John Stirling was my great-grandfather. He was a typesetter and printer in Bathgate, who from time to time would print a few copies for friends and relatives of various speeches he gave in Bathgate. I have transcribed the few booklets that I have copies of, and am making them available here for downloading to read or to print. If anyone has any other of his personal publications, I would welcome a scanned copy of them so I could add them to this collection of his works.
Copyright on the originals has expired and I am claiming no copyright on my recreated versions. In most cases I have preserved the original formatting, spelling, and grammar.
Some of the formats below have not yet been prepared.
Now, if you got this far, you deserve a little reward for perseverance! Here's a sneak peek at the next old book that I'm preparing: Prestonpans and Vicinity: Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Traditional by Peter McNeill (1902) — Prestonpans is the town where I grew up, and this book was written around the same time that my great grandfather was writing his publications. It is typeset in a similar style, which is that of the late Victorian era.