Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society – No 16 2021

EBS Journal 2021 cover

CONTENTS

  • Foreword By Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence – p9
  • The Culture of the Book in the Scottish Burgh and Notarial Records,
  • 1500-1700 By Thomas Brochard – p13
  • BOSLIT: The History of a Complex Project By Dennis Smith – p59
  • ‘Some curious bookes for their library’: The Books or Robert Park,
  • Advocate By Robert L. Betteridge – p71
  • An Brief Explanation: A 1686 Pamphlet and Its Nineteenth Century
  • Reprint by Anette Hagan – p89

BOOK REVIEWS

  • ADAM FOX, The Press & The People: Cheap Print & Society in Scotland 1500-1785 (John Scally) – p107
  • G. THOMAS TANSELLE, Descriptive Bibliography (James Mitchell) – p109
  • WALTER SCOTT, The Shorter Poems, ed. by Peter D. Garside and Gillian
  • Hughes (Anthony Howell) – p111
  • IAIN GORDON BROWN, Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour (Ralph McLean) –
  • p115
  • RALPH HANNA. ed., The Taill of Rauf Coilyear (Caitlin Flynn) – p118