta, B., De Distillationibus, 214.
Porteous riots, 384.
Portraits, collections of, 23, 162, 206, 236, 254-5, 295.
Pougin, A., Bellini, 181 ; Meyerbeer, Rossini,
Wallace, 182.
Praetorius, M., Syntagma, 183; Musarum, 185 ;
Hymnodia, 185 ; Megalynodia, 185.
Prayer books, 18 ;" Jenny Geddes " prayer book,
18, 48, 94, 95, 115, 153, 368, 408.
Preston's Lamentable Tragedy, etc., 355-6.
Printers, famous, 195-96 ; list of Glasgow printers,
148.
Printing, 15th century, 18, 86-91, 195, 196-S ;
specimens of fine modern printing, 96 ; early
Glasgow printing, 126, 146-51 ; introduced into
Scot., 338-9 ; into Boston, 289.
Pritchard, Dr., trial of, 233.
Proclamations, 28, 229, 233, 282-3, 289.
Proske, K., Musica Divina, 186.
Protestant hymn book, 188.
INDEX.
445
Proverbs, 30 ; polyglot, 388-90 ; classical, 390-1 ;
eastern, 391-2 ; modern European, 392-5 ; En-
glish, 395-7 ; Scottish, 344, 397-8 ; Gaelic, 398.
Psalmen des Koniglichen Propheten Davids, 188.
Psalmody, American, 188.
Psalms of David, MS., 84.
Psalms of David, 87-8, 406-8.
Psalms, King James's version (1631), 368, 407 ;
(16S6) 94-5.
Psalms (Glas. 1666), 368.
Psalmes of David in metre (1773), 187.
Psalms, Cambridge (1628), 270.
Psalterum, Venice, Aldus, 198.
Psalter, polyglot (1516), 92.
Psalters, Scottish, 18, 187, 200, 238, 263-4, 270.
Psalms, Augustines Annotationes, 90.
Punch, set of, 346.
Purcell, Henry, 190, 191.
Quarles' emblems, 421.
Quintillian's works, Aldus, 431.
Quitard's proverbial works, 395.
Raban, E., first Aberdeen printer, 28, 187, 202,
203, 205, 238, 406.
Rabelais', works, 281, 387.
Rameau, J. P., 184.
Ramkins, Alex., memoir of, 376.
Ramsay, Allan, works, 265, 275, 326, 337-8, 344,
359, 372, 386, 396, 398, 426.
Ramsay, Andrew, Poemata Sacra, 203.
Ramsay's Renfrewshire, 341.
Ranken, Rev. Dr. Alex., dir. Stir. Liby., 43, 44 ;
anecdote respecting, 44.
Rankin, C. D., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Raoul-Rochette, Cherubini, 181.
Raphael, gallery of, Foulis, 232.
Raselius, Hexachordum, 183.
Ravenscroft, T., Psalmes, 188, 190.
Ray's History of the Rebellion, 377.
Ray's English Proverbs, 395-6.
Ray Society publications, 346.
Reade, Charles, 304.
Rebellions in Scotland, 154, 221, 228, 364, 376-7.
Reeve, Clara, novelist, 238.
Reform agitation, books on, 364, 379-80.
Reicha. A. J., 184.
Reid, Daniel, Glas. printer, 148.
Reid, Dr. John, MS. works, 123.
Reid, John, Glas. printer, 148.
Reid's County of Bute, 342.
Reid, Robert, Senex, notice of, 82 ; dir. of Stir.
Liby., 71, 82 ; don. to Stir. Liby., 65, 83 ; pre-
sents his receipt of membership to Stir. Liby.,
82 ; manuscripts written by him, 85.
Reissmann, A., ISO; Mendelssohn, Schumann,
182.
Renan on Phosnicia, 319.
Renfrew, Dr. Robert, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Renfrew, wizards and witches, 216, 221, 271-2,
364, 401.
Renwick, James, 374.
Retrospective Review, 98, 110, 258, 322, 432.
Reusner, portraits, 206.
Reynard the Fox, 423.
Reynolds' Chronicle, etc., 429.
Rhau, G., Enchiridion, 183.
Richardson's map of Glas., 285.
Richard's poems, 422.
