
Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI)
Nelson, V.H. - Oliver, John
Index
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- NELSON, V.H. export bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
17 Waterloo Place 1841
9 Randolph Cliff 1842
Edin Dir
- NEILSON, William publisher Glasgow
Glasgow 1799
Mr Andersons history was printed for him in Glasgow in 1799.
NLS Impr Ind
- NESS, Thomas bookbinder Cupar
Crossgate 1837
Pigot 1837
- NESTON [WESTON], Thomas stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1763
Married Janet daughter to Alexander Dunbar running stationer 20 March 1763
[Weston under the husband].
EdinMarr
- NEW NORTH BRITON newspaper office Edinburgh
5 North St David's Street 1830-31
William Ritchie overseer of printing office Gray's Dir 1832.
Edin Dir
- NEWS, Edinburgh newspaper office Edinburgh
Office 2 Hunter Square 1848
41 North Bridge 1849-53
Writers Court 1854-56
321 High Street printing office 399 High Street 1857-59
403 Lawnmarket printing office 399 Lawnmarket 1860
Edin Dir
- NEWSPAPER SALOON, BRITISH & FOREIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY Edinburgh
4 Hunter Square 1824-25
New Dir 1824.
Edin Dir
- NEW STAIRS printer, bookseller and auctioneer Edinburgh
Printing House on the New Stairs 1754-5
NLS Impr Ind
- NEW TOWN PRINTING OFFICE printers Edinburgh
10 South St James Street 1825
Edin Dir
- NEW TOWN SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY Edinburgh
38 Howe Street 1837
4 North West Circus Place 1842-43
16 Howe Street 1844-49
See also Edinburgh New Town Subscription Library 1837 Thomas Paton the bookseller
was librarian 1842-48, the library being housed at the address of his bookshop.
Paton & Ritchie librarians 1849.
Edin Dir
- NEWALL, John bookseller Dumfries
Dumfries 1780-82
NLS Impr Ind
- NEWBIGGING, John running stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1754
Married Margaret daughter to deceast John Macneil gardener 27 October 1754.
EdinMarr
- NEWLANDS, John merchant and bookseller Glasgow
Glasgow 1731-46
Head of the Gallowgate 1747-50
Married Margaret Erskine, daughter of Ralph Erskine in 1745. She died in 1751.
Sold a number of Secession Church books.
NLS Impr Ind; Fasti v 30
- NEWLANDS, Thomas paper warehouse Edinburgh
11 Cowgate Head 1826
Edin Dir
- NEWSPAPER AGENCY OFFICES Aberdeen
Alexander Stevenson agent Aberdeen 1810
Stevenson, Wyllie agents 1829
Wyllie and The Post Office 1833-34
Wyllie The Post Office and Lewis Smith 1835
Wyllie, Smith, Russell, Stevenson 1836
Beavan
- NICHOL [William] & TAYLOR lithographers Edinburgh
William Nichol 27 Hanover Street 1839-41
Nichol & Taylor 11 Hanover Street 1842
Nichol & Co same address 1843
William Nichol 46 George Street 1844
23 New Street 1845
13 North Bridge 1846
W. Nichol & Co 10 North St Andrews Street 1847
30 Hanover Street 1848
Edin Dir
- NICOL, A bookseller Dundee
Dundee 1783-84
NLS Impr Ind
- NICOL, Alexander music seller Glasgow
Glasgow 1834
Sequestration in SRO 1834.
SRO CS231/N/1/22
- NICHOL, Archibald weaver and bookseller Glasgow
Glasgow 1779-81
Gave in a list of subscribers to John Howie of Lochgoin's A collection
of lectures and sermons. Glasgow, 1779; John Howie's Biographia Scotiana
Glasgow, 1781; in proposals at the end he is described as travelling chapman
as he is in the subscription list for Rutherfoords Letters. Glasgow,
1781
NLS Hall.193.b; R.235.f.2; NLS Impr Ind
- NICOL, Henry printer Edinburgh
5 King's Street 1809-10
Edin Dir
- NICOL, Henry printer Edinburgh
28 Greenside Street 1824-34
New Dir 1824.
- NICOL, J. stationer Edinburgh
agent, wholesale stationery 17 James Square 1833
Gray 1833
- NICHOL, J. & D. booksellers Montrose
15 High Street 1837
Not in Pigot 1825 or in The Angus & Mearns Directory for
1846
Pigot 1837
- NICOL, James printer and bookseller Aberdeen
Printing House above Meal Market at sign of Towns Arms. shop end of Broadgate
1715
Shop same address 1710-36
Printer to Town and University of Aberdeen. Beavan gives address of printing
office as North side of the Castle Gate. Married Margaret Forbes daughter
of John Forbes the younger and they succeeded her mother 6 December 1710.
