The Edinburgh Courant

Numb. 1. The Edinburgh Courant.

Publish’d by Authority. From September 2008, to October 2009.

The Library of Charles Areskine discover’d: Works of Sir Isaac NEWTON and Colin with Observations on Transactions which have MACLAURIN also found Favour with the occurr’d so far. Doctissimi Domini. Meanwhile, the CATALOGUE of BOOKS Edinburgh, October 2009. has been made into an Excel Spreadsheet so that it can be Sorted and Studied in a he Most Learned Charles Modern Mode. Areskine of ALVA, Lord The Student has delivered Talks about TINWALD, has for many Subjects related to Areskine and his Books Years craved Recognition ― despite what Dr. JOHNSON has said for assembling a fine about Women preaching ― in Edinburgh, Collection of Books Cambridge, and London. relating to the LAW and to Other For the next Two Years, the Student Miscellaneous Subjects. The present endeavours to write a THESIS in which she Happy Project is a Design to Enlighten the will explain how Areskine’s Collection fits Populace about the Wonders contained in into the Scottish Enlightenment. Scottish Areskine’s BOOKS. It proceeds from the Libraries housed the Ideas and Inspiration efforts of Professor John CAIRNS and Scholars in Edinburgh us’d to change the Doctor Brian HILLYARD both of this World. Town. These Learn’d Gentlemen have commission’d a Student who is wise in the The THESIS will therefore be entitled:

Ways of Libraries to catalogue and analyse Lord TINWALD’S Collection. THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES ARESKINE: This Student* derives her Income from BOOK COLLECTING AND LAWYERS IN SCOTLAND, 1700-1760. the ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH

COUNCIL. She has so far made the following Discoveries about Areskine’s *Mistress Karen BASTON of the Library: UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH’s Of LAW Books: The Law Books School of LAW. include many Commentaries on ROMAN ([email protected]) LAW, Explanations of the LAW OF NATURE

AND NATIONS, and much Information about the Pleadings, Statutes, and Acts of SCOTLAND and the UNION. Of Books on Other Subjects: These BOOKS show that Areskine was an Enlighten’d Philosopher and Improver. Titles by Lord Kames, David Hume, and Scottish Historians took their Places The Image, ‘Dominie Sampson and the Bishop’s Library’, on Areskine’s Shelves. The Mathematical CA Shepperson, 1903, appears with the Permission of The Walter Scott Digital Archive, Edinburgh University Library.