Richter's Seasons, etc., 325.
Ries, F., Beethoven, 181, 185.
Rimbault, Dr. E. F., 180, 186 ; cathedral music,
187.
Ripley, George, Compound of Alchemy, 210, 356.
Ritson, Joseph, works, 20, 110, 137, 217, 222, 264,
311, 337, 360, 367, 372, 429, 432.
Rob Roy, 280.
Roberts, David, life of, 253 ; Holy Land, etc., 320.
Robertson, Rev. Dr. F. L., dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Robertson, John, Glas. printer, 122, 148.
Robertson, J. & J., Glas. printers, 148.
Robertson, J. <fc M., Glas. printers, 148, 288.
Robertson & M'Lean, Glas. printers, 148.
Robertson's Ayrshire Families, 226, 342.
Robertson's Cunningham, 342.
Robinson Crusoe, 30, 302, 386, 431.
Robison, Professor, 230.
Rochester, Earl of, 419.
Rodger, Alex., Greenock, 270.
Rodger, Alex., poems, 371.
Roe on apparitions, 216.
Rogers's poems, Italy, and other works, 199, 222,
264, 295, 301, 310-11, 424 ; Beckford's notes on
human life, 300.
Rolle, J. H., 185.
Roman Catholic hierarchy in Eiig., 322.
Romberg, A., 185.
Rome, works on, 313.
Rosarum Philosophorum, MS., 206-7.
Roscoe's Lessons, chemistry, 213.
Rosicrucians, books on, 214.
Rossetti, D. G., 293 ; works, 301.
Rossini, G., 182, 185,191.
Rousseau, J. J., 184, 191.
Roux, Dictionnaire Comique, 393.
Row, J., " Wouns of the Kirk of Scot.," 371-2.
Row, John, Hebraese Linguae Institutiones, 115,
151 ; Chilias Hebraica, 151.
Rowlands, Samuel, Diogenes Lanthorne, etc.,
354, 417.
Rowlandson's illustrations, 295.
Roxburghe Club publications, 109 ; Roxburghe
catalogue, 258 ; library, 336.
Roy's Military Antiquities, 201, 257.
Roy, William, " Rede me," 351.
Roydon's Elegie, 415.
Rubens, De Distillatione, 213.
Rule, Gilbert, sermons, 374.
Runciman, Rev. Dr., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Ruprecht on chemistry, 207.
Ruskin, John, works, 29, 97, 162, 199, 206, 234, 254,
257, 266, 291, 293, 320, 325, 34(5, 362.
Russell, Thomas, liby. of, 349-362.
Russell, W., 185.
Russian literature, 200.
Rutherford, S., Joshua Redivivus, 374.
Rych's Excellency of Good Women, etc., 421.
Rymer, Thomas, prophecies, 401.
Sabbath question, pamphlets on, 322.
Sabbatini, L. A., 184.
Sacraments, debauchery attending the, 375.
Sacred books of the East, 167, 309.
St. Andrews, books printed at, 205 ; Reliquae
Divi Andrae, 379.
St. Augustine's annotations on the Psalms, 90;
Liber de Sancta Virginitate, 197.
St. Gallen, survey of, 313.
St. Simon, Due de, memoires, 320.
Saints. Acta Sanctorum, 111 ; Yitae Sanctorum
Patrum, 86-7 ; lives of the saints, 161.
Sallust, Ged, 206.
Salmon, James, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
Salmon's Translations, 212.
Salmon, T., Advancement of Musick, 183.
Salverte, Essai sur la Magic, 217.
Sancho, or the ProverbiaUst, 397.
Sandeman, David, dir. and treas. Stir. Liby. , 81 ;
don. to Stir. Liby., 81.
Sanders, R., sen., Glas. printer, 122, 148, 203, 426.
Sanders, R., jun., Glas. printer, 12^, 148, 282, 426.
Sandford, Sir D. K., 329.
Sandys, George, Psalmes, 188.
Satyre on the Stool of Repentance, 375.
Scarborough's Chinese proverbs, 391-2.
Schiller's works, 21, 121, 200, 311.
Schilling, G., 181.
Schindler, A., Beethoven, 181.
446
INDEX.
Schcelcher, V., Handel, 181.
