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10 December 2021: Dunblane's historic Leighton Library awarded £30,000 by The Pilgrim Trust towards restoration appeal
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24 December 2021: Dec 2021 -The Restoration Appeal has now reached 32% of target
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24 December 2021: Dec 2021 - Donation from the Dalrymple Donaldson Fund
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16 January 2022: Great article on the Library by a Spanish journalist
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12 April 2022: Exhibition in Dunblane Museum during May of Leighton Library's 1776 American Atlas
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18 April 2022: Article in Scotland on Sunday newspaper
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29 April 2022: Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library opening times for 2022
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18 October 2022: Preparations for restoration of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library get underway
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18 October 2022: Coffee Morning in support of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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18 October 2022: Restoration Work on Dunblane's historic Leighton Library begins 7 November 2022
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22 October 2022: The Leighton Library – a hidden gem in Scotland’s story - a new article by Martin Roche published on the Bylines Scotland site
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09 November 2022: Article in Stirling Observer at start of restoration work as cartouche is removed for conservation
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23 November 2022: The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, KT GCMG HonFRSE PC, to become Patron of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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06 December 2022: Article in Scottish Field about removal of books in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library in preparation for major restoration work of the building
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06 December 2022: The latest issue of the Friends of Leighton Library newsletter is now being sent to all Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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09 January 2023: 📰🗞️ Article in Stirling Observer about plan for repair of carved tablet
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23 January 2023: 🗓️ January 2023 issue of the Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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10 March 2023: 📰🗞️ Article in the Stirling Observer about the planning application for the Undercroft of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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10 March 2023: 🗣️ March 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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09 April 2023: 🗣️ April 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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18 April 2023: 📆 Restoration Story So Far - Free Event on Thursday 1 June 2023 6-9pm in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
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28 April 2023: 📰🗞️ Article in the Stirling Observer about event about Story of Restoration of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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08 May 2023: 📰🗞️ Issue Number 7 of The Leighton Letter now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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19 May 2023: 🗣️ May 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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29 May 2023: 📝 Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library launches consultative Survey
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06 July 2023: 🗣️ July 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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06 July 2023: 🔨 Last chance to make a bid in fabulous auction supporting 3 causes including Leighton Library
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07 August 2023: 🗣️ August 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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05 September 2023: 🗣️ September 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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05 September 2023: Free Talk & Exhibition about Leighton Library Restoration as part of Doors Open Day on Sat 23 Sep at Dunblane Public Library
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27 September 2023: 👩🏫 Gathering of Volunteer Guides for Leighton Library
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03 October 2023: 📰🗞️ Issue Number 8 of The Leighton Letter now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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09 October 2023: 📰🗞️ October 2023 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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14 November 2023: 📰🗞️ November 2023 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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16 November 2023: 🗣️🆕🛍️ Dunblane's historic Leighton Library now has a brand new online shop
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20 November 2023: 💷 Dunblane’s Leighton Library, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built library, is set to benefit from funding from Historic Environment Scotland (HES)
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11 December 2023: 📰🗞️ December 2023 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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12 January 2024: 📰🗞️ January 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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07 February 2024: 📰🗞️ February 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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07 February 2024: ☕🍵 Coffee Morning on Saturday 2 March in support of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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04 March 2024: On 4 March 1798 Dr James Robertson borrowed Leighton Library's 1782 "Adventures of a Rupee"
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04 March 2024: 📰🗞️ March 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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05 March 2024: Mercator projection and first use of the word Atlas
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06 March 2024: Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae"
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07 March 2024: Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1638 edition of one of the best known works of Italian Saint Thomas Aquinas
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09 March 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of the highly influential "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
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09 March 2024: Work continues to prepare the interior of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library for the return of the historic collection of books from storage elsewhere
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11 March 2024: Through the arched window of the Leighton Library you can see the Olympic Gold Postbox of tennis ace Andy Murray
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14 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1632 first edition of a book described as a compilation of all the contemporary zoological knowledge
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15 March 2024: #OnThisDay, 15 March, 1792, Reverend Mr Michael Gilfillan, a borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library borrowed "Encyclopaedia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature"
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19 March 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of 1766 of "Travels through France and Italy" by Scottish surgeon, poet & author Tobias Smollett
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20 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1810 first edition of celebrated Scottish storyteller Sir Walter Scott's epic narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake"
