The Old Edinburgh Club Publications

Book Of The Old Edinburgh Club

The Club has published the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club since 1908. The 40 volumes make up a substantial body of historical articles and source material about Edinburgh's history.

The original series was published in 35 volumes, 1908 - 1985. A cumulative index to volumes I-XX was published as volume XXI (1936). Separate indexes can be found in volumes XXII - XXXIII and each of the parts which make up volumes XXXIV-XXXV.

The new series of the Book began in 1991, and a cumulative index to volumes 1-5 was published as part of volume 5 (2002). The contents of the new series are listed below.

Guidelines for Contributors
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Contents of BOEC New Series Volumes 1-7

New Series Volumes 1-7
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8

	Volume 1, 1991
click on image to enlarge	Ceremonial in Edinburgh: The Heralds and the Jacobite Risings. Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight. Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Edinburgh Seedsmen and Nurserymen. Priscilla Minay. Two Robert Adam Buildings illustrated on Edinburgh Trade Tokens. G. R. Dalgleish. The Edinburgh Villa. Ian Gow. An Edinburgh Intrigue: Brewster's Society of Arts and the Pantograph Dispute. A. D. C. Simpson.
	Edinburgh Portraits Sir William Forbes, 1739-1806, Banker and Philanthropist. Sheila Devlin-Thorp.
	Reekiana An Edinburgh Lawyer and his Bees. Una A. Robertson. Causey Clash of Kirk, Town and College, 1747-48. Iain Gordon Brown.
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	Volume 2, 1992
click on image to enlarge	New Light on the First New Town. Stuart Harris. 'The Connoisseurs' Identified? Zella Ashford. Robert Adam's Drawings: Edinburgh's Loss, London's Gain. Iain Gordon Brown. John Gulland's Diary, 1846-1849: A Transcript and Commentary. John B. Barclay.
	Edinburgh Portraits Samuel McClellan, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1706-1708. Richard Torrance. William Nicol, FRSE, c.1771-1851, Lecturer, Scientist and Collector. A. D. Morrison-Low.
	Reekiana The School of the Royal College of Holyrood House. The Very Reverend Ronald Selby Wright. A Scottish Rococo Bookplate and its Peers. Ian Gow.
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	Volume 3, 1994
click on image to enlarge	The Lands of Warriston. Zella Ashford. Fire and Filth: Edinburgh's Environment, 1660-1760. Rab Houston. The Development of Edinburgh's Second New Town. Connie Byrom. The West Port Murders and the Miniature Coffins from Arthur's Seat. Samuel Pyeatt Menefee and Allen D. C. Simpson. Changing Edinburgh. Ian Campbell. The Holy Corner. Yvonne Hillyard.
	Edinburgh Portraits William Smellie, 1740-1795. Stephen Brown.
	Reekiana The Wrichtishousis: 'A Very Curious Edifice'. Charles McKean. John Kay's Satires on Sir Lawrence Dundas. Iain Gordon Brown. James Hamilton's 'Lying-In' Hospital at Park House. A. D. C. Simpson.
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	Volume 4, 1997
click on image to enlarge	Historical Notes on Chessels Court. R. Ian McCallum. The Turnpike Road to Cramond and Queensferry. Barclay S. Fraser. A Genteel Academy: The Edinburgh Drawing Institution, 1825-1836. Helen Smailes. D. T. K. Drummond and the Foundation of St Thomas's Church. David Ford. Public and Privileged Access: A Historical Survey of Admission Charges and Visitor Figures for Part of the Scottish National Collections. Geoffrey N. Swinney and David Heppell.
	Edinburgh Portrait Greyfriars' Bobby Ð Dog or Myth? Sara Stevenson.
	Reekiana The Palace at Edinburgh Castle. Charles McKean. The Canonmills Gunpowder Manufactory and a newly discovered Plan by John Adair. Peter G. Vasey. James Hutton's House at St John's Hill, Edinburgh. Norman E. Butcher. Surpassing Expectations: An East Anglian Visitor's Report of 1790. Iain Gordon Brown. The First and Second Halls of the Royal Medical Society. M. H. Kaufman. An Accidental Crime. N. J. Mills. Shinty in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh and a Painting of Duddingston Loch by Charles Altamont Doyle. John Burnett. The Conversazione at the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 1875. John Burnett.
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	Volume 5, 2002
click on image to enlarge	William Cheape of the Canongate, an Eighteenth Century Linen Manufacturer. Vanessa Habib. The Museums of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. M. H. Kaufman and S. Blomfield. A Century of Change in George Square, 1876-1976. Clive Fenton.
	Edinburgh Portrait Hugh William Williams ('Grecian' Williams) 1773-1829. Joe Rock.
	Reekiana Adam Square: An Edinburgh Architectural First. Ian R. M. Mowat. James Craig, 1739-1795: Correction of his Date of Birth. Kitty Cruft. An Undocumented Plan for Edinburgh's First New Town by James Craig. Volker M. Welter. Additions to the Descriptive List of Works and Projects by James Craig. Anthony Lewis.
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	Index to Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, New Series, Volumes 1-5
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	Volume 6, 2005
click on image to enlarge	Defending the Burgh: Continuity and Change in Early Modern Edinburgh’s Defence Infrastructure. Aaron M. Allen Richard Cooper Senior (c.1696-1764) and his Properties in Edinburgh. Joe Rock From James Mansfield to Ramsays, Bonars & Company: Some Notes on the Story of a Private Bank. Zella Ashford Location Veterinary Education in Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century. Alastair A. Macdonald, Colin M. Warwick and W. T. Johnston
	Edinburgh Portrait William Turner, Cabinet Maker, Entrepreneur and Lord Provost, 1772-1833 Stephen Jackson
	Reekiana ‘Our Small World of Fashion’; or the Dark Side of the Ball. Iain Gordon Brown A Rare Survival – The Whin Club Box Jill Turnbull
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	Volume 7, 2008
click on image to enlarge	Rosebery and the Birth of the Old Edinburgh Club Owen Dudley Edwards Burgage Plots and the Foundation of the Burgh of Edinburgh Robin Tait The Prisons of War in Edinburgh Castle Chris Tabraham Thomas and John Donaldson and the Edinburgh Medical Class Cards A.D.C. Simpson An Account of the Duddingston Curling Society, 1795 - 1854 David B. Smith Robert Forrest (1789 - 1852) and his Exhibition on the Calton Hill Joe Rock The Edinburgh School of Cookery Una A. Robertson
	Edinburgh Portraits Gregor Drummond, 1744 - 1813, Flesher Graham Palmer Daniel Wilson, 1816 - 1892 Kitty Cruft
	Reekiana James Craig’s Original Design for the Observatory on Calton Hill, May 1776 D.J. Bryden The Burns-Scott Meeting at Sciennes Hill House David Purdie Daniel Macintosh and the Repository of Arts Iain Gordon Brown
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	Volume 8, 2010
	The OEC Centenary Conference: President’s Remarks Iain Gordon Brown In Search of Twentieth-Century Edinburgh R. J. Morris Lawyer’s Edinburgh 1908-2008 Hector L. McQueen Twentieth-Century Science in Edinburgh: A brief Personal Selection Aubrey Manning The Lecture as Edinburgh’s Snare of the Sun Owen Dudley Edwards Religious Identity in a Century of Secularisation: The Edinburgh Churches Since 1900 Stewart J. Brown Rambling Round the Walls One Hundred Years On Graeme Cruickshank A Centenary Re-creation of an OEC Council Ritual Graeme Cruickshank
	Constitution of the Old Edinburgh Club Annual Report of the Old Edinburgh Club for the Year 2007-2008 Annual Report of the Old Edinburgh Club for the Year 2008-2009

