A new catalogue of the Edinburgh Circulating Library: : containing twenty thousand volumes, English, French, and Italian ... Including all the books that have been lately published in every branch of literature; likewise music and prints: which are lent, by the year, half-year, or quarter, /
Sibbald, J.(James),1745-1803.
Edinburgh Circulating Library.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
ca. 1786]
Contents are described in P. Kaufman "The rise of community libraries in Scotland" The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 59, 1965, pp. 238-242.
With 5 appendices covering new books acquired for the library between 1781-1786.
Sibbald acquired the library in 1780 from the widow of John Yair; in 1791 he handed over the management of the business to Messrs. Laurie and Symington (Plomer "Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers [etc.] 1726-1775" pages 352-353).
ESTC
Edinburgh Circulating Library
Scotland Edinburgh.