MEMOIRS OF LIBRARIES:

INCLUDING

A HANDBOOK

OF

LIBRARY ECONOMY.

BY

EDWARD EDWARDS

VOLUME II.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1859.

36-197

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ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME II.

PART THE FIRST.

HISTORY OF LIBRARIES.

(CONTINUED.)

BOOK III.-CHAPTER XIX.

THE LIBRARIES OF THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES, AND OF THE WRITERS

Library of Glasgow University

Its early Benefactors.

The Subscription of 1633

Carolinian promise and Cromwellian performance

The Hutcheson and Boyd Benefactions.

Regulations respecting the loan of books.

The Copy-Tax and its results.

The Hunterian Library.

Its choice Rarities and other treasures

The Book-trade in Glasgow in 1735.

Walter Stirling and his Library.

Clement Littill's Benefaction to Edinburgh University

Subsequent Gifts

The Bargain with the Edinburgh Surgeons .

Character of Edinburgh University Library as it was in 1830

Recent Improvements

Present Management.

The auxiliary Theological Collection.

The Library of King's College, Aberdeen.

Marischal College Library

Regulations and Suggestions for Improvement.

Laud and Leighton

The Leightonian Library at Dunblane

The Parochial Library of Leslie and Bishop Burnet, at Saltoun

Robert Henry's Library at Linlithgow.

James Watt's Benefaction to Greenock.

Telford's Benefactions to Dumfriesshire

The Scottish Libraries Act.

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CHAPTER XXI.

THE LIRRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, AND SOME OF THE OTHER

IRISH LIBRARIES.

Trinity College always an advanced post of the Church Militant

Calumnious Charge against Cromwell

Contemporary Accounts of the Purchase of Ussher's Library by the

Army in Ireland . .

The Gratitude of Students due to Cromwell and his Ironsides

Early Accessions to Trinity Library .

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