The David Hume Library

167 Pages·1996·6.776 MB·English

by  David Fate Norton, Mary J. Norton

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David Fate Norton Sc Mary J Norton
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CAL SOCi Y IN ASSOCIA'
. LIBRARY

EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
OCCASIONAL PUBLICATION
THE
DAVID HUME
LIBRARY
Plate 1. Riddle’s Close, off the south side of the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, where
Hume lived in the building called Riddle’s Land, 1752-53 (see HL I, 169-171); a
plaque on the site commemorates his residence there. Riddle’s Court, mentioned
on the sketch, is in fact through the far archway. James Drummond, Old
Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1879), plate 5. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees
of the National Library of Scotland.
THE
DAVID HUME
LIBRARY
by
DAVID FATE NORTON
and
MARY J. NORTON
EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND
1996
1996
© Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1996
First published 1996
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise, without the prior permission of the Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society, do The National Library of Scotland,
Edinburgh EH1 1EW.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the
British Library.
The cover illustration is taken from David Hume’s letter of 2
February 1767 to the Comtesse de Boufflers. This letter is
reproduced by courtesy of the David Hume Collection, Department
of Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University.
ISBN 1872116213
Typesetting and printing by:
The Printing Department
The National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth
To Raymond Klibansky
CONTENTS
List of Plates 8
Acknowledgements 9
Abbreviations 11
The David Hume Library 13
Appendix 1
Dramatis Personae:
The Family of David Hume and Baron Hume 65
Appendix 2
Catalogue of Baron Hume’s Library, 1840 (NLS MS 348) 67
Appendix 3
Selected Pamphlet Collections in T.G. Stevenson’s Trade
Catalogue of 1852 139
Index 149
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LIST OF PLATES
1 Riddle’s Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Frontispiece
2 The David Hume bookplate, states A and B 17
3 T.G. Stevenson. Catalogue of a Select Collection of Law
Books 48
4 T.G. Stevenson. Bibliotheca selecta ..., facing p.65 54
5 T.G. Stevenson. Bibliotheca selecta ..., p.65 55
6 Catalogue of Baron Hume’s Library, p. 126 98
7 Catalogue of Baron Hume’s Library, p. 127 99
8 Catalogue of Baron Hume’s Library, p. 131 102
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research for this study grew out of work on a critical edition
of David Hume’s philosophical, political, and literary works. Work
on this larger project has been supported by the American Council
of Learned Societies; the Institute for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities, University of Edinburgh; the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton; the Killam Foundation of the Canada Council;
McGill University; the National Endowment for the Humanities;
and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada. We are pleased to have this opportunity to acknowledge
this support of our work.
In addition, we wish to offer our special thanks to two
individuals who have contributed substantially to this monograph:
to Brian Hillyard of the National Library of Scotland, without
whose encouragement and assistance it could not have been
completed; and to Patrick Miller, formerly of McGill University,
who spent many hours helping us confirm bibliographical details.
For their comments on the penultimate draft of the manuscript,
thanks are also due to Mark Box, Sophia Elliott, and David Raynor.
Also, we wish to thank the numerous librarians who have greatly
forwarded our efforts: especially those of the National Library of
Scotland, the University of Edinburgh Library, the Edinburgh
Room of the Edinburgh City Libraries, and finally the McGill
University Libraries, where Hume studies are supported in
particular by the David Hume Collection. This Collection has
been developed over many years with the informed guidance of
Professor Raymond Klibansky, to whom we are pleased to dedicate
this book by way of appreciation.
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