Karen Baston, Charles Areskine’s Library – nominated for prize

Readers of this Blog will be delighted to hear that Brill have nominated Karen Baston, Charles Areskine’s Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment for the De Long Book History Prize (see http://www.sharpweb.org/main/delong-book-history-prize/)

This important monograph is based on the author’s excellent Edinburgh PhD thesis in legal history, which was funded under the AHRC’s collaborative doctoral research scheme, which involved cooperation between the University and the National Library for Scotland.