Volume I (1908)
- Provisional List of Old Houses Remaining in High Street and Canongate of Edinburgh
By Bruce J. Home - The Embalming of Montrose
By John Cameron Robbie - The Pantheon: An Old Edinburgh Debating Society
By John A. Fairley - Sculptured Stones of Old Edinburgh: The Dean Group
By John Geddie - The Buildings at the East End of Princes Street and Corner of the North Bridge: A Chapter in the Early History of the New Town of Edinburgh
By William Cowan
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Volume II (1909)
- Edinburgh at the Time of the Occupation of Prince Charles
By Walter Biggar Blaikie - The Flodden Wall of Edinburgh
By W. Moir Bryce - The Covenanters’ Prison in the Inner Greyfriars Yard, Edinburgh
By W. Moir Bryce - The Cannon-Ball House
By Bruce J. Home - The Sculptured Stones of Edinburgh: II. The West-End and Dalry Groups
By John Geddie - An Eighteenth Century Survival: The Wagering Club, 1775
By Jas. B. Sutherland - At the Back of St. James’s Square
By James Steuart - Edinburgh Street Traders and their Cries
By James H. Jamieson - Old Cellars and Relics Discovered During the Excavations for the New Chapel at St. Giles’ Cathedral
By Francis Caird Inglis - Statues of Justice and Mercy, From the Old Parliament House
By Thomas Ross, LL.D.
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Volume III (1910)
- The Armorial Bearings of the City of Edinburgh
By Sir James Balfour Paul, LL.D., Lyon King of Arms - The Black Friars of Edinburgh
By W. Moir Bruce - An Account of the Friday Club, Written by Lord Cockburn, Together with Notes on Certain Other Social Clubs in Edinburgh
By Harry A. Cockburn - The Sculptured Stones of Edinburgh: III. Miscellaneous
By John Geddie - The History of Parliament Square: Being an Historical Notice of the Southern Precincts of the Church of St. Giles, Edinburgh
By Ralph Richardson - Lady Stair’s House
By Thomas B. Whitson
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Volume IV (1911)
- George Drummond: An Eighteenth Century Lord Provost
By William Baird - The Sculptured Stones of Edinburgh: IV. Wrychtis-housis
By John Geddie - The Old Tolbooth: With Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley - An Old Edinburgh Monument Now in Perthshire
By Thomas Ross, LL.D. - The Society of Friendly Contributors of Restalrig
By Rev. W. Burnett - Recent Excavations and Researches at Holyrood
By W. T. Oldrieve
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Volume V (1912)
- Saint Margaret of Scotland and Her Chapel in the Castle of Edinburgh
By W. Moir Bryce - The Site of the Black Friars’ Monastery from the Reformation to the Present Day
By William Cowan - The Old Tolbooth: Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley - Moubray House
By Andrew E. Murray - Letters from John Bonar to William Creech Concerning the Formation of the Speculative Society
By Rev. Henry Baton
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Volume VI (1913)
- David’s Tower at Edinburgh Castle
By W. T. Oldrieve - The Incorporated Trade of the Skinners of Edinburgh, with Extracts from their Minutes, 1549-1603
By William Angus - The Old Tolbooth: Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley
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Volume VII (1914)
- The Holyrood Ordinale: a Scottish Version of a Directory of English Augustinian Canons, with Manual and Other Liturgical Forms
Transcribed and Edited by Francis C. Eeles F.S.A.Scot., F.R.Hist.S. – Rhind Lecturer in Archaeology, 1913-14 (note: large files for download)
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Volume VIII (1916)
- The Magdalen Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh
By Thomas Ross and G. Baldwin Brown - The Visitation of the College of Edinburgh in 1690
By R. K. Hannay - The Old Tolbooth: Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley - John Wesley in Edinburgh
By W. Forbes Gray - The Ancient Regalia of Scotland
