Abstract
The study of private book ownership in England in the seventeenth century has seen great leaps forward in the past decade, culminating in David Pearson’s 2018 Lyell Lectures Book Ownership in Stuart England, reviewed above. However, private book ownership in early modern Scotland has not been serviced by the same level of detailed case studies or sweeping overviews of its southern neighbour. Murray Simpson’s Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland, then, is a welcome addition to our growing understanding of the bibliographical landscape of a country which was quickly developing in economic and academic prowess but in the midst of ongoing civil wars and religious disputes. Simpson, former Special Collections Librarian at the University of Edinburgh, focuses his study on one of his predecessors, the Rev’d James Nairn, who, amongst many other things, briefly held the office of librarian to the same university in 1652–53. Nairn, who matriculated...
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