CONTENTS

• Foreword By Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence – p9
• The Library of Captain John Anderson, a seventeenth-century Glasgow Mariner By Robert MacLean – p13
• The Aberdeen Breviary Facsimile: Between Liturgy and Antiquarianism in Victorian Scotland By Kelsey Jackson Williams – p45
• John Home’s ‘Letters Political’: Newly Identified Polemical Writings from the Author of Douglas: A Tragedy By Kevin J. McGinley – p71

BOOK REVIEWS

• REID BYERS, The Private Library: the History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the domestic bookroom (Peter H. Reid) – p93
• The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume I: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800 (Robert Laurie) – p95
• The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay, Volume I: The Gentle Shepherd (Kwinten Van De Walle) – p99
• WILLIAM TOURIS OFM, The Contemplacioun of Synnaris: Late-medieval advice for a prince (Rhiannon Purdie) – p101
• SIMON GARFIELD, All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia (Stephen W. Brown) – p104
• JULIAN BAGGINI, The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well (Ralph McLean) – p106