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Today marks the 135th anniversary of the opening of the Forth Bridge. Left, from Phillips' 1889 "The Forth Bridge in its various stages of construction.."; right, Wilhelm Westoven's 1890 "The Forth Bridge". More in alt.

C/o Richard Morris Richard Morris, this 1813 David Wilkie sketch for "The Letter of Introduction" shows bookcases identical to those designed for the Signet Library in 1808 and a colour scheme very similar to the original 1815 scheme used in the Library when new.

Leaves from a pair of short texts on early Scottish music in the hand of the antiquarian Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851) in Signet Library collections. Unpublished? but difficult to date. The first page mentions Writer to the Signet and historian William Tytler (1711-1792)

Four copies of Nicolas Caussin's 1645 Historia di Maria Stuarda on display to a delegation of visiting Italian lawyers at the Signet Library this morning.

Hamilton Palace will be the subject of a talk by Dr Godfrey Evans of the Virtual Hamilton Palace Trust, "Scotland's Greatest Palace", at the Signet Library in May 2025 - details at this link wssociety.co.uk/eventsdata/202…

Thanks to this terrific funding we are already some 149 records into the project and learning more and more about the social networks and milieu of the early John Watson's Institution. Much more to come: watch this space.

An exhibition of work by photographers Thomas Annan, James Craig Annan and Country Life staff photographer A.E. Henson prior to Professor Godfrey Evans' lecture on Hamilton Palace at the Signet Library last night.

The return of our historic c. 1820 Regency sofas after restoration and reupholstering. They were originally made by the Chippendale of Scotland, William Trotter, at his manufactury on Canal Street. Photographs by johockey_1968

Patrick Adam painted the Signet Library at least six times in the Edwardian and Great War period and his works form a unique record both of the library's decorative scheme (designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson) of the time and of the building's life and use.

A gold harp on the 18th century binding of the 'Irish Statutes at Large', a compilation of Irish legislation from 1310 to 1800

This may be the only surviving copy of this 1770s proposal for woollen manufacture in Dundee: we can't trace more, and given that this predates jute there, we wonder if a digital facsimile might be of interest to e.g. Verdant Works, the unis & and city library, the McManus etc?