Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 22h

Spooky season is here and we are excited to be displaying a selection of relevant books at the Georgian House on Thursday 16th October for their Strange Case of 7 Charlotte Square event. A few tickets might be left: come.ac/Spooky

An iceberg shaped like a skull containing shipwrecked ships

A murderous figure in a red robe holding a knife entering a Venetian gondola

A devil holding a pitchfork gesturing at lost souls just out of frame, grimacing too

1 2

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 1d

Soon at McNaughtan’s!

Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share this year’s book-themed Christmas card design as per now annual tradition.

Hope you like it!

Now to print the cards.

#art #books

1 4

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 1d

Three more dossiers followed from the pens of Wheatley and his friend Links (who did the actual plotting), and their influence stretched all the way to computer games - this title was adapted for the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

5

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 1d

Expensive to produce and fiddly to sell, it nearly flopped before Selfridges agreed to take 1,000 copies as long as Wheatley signed them all; it went on to sell 120,000 within six months.

1 5

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 1d

The first edition of a pioneering participatory detective ‘novel’ from 1936, in the form of a dossier of case files and accompanying evidence, allowing the reader to try to solve the mystery before opening the sealed section which records the right answer.

www.mcnaughtans.co.uk/product/murd...

1 1 8

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 2d

Today we mark 2,346 years since the death of statesman and orator Demosthenes, depicted here in the frontispiece of a 1771 printing of Thomas Leland’s translation of his orations, currently available via our website.

1

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 4d

Absolutely delighted with this new section devoted to gender and sexuality scholarship! The world of secondhand and antiquarian books has a reputation for focusing on dead white men—here’s to shifting the narrative, one book at a time.

5

Reposted by McNaughtan's Bookshop

Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 4d

Currently working on a new Christmas card design, which is now an annual tradition.

I always make them book-themed, so as to sell them at our bookshop - @mcnaughtans.co.uk (I co-own it with my husband).

The end is thankfully in sight for the new design, but while I finish it here’s last year’s.

11 24 330

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 4d

Personally, I’m gutted to have missed Hugo Allan’s disco on Thursday nights.

2

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 4d

Currently on the cataloguers’ desk, a selection of weekly guides to Nairobi nightlife.

1 2

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 5d

Is it about ‘smypathy’ though? 🤔

1 1

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 5d

Just a few highlights from the many gorgeous art books on our shelves today.

3

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 7d

I don’t think Adam Smith actually wrote about ‘habitual smypathy’ but I do like saying it out loud. Somehow the errata missed this one.

A page of text containing a quotation from Adam Smith with an obvious typo: ‘is in reality nothing but habitual smypathy’.

1 4

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 8d

2

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 8d

A fine selection of books on Japanese architecture we currently hold.

www.mcnaughtans.co.uk/product-tag/...

1 3

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 10d

A whole shelf full of authors and titles we often get asked for and rarely have— and all in luxurious @foliosociety.bsky.social editions. Which one do you need for your home library?

1 2

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 11d

Do you ever cut your Mars bar into slices to make the most of its delicious satisfaction?

Old ads never fail to delight— all of these are featured in a wartime Penguin paperback of Ernest Bramah’s detective novel Max Carrados.

4

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 12d

A frankly unreasonable number of booksellers in the imprint of this edition of Reflections on the Revolution in France here. 27! At least they arranged them in a pleasing pyramid shape.

4

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 13d

Turning over a new window on this grey autumn day, spy anything you like?

1

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 13d

Are you suffering from wind cholick, dry-belly-ach, or griping in the guts? Ask your doctor if Aqua-Anti-Tormonalis is right for you!

A verbose printed advertisement for a quack medicine from 1702.

2

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 15d

A nice variety of things going out onto the newly priced shelves…

A shelf of books including: 1715 by Szech, The Prophecies of the Brahmin Seer, The Two Companions, Lady Helen Hall, Scottish Clans and Tartans, The King Over the Water, Who Runs Edinburgh?, The Lore of Scotland, Bessie Quinn Survivor Spirit, The Stories of Muriel Spark, Bridging the Tweed, Heritage Trees of Scotland, and A New Race of Men.

A shelf of books including Horace, Catullus, Theocritus, Young’s Night Thoughts, Isocrates, Aristophanes, John Keay’s China, Pavlov’s Conditioned Reflexes, Drummond’s Poems and Prose, Football The Rugby Union Game, and The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again.

1

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 19d

A delightful little @jonathancape.bsky.social literary periodical subscription card found in a book today. What ‘particular type of book’ would you fill in on the reverse?

3

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 21d

And the Scotsman @scotsman.com ! www.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

Headline: ‘Edinburgh bookshop finds “striking mummified spider”’

3

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 21d

Our little spider has made it into the Daily Record!
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

A story in the Daily Record about our discovery of a dead spider in an old book.

1 5

McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 21d

Our little antique spider is famous! www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Gobsmacked Edinburgh bookshop staff make eerie discovery inside 200-year-old tome

Staff at McNaughtan's Bookshop, 3a-4a Haddington Place in Leith, made the find while sorting through a collection of antique tomes.

www.edinburghlive.co.uk

1 14