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Guidelines for Contributors

1. Authors are invited to send a preliminary note outlining the proposed contribution to the editor of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club (BOEC), Dr Andrew Fraser, 21 Warriston Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 5LB
email or tel 0131 557 2252.
An early indication of the illustrations envisaged would be helpful.

2. Copy should be submitted in typescript, double spaced, on one side of A4 paper, with wide margins. It is desirable that the text is also supplied on disk when the contribution is produced by word processor.

3. Contributions should follow the house style as shown in the most recently published volume of the new series of BOEC. Copies can be consulted in the Edinburgh Room, Edinburgh City Libraries, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, and other subscribing libraries.

4. Notes and references should follow the text, with arabic numerals inserted consecutively at the ends of the appropriate sentences in the text. This is most appropriately done with autonumbered endnotes in a word processor program.

5. References to printed sources should be set out as in the following examples. Titles of books and journals in italics. All abbreviations should be spelt out in full at first mention.
Sir Daniel Wilson, Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Edinburgh 1891) II, p. 59.
J. B. Morrell, 'Medicine and Science in the Eighteenth Century', in Gordon Donaldson (ed.), Four Centuries: Edinburgh University Life, 1583-1983 (Edinburgh 1983), pp. 38-52.
R. K. Hannay and G. P. H. Watson, 'The Building of Parliament House', Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, 13 (1924), pp. 1-78.

6. References to manuscript sources should be in accordance with the practice of the repository in which the documents are housed. Examples are:
Edinburgh City Archives (ECA), Town Council Minutes, 12 August 1752.
National Library of Scotland (NLS), MS. 638, ff. 9-10.

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Ordering copies

UK residents may buy single copies of any volume of BOEC New Series Vols 2-6 only at £6 each, including postage and packing to a UK address. (Please note: Vol 1 is no longer available.) If you buy more than one volume, please add £5 extra for each volume (ie say you want Vols 2, 5 and 6: the cost will be £16).

BOEC New Series Volume 7 (published September 2008) costs £15, including postage and packing to a UK address. The cost for all 6 volumes available is the special price of £35.
We can usually manage a special rate for those resident in Edinburgh (by arranging a delivery time and place) or for those who can collect copies from a specific pick-up point in the city: the cost is £4 per single volume (Vols 2-6); £17 for a copy of each one of Vols 2-6; and £32 for each one of Vols 2-7. Please contact us in advance to check that we can manage the special Edinburgh offer rate for you.

For those outside UK in the rest of Europe, the cost per volume is £7 (except for Volume 7, cost £15), including postage and packing. The cost for all volumes available is the special price of £47.

For those in the rest of the world, please contact us for a quotation, stating whether the books should be sent airmail or surface post. We estimate that the rate per volume, including postage and packing, would be £10 per volume (for Volume 7 only, the cost will be around £19).

Orders should be sent to Dr Alan Borthwick, Secretary, Old Edinburgh Club, 25 West Relugas Road, Edinburgh EH9 2PW. Cheques (in pounds sterling only) should be made payable to Old Edinburgh Club.

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23rd March 2010. Some of the Council members of the Old Edinburgh Club; Alan Borthwick (General Secretary), Andrew Fraser (Editor BOEC), Alan McKinney (Treasurer), Robin Tait (Vice-President) and Allen Simpson (Membership Secretary) packing the latest edition (Volume 8 New Series ) of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club for postage and delivery. Club members who attended the last of our Winter Programme lectures, an in-depth study of Alexander Nasmyth by Dr Patricia Andrew, were able to pick up their copies on the night.
Photo Colin M Warwick

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