Schubert, F., 182.
Schuberth, J. F. G., 181.
Schlosser, J. A., Mozart, 182.
Schultz, M. See Praetorius, M.
Schumann, R., 182, 200.
Science, works on, 30, 115, 117, 123, 130, 132, 161,
163-4, 267, 346-7.
Scotus, John Duns, 89.
Scott, Michael, 196 ; physionomia, 198, 204-5 ; com-
mentary on sphere of Sacrabosco, 205.
Scot, Patrick, Table-Book for Princes, and Vox
Vera, 201 ; Tillage of Light, 205.
Scott, R., Hoppe Garden, 199.
Scot, Discovery of Witchcraft, 216, 366, 410.
Scotland, collections of books, relating to, 95, 127,
200-1, 204, 220-1, 263, 269, 303, 311, 326, 341, 344,
364, 400, 427-9 ; Acts of Scots Parliament, 107,
109, 429 ; Bible, first printed in S., 93, 309-10 ;
Bibliographical Society for, 24-5 ; biography,
108, 155-7 ; Burns' centenary meetings, 128 ;
Confessions of Faith, 18, 153, 237, 269, 407;
Darien tracts, 201, 376 ; Defoe's defence of, 371 ;
ecclesiastical histories, 95, 151, 152, 373-4 ; family
history, 23, 108, 156 ; history of, 23 ; MS., 84-5,
108, 151, 154, 158, 265, 376-8, 427-9 ; Leyden's
ed. of the Complaint of S., 203, 223, 265, 358, 427;
manuscripts of S., 154, 229, 303, 311, 326, 428;
maps, 378-9 ; poetry, 21-2, 120, 121, 127, 134, 137,
151, 157, 202, 222-6, 241-2, 265, 269, 273-8, 337-40,
358-60, 367-72, 375, 425 ; Prayer-Book, 18, 48,
94, 95, 115, 153, 368, 408 ; psalter, 18, 187, 200,
238, 263-4, 270 ; first printing in, 338-9, 378-9 ;
rebellion in, 154, 221, 228, 364, 376-7 ; songs, 191,
375 ; state of in 1758, 375 ; statistical account,
155, 311, 342 ; topography, 24, 151, 201, 227-8 ;
trials, 27, 221, 233, 384-5, 401 ; union with Eng-
land, 376.
Scott, Alex., poems, vellum, 1882, 202, 242, 303,
359, 427.
Scott, Andrew, Proverbia Graecorum, 391.
Scott, E. J., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
Scott's Glasgow Illustrated, 232, 381.
Scott, H., Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanw, 109, 157.
Scott, Sir Walter, works, 166, 200, 202, 257, 267,
295, 300, 326, 362, 403 ; antiquities, 158, 201, 265,
326; minstrelsy, 121, 278, 338; letters, 260;
portraits of, 255.
Scottish Burgh Records Society, 154, 229, 243, 311.
Scottish libraries, similarity of, 334.
Scouler, Dr., bequest to Stir. Liby., 30, 73-4.
Scrope on deerstalking, 346.
Sculpture, books on, 161-2.
Sculptured Stones of Scotland, 400.
Second sight, works on, 365-6.
Selden, C., Mendelssohn, 182.
Selden's Table Talk, Foulis, 386.
Sempill of Beltree's poems, 202.
Seneca's Morals (1490), 90 ; other works, 30, 355,
356, 431.
Senex. See Reid, Robert.
Serials in Mit. Liby., 167-73.
Sermons preached in Glas., MS., 343.
Seton's Interest of Scotland, 376.
Seven Wise Masters, 386.
Sewage, books on, 146, 164.
Shakespeare, works, second folio, 19, 238-9, 420 ;
fourth folio, 19, 239, 420 ; poems (1640), 351-2,
420 ; Halliwell's ed. in 16 vols, 19, 96, 239 ; other
eds., 117, 120, 121, 199, 222, 236, 239, 264, 300,
310, 335, 420, 425 ; Sir John Oldcastle, 420 ; King
John, 420 ; portraits, 255 ; Whitney's emblems
used by, 414 ; Holinshed's Chronicles used by,
427; Mr. Shakespeare improved, 371.
Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, 133.
Shakespeare Society, 20, 335.