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21 March 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of "Rob Stene's Dream: a poem" written in Scots, published in 1836 from a manuscript from 1591-1592 in Dunblane's Leighton Library
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22 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1566 edition of "Historiae Theodorici de Niem, scribae quondam pontificij" by medieval historian Dietrich of Nieheim
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23 March 2024: Former keeper of Leighton Library was renowned meteorologist credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of modern weather forecasting
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23 March 2024: Lieutenant-General William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan, Baron Drummond of Cromlix, and Commander of the Forces in Scotland, friend of Robert Leighton, was the architect of the Leighton Library
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24 March 2024: On this day 24 March 1809 Reverend Mr Patrick Murray borrowed 1764 edition of "Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia" by Robert Adam
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25 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1607 first edition of "Euclidis Elementorum libri XV" by Christopher Clavius
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27 March 2024: Punishment of Robert Leighton's father, Alexander Leighton, described as one of most disgraceful incidents of reign of King Charles I
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28 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1659 2nd edition of "Eruditionis scholasticae atrium, rerum & linguarum ornamenta exhibens" by Comenius
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29 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1658 first edition of "Horae hebraicae et talmudicae" by John Lightfoot
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31 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1654 edition of "Letters to severall persons of honour" by eminent English poet John Donne
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03 April 2024: Leighton Library has 1652 edition of collected works of English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert
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04 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematician John Napier
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06 April 2024: Leighton Library has 1735 edition of translation of "Oeuvres d'Horace" by André Dacier
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07 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1597 edition of the biography of co-founder of Jesuits
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08 April 2024: 📰🗞️ April 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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09 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of the utopian novel "New Atlantis" by Sir Francis Bacon
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10 April 2024: Leighton Library has 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius
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12 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1568 edition of "Sofokleous 'Ai 'epta tragojdiai" by Joachim Camerarius
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13 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Jacobite propagandist Charles Leslie
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14 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1754 first edition of "A short conference betwixt Mr Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh, and a country-man in the parish of Biggar"
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15 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 2nd edition of 1755/6 of Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary "A Dictionary of the English Language"
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16 April 2024: When it first opened, Bishop Douglas drew up rules for the Keeper of the Leighton Library
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16 April 2024: 📰🗞️ Issue Number 9 of The Leighton Letter now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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17 April 2024: Leighton Library has several books by theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet
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18 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of "De inventoribus rerum"
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19 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae" by Philipp Melanchthon
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22 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard
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23 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger
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25 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi
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26 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of "An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense" by Thomas Reid
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29 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot
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30 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis"
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01 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes"
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02 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by William Camden
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03 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1550 edition of "Tutte le opere" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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06 May 2024: 📰🗞️ May 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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06 May 2024: 🚪 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is re-opening on Saturday 25 May
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10 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" by Juan de Ávila
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11 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" by Matteo Ricci
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13 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by Richard Simon
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13 May 2024: James Fraser, CEO of the Loch Katrine Steamship Trust, met today with members of the Leighton Library group
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14 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Discours politiques des rois" by Georges de Scudéry
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15 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1769 3-volume edition of "Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa"
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16 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1799 edition of James Boswell’s "The Life of Samuel Johnson"
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17 May 2024: Leighton Library has 1577 edition of "Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia" by Martín Antonio del Río
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18 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta"
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19 May 2024: Leighton Library has 1656 First Edition of Abraham Cowley's "Poems : viz.I. Miscellanies. II. The mistress, or, Love verses. III. Pindarique odes. And IV. Davideis, or, A sacred poem of the troubles of David"
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20 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1628 edition of "De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII" by Levinus Lemnius
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23 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1701 edition of "The pirat's doom : or, Captain Kidd's fatall farewell"
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26 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1554 edition of the atlas "Cosmographiae uniuersalis" by Sebastian Münster
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27 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1661 copy of "The charge of high treason, murders, oppressions, and other crimes, exhibited to the parliament of Scotland against the Marquess of Argyle and his complices, January 23, 1661."
