Page:Two tracts on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland.djvu/13



N Overture for Founding and Maintaining Bibliothecks in every Paroch throughout the Kingdom" was published anonymously in 1699; the original is now a tract of great rarity. In 1889 ''William Blades reprinted it in facsimile from a copy in the Wigan Public Library. This first tract or "overture" is traced to Kirkwood by means of a second tract, entitled "A Copy of a Letter anent a Project for Erecting a library in every Presbytery, or at least County in the Highlands. From a Reverend Minister of the Scots Nation now in England." The author of these''