A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith
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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith: Author of the ´Moral Sentiments´ and ´the Wealth of Nations´ At his death on 17th July 1790, Adam Smith´s library went by will to his young cousin David Douglas, son of Colonel Robert Douglas of Strathendry, Fifeshire. David Douglas was born 1769, and, after studying law under Millar of Glasgow and passing as Advocate at Edinburgh in 1791, became Sheriff-Depute of Berwickshire in 1809, was raised to the bench as Lord Reston (from an estate of Reston in Haddington) in 1813, and afterwards became a Lord of Justiciary (1816). He died on 23rd April 1819. He probably sympathized to some extent with his cousin´s tastes, for it is set down in the History of the Speculative Society that he read a paper there on 30th November 1790 on "The Effects of Taxation on the Necessaries of Life." On Lord Reston´s death the library was divided between his two daughters, Mrs. Cunningham of Prestonpans, and Mrs. Bannerman of Edinburgh. On the death of Mrs. Bannerman (1879) her portion of the library went to her son. Rev. David Douglas Bannerman, D.D., now at Perth, who in 1884 presented a part to the New College (of the Free Church), Edinburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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