His press and equipment was ordered by the Earl of Mar 20 October 1715 to
be handed over to Robert Drummond, servant to Mr Robert Fairbairn, and taken
to Perth where they were to be used to print proclamations &c. for the
Jacobite army. It is uncertain whether this was done. He resigned 6 May 1736.
He resigned 6 May 1736 and was succeeded by James Chalmers.
Aberdeen Printers; Beavan; NLS Impr Ind
- NICOLL, James apprentice printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1630
Son to John Nicoll, maltman, apprenticed with John Hairt printer 24 March
1630.
EdinPren
- NICHOL, James publisher and stationer Edinburgh
40 George Street 1850
9 North Bank Street 1851-56
104 High Street 1857-69
Publication Office of Missionary Records of Free Church of Scotland
1850.
Edin Dir
- NICHOL, James bookbinder Edinburgh
30 Hanover Street 1850
Edin Dir
- NICOL, James bookseller and cooper Strichen
Strichen 1825
Pigot 1825
- NICOL [NICOLL], James bookseller and stationer Turreff
Turreff 1825
fancy bookseller etc. Turreff 1837
Turriff 1852
Pigot 1825; 1837; Slater 1852
- NICOL, John apprentice stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1687
Son to umquhile Thomas Nicol, tailor in Nether Cramond, apprenticed to Robert
Currie stationer 9 February 1687.
EdinPren
- NICOLL, John papermaker Greenock
manager Overton Paper Works 1831-36
Fowler 1831; 1836
- NICHOL, John subscription library Langholm
Librarian Subscription Library High Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- NICOL, Mungo bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1798
Brown's Close, Luckenbooths 1803-10
Married Janet daughter of deceast Robert Brown poultryman 28 June 1798.
EdinMarr; Edin Dir
- NICOLL, Patrick bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1628-42
Son to late Hew Nicoll, tailor indweller in Kilmeineis, apprenticed with Thomas
Lawson bookbinder 8 October 1628. Burgess as apprentice to Thomas Lawsoune
bookbinder 26 February 1639; Guild Brother 3 August 1642.
EdinPren; EdinBurg
- NICOLL, Robert bookseller and circulating library Dundee
Dundee 1767-72
Opposite to the Cross 1773
Dundee 1774-91
circulating library Castle Street Dundee 1836
Born 1812?. A poet; In business in 1767. First to found a circulating library
in the burgh. 'Had a shop in Castle Street'. Left his circulating library
at Whitsun 1836. Went to Edinburgh and shortly after became editor of The
Leeds Times. Fell ill, returned to Scotland, but died in Edinburgh on
his way home. .
Millar; NLS Impr Ind; Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy. Written
by himself. Dundee, 1850.
- NICOLL, Robert running stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1763
Christian daughter to deceast Robert Nicoll married George Macleish sclator
26 June 1763.
EdinMarr
- NICHOLL [NICOL], Robert die and stamp cutter Edinburgh
37 North Bridge 1835-59
Appears as Nicol Nicol in main sequence of Edin Dir 1841!
Edin Dir
- NICOL [NICHOLL], Robert engraver Edinburgh
50 Buccleuch Street 1836-40
7 Crichton Street 1841-45
Edin Dir
- NICHOLLS, Robert apprentice bookbinder Glasgow
Glasgow 1752
Robert Nicholls apprenticed to Alexander Low bookbinder Glasgow 1752
Maxted
- NICOL, Simon merchant and bookseller Stobetcott
[unidentified. Stob = Hill] 1757
Sold copies of James Burgh. Britain's remembrancer. Edinburgh, 1757.
NLS Impr Ind
- NICHOL [NICOL], William lithographic draftsman and printer Edinburgh
Alexander Forrester 30 St Andrew Square 1829
31 St Andrews Square 1830
10 George Street 1831
[Alexander] Forrester & [William] Nichol 10 George Street 1832-33
3 George Street 1834-37
14 George Street 1838
William Nichol 27 Hanover Street 1839-41
Nichol & Taylor 11 Hanover Street 1842
Nichol & Co same address 1843
William Nichol 46 George Street 1844
23 New Street 1845
13 North Bridge 1846
W. Nichol & Co 10 North St Andrew Street 1847
30 Hanover Street 1848
Around 1840 the majority of his works were published by J. & D. Nichol
of Montrose. In 1841 Nichol wrote the entry for Lithography in the 7th edition
of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Edin Dir; Schenck
- NICOLSON, James bookseller Dundee
Dundee 1798-99
Wellgate East Side 1818
NLS Impr Ind; Dundee 1818
- NICOLSON, James toolcutter Edinburgh
Head of St Mary's Wynd 1810-25
2 St Mary's Wynd 1826-33
Edin Dir
- NICOLSON, John second-hand bookseller Glasgow
18 Bazaar Candlerigg Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- NICHOLSON, John bookseller, printer, bookbinder, and circulating library,
dealer in music, instruments and tea Kirkcudbright
High Street Pigot 1820-25
Castle Street Pigot 1837
John and James Nicholson same address Slater 1852
High Street Slater 1860
John same address Slater 1867
James same address Slater 1886
'Good; Industrious & Economical & doing well, quite an original, once
in the Horse Guards & sometime a Number man' Oliver and Boyd Travellers
Logbook NLS Acc.5000/78. Published a numbered chapbook series with the title
A selection of amusing and instructive reading at a penny, as well
as several books with more pretension, and in 1867 he was carrying on a newspaper
called The Stewartry Times. He also published an edition of Alexander
Montgomery's The Cherrie and the Slae in 1842, with a life of the
author by himself and Traditional tales in prose and verse, connected
with the South of Scotland in 1843.