By W. Moir Bryce
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Volume IX (1916)
- Incidents and Documents, A.D. 1513-1523
By R. K. Hannay - Shipping and the Staple, A.D. 1515-1531
By R. K. Hannay - Edinburgh Engravers
By John C. Guy - The Old Tolbooth: Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley - The Sedan Chair in Edinburgh
By James H. Jamieson
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Volume X (1918)
- The Burgh Muir of Edinburgh from the Records
By William Moir Bryce, LL.D. – President of the Old Edinburgh Club- The Forest of Drumselch and the Burgh Muir
- The Grange of St. Giles
- The Estate of Bruntsfield
- The Lands of Whitehouse
- The Muir — David I to James IV
- The King’s Charter of 1508
- The Flodden Campaign
- The Magistrates and their Jurisdiction
- The Convent of Saint Catherine of Siena
- King James V and the Burgh Muir
- St. Roque’s Chapel and the Lands of Canaan
- The Great Plague of 1585
- The Wester Burgh Muir
- The Easter Burgh Muir
- The Fellowship and Society of Brewers of Ale and Beer in Edinburgh
- Bruntsfield Links
- The South or Burgh Loch
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Volume XI (1922)
- Map of Edinburgh in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
By Henry F. Kerr - The Old Tolbooth: Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley - Shelley in Edinburgh
By Walter Edwin Peck (M.A., Columbia) - On the Antecedents of the College of Justice
By R. K. Hannay - The Tailors’ Hall, Cowgate
By Thomas Ross, G. Baldwin Brown, W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XII (1923)
- Notes on the Names of the Closes and Wynds of Old Edinburgh
By Charles B. Boog Watson - The Old Tolbooth: Extracts from the Original Records
By John A. Fairley - The Maps of Edinburgh, 1544-1851
By William Cowan - Measured Drawings of Lawnmarket and Castlehill made by Thomas Hamilton, Architect
By F. C. Mears
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Volume XIII (1924)
- The Building of the Parliament House
By R. K. Hannay and G. P. H. Watson - Bearford’s Parks
By William Cowan - List of Owners of Property in Edinburgh, 1635
By Charles B. Boog Watson
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Volume XIV (1925)
- A Note on Huntly House
By William Cowan - The Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh
By Henry F. Kerr - The Canongate Crafts: An Agreement of 1610
By Annie I. Cameron - Mylne Square
By the late Irvine A. Stirling - The Sculptured Stones of the “Royal Mile”
By John Geddie - The Gardens of the Castle
By C. A. Malcolm - Some Inns of the Eighteenth Century
By James H. Jamieson - Reminiscences of a Town Clerk
Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XV (1927)
- The Domestic Affairs of the Burgh, 1554-1589
By Marguerite Wood - The Sanctuary of Holyrood
By Hugh Hannah - Sculptured Stones of the “Royal Mile”: II
By John Geddie - The Old Infirmary and Earlier Hospitals
By Robert Thin - The Burlaw Court of Leith
By David Robertson - The Melville Monument
By W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XVI (1928)
- Extracts from Bannatyne Club Publications
- Introduction
By W. Forbes Gray - A Diurnal of Occurrents, 1513-1575
- Journal of the Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh, 1573
- Historie and Life of King James the Sext, 1566-1596
- Diary of John Nicoll, 1650-1667
- Historical Notices of Scottish Affairs, 1661-1668
By Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart - Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh, 1689
- Introduction
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Volume XVII (1930)
- Sir Daniel Wilson: The Man and his Work
By Hugh Hannah - ‘Cockpen House,’ Castlehill
By H. A. Cockburn - Sculptured Stones of the “Royal Mile”: III
By John Geddie - St. Paul’s Work
By Marguerite Wood - Gabriel’s and Other Old Roads
Compiled by Henry F. Kerr - Charles II. Statue, Parliament Square
