MEMOIRS OF LIBRARIES:

INCLUDING

A HANDBOOK

OF

LIBRARY ECONOMY.

BY

EDWARD EDWARDS

VOLUME II.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

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Origin and early History of the Advocates Library

Thomas Ruddiman,

Librarianship of David Hume .

The canvassing of the Ladies of Edinburgh

Hume and the Vindicator of Queen Mary

Skirmish concerning L'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules.

The Astorga and Thorkelin Collections

The Dietrich Dissertations and Tracts.

Mr. Maitland on the Management of the Advocates Library

Some Account of the MSS..

The Catalogues

Library of the Writers to the Signet.

Character of the recent Accessions

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CHAPTER XX.

'THE UNIVERSITY AND Town LIBRARIES OF SCOTLAND.

The Library of St. Andrews University

Regulations for its use.

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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.

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THE LIRRARY

OF THE OTHER

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, AND SOME

Irish LIBRARIES.

Trinity College always an advanced post of the Church Militant . .

Warlike origin of its Library.

Archbishop Ussher, his Books, and his Misfortunes .

Welsh Marauders in the Civil War Times

Ussher's Library for Sale..

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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