Library of Innerpeffray

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Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!

a circle with text handwritten inside.
Two books sitting on a cushion, one open at a painting entitled The Order of Release, showing a kilted man in the arms of a woman. Painting by John Everett Millais. Closed book shows title of book the Life and Letters of Mr John Everett Millais.
woodcut image of sun with face and 16 rays radiating from centre.
A woodcut images showing two men on horses wearing doublet and hose and feathered hats and three women in full length decorated dresses and elaborate headdresses
collage of pictures showing handwritten book sitting on desk beside laptop, plus man standing in old library with bookshelves and arched window, plus man seated in front of bookshelves.
In front of a stone doorway a woman holds a crescent shaped object, patterned in black and white with sun, moon and star forms, her face looking through.
Smiling woman standing in front of a tree.
View over river to mountains topped with snow and pink sunrise
Hedgehigmade of folded book wearing a red pointed hat
Daffodils and snowdrops in front of a large tree trunk
Group of seven people standing in library with display cases in background.
Woodcut of Unicorn from Coryate's Crudities 1611, reprinted in 1776
engraving of owl sitting on a book with motto, from Emblems, George Wither, 1635