By E. J. MacRae - The Incorporation of Candlemakers of Edinburgh, 1517-1884
By W. Forbes Gray - The General Register House
By Henry M. Paton
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Volume XVIII (1932)
- Early Golf at Bruntsfield and Leith
By C. E. S. Chambers - State Ceremonials in Edinburgh in the Olden Time
By Francis J. Grant, C.V.O., LL.D., Lyon King of Arms - The Barony of Calton: Part I
By Henry M. Paton - George IV. Bridge and the West Approach
By David Robertson - Incorporation of Cordiners of the Canongate, 1538-1773
By C. A. Malcolm - Notes on Lands of High Riggs, Drumdryan, and Tollcross
By John Smith - The Quarrying of Salisburgh Crags
By W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XIX (1933)
- The Hammermen of the Canongate: Part I
By Marguerite Wood - Social Assemblies of the Eighteenth Century
By James H. Jamieson - The Barony of Calton: Part II
By Henry M. Paton - Bonnington: Its Lands and Mansions
By John Russel - The Musical Society of Edinburgh and St. Cecilia’s Hall
By W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XX (1935)
- The Grammar School of the Canongate
By H. M. Anderson - Dalry House: Its Lands and Owners
By John Smith - The Magistrates and Masters of Leith
By David Roberston - The Hammermen of the Canongate: Part II
By Marguerite Wood - An Eighteenth-Century Riding School
By W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XXI (1936)
- General Index to the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club Volumes I-XX
Compiled by W. Forbes Gray F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot – Editor of the Club’s Publications
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Volume XXII (1938)
- The Royal Exchange and Other City Improvements
By W. Forbes Gray - A Note on the Hopetoun Monument
By W. M. Parker - The Edinburgh Charity Workhouse, 1740-1845
By Arthur Birnie - East and Wester Crofts of Bristo
By John Smith - The Incorporation of the Tailors of the Canongate
By W. H. Marwick - Medical Quacks in Edinburgh in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
By Robert Thin - The Builder of Pilrig House
By John Russell - The New Town of Edinburgh – I
By F. C. Mears and John Russell - The Story of Craigentinny
By James Smith - Peter Williamson’s Broadside
By William J. Hay
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Volume XXIII (1940)
- The New Town of Edinburgh – II
By F. C. Mears and John Russell - Gleanings from Scottish Exchequer Reports
W. Forbes Gray - The Story of Piershill
James Smith - The Neighbourhood Book
Marguerite Wood - Notes on an Old Lawsuit About Duddingston Mills
Henry M. Paton - St. Leonards Lands and Hospital
(John Smith), Henry M. Paton - Lord Kames and the North Bridge
Thomas McCrae
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Volume XXIV (1942)
- Diary of George Sandy, Apprentice W.S., 1788
By Charles A. Malcolm - Historic Morningside: Lands Mansions and Celebrities
By William Mair - The Bore Stone
By Henry M. Paton - ‘All the Statelie Buildings of … Thomas Robertson’ — A Building Speculator of the Seventeenth Century
By Marguerite Wood - The Lands of Newington and their Owners
By W. Forbes Gray - Lands of St. Leonards: Southern Section
By Henry M. Paton - Cardinal Beaton’s Palace: Blackfriars’ Wynd
By Henry F. Kerr - Miscellany
- Licence to Travel
- The Mound
- Ross (Bristo) House
- Gayfield Square
- Canongate Church
- Tennis
- St. Leonard’s Land and Hospital
- The General Register House
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Volume XXV (1945)
- The Weavers of Picardy
By John Mason - Notes on the History of Pilton
By W. Forbes Gray - Early Paper Making near Edinburgh
By Robert Waterson - Lands and Houses of Drumsheugh
By John Clark Wilson - Edinburgh Poll Tax Returns
By Marguerite Wood - Skene Drawings of Old Edinburgh
By Robert Butchart - Old Dovecotes in and around Edinburgh
By A. Niven Robertson - Miscellany
- Memories of Morningside