Chapbook Printers; Bell
- NIDDERYS WYND printer Edinburgh
Printed and sold in Nidderys Wynd 1773-84
See ROBERTSON. Alexander
NLS Impr Ind
- NIMMO, David engraver Edinburgh
16 Calton Hill 1842-43
35 Leith Street 1844-46
and copperplate printer 3 East Register Street 1847-70
D. & D. Nimmo same address 1871-73
1 Swinton Row 1874-85
Edin Dir; Schenck
- NIMMO, James stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1754
James Moodie servant to James Nimmo stationer Edinburgh married Agnes daughter
to John Clark wright in Penycook 27 October 1754.
EdinMarr
- NIMMO, James engraver Edinburgh
7 Carrubber's Close 1840-41
and lithographic printer and stationer same address 1842-43
and lettterpress printer same address 1844-56
J. & J. Nimmo same address 1857-64
15 Carrubbers Close 1865-69
James Nimmo same address 1870-75
377 High Street 1876-83
Believed to be the son of R.H. Nimmo. The second James is possibly his son.
Edin Dir; Schenck
- NIMMO, John printer Edinburgh
8 Cowgate New Dir 1824
Edin Dir
- NIMMO, R. journeyman printer Edinburgh
C. Stewart's printing-house 1808
To the public. The Journeymen in Mr Stewart's Printing Office feel themself
under the necessity of replying to the following paragraph, page 17, of Mr
Roberton's last defence.
- NIMMO, R.H. lithographic printer Edinburgh
1 South St David's Street house - 19 Rose Street New Dir 1824
19 Rose Street - lithographic office 1 South St David Street 1825-26
19 Rose Street - lithographic office 30 Hanover Street 1827-28
30 Hanover Street 1829-33
Possibly the son of Robert Alexander Nimmo Schenck, or Robert Alexander
might be a mistake for R.H. Nimmo.
Edin Dir; Schenck
- NIMMO, Richard stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1743
Castle Hill 1754-8
paper maker Low Mill, Pennicuik 1749
Burgess by right of father Robert Nimmo 20 July 1743. Sold copies of John
Scot's Staggering state of the Scots statesman. Edinburgh. 1754.
EdinBurg; NLS Impr Ind; Thomson
- NIMMO, Robert Alexander lithographic printer Edinburgh
1 South St David Street 1825
Possibly a mistake for R.H. Nimmo.
Pigot 1825
- NIMMO, William stationer Leith
132 Kirkgate 1849
bookseller same address 1850
stationer same address 1851-64
21 Constitution Street 1865
54 Constitution Street 1866-70
stationer and printer same address 1871-80
William Nimmo & Co same address 1881-86
40 and 42 Constitution Street 1887-95
46 Constitution Street and 30-32 Quality Street 1896-20th Century
Edin Dir
- NINIAN, David newspaper office and printer Cupar in Fife
Fife Sentinel Crossgate opposite the Post Office 1844-45
Campbell Cupar
- NISBET McNIVEN and Co paper warehouse Balerno and Edinburgh
paper mill at Balerno 1788-99
Blairs Street, West Side 1790-95
Nisbet & Co same address 1796-97
End of the Potterrow 1799
Creditors to meet. Glasgow Courier 18 July 1799. Roup 24 December
1799.
NLS Impr Ind; Edin Dir; Thomson
- NISBET, Alexander bookbinder Kelso
Kelso 1744
Bush.3
- NISBET, Gavin bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1671
A child buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 9 April 1671.
GreyBuri
- NISBET, Hay printer Glasgow
Christian News Office 142 Trongate and Brunswick Lane 1849
Glas Dir
- NISBET, Henry apprentice stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1671
Son to John Nisbet, shoemaker in Newbotle, apprenticed to James Millar stationer
29 March 1671.
EdinPren
- NISBETT, John apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1639
Son to the late John Nisbett in Musselburgh, apprenticed with James Bryson
bookseller 13 November 1639.