Shakespeariana, 19, 239.
Sharpe, C. K., 239, 344 ; etchings, 110, 254, 268,
346 ; other works, 280.
Sharp, Sir Cuthbert, 337.
Sharp, Archbp., murder of, 289 ; life, 374.
Shaw's dresses, etc., 29, 162, 267.
Shaw, Christian, case of, 216, 221, 271-2, 364, 401.
Shearer, J., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Shelley's works, first editions, 20, 222, 240, 298 ;
other eds., 199, 336, 358.
Shetland, list of works on, 401-3.
Shields, Alex., Hind Let Loose, and other works,
373
Shields, Mathew, liby. of, 363-387.
Shirref's Jamie and Bess, 367.
Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, 137, 20?,
205, 359, 427 ; Scotia Illustra, 400 ; Fife and Kin-
ross, 95. t
Sidney's Defense of Poesy, Urie, 386 ; Arcadia, 419.
Silas, E., 185.
Sillar's poems, 223, 277, 369 ; handwriting, 1 28.
Sim, Adam, of Culter-Mains, 284, 328, 344.
Simmons, Rev. Mr., Kirkcudbright, 365.
Simons, M., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Simpson, C., Practical Music, 183; division viol,
183.
Simpson, J. B., lib. Stir. Liby., 72-3, 99.
Sinclair's Hydrostaticks, 205.
Sinclair's Satan's Invisible World Discovered, 366,
401.
Skene, Sheriff, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Skene's Royal Burrows, 378.
Slatyer's Palae Albion, 419.
Slezer's Theatrum Scotte, 95, 155, 228, 378.
Small, David, drawings of Glas., 381.
Smith's Ledbury and Wassail Bowl, 424.
Smith, Carmichael, 302.
Smith, George, dir. Stir. Liby., 83.
Smith, Janet, 32.
Smith, John, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Smith, J. C., Handel, 181.
Smith, Madeline, trial, 385.
Smith, Robert, Glas. printer, 148.
Smith, Robert, Paisley publisher, 369.
Smith, Robert, 184.
Smith, Wm., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 103-4.
Smith, Wm., Glas. printer, 148.
Smith, W. R. W., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104, 121.
Smith, Dr. W. C., works, 310.
Smith, Prof. W. R., case of, 153.
Smith & Hutcheson, Glas. printers, 148.
Smith's Iconographia Scotica, 109, 254.
Smith's map of Glasgow, 285.
Smith's Shorter Catechism in metre, 221.
Smith's classical and other dictionaries, 30P, 321.
Smollett, Tobias, apprenticed to Dr. Gordon, 32 ;
works, 199, 200, 257, 267, 302.
Society publications, 335-6, 341, 360-1.
Sociology, books on, 130, 161.
Somerset, Earl of, 419.
Somervilles, memorie of the, 110, 156, 212, 265,
280, 303, 428.
Songs, collection of, 240^41, 359-60, 372.
Songs of experience and innocence, Blake, 291.
Songs, national collections, 191.
Sophocles, works, 150, 218, 432 ; lexicon, 321.
Sotheby's auto, of Milton, 253; principia typo-
graphia, 120, 257.
Southey, Robert, auto., 196, 280 ; note on Mather's
Magnalia, 410.
Southwell's St. Peter's Complaint, and other
works, 355.
Sowinski, A., Musiciens Polonais, 181.
Spalding Club publications, 24, 95, 98, 109, 159,
229, 243, 311, 341, 400.
Spang's Rerum Nuper, etc., 201.
Spazier, D. K., Gre'try, 181.
Speed's England, 378.
Spencer copy of Dante's Divina Comedia, 89-90.
Spenser's Faerie Queene, 20, 239, 351, 415 ; works
199, 239, 351, 357, 414, 415.
Spenser Society publications, 20, 167, 336, 361.
INDEX.
447
Spiritual Songs (1685), 238.
Spohr, L., 182, 185, 191.
Spottiswoode Society publications, 24, 109.
Spreull's England and Scotland, 376.
Stage plays, estimation of, in Scot., 225.
Stainer, John, 162, 188.
Stainton's history of the Tineina, 346.
Stalker, Andrew, 148 ; Glasgow Journal, 96.