- Contracts for Tombstones
- Notes of a Visit to Edinburgh, 1778
- Porters and Tronmen
- Unrecorded Stone
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Volume XXVI (1948)
- George Square: Annals of an Edinburgh Locality, 1766-1926, from authentic records
By Margaret Tait and W. Forbes Gray
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Volume XXVII (1949)
- Edinburgh in Lord Provost Drummond’s Time
By W. Forbes Gray - Further Notes on Early Paper Making near Edinburgh
By Robert Waterson - The Hermitage of Braid
By C. A. Malcolm - Edinburgh House Numbers
By Frank Cent - The Edinburgh School of Design
By John Mason - Old Sundials in and near Edinburgh
By A. Niven Robertson - An Edinburgh Diary
By Henry W. Meikle - Some Notes on the Early History of the Dean Orphan Hospital
By John Richardson - Miscellany
- Dovecotes
By A. Niven Robertson - A Servitude Footpath
By Henry Tod, Junr. - Friends Burial Place, Pleasance
By Miss E. Mein - A Forgotten Grave
By F. Gent - The Lochs of Drylaw
By W. Forbes Gray - Two Old Edinburgh Characters
By Miss M Tait
- Dovecotes
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Volume XXVIII (1953)
- The Minutes of the Trades Maiden Hospital
By Rev. Edwin S. Towill - James Ronaldson, Baker, Typefounder, Philanthropist, and his Connexions in and around Edinburgh
By Miss M. Tait - An Addition to Laing’s Chartulary of St. Giles
By Miss Marguerite Wood - St. John Street: An Early Civic Improvement
By the late W. Forbes Gray - Convoys to the Trade on the East Coast of Scotland
By Miss Helen Armet - Ice Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
By A. Niven Robertson - The Notebook of Sir William Fettes, Bart.
By Miss Marguerite Wood - Charles II Lead Equestrian Statue, Parliament Square, Edinburgh
By A. G Forgie - William Forbes Gray: An Appreciation
By the Editor - Miscellany
- Echo of an Edinburgh Election
By Miss M. Tait - A Peep at Edinburgh in the Summer of 1768
[Ed.] - ‘Further Notes on Early Paper Making near Edinburgh’ (Corrigenda)
By Robert Waterston - A French Emigré in Edinburgh in 1797
By J. W. Joyce
- Echo of an Edinburgh Election
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Volume XXIX (1956)
- The Minutes of the Merchant Maiden Hospital
By Rev. Edwin S. Towill - The Tron Church
By Miss Marguerite Wood - Notes on Rebuilding in Edinburgh in the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
By Miss Helen Armet - Extracts from an Edinburgh Journal, 1823-1833: Part I (1823-1828)
By D. G. Moir - Miscellany
- The Society of Bowlers
By Miss Helen Armet - Sentence by the Balies, 24th August 1738
By Miss Helen Armet - The Loyal Edinburgh Spearmen
By Major H. P. E. Pereia
- The Society of Bowlers
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Volume XXX (1959)
- Treverlen, Duddingston and Arthur’ Seat
By G. W. S. Barrow - The Topography of the Water of Leith Village
By Basil C. Skinner - Allan Ramsay of Kinkeill’s Property on the Castlehill
By Helen Armet - William’s Hut
By Margaret Tait - Lost Opportunities: An Account of Some of Edinburgh’s Unrealised Projects
By R. Butchart - Extracts from the Journal of Jessy Allan, Wife of John Harden, 1801-1811
By William Park - Shops in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Edinburgh
By W. H. Marwick - Extracts from an Edinburgh Journal, 1823-1833: Part II (1829-1833)
By D. G. Moir - Edinburgh Manuscripts in Possession of Edinburgh Public Libraries
- Miscellany
- An Inventory of 1709
By Helen Armet - The Origins of the Dean Bridge Project
By Basil C. Skinner
- An Inventory of 1709
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Volume XXXI (1962)
- The Tower of Merchiston: I. History
By Helen Armet - The Tower of Merchiston: II. Architecture
By Stuart Harris - George Heriot’s Hospital
By W. Douglas Simpson - An Old Edinburgh Club
By Alexander Clark - Edinburgh Shawls
By Dorothy A. White and Margaret H Swain - A Contemporary Account of the Royal Visit to Edinburgh, 1822