EdinPren
- NISBET [NISBIT], John bookbinder and stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1656-82
Son to late John Nisbett, maltman Burgess of the Canongate, apprenticed with
James Glen bookseller 13 August 1656. Married Janet Glen 24 August 1660; children
buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 8 December 1661; 4 March 1663; 27 October
1666; 21 November 1666; wife Jane [sic] Glen buried in Greyfriars Churchyard
10 June 1668; married Elizabeth Montago 23 December 1669; children buried
in Greyfriars Churchyard 14 September 1673 and 18 January 1676; married Isobel
Baird 3 March 1682.
EdinPren; EdinMarr; GreyBuri
- NISBET, John stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1700?
Catharine Nisbet daughter of deceased married James Walker merchant 22 March
1700.
EdinMarr
- NISBET, Thomas bookseller Edinburgh
30 Pitt Street 1836-37
33 Dundas Street 1838-40
auctioneer same address 1842
of C.B. Tait & Co auctioneers 11 Hanover Street 1841-45
C.B. Tait and Thomas Nisbet same address 1851-53
Thomas Tait same address 1853-62
He was the surviving partner of C.B. Tait & Co in 1853. The National Library
of Sccotland has a collection of Thomas Nisbet's sale catalogues from 1853-62.
'Mr T. Chapman successor to Mr T. Nisbet March 1863. Thomas Chapman sold Thomas
Nisbet's own library 24 May 1864.
Edin Dir
- NIVEN & SON printers Glasgow
81 Wilson Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- NIVEN, Alexander carver gilder and printseller Glasgow
28 Queen Street 1849
Glas Dir
- NIVEN, David wholesale bookseller Edinburgh
Library of Society in Scotland for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the
Poor Baron Grant's Close 1793
NLS Impr Ind
- NIVEN, David printer, bookseller and stationer Glasgow
Trongate 1778
Gibsons Wynd 1786
1st Closs below Gibsons Wynd Saltmarket 1787-9
Trongate 1793-1800
Niven, Napier & Khull Post Office Court Trongate 1800-8
David Niven State Lottery Office 139 Trongate 1809-15
Burgess and Guild Brother as youngest son to deceased David Niven weaver.
21 November 1792,
NLS Impr Ind; Glas Dir; GlasBurg
- NIVEN, John printer Glasgow
Niven, Napier and Khull, printing office Post-Office Court, Trongate 1801-5
John Niven 52 Princes Street 1809-14
53 Prince's Street 1815-24
30 Prince's Street 1825-27
John Niven & Son 55 Glassford Street 1828-44
same address and 81 Wilson Street 1847
Printed The soldier's daughter, or The history of Mary Jones in 1820
for Archibald Lang. The son was William Nisbet. An additional address 81 Wilson
Street is given in the Trade index 1840. William N. Niven not in Glas
Dir 1844-47. 50 Glassford Street in trade index Glas Dir 1847,
but at 55 in the street index.
Chapbook Printers; Glas Dir; Pigot 1825
- NIVEN, John junior bookseller and stationer Glasgow
118 Trongate 1825
158 Trongate 1828-40
46 Argyll Street 1844-47
John Niven & Co same address 1849
Pigot 1837 gives address as 148 Trongate. In Glas Dir 1835
he is only called junior in the trade index. Burgess and Guild Brother as
eldest son to John Niven merchant 5 September 1828.
Glas Dir; Pigot 1825; 1837; GlasBurg
- NIVEN, John bookseller Johnston
High Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- NIVEN, Robert subscription library Girvan
Subscription Library High Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- NIVEN, William bookbinder Glasgow
43 Argyll Street 1828-35
8 Turners Court 1837
Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
- NIVEN, William W. librarian Glasgow
Glasgow Library, 151 George Street 1844-49
Christian name from trade index Glas Dir 1844-47; of Glasgow Public
Library Glas Dir 1849.
Glas Dir
- NIVISON [William] and FORREST [Daniel] booksellers, circulating library
and lottery office Edinburgh
Johnson's Head 10 North Bridge 1818
In 1817 Daniel Forrest was running a Lottery Office at 171 High Street. The
National Library of Scotland has A catalogue of books sold by Nivison
and Forrest. Edinburgh, 1818.
Edin Dir
- NIVISON, William bookseller and circulating library Edinburgh
2 St Patrick Square 1814
and circulating library same address 1815-17
[William] Nivison & [Daniel] Forrest booksellers and lottery office
10 North Bridge 1818
William Nivison 4 East Register Street 1819
Burgess and Guild Brother 8 June 1818. Manuscript note in 1817 directory changes
the address for William Nivison to 10 North Bridge. In 1817 Daniel Forrest
was running a Lottery Office at 171 High Street
Edin Dir; EdinBurg
- NOBLE, Alexander bookseller Edinburgh
of Stirling and Kenney 46 George Street 1832-37
12 Atholl Place Gray 1837
Edin Dir
- NOBLE, J. bookseller Glasgow
Glasgow 1792
Sold copies of Joseph Bellamy's Letters & Dialogues between Theron,
Paulinus & Aspasio. Glasgow, 1792.
