Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The number of Volumes left by Mr. Stirling -- Early Catalogues -- Reprint of the first Catalogue. At their first meeting the directors ordered an inventory to be made of the books left by the founder. They were found to number 804, and were valued at £160. A list of them is given in the first catalogue (
...issued in 1792). A copy of this catalogue is in the library, and is probably the only copy existing. It is a small quarto, printed in the " Courier" office, by William Reid
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