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Glimpses into a Town's Reading Habits in Enlightenment Scotland: Analysing the Borrowings of Gray Library, Haddington, 1732–1816
Ist Teil von
Journal of Scottish historical studies, 2006-05, Vol.26 (1-2), p.42-59
Ort / Verlag
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
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This article examines a unique record in library and book history: the detailed lending record of a Scottish town library from the early eighteenth century through to the early nineteenth century. Unusually for such an early library this was a free public library, open to all residents of the town of Haddington in East Lothian, not charging any fee to join or borrow books. This means that not only is the lending record valuable for researchers of reading history, especially given the rarity of such lending records, but it can also provide new insights into the minds and interests of its borrowers.