NLS Impr Ind
- NOBLE, Thomas printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1686
In the employ of James Watson (EBS.vi,85).
Aldis 1904
- NORMAN, George merchant and bookseller Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy 1761
Sold copies of John Muckarsie's Mission work of Gospel-ministers.
Glasgow, 1792.
NLS Impr Ind
- NORRIS, Andrew bookseller Perth
Perth 1744
Sold Acts of the Associate Synod.
NLS Impr Ind
- NORRY, A. bookseller Perth
Perth 1747-54
R.H. Carnie. Publishing in Perth before 1807. Dundee. 1960; NLS
Impr Ind
- NORTH BRITISH ADVERTISER and GRAY'S MONTHLY RECORD newspaper office
Edinburgh
Edinburgh and Leith Advertiser Adam Square 1825-26
Edinburgh, Leith Glasgow and North British Advertiser 9 Bank Street 1827-30
North British Advertiser same address 1831
7 North Bank Street 1832-37
Melbourne Place Gray 1837
5 Melbourne Place 1838-43
8 Melbourne Place 1844-45
and Ladies Journal same address 1846
North British Advertiser same address 1847-80
6 Melbourne Place 1881-99
1 Victoria Street 1900
Printed and published by J. & J. Gray.
Edin Dir
- NORTH BRITISH ADVERTISER, newspaper office Glasgow
Office, 112 Queen Street 1835
98 Miller Street 1840-47
10 Royal Exchange Square 1849
Glas Dir
- NORTH BRITISH AGRICULTURALIST newspaper office Edinburgh
13 Hanover Street 1849-50
13 Hanover Street and 243 High Street 1851
36 George Street and 243 High Street 1852
377 High Street 1853-20th Century
Edin Dir
- NORTH BRITISH [DAILY] MAIL newspaper office Edinburgh
6 South St Andrew Street 1847-52
21 South St Andrew Street 1853
14 South St Andrew Street 1854-56
166 High Street 1857-58
Edin Dir
- NORTH BRITISH DAILY MAIL newspaper office Glasgow
167 Argyll Street 1847
145 Argyll Street 1849
Glas Dir
- NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY AND SHIPPING JOURNAL newspaper office Glasgow
19 Prince's Square, Buchanan Street 1847
83 Queen Street 1849
Glas Dir
- NORTH BRITON newspaper office Edinburgh
5 South St David Street - printing office 19 1830-32
Edin Dir
- NORTH LEITH READING ROOMS, Leith
2 Dock Place 1836-37
2 Dock Gates 1838-41
2 Dock Place 1842
W. Yule keeper Gray 1837
Edin Dir
- NORTH QUARTER LIBRARY circulating library Glasgow
62 Rotten Row (D. M'Laren librarian) 1835
3 Weaver Street (D. M'Laren librarian) 1840
10 Kirk Street, Townhead 1844
31 Drygate Street 1847-49
Glas Dir
- NORTH STAR newspaper office Aberdeen
Duthie's Court, Guest Row 1826
Cobban & Co printers.
Beavan
- NORTHERN ENSIGN newspaper office Wick
High Street 1850-1907?
John Mackie, a native of Fraserburgh, was editor of the John O'Groat's Journal.
Wanting more freedom he resigned and started the Northern Ensign 6 June 1850.
He sold the paper to William Rae in 1853, but continued to edit it until his
death in 1878, being succeeded by John King Grant who was editor until his
death in 1907.
Cowan; John Mowat 'Books and Printing in Caithness' Records of the Glasgow
Bibliographical Society vi 84-94 (1920)
- NORTHERN REPORTER newspaper office Edinburgh
3 Hunter Square 1826
Edin Dir
- NORTHERN STAR newspaper office Wick
Wick 1836-39
Tory rival of John O'Groat's Journal. The proprietor and editor was the bookseller
John Stewart, in association with the solicitor Donald Stewart. It was printed
by Donald Cormie.
Cowan; John Mowat 'Books and Printing in Caithness' Records of the Glasgow
Bibliographical Society vi 84-94 (1920)
- NORTHERN WARDER newspaper printer and publisher Dundee
Printing and Publishing Offices Croom's Close and 9 New Inn Entry High Street,
1846
Dundee 1846
- NORTHOUSE, William S. printer and newspaper printer Glasgow
Free Press office Trongate and Stockwell Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- NORTON, C. engraver Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1718-22
Subscribed to Nisbet's Essay on armories. Edinburgh, 1718, and engraved
some plates for Nisbet's System of Heraldry. Edinburgh, 1722.
