From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
This is a list of books published as the "Famous Scots Series" by the Edinburgh publishers, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, from 1896 to 1905. Forty-two of these books were published though least one volume in the series was planned but never published.
| No
| Title
| Author
| Date
| Notes
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| 1
| Thomas Carlyle
| Hector C. Macpherson
| Feb 1896
| A biography by Macpherson's son states that "his volume on Carlyle, which appeared in February 1896, was the first of the 'Famous Scots' Series."
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| 2
| Allan Ramsay
| Oliphant Smeaton
| March 1896
| There is a copy of this book signed by "Daniel K. Campbell" and dated by him "March 1896".
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| 3
| Hugh Miller
| W. Keith Leask
| March 1896
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| 4
| John Knox
| A. Taylor Innes
| May 1896
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| 5
| Robert Burns
| Gabriel Setoun
| Jun 1896
| "Gabriel Setoun" is the nom de plume of Thomas Nicoll Hepburn.
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| 6
| The Balladists
| John Geddie
| Jul 1896;
| Balladists including:Thomas the Rhymer, Robert Henryson, Lady Wardlaw, Lady Nairne, Lady Anne Barnard, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, etc.
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| 7
| Richard Cameron
| John Herkless
| Oct 1896
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| 8
| Sir James Y. Simpson
| Eve Blantyre Simpson
| Oct 1896
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| 9
| Thomas Chalmers
| W. Garden Blaikie
| Dec 1896
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| 10
| James Boswell
| W. Keith Leask
| Dec 1896
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| 11
| Tobias Smollett
| Oliphant Smeaton
| Feb 1897
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| 12
| Fletcher of Saltoun
| G.W.T. Omond
| Mar 1897
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| 13
| The “Blackwood” Group
| Sir George Douglas
| Apr 1897
| This group includes John Wilson, John Galt, D. M. Moir, Susan Ferrier, Michael Scott, and Thomas Hamilton.
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| 14
| Norman Macleod
| John Wellwood
| Apr 1897
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| 15
| Sir Walter Scott
| George Saintsbury
| Jun 1897
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| 16
| Kirkcaldy of Grange
| Louis A. Barbé
| Oct 1897
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| 17
| Robert Fergusson
| A. B. Grosart
| Jan 1898
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| 18
| James Thomson
| William Bayne
| Jan 1898
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| 19
| Mungo Park
| T. Banks Maclachlan
| Mar 1898
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| 20
| David Hume
| Henry Calderwood
| Feb 1898
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| 21
| William Dunbar
| Oliphant Smeaton
| Apr 1898
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| 22
| Sir William Wallace
| A. F. Murison
| Jun 1898
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| 23
| Robert Louis Stevenson
| Margaret Moyes Black
| Aug 1898
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| 24
| Thomas Reid
| A. Campbell Fraser
| Feb 1898
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| 25
| Pollok and Ayton
| Rosaline Masson
| Nov 1898
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| 26
| Adam Smith
| Hector C. Macpherson
| Feb 1899
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| 27
| Andrew Melville
| William Morison
| Jul 1899
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| 28
| James Frederick Ferrier
| E. S. Haldane
| May? 1899
| E. S. Haldane's full name is Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
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| 29
| King Robert the Bruce
| A. F. Murison
| Jul 1899
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| 30
| James Hogg
| Sir George Douglas
| Sep 1899
| Also included are short biographies of the poets Robert Tannahill, William Motherwell, and William Thom
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| 31
| Thomas Campbell
| J. Cuthbert Hadden
| Oct 1899
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| 32
| George Buchanan
| Robert Wallace
| Dec 1899
| Completed by J. Campbell Smith.
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| 33
| Sir David Wilkie and the Scots school of painters
| Edward Pinnington
| Jan? 1900
| These include: Allan Ramsay (artist), James Tassie, David Allan, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir William Allan, Sir Noel Paton etc.
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| 34
| The Erskines
| A. R. MacEwen
| Apr 1900
| They are the brothers: Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine.
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| 35
| Thomas Guthrie
| Oliphant Smeaton
| May 1900
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| 36
| David Livingstone
| T. Banks Maclachlan
| Jan? 1901
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| 37
| The Academical Gregories
| Agnes Grainger Stewart
| Apr 1901
| These include: John Gregory, James Gregory, William Gregory, etc. The book outlines the lives of twelve Gregories from 1638–1858
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| 38
| Johnston of Warriston
| William Morison
| May 1901
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| 39
| Henry Drummond
| James Y. Simpson
| Oct 1901
| The author's father was nephew of his namesake, James Young Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform.
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| 40
| Principal Cairns
| John Cairns
| Mar 1903
| John Cairns (1857-1922) was the nephew of Principal Cairns.
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| 41
| Viscount Dundee
| Louis A. Barbé
| 1903
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| 42
| James Watt
| Andrew Carnegie
| 1905
| The year 1905 is mentioned on page 28 of the book where Carnegie states: "Even in 1905 we have still a far road to travel."
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