The Signet Library Edinburgh and its Librarians 1722 - 1972

Though it is now again primarily a law library, the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet was, in the 19th and into the mid-20th century, one of the most important private libraries in Scotland. A history of the Library is followed by biographies of librarians and accounts of their tenures, from 1804-1968. A concluding chapter discusses the collection, past library catalogues, and the sales of holdings in the late 1950's and late 1970's. Notes, bibliography and index. Dust jacket chipped, soiled. xvi, 194 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..