Bush.2
- NORTON, John stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1587-96?
Son of Richard Norton, yeoman of Billingsley in Shropshire, and nephew of
William Norton, stationer of London, he served his apprenticeship under his
uncle. About 1587 he set up in Edinburgh. In 1589 he obtained, with Andro
Hart, the privilege of importing books free of custom, and a further licence
to the same effect 25 June 1591. In February 1592 seven Edinburgh booksellers
appealed to the Town Council against Norton and Edmond Wats, his servant,
for usurping the liberty of the burgh by retailing books in 'ane opin chalmer
upoun the foregaitt,' and they were ordered to desist from selling 'in smallis'.
Upon the death of Wats, about 1596, Norton gave up his Edinburgh business,
and sold the books and debts to Edward Cathkin and A. Hart. His will was proved
12 January 1613.
(EBS.i.12,1-2; P.C.Reg.iv,439; Lee App.x,lxxi; Calderwood v,77,511; Plomer's
Wills of English Printers p.45 Bibliographical Society 1903); Aldis
1904; DNB [under William Norton]
- NORVEL, John bookseller Annan
Annan 1816
High Street 1825
Sequestration in SRO 1816. 'Very Doubtful; Compounded 3 or 4 years ago' Oliver
and Boyd Travellers Logbook. NLS Acc.5000/78.
SRO CS231/N/1/17; Pigot 1825; Bell
- NORVAL, John bookseller Dumfries
21 English Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- NOTMAN, James bookbinder Glasgow
Glasgow 1771
Burgess and Guild Brother as eldest son to James Notman cordiner 19 September
1771.
GlasBurg
- NOTMAN, James bookseller Selkirk
Selkirk 1773
Will registered 19 March 1773.
EdinTest
- OATTS, John stationer Glasgow
102 Queen Street 1835-49
and lithographer 34 Cochran Street 1853-57
17 Cochran Street 1858
19 Cochran Street 1859-64
61 North Hanover Street 1865-70
280 George Street 1871-72
93 Virginia Street 1874
Burgess and Guild Brother by purchase 10 March 1840. Charles Oatts lithographer
at same address 1871, he then became a partner in the firm of [Charles] Oatts
and [Charles] Runciman.
Glas Dir; GlasBurg; Schenck
- OBSERVER newspaper office Edinburgh
Mound Place 1822-24
5 North St Andrew Street 1825-32
28 Hanover Street 1833-34
377 High Street 1835-45
Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
- O'DONNELL, Daniel engraver Edinburgh
7 Old Fishmarket Close 1839
Edin Dir
- O'DONNEL, James bookseller Dundee
109 Overgate 1837
Pigot 1837
- O'DONNELL [O'DONEL], James jeweller Edinburgh
5 Broughton Street 1823-29
7 Broughton Street 1830-34
and bookseller 11 South James Street 1835
7 Union Street 1836
Catholic bookseller and jeweller 2 Union Place 1840-41
7 Broughton Street 1842
9 Broughton Street 1843-44
bookseller 47 Candlemaker Row 1846
7 East Sciennes Street 1847
74 Potterrow 1848-49
3 Middleton's Entry 1850
6 Middleton's Entry 1851
5 Broughton Street Gray 1834; Not in Edin Dir 1845.
Edin Dir; Gray 1835; 1836
- OGG, James bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
12 South St Andrew's Street 1801-10
8 St Andrew Street 1811-12
Edin Dir
- OGILVIE, David bookbinder, bookseller, stationer and printer Dundee
Shop No 1 East from Town House, 1767
Ogilvy & Leighton Dundee 1768
David Ogilvie & Lawrence Chalmers 1770
Burgess of Dundee. Apprentices: George Sidie apprenticed to David Oglevie
bookbinder Dundee 1765; David Black apprenticed to David Oglevie bookbinder
Dundee 1767
Maxted; Millar; Carnie & Doig I, NLS Impr Ind
- OGILVY, David bookseller Edinburgh
At Mr Bell's shop Addison's Head, 1774
Edinburgh Evening Courant 2 March 1774.
NLS Impr Ind
- OGILVIE, David bookbinder Edinburgh
Potter Row 1774-75
Near the Crackling House 1776
Married Jean Glen in Canongate Kirk 20 May 1763. 'Crackling' is a process
in the turning of tallow into candles. The Crackling House was 'between the
gallows and the Pleasance', at the junction of the Head of the Pleasance,
South Richmond Street and Carnegie Street. MSS by Boog Watson in the Edinburgh
Room, Edinburgh City Libraries i.96 and iv,29.