By B. C. Skinner - Edinburgh Manuscripts in the Possession of the University of Edinburgh Library
- Miscellany
- Letters from Dr. Gregory and Sir Henry Raeburn
By John Richardson - Clothing as a Pledge
By Helen Armet - A Seizure for Debt
By Helen Armet - Disgraceful Conduct of a Burgess
By Helen Armet - The Apprentice Agreement of Two Girls in 1638
By Helen Armet - Lost Opportunities – Nor’ Loch
By R. Butchart - Three More Huts
By Margaret Tait
- Letters from Dr. Gregory and Sir Henry Raeburn
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Volume XXXII (1966)
- Map of the Siege of Leith, 1560
Gordon Donaldson - Two Notable Epidemics in Edinburgh and Leith
By H. P. Tait - Some Edinburgh Furniture Makers
By Francis Bamford - Edinburgh Castle, 1751-1753
By T. I. Rae - Teachers in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century
By Alexander Law - The Loyal Edinburgh Spearmen
By Helen Armet - George Combe and the 1836 Election for the Edinburgh University Chair of Logic
By A. Cameron Grant - The Dean Gardens
By Neil Bayne - Tollcross to Morningside in the Olden Days
By Andrew Patterson - Miscellany
- A Dispute Between Guild Brothers
By Helen Armet - Edinburgh in the Pitcalnie Papers
By Miss R. R. Williamson Ross of Pitcalnie - Early Inhabitants of George Square
By Margaret Tait
- A Dispute Between Guild Brothers
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Volume XXXIII (1969)
Part 1 (1969)
- James Hossack – Honorary Secretary of the Old Edinburgh Club, 1953-1965
- The Tower of Merchiston – A Supplementary Report
By Stuart Harris - Three Little-Known Early Drawings of Edinburgh Castle
By John G. Dunbar - The Recollections of Lindsay Rae – Bowmaker to the Royal Company of Archers
By Sir James Fergusson - The Edinburgh Branch of the Scottish National Union of Cabinet and Chair Makers, 1833-1837
By Ian MacDougall - James McLaren, Schoolmaster
By The late Miss Elizabeth Hume Ross - Municipal Politics in Victorian Edinburgh
By W. H. Marwick - The Edinburgh Literary Institute
By W. H. Marwick - The Bible Land Manuscript
- The Scottish Marine Station for Scientific Research, Granton, 1884 to 1903
By W. N. Boog Watson - Miscellany
- Edinburgh in the Pitcalnie Papers again
Part 2 (1971)
- Extracts from the Diary of the Rev. David Aitken, D.D. 1864-1875
By R. G. Heddle - The Edinburgh Skating Club
By Margaret Elliot
Part 3 (1972)
- The Balm-Well of Saint Catherine, Liberton
By W. N. Boog Watson - Dr Thomas Latta
By Alastair H. B. Masson - The Mercat Cross of Edinburgh
By Stuart Harris - The Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
By Angus Graham - Three Edinburgh Microscope Makers: John Finlayson, William Robertson and John Clark
By D. J. Bryden - “Hamilton Place Academy”
A Prospectus of 1859 - Appreciations
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Volume XXXIV (1974 & 1979)
Part I (1974)
- The Regality and Barony of Broughton: Some of its Characters and Personalities, 1592-1600
By Andrew H. Anderson - Survey of the Development of Edinburgh
By Dr Marguerite Wood
Part 2 (1979)
- Early Baths and Bagnios in Edinburgh
By the late W. N. Boog Watson - John Knox in the Bishop of Dunkeld’s “Great Lodging”
By W. Stanford Reid - Excavations on the Site of the Chapel of St Mary and St James, Newhaven
By J. C. Wallace - Edinburgh’s Village Suburbs, 1800-1939
By Alan J. Strachan - Boswell’s Court, Castlehill
By Philip L. Wilson - John Adams, Debtor
By R. E. Scott - Edinburgh University’s Extension Scheme of 1874
By Peter D. Savage
Part 3 (1983)
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Volume XXXV (1981 & 1985)
Part 1 (1981)
- A Schoolboy’s Diary for 1850
By Roy R. Campbell
Part 2 (1985)
- Midlothian – or the Shire of Edinburgh?
By Professor G. W. S. Barrow - Mary Queen of Scots and Sir Simon Preston’s House
By Stuart Harris - The French Prisons in Edinburgh Castle
By N. G. Allen
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