EARLY RECORDS RELATING TO MINING IN SCOTLAND COLLECTED BY R. W. COCHRAN-PATRICK, M.P. [Illustration: sample illustration] _EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS_ RECORDS OF THE COINAGE OF SCOTLAND. =EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS.= "The future Historians of Scotland will be very fortunate if many parts of their materials are so carefully worked up for them and set before them in so complete and taking a form."—_Athenæum._ "When we say that these two volumes contain more than 770 records, of which more than 550 have never been printed before, and that they are illustrated by a series of Plates, by the autotype process, of the coins themselves, the reader may judge for himself of the learning, as well as the pains, bestowed on them both by the Author and the Publisher."—_Times._ "The most handsome and complete Work of the kind which has ever been published in this country."—_Numismatic Chronicle_, Pt. IV., 1875. "We have in these Records of the Coinage of Scotland, not the production of a _dilettante_, but of a real student, who, with rare pains and the most scholarly diligence, has set to work and collected into two massive volumes a complete history of the coinage of Scotland, so far as it can be gathered from the ancient records."—_Academy._ ------- EARLY RECORDS RELATING TO MINING IN SCOTLAND. =EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS.= "The documents contained in the body of the work are given without alteration or abridgment, and the introduction is written with ability and judgment, presenting a clear and concise outline of the earlier history of the Mining Industries of Scotland."—_Scotsman._ "The documents ... comprise a great deal that is very curious, and no less that will be important to the historian in treating of the origin of one of the most important branches of the national industry."—_Daily News._ "Such a book ... revealing as it does the first developments of an industry which has become the mainspring of the national prosperity, ought to be specially interesting to all patriotic Scotchmen."—_Saturday Review._ ------- _EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS._ ARCHÆOLOGICAL ESSAYS BY THE LATE SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON, BART. EDITED BY THE LATE JOHN STUART, LL.D. AUTHOR OF THE “SCULPTURED STONES OF SCOTLAND.” _Two Vols. 4to._ 21_s._ 1. Archæology. │6. Leprosy and Leper │ Hospitals. 2. Inchcolm. │7. Greek Medical │ Vases.