CanonMarr; Edin Dir
- OGILVIE, George apprentice printer Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1761
George Ogilvie apprenticed to James Chalmers printer Aberdeen 1761
Maxted
- OGILVY, James stationer Kirriemuir
Roods 1846
bookseller same address 1852
Angus 1846; Slater 1852
- OGILVIE, R. merchant and bookseller Musselburgh
Musselburgh 1750
Sold a funeral sermon by Charles Roberts. Edinburgh Evening Courant &
Caledonian Mercury 29 May 1750.
NLS Impr Ind
- OGILVIE, Thomas printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1709
Married Helen Fife daughter of John Fife mason 2 June 1709.
EdinMarr
- OGILVIE, Thomas bookseller, stationer and lottery office Glasgow
637 Argyll Street 1815-25
bookseller and stationer 14 Argyll Street and 26 Argyll Arcade 1828
14 Argyll Street 1835-40
76 Queen Street 1844
Thomas Ogilvie & Son, 126 Buchanan Street 1847
Glas Dir; Pigot 1825
- OGILVIE, Walter B. bookseller and stationer Glasgow
80 St Vincent Street 1849
Christian name from street directory Glas Dir 1849.
Glas Dir
- OGLE [John] ALLARDICE [Archibald] & THOMSON booksellers Edinburgh
John Ogle Parliament Close 1792
20 Parliament Close 1793-94
32 Parliament Close 1797-1800
Ogle & Aikman same address 1800-10
13 South George Street [house?] Denovan's 1804
Parliament Square 1808-10
7 and 8 Parliament Square 1811-16
[John] Ogle, [Archibald] Allardyce and Thomson booksellers and stationers
8 Parliament Square 1818-20
booksellers 8 Parliament-square and printers Tolbooth Wynd,
Leith 1820 Pigot 1820
Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind
- OGLE, John bookseller Edinburgh
Parliament Close 1792
20 Parliament Close 1793-96
32 Parliament Close 1797-99
Ogle & Aikman same address 1800-10
13 South George Street [house?] Denovan's 1804
Parliament Square 1808-10
7 and 8 Parliament Square 1811-16
[John] Ogle, [Archibald] Allardyce and Thomson booksellers and stationers
8 Parliament Square, Edinburgh and 15 Tolbooth Wynd, Leith 1817-20
Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 14 December 1793. Burgess and
Guild Brother May 1797. 13 South St George Street [house?] Denovan's 1804.
EdinBurg; Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind; Sher. Edinburgh Booksellers
- OGLE, John merchant bookseller Glasgow
Exchange Square 1839
Burgess and Guild Brother as eldest son to deceased Maurice Ogle merchant
9 August 1839.
GlasBurg
- OGLE, Maurice bookseller Glasgow
7 Wilsons Street East end 1797
Wilsons St 1798-1808
8 Wilson Street 1808-15
9 Wilson St 1817-23
9 & 10 Wilson St 1824
and stationer 17 & 19 Wilson St 1825-8
1 Royal Exchange Square 1834
Maurice Ogle & Son same address 1835-62
Maurice Ogle & Co stationer and bookbinder same address 1863-70
Sold tracts of The Glasgow Religious Tract Society and its successors. In
trade index under publishers Glas Dir 1840; Thomas Shaw of Maurice
Ogle & Co, house address given Glas Dir 1847.
NLS Impr Ind; Glas Dir
- OGLE, Robert bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
27 Union Place 1823-26
and circulating library same address 1827
and stamp distributor 26 Union Place 1828-29
1 Antigua Street 1830-38
1 Antigua Street and 49 South Bridge 1839-40
49 South Bridge 1841-53
Ogle & [A.W.] Murray same address 1854-77
15 Chambers Street 1878-81
16 Forrest Road 1882-90
I Antigua Street and 1 Union Street Gray 1837; Theological and Classical
Booksellers 1865-90
Edin Dir; Pigot 1825; 1837
- OGSTOUN [OGSTON], Alexander bookbinder and stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1678-84
In the Parliament Close 1685-90
On 13 February 1680, Ogstoun became a Burgess and Guild Brother 'being well
commended by H.M. Advocate and many of the College of Justice, and likely
also to be useful to the good toun' and on 16 April he married Martha Stevenson.
In 1683 Alexander Ogstoun and George Mosman were employed in binding books
for the newly formed library of the Faculty of Advocates. In the accounts
for the 14th of February appears the entry 'By money peyed to Alexr Oigstoun
bookbinder for binding ane parcell of the ffaculties books as per accompt
order and receipt 0200.16.0 By money peyed to George Mosman bookbinder for
ditto George Mosman 0219.02.00' Faculty Records 40 folio A3. The National
Library still has three volumes of Gesner's Historia Animalium 1551-5, given
to the Advocates Library by the two grateful bookbinders. They are inscribed
'Hunc Librum cum duobus fratribus Alexr Oigstoun, et Georgius Mosman ffacultatis
juridicae Bibliopeg: peritissimi Bibliothecae faculatis predict' dono dederunt'.