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27 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1614 edition of "Relatio ad reges & principes christianos" by Caspar Schoppe
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27 May 2024: Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob." by John Calvin
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28 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1658 edition of "Les vies des Saints Pères des déserts et de quelques Saintes" by Robert Arnauld d’Andilly
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30 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1663 first edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" by Samuel Bochart
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31 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of his "Sylva: a discourse of forest-trees together with a historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves." by John Evelyn
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31 May 2024: Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library re-opened on Saturday 25 May
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02 June 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry
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03 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory
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05 June 2024: The Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Charles Johnstone
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07 June 2024: The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell
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08 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of “Lexicon Philosophicum” by Rudolph Goclenius
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08 June 2024: The Leighton Library has 1791 edition of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and 1792 edition of his "Rights of Man"
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09 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of “Titi Livii Historiarum libri ex recensione heinsiana.” by Daniel Heinsius
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11 June 2024: 🍵 Cromlix Afternoon Tea and hear about Cromlix and Leighton Library Water Drinkers
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12 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1618 edition of "M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, sive De bello civili Cæsaris et Pompeji lib X" by Thomas Farnaby
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13 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
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14 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1667 edition of "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"
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15 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1711 edition of "Apparatus Biblicus" by Bernard Lamy
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16 June 2024: The persecution of Robert Leighton's father was described as "one of the most disgraceful incidents of the reign of King Charles I"
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18 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1754 first edition of "A short conference betwixt Mr Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh, and a country-man in the parish of Biggar"
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19 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1675 edition of "Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion, et sur quelques autres sujets" by Blaise Pascal
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20 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1768 edition of “An essay on the history of civil society” by Adam Ferguson
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21 June 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1637 edition of "Missale Romanum"
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22 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1755 edition of “A collection of sermons, mostly preached at sacramental occasions” by Ebenezer Erskine
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26 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1642 first edition of "The union of Christ and the church; in a shadow" by Ralph Cudworth
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28 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1762 first edition of the novel "Émile, or On Education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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29 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of the novel "Blanquerna", the first major work of literature written in Catalan
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30 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1603 edition of “De arcanis catholicae veritatis”
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01 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1640 first edition of "An humble remonstrance to the high court of parliament" by Joseph Hall
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03 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1764 first edition of "Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia" by Robert Adam
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04 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of "The American atlas" by Major Samuel Holland
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05 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1733 edition of "Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John" by Sir Isaac Newton
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06 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1629 edition of "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More
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08 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1744 edition of "Sermons preached upon several occasions" by Robert South
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10 July 2024: Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob" by John Calvin
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11 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by Sir Kenelm Digby
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12 July 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Desiderius Erasmus
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13 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1558 edition of "Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras" to which John Dee contributed
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15 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1666 edition of "Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome" by Pierre de Bourdeille
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16 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1710 edition of "An exposition of the Creed" by John Pearson
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16 July 2024: 📰🗞️ July 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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18 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1593 edition of "Explicationum catecheticarum" by Zacharias Ursinus
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19 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1608 edition of "Locorum communium" by Conrad Vorstius
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20 July 2024: Leighton Library has 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta"
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22 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1801 edition of "Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans" by Sir Alexander Mackenzie
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24 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" by John Newton
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25 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1564 edition of "De imitando Christo" by Thomas à Kempis
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26 July 2024: 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 Gilbert Burnet
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27 July 2024: Leighton Library has 1768 edition of "Oeuvres de Maupertuis" by Pierre Louis Maupertuis
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28 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1656 first edition of Poems by Abraham Cowley
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29 July 2024: Leighton Library has 1833 "A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity" by William Wilberforce & Daniel Wilson
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30 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of "Vitae romanorum pontificum" by Robert Barnes
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31 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1619 edition of "Exercitia spiritualia" by Ignatius of Loyola
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01 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1537 edition of "Novvs orbis regionum" edited by Simon Grynaeus
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02 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of "The American atlas : or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America composed from numerous surveys by Major Holland et al Engraved on forty-nine copper-plates, by Thomas Jefferys."
