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Adam Smith's Library: A Catalogue
Edited by Hiroshi Mizuta
Clarendon Press
Oxford
2000
xxiv + 290pp.
L70.00
Keywords Private libraries
Adam Smith (1723-90), baptized in Kirkcaldy near Fife, is one of Scotland's and Britain's greatest philosophical thinkers. Hiroshi Mizuta, a Japanese Professor of Philosophy, has reconstructed his library Following a listing of abbreviations, of libraries consulted and Latin place-names, the Introduction deals with four areas. These consist of the formation of Smith's library, its dispersion, its reconstruction, and the present catalogue. Smith's family inherited his library, part of which was sold...