Brown, The Revd John (1722-1787), of Haddington, Lothian

Notes of lectures on rhetoric given at Haddington in 1776 by the Revd John Brown, professor in divinity to the Associate Burgher Synod. The notes were taken by James Black, who was recorded as a student of Brown in that year, and who later became minister at Dundee Schoolwynd Associate Burgher Church.

1776

1 volume 1 volume: 250 × 165 mm., 356 pp.

Sotheby's 15-17 Dec. 1930, lot 102.

Cf. William Mackelvie, Annals and statistics of the United Presbyterian Church (Edinburgh, 1873), pp. 159, 666-7.

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

18th-century half-calf binding, lettered on the spine 'Lectures by Brown of Haddington and Black of Dundee'. Inscription on front end paper 'Ex libris Jacobi Black 1776'.