Edinburgh/Glasgow Company of Stationers
1650
Society of Stationers
1660-90
Brief historyThese appear in book imprints — a trading partnership sponsored by the English Stock rather than a “guild”
Archive None
Sources - James
Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962),
pp. 533-40 (p.537)
- Henry R.
Plomer, A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in
England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641
to 1667
(London: Bibliographical Society, 1907), p.171
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society 1776-present
Brief historyFounded 1776; incorporated by town council 1793
Archive National Library of Scotland, Dep. 303
Sources -
Richard B. Sher,
'Corporatism and Consensus in the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: The
Edinburgh Booksellers’ Society in Comparative Perspective', Book History, 1 (1998), 32-93
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