22. Deacon Brodie | or | Behind The Mask | By Dick Donovan,| Author of “A Detective’s Triumphs” [etc.] | [Device.] | London| Chatto & Windus | 1901 | (Rights of Translation reserved).
Crown octavo, pp. vi. + 258.
A novel founded upon the career of Deacon Brodie, and, so far as ascertained, his only appearance in fiction.
23. Edinburgh | and its Story | By | Oliphant Smeaton | [Device.] | Illustrated by | Herbert Railton | and J. Ayton | Symington | 1904 | London: J. M. Dent & Co. | New York: The Macmillan Co. 4to.
References—pp. 171, 224.
Reports of and comments upon the trial appeared in the three contemporary Edinburgh newspapers, viz., The Caledonian Mercury, The Edinburgh Advertiser, and The Edinburgh Evening Courant.
APPENDIX IV.
The Brodie Family Bible.
This unique volume was recently acquired in the course of business by Mr. Richard Cameron, bookseller, Edinburgh. On finding it to be the family Bible of Convener Francis Brodie, father of the notorious Deacon Brodie, Mr. Cameron communicated his discovery to the Town Council, by whom it was purchased for the city on 28th June, 1904, and placed in the Edinburgh Municipal Museum, where it now finds a fitting resting-place among many other interesting memorials of the old burghal life.
This volume is valuable as throwing light upon the antecedents of Deacon Brodie, as to which little was previously known. It is a fine copy of the folio edition of the Holy Bible, printed by James Watson, the famous Edinburgh printer, in 1722, and comprises the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the New Testament, and King James’ version of the metrical Psalms. The book-plate of Francis Brodie appears within the front board of the book.