Stanley, S., 185.
Stanley, Thomas, poems, 423
Statistical Society Journal, 161.
Statutes, public general, 158, 161.
Sterne, Laurence, 196, 392, 393.
Sternhold and Hopkins, Psalms, 188.
Steven, J., Harmonia Sacra, 187.
Stevenson, Prof., liby. of, purchased for Mit.
Liby., 107, 110-11.
Stevenson's soul-strengthening cordial, 375.
Stewart, Sir Dugald, 230, 410.
Stewart <fc Meikle, Glas. printers, 369.
Stirling, Earl of, early eds. of his works, 222, 241,
367, 425.
Stirling, Janet, Lady Cadder, 32.
Stirling, John, 32.
Stirling, Robert, of Bankier, 32.
Stirling, Walter, ancestry and career, 31-33 ; ex-
ecutes a will founding a liby. for citizens of
Glasgow, 34 ; personal appearance, etc., 84-5 ;
death, 35 ; deed of mortification, 36-43 ; charac-
ter of his private liby., 45, 46,
Stirling's and Glasgow Public Liby., 31-100.
Stirling, Wm., father of Walter, 31, 32, 33, 86.
Stirling, Sir W. M. See Maxwell, Sir W. S.
Stirling Observer, 279.
Stirling, first book printed at, 28, 278.
Stirling, Lacunar Strevelinense, 22S, 342, 400.
Stirlingshire, Maidment tracts, etc., 228.
Stirling street and square, Glas., 32, 33.
Stockbroking, pamphlets on, 386.
Stodart's Scottish arms, 158.
Stradivarius, 182.
Strang, Dr. John, chamberlain, Glas., 129. 140,
141, 428 ; progress of Gftt,s., 327-8.
Stra'ven riots, 379-80.
Strawberry press, 258.
Streyce, Bohemian psalms, 189.
Strickland, Agnes, 281.
Struthers, John, lib. Stir. Liby., 68-9, 99, 372.
Strutt's works, 29, 97, 234, 267, 347, 403, 430.
Stuart, Dr. Charles, of Dunearn, 153.
Stuart, James, kills Sir A. Bcswell, 153, 320, 385.
Stuart, Sobieski, clans of Scot., 158.
Stuart, W. M., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Stuart's views of Glas., 266, 327, 381, 428.
Stuart's Caledonia Romana, 341.
Studley, John, Pageant of Popes, 408.
Suckling, Sir John, 422-3.
Sullivan, Sir A. S., 185.
Surtees Society publications, 167.
Swan's views of Glas., 203, 266, 327, 381 ; lakes of
Scot., 341.
Swift's works, 1st and other eds., 301, 322, 381, 431.
Swinburne's works, 1st fid., 21, 199, 200, 301, 336,
358 ; poem in auto, of, 303-4.
Switzerland, works on, 28, 307, 313.
Sybils, books of, 215.
Symington, Rev. W., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Symson's Tripatriarchichon and Elegies, 275, 366.
Symson, Mathias, 374.
Tabourot, E., Les bigarrures, 392.
Tacitus, works, Elzevir, 218.
Tait, Andrew, Glas. printer, 148.
Tait, John, issues first Glas. directory, 250, 284-5.
Tannahill's poems, etc., 277, 383.
Tan'sur, W., 184, 188.
Tartans issued at Mauchline, 158.
Tassie the medallist, 149.
Tasso's Amyntas, Hunt, 336.
Tate and Brady, Psalms, 188.
Taylor, Isaac, works, 332.
Taylor, John, water poet, works, 334, 358, 420.
Taylor, Rev. Wm., lib. Stir. Liby., 62, 64, 99 ; dir.
Stir. Liby., 64.
Taylor's Leveni Delineated, 229, 342, 379.
Taylor's Antiquitates Curiosse, etc, 397.
Tegg's Proverbs from Far and Near, 390.
Telfair's Actings of a Spirit, 272.
Tennyson, Lord, poems by Two Brothers, 21, 299 ;
Timbuctoo, 21, 240, 299 ; In Memoriam, proof
copy, 311 ; first and other editions of works,
21, 199, 240, 299, 311, 358, 424 ; poems (1830-33),
299, 336 ; auto., 136.
