Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1797 edition of "A treatise on the police of the metropolis" by Patrick Colquhoun

Added at 08:38 on 10 August 2024

#OnThisDay 10 August 1799 Reverend Mr Robert Stirling, a borrower at Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, borrowed the Leighton Library's 1797 edition of "A treatise on the police of the metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which private and public property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention." This was initially published the year before anonymously, and provided an account of crime and policing in Georgian London, written by a magistrate. The author was Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1820). The Leighton Library has the fifth edition, revised and enlarged, and it was borrowed 16 times. The Reverend Mr Robert Stirling (1765-1817) was Minister of Dunblane 1795-1817. He'd taken out a subscription to the Leighton Library on 21 December 1791 for the sum of 10 shillings and sixpence.

If you'd like to explore what other books were borrowed on this day in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library then you can search the "Books and Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830" website database accessible from the Leighton Library website https://www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/books-and-borrowing-1750-1830

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