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04 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1612 edition of "A letter to a friende" by Hugh Broughton
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05 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1600 edition of "M. Manili Astronomicon a Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum" by Joseph Scaliger
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06 August 2024: Leighton Library has 1678 edition of "De la recherche de la verite" (The search for the truth) by Nicolas Malebranche
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07 August 2024: New, in Undercroft of Leighton Library, younger visitors can now enjoy a large board game bringing to life the journey of Robert Leighton's books from Horsted Keynes to Dunblane
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10 August 2024: Leighton Library has 1797 edition of "A treatise on the police of the metropolis" by Patrick Colquhoun
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12 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1630 edition of "De republica Anglorum" by Sir Thomas Smith
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13 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Adagia, id est : Prouerbiorum" by Johann Jakob Grynaeus
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14 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1620 edition of "Historia del Concilio tridentino" by Paolo Sarpi
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15 August 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1810 first edition of "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott
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16 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1700 edition of "Les caracteres de Theophraste" by Jean de La Bruyère
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17 August 2024: Leighton Library has volumes 1-2 second edition dated 1710-1722 of "Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church" by Joseph Bingham
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20 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1756 edition of "Exhortations et instructions chretiennes" by Louis Bourdaloue
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21 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of "Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu" by Mary Wortley Montagu
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22 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Discours politiques des rois" by Georges de Scudéry
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23 August 2024: Leighton Library has 1619 edition of "Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum" edited by Thomas Dempster
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24 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1662 edition of Book of Common Prayer
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25 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1634 first edition of "Commentum de terrae motu circulari : duobus libris refutatum" by Alexander Ross
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26 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1569 edition of "P. Rami Scholarum mathematicarum, libri unus et triginta" by Petrus Ramus
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27 August 2024: Smallest book in Leighton Library is 1564 edition of "De Imitatione Christi" by Thomas à Kempis
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28 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius
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29 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1740 edition of "A letter concerning toleration" by John Locke
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31 August 2024: Leighton Library has a 1883 edition of "Selections from the writings of Archbishop Leighton, edited with a memoir and notes by William Blair"
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01 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1653 first edition of "Conjectura cabbalistica" by Henry More
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02 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by John Napier
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04 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae"
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05 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Tommaso Campanella
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07 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1544 edition of "Euaggelikes proparaskeues biblia" edited by Robert Estienne
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10 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1549 edition of "Polubion Megalopolitou 'Istorion biblia 5, Kai epitomai 12. Polybij megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque" by Wolfgang Musculus
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12 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1616 edition of Bible which includes influential French translations of the Psalms by Clément Marot
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13 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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14 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1533 first edition of "De occulta philosophia" by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
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15 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1622 first edition of "Monarchiæ Ecclesiasticæ" by John Floyd
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16 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1777 edition of "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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18 September 2024: Leighton Library has 2nd edition of 1755/6 of "A Dictionary of the English Language" by Dr Samuel Johnson
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20 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1659 edition of "Sinicae historiae decas prima" by Martino Martini
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20 September 2024: Leighton Library Volunteers recognised at SVE 2024 Inspire Volunteering Awards
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21 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1810 first edition of the epic poem "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott
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22 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1656 edition of "Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritũ, de vaticiniis, divinationibus" edited by Henning Grosse
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23 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1698 First Edition of "A defence of dramatick poetry : being a review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage" by Edward Filmer, Thomas Rymer and Elkanah Settle
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24 September 2024: Leighton Library has a 1667 edition of "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"
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25 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1641 edition of 96 sermons of Lancelot Andrewes
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29 September 2024: Leighton Library has 1671 edition of "The creed of Mr. Hobbes examined; in a feigned conference between him and a student in divinity" by Thomas Tenison
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02 October 2024: Leighton Library has 1602 first edition of Agostino Valier’s “Vita B. Caroli Borromei“ about Italian cardinal and saint Charles Borromeo
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02 October 2024: Leighton Library has a 1768 fifth edition, corrected, of “Dialogues of the dead” by George Lyttelton and Elizabeth Robinson Montagu
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03 October 2024: Leighton Library has a 1736 edition of "Theologiae vere christianae apologia - An apology for the true Christian divinity" by Robert Barclay
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04 October 2024: Leighton Library has 1649 3-volume 2nd edition of "Las obras de la S. madre Teresa de Jesus" autobiography of Saint Teresa of Jesus
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