Tennysoniana, 300.
Testament, New, 18, 117 ; Vulgate ed. (1479), 88-9
other eds., 93-4, 159, 406.
Thackeray's works, 30, 199, 200, 254, 257, 267, 289,
302, 321, 347, 403; auto., 136; illustrations to
Undine, 302.
Thayer, A., Beethoven, 181.
Theatre of Music, 190.
Theological Translation Fund Liby., 19, 309.
Theology, books on, 19, 117, 123, 130, 159-60, 307-
10, 406-10.
Theophrastus, De Lapidibus, 214.
Theosophical Transactions (1697), 215
" There's nae luck about the house," 276.
Thomasius de Cingaris, 200.
Thomson, H. S., mem. com. Mit. Liby., 174.
Thomson's Seasons, Bartolozzi, 239, 336.
Thomson's Scots Musical Museum, 265.
Thomson, W., Orpheus Calcdouius, 241, 338, 372,
401, 426.
Thomson, Symphonia Angelica, 187.
Thucydides, works, Niccols, 431.
Tigrini, Compendio della Musica, 183.
Tilenus, Paraenesis, etc., 205-6.
Tinclariau Doctor, 385.
Toldervy's Foot out of the Snare, 204.
Tom the Sailor, Blake, 291.
Tontine Coffee Room, Glas., 382.
Toom Meal Pock, 383.
Topham's Letters from Edinburgh, 378.
Topographical works on places in Scotland, 24,
116, 151, 154-5, 160, 204, 226-8, 249, 279, 313, 341,
361.
Trevisan, De Chemia, 207.
Trials, collections of ,27, 117, 221, 233, 320, 384-5, 401.
Trismegistus, H., Pimander, 198, 215.
True Christian Love, erroneously claimed as first
printing done in Glas., 147.
True Loyalist, 372.
Tuet, Abbe, 394.
Turkerville, G., various works, 413-14.
Turk, D., 184.
Turnbull, W. B. D., works ed. by, 22, 222, 242.
Tnrner, James, Glas. printer, 148.
Turner, J. M. W., works illustrated by, 29, 206,
295, 320.
Ulstad, Philip, Cesium Philosophorum, 210.
Umbreit, Choral-Buch, 189.
Ure, John, mem. com. Mit. Liby., 104.
Ure's Rutherglen, 201, 266, 342, 379, 428.
Urie, R., & Co., Glas. printers, 126, 148, 150-1, 386.
Urizen, first book of, Blake, 292.
Urquhart's Exquisite Jewel, 201 ; epigrams, 203 ;
Trissotetras, 205.
Uryns, Judycyall of, 430.
Valentine, Basil, 211 ; Twelve Keys, 207.
Vallensis, De Antiquitate Chemise, 207. .
Valois, H. de, Charmes, 216.
Vathek. See Beckford.
Vega's Corona Tragica, 93, 248.
Vestiarum Scoticum, 229.
Vergil's Proverbiorum Libellus, etc., 198.
Victoria, H.M. Queen, don. Stir. Liby., 83.
448
INDEX.
Villon Society, ed. of Arabian Nights, 30, 267, 303,
321.
Viollet-le-Duc, Architecture Franchise, 320.
Virgil, .iEnid, Douglas's trans., 30, 257, 351-2, 403,
431 ; other editions of works, 30, 48, 57, 60, 150,
202, 218, 352, 367.
Vogler, G. J., 184.
Voltaire's works, 322.
Voragine's Golden Legend, 410-11.
Voyages and travels, 130, 160.
Vulcanius, 200.
Vulpius, M., Cantionum Sacrarum, 185.
Wagner, W. R., 182, 191.
Wagstaffe's Witchcraft Vindicated, etc., 216.
Waldegrave's, Scottish prophecies, 401.
Walker, P., Memoirs of Covenanters, 373-4.
Walker, Wm., Glas. printer, 148.
Walker's Phraseologica, 391.
Wallace, Lady, Mendelssohn, 182.
Wallace, Robert, dir. Stir Liby., 43.
Wallace, a play, 310.
Wallace, W. V., 182, 191.
Wallace, Rev. J., Orkney, 401-2.
