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Biographical
A selection of biographical works which deal with Edinburgh luminaries.
Biographical Dictionaries
A General Biographical Dictionary - Volume IV
By John Gorton
H.G. Bohn, 1851
New General Biographical Dictionary - Volume VII
By Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Thomas Wright
Fellowes, 1848
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (Vol 1 of 3)
Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson
Blackie and Son, 1851
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (Part V)
Robert Chambers
Blackie and Son, 1854
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (Part IX)
Robert Chambers
Blackie and Son, 1855
Biographies
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
By John Gibson Lockhart
Ticknor and Fields, 1861
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart Vol VII
by John Gibson Lockhart
Robert Cadell, 1838
Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
By John Gibson Lockhart
A. and C. Black, 1853
Documents Illustrative of Sir William Wallace, his Life and Times
by Joseph Stephenson
Maitland Club,
1841
A Memoir of the Christian Labours, Pastoral and Philanthropic of Thomas Chalmers
Francis Wayland
Gould and Lincoln, 1864
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers Vol III
by Rev William Hanna
Sutherland and Knox, 1851
A Letter to Adam Smith on the Life, Death and Philosophy of His Friend David Hume
By George Horne
Clarendon, 1777
The Life of Robert Burns
by James Currie
W & R Chambers, 1838
The Life and Work of Robert Burns Vol III of IV
Edited by Robert Chambers
Harper and Brothers, 1854
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Authors associated with Edinburgh
Billings, Robert William
Brewster, David
Burns, Robert
Chalmers, Thomas
Chambers, Robert
Cockburn, Henry
Defoe, Daniel
Ferguson, James
Ferguson, Robert M
Fergusson, Robert
Flockhart, Robert
Gilfillan, Robert
Guthrie, Thomas
Henderson, William
Hogg, James [1]
Hogg James [2]
Hume, David
McCulloch, John R
Miller, Hugh
Nicoll, Robert
Playfair, William
de Quincey, Thomas
Ramsay, Allan
Reid, Thomas
Robertson, William
Robison, John
Rogers, Charles
Scott, Walter
Simpson, James Young
Smiles, Samuel
Smith, Adam
Smolett, Tobias George
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stewart, Dugald
Wilson, John
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