Leighton Library has 1680 first edition of "Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester" by Gilbert Burnet

Added by Leighton Library at 07:18 on 26 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1680 of "Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester" by Scottish cleric Gilbert Burnet, who later became Bishop of Salisbury. This biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who died #OnThisDay 26 July 1680, ga...

Leighton Library has 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" by John Newton

Added by Leighton Library at 07:30 on 24 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" - the autobiography of John Newton, born #OnThisDay 24 July 1725. This was originally published anonymously under the signatures of Omicron and Vigil in 1764 ...

Leighton Library has 1787 edition of "Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark" by William Coxe

Added by Leighton Library at 06:44 on 23 July 2025

#OnThisDay 23 July 1792, Mrs Compton, a borrower at Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, borrowed the Leighton Library's 1787 edition of "Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark" by William Coxe.This is a multi-volume travelogue chronicling journeys through Northern and Eastern Europe, int...