Waller's works, 358.
Walnuts and Wine, 303.
Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, 266, 295.
Walton and Cotton's Angler, 29, 199, 254, 267, 295,
430.
Ward's National Proverbs, 390.
Wardlaw, Rev. Ralph, works, 332.
Wardrop, Jemmy, and Mr. Stirling, 34-5.
Wardrop, John. dir. Stir. Liby., 79.
Warnerus, L., Proverbiorum, 391.
Warren, J., Repertorium, 186.
Warreniana, 399.
Wast, Elizabeth, memoirs, 374-5.
Waterton's works, 347.
Watson, Gilbert, dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Watson's Scots poems, 241, 274, 337, 360, 367 ; his-
tory of printing, 337.
Watson, Walter, poems, 371.
Watson's Ecclesiastical Affairs in Scot., 378.
Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica, 30, 167, 217, 258.
Watte, A. A., auto., 273.
Weaver's Plantaganet's Tragicall Story, 423.
Weber, C. M. von, 182, 191.
Weber, G., 184.
Webster's Displaying of Witchcraft, 216.
Wedmore's Me>yon and M6ryon's Paris, 294.
Weever's Funeral Monuments, 430.
Weftianae, Noctes Sma", Strong, 140.
Weir, Dr., dir. Stir. Liby., 80.
Weir, Major, trial, 374.
Weir, W., letter to Dr. Strang, 328.
Weir's history of Greenock, 379.
Welch, John, life, 374.
Weldon, Sir A., Terrible Newes from Scotland,
etc., 373, 386.
Wenham, Jane, case of, 216.
Wesley's Maggots, 387.
Westminster drollery, 423.
Westwood's Palaeographia, etc., 254.
Wey's Rome, 254, 313.
Whetstone's Mirror of Magistrates, etc., 413.
Whitgift, Archbp., stops Knox's Historic, 153, 372.
Whitney's Emblems, 356, 414.
Wierus, De Praestigiis, etc., 216.
Wigton martyrs, 374.
Wilkins, G., Miseries of Enforst Marriage, 421.
William's Greece, 320.
Williamson, David, 374.
Williamson, Stephen, Glas. book collector, 343.
Wilson, Alex., poems, 277, 383.
Wilson, John, publisher of Burns' poems, 225.
Wilson, John, Doctor Hornbook, 128-9.
Wilson, John, publisher, Glas., 147.
Wilson, John, sermons, 374.
Wilson, Thomas, Rule of Reason, etc., 409.
Wilson, Preceptor Wm., convener of com. Mit.
Liby., 104, 128, 137-8, 174; don. to Mit. Liby.,
121, 125 ; dir. Stir. Liby., 82.
Wilson, Wm., Battle of Bothwell Brig, and other
works, 368.
Wingate's Coinage of Scotland, 158.
Winter, P. von, 185, 191.
Winter Nighfs Vision, 355.
Witchcraft, books on, 19, 215-17, 221, 269, 271-3,
364-7, 401, 410.
Wit's Recreations, 422.
Withers, George, hymns, 188 ; works, 358.
Wodrow's biographia, 341.
Wodrow Society publications, 98, 110.
Worde, Wynken de, printer, 90, 410, 422, 429, 430.
Wordie, John, liby., 387-404.
Wordsworth's works, 121, 240, 300; auto., 273.
Worgan, J., 185.
Wright, Dr. Peter, dir. Stir. Liby.. 43, 44.
Wright's Criticism on Ker's Popular Phrases, 397.
Wylie, John, lib. Stir. Liby., 68, 99.
Wynd Church case, Glas., 329-31.
Wyntoun'a, Cronykil of Scot., 109, 203, 223, 265,
427.
Xenophon, works. 56, 150, 218.
Yarns in 1784-86, prices of, MS., 85.
Yarrell's British Pishes, 129, 163, 346.
Young, Alex., 349 ; liby., 404-432.
Young, Robert, Glas. printer, 203.
Young's Night Thoughts, 292.
Zacconi, Practica di Musica, 183.
Zadith, De Chemia Libellus, MS., 207.
Zarlino, G., 1'Instituzioni Harmoniche, 183.
Zedler's Encyclopaedia, 167.
Zoologist, 346.
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