EPS Library

1892

Acquiring their own premises in 1892 enabled Edinburgh Photographic Society to create a library.  The library soon built up a stock of books and photographic journals.

The February 1893 edition of Transactions of the Edinburgh Photographic Society included a list of donations to the library:

 Further donations to the library and acquisitions by the library were reported in subsequent editions of Transactions of the Edinburgh Photographic Society.

EPS Library

Update
1899

The EPS Library continued to subscribe to many photographic magazines, which were all duly bound into annual volumes.

'Transactions of Edinburgh Photographic Society' reported in its June 1899 edition:

Library and Reading Room

"The Society possesses a valuable and well-bound library of photographic works, besides the current literature upon the Reading-Room tables, which is at the disposal of House Members for consulting on the premises at any time between 10am and 10pm.

The following periodicals are on the table in the Reading-Room for the use of House Members, viz. :

-  Amateur Photographer

-  British Journal of Photography

-  Bulletin de la Société Loraine de Photographie

-  Bulletin du Photo-Club de Belgique,

-  Junior Photographer

-  Optical Magic Lantern Journal

-  Photo Beacon (American)

-  Photographer

-  Photogram

-  Photography

-  Photographic News

-  Photographic Journal

-  Photographic Scraps

-  Popular Photo Series
   12 vols., and others as published

-  Practical Photographer

-  Wilson's Photo Magazine (American)

Annuals:

-  Anthony's Bulletin (American)

-  Penrose's (American)

-  British Journal Almanac

-  Photographic Times (American)

-  Photography

-  Process Year-Book

-  Year-Book of Photography

Albums presented to the Society by Dr Emerson:

-  Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

-  Pictures of East Anglian Life."

'Transactions of Edinburgh Photographic Society', June 1899, p.116