AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE BOOKS OF WILLIAM AND JOHN ADAM AT BLAIR ADAM

Abstract

While the architect members of the Adam family have been subjected to considerable scrutiny over the years, architectural historians seem to have overlooked the information to be gleaned from the 1883 catalogue of the Blair Adam library, a copy of which is held in the National Library of Scotland. Of course a catalogue printed almost a hundred years after the death of the last of the architects in the family is hardly a totally reliable guide. Nevertheless, if used with care and in association with other surviving evidence, it can shed additional light on a number of aspects of Adam biography.

Citation

MOWAT, I.R.M. (1979), "AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE BOOKS OF WILLIAM AND JOHN ADAM AT BLAIR ADAM", Library Review, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012680