CONTENTS

• Adam Smith’s Library: Recording its Content and Imagining its Original Appearance By Murray C. T. Simpson – p9
• “My block has been traced by many a brush of eminence”: the significance of the year 1824 in the history of Walter Scott portraiture By Iain Gordon Brown – p28
• The Circuitous Journey of the MacLaurin Student Notebook By David Horowitz – p45

BOOK REVIEWS

• WALTER STEPHENS, How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now (Stephen W. Brown) – p60
• W. HAMISH FRASER, /The Edinburgh History of Scottish Newspapers, 1850–1950/ (Robert Laurie) – p63