AScottishBookCollector
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If Trump is NOT revealed in the Epstein files then he still needs to be impeached and arrested immediately.
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If Trump is NOT revealed in the Epstein files then he still needs to be impeached and arrested immediately.
Saltire booklets - "MacDiarmid & Goodsir Smith were dead, so theirs were edited (from) personal accounts still in print. Naomi Mitchison and I wrote our own. Mine, published in 1988, was last of a series which should have continued while any Scots knew they had a literature" - Of Me and Others by AG
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Saltire booklets - "MacDiarmid & Goodsir Smith were dead, so theirs were edited (from) personal accounts still in print. Naomi Mitchison and I wrote our own. Mine, published in 1988, was last of a series which should have continued while any Scots knew they had a literature" - Of Me and Others by AG
If Hitler helps a kitten out of a tree, he's still Hitler
Are you really that easily swayed?
Are you really that easily swayed?
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If Hitler helps a kitten out of a tree, he's still Hitler
Are you really that easily swayed?
Are you really that easily swayed?
Gdansk baulks?
I KNEW it!!
I KNEW it!!
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Gdansk baulks?
I KNEW it!!
I KNEW it!!
Carnegie bequeathed funds for 2,500 libraries worldwide, 1700 of the in the U.S... Some of them - most of them - are architectural gems. Each style was chosen by the community.
There's one just two streets over from where I type
There's one just two streets over from where I type
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Carnegie bequeathed funds for 2,500 libraries worldwide, 1700 of the in the U.S... Some of them - most of them - are architectural gems. Each style was chosen by the community.
There's one just two streets over from where I type
There's one just two streets over from where I type
Having just found out that my Great Granda was an ironworker based on Hope Street, these projects have taken on a new interest for me
ta for this
ta for this
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Having just found out that my Great Granda was an ironworker based on Hope Street, these projects have taken on a new interest for me
ta for this
ta for this
He doesn't seem happy to be dead
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
He doesn't seem happy to be dead
Episodic in form, it follows the adventures of a young man sent to sea to make his fortune - as did Scott.
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Episodic in form, it follows the adventures of a young man sent to sea to make his fortune - as did Scott.
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
.. in Blackwood's in 1834–1835.
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
.. in Blackwood's in 1834–1835.
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
.. abbreviated as SRBBTAPTOTS, i.e. Some Rich Bugger Bought Them And Put Them On The Shelf
#ScottishLiterature
#ScottishLiterature
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
.. abbreviated as SRBBTAPTOTS, i.e. Some Rich Bugger Bought Them And Put Them On The Shelf
#ScottishLiterature
#ScottishLiterature
What a wonderful story - new to me
Ta
Ta
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What a wonderful story - new to me
Ta
Ta
"Morag his wife took steps ..."
They worked well together - whenever receiving a letter from her, the envelope was addressed by AG, for one example
She brought him happiness and stability .. and he knew it
They worked well together - whenever receiving a letter from her, the envelope was addressed by AG, for one example
She brought him happiness and stability .. and he knew it
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Morag his wife took steps ..."
They worked well together - whenever receiving a letter from her, the envelope was addressed by AG, for one example
She brought him happiness and stability .. and he knew it
They worked well together - whenever receiving a letter from her, the envelope was addressed by AG, for one example
She brought him happiness and stability .. and he knew it
B. S. Johnson's 'Albert Angelo', where at one point there is a section cut out midpage which shows (some pages ahead) text of a murder.. Three pages later, we see that it was referring to Kit Marlowe's murder
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
B. S. Johnson's 'Albert Angelo', where at one point there is a section cut out midpage which shows (some pages ahead) text of a murder.. Three pages later, we see that it was referring to Kit Marlowe's murder
Suetonius weeps too
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Suetonius weeps too
Ordering this today, and taking this opportunity to recommend William Donaldson's works Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland and his Language of the People
His researches in old back number newspapers revived the excellent work of William Alexander (Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, for example)
His researches in old back number newspapers revived the excellent work of William Alexander (Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, for example)
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ordering this today, and taking this opportunity to recommend William Donaldson's works Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland and his Language of the People
His researches in old back number newspapers revived the excellent work of William Alexander (Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, for example)
His researches in old back number newspapers revived the excellent work of William Alexander (Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, for example)
Both copies are gilt edged with very nice embossed covers, and were imports to the US. The red copy has no end catalog; the brown does
This excellent article on the book has a good summary of the story;
kennethhillier.blogspot.com/2022/01/kenn...
#GeorgeDouglasBrown
This excellent article on the book has a good summary of the story;
kennethhillier.blogspot.com/2022/01/kenn...
#GeorgeDouglasBrown
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Both copies are gilt edged with very nice embossed covers, and were imports to the US. The red copy has no end catalog; the brown does
This excellent article on the book has a good summary of the story;
kennethhillier.blogspot.com/2022/01/kenn...
#GeorgeDouglasBrown
This excellent article on the book has a good summary of the story;
kennethhillier.blogspot.com/2022/01/kenn...
#GeorgeDouglasBrown
Carruthers was editor of the Inverness Courier and gave Miller some of his first printed appearances
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Carruthers was editor of the Inverness Courier and gave Miller some of his first printed appearances
I just rewatched James Whale's Frankenstein the other night (Hallowe'en) and noticed that they credited Mrs. Percy B. Shelley for the source work
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I just rewatched James Whale's Frankenstein the other night (Hallowe'en) and noticed that they credited Mrs. Percy B. Shelley for the source work
Yeah, these varorium editions are daunting. I don't pretend that I'll read all the ones I have
When needing a break, I like to snuggle up with his book on the care and diseases of sheep (1807) lol
When needing a break, I like to snuggle up with his book on the care and diseases of sheep (1807) lol
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, these varorium editions are daunting. I don't pretend that I'll read all the ones I have
When needing a break, I like to snuggle up with his book on the care and diseases of sheep (1807) lol
When needing a break, I like to snuggle up with his book on the care and diseases of sheep (1807) lol
Perhaps of interest;
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Perhaps of interest;
Perhaps of interest;
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Perhaps of interest;