Unfortunately the volumes have been rebound. John Reid worked for him as a
journeyman in 1686. In 1688 he was threatened for selling anti-popish books,
and in the same year Mrs Anderson seized some octavo Bibles he had imported
from London (Fountainhall ii,852,866). He died in 1690, was buried at the
North side of Greyfriars Churchyard on 29 March, and was succeeded in the
business by his widow. Two of his four children Alexander and James seem also
to have been bookbinders. His name also appears in the imprints of seven books
between 1685 and 1688.
Aldis 1904; EdinBurg; EdinMarr; Mirjam M. Foot. 'A binding by Alexander
Ogstoun, c.1689' (English and Foreign Bookbindings 31). The Book Collector
xxix, 255-7 (1980). H.M. Nixon Broxbourne Library, styles and designs
of bookbindings. London, 1956 163-65. John Morris. 'Wheels and Herringbones:
some Scottish bindings 1678-1773'. Bookbinder i,39-49 (1987);
- OGSTOUN, Andrew apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1651
Son to Mr George Ogstoun, Minister at Covingtoun, apprenticed with John Hill
bookseller 17 December 1651.
EdinPren
- OGSTON, George bookbinder Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1688-96
Beavan quoting Aldis
- OGSTON, James stationer and bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1712-13
Burgess and Guild Brother by right of deceased father Alexander Ogston, bookbinder
22 October 1712. Will registered 31 August 1714. Apprentices: John Brown,
son of George Brown merchant burgess of Edinburgh, apprenticed to James Ogston
bookbinder Edinburgh (partner to Martha Stevenson) 1712; James Dickson 29
October 1712; Alexander Cunningham 2 December 1713.
EdinBurg; EdinTest; EdinPren; Maxted
- OGSTOUN [OGSTON], Martha, Mrs bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
In the Parliament Closs 1690-1729
Martha Stevenson, widow of Alexander Ogstoun. leaving off business Caledonian
Mercury 13 February 1728. Further advertisements 11 Nov 1728, 10 Jan
1729. Will registered 20 January 1738. The will of Martha Stevenson, relict
of Alexander Ogston bookseller in Edinburgh was registered 20 January 1738.
Among other things she appears in the imprint of a news book The Present
State of Europe.
Aldis 1904; NLS Impr Ind; EdinTest
- O'HARA, Charles printer Edinburgh
19 Circus Place 1838
tea dealer 7 India Place 1839-42
printer 20 Hanover Street 1843
spirit dealer same address 1844-45
Edin Dir
- OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE See Alexander ROBERTSON 1786-95
- OLIPHANT, WAUGH & INNES booksellers and stationers Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1814-28
John Boyd, bookseller Edinburgh, Burgess and Guild Brother as apprentice to
Messrs Oliphant Waugh & Innes, stationers (entered apprentice same day
as from 18 May 1814) 15 April 1828.
EdinBurg
- OLIPHANT, Alexander apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1796
Son of late Mr Charles Oliphant, merchant, apprenticed to Mr William Gordon
bookseller for 5 years 15 September 1796
EdinPren
- OLIPHANT, David bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1727-44
Son of the late Mr John Oliphant Minister at Cameron married Jean Smylie,
daughter of the late John Smyllie merchant in Glasgow 22 January 1727. Burgess
13 May 1730. Sold items to do with the Associate Synod 1733. Apprentice: James
Young junior 22 September 1731, Burgess 1 August 1744.
EdinMarr; EdinBurg; NLS Impr Ind; EdinPren
- OLIPHANT, David bookseller Edinburgh
Head of West Bow Denovan's 1804
'painter' same address Edin Dir 1803.
Edin Dir
- OLIPHANT, David bookseller Edinburgh
338 High Street 1811-16
Edin Dir
- OLIPHANT, James bookseller Glasgow
At Mr Stalker's shop below the Exchange 1755
Two works by James Fisher were printed for him in 1755.
NLS Impr Ind
- OLIPHANT, John bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1764
Ossian's Head 1775-76
Son of Peter Oliphant, in Clerkshill, apprenticed to William Drummond bookseller
for 5 years 22 August 1764.
EdinPren; Edin Dir
- OLIPHANT, John bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1814
Buried at Restalrig 19 January 1814 age 23 years.
Restalrig
- OLIPHANT, Walter publisher Edinburgh
William Oliphant & Son same address 1836-46
Walter Oliphant was the son of William Oliphant, bookseller and Mary Irvine,
and the younger brother of William Oliphant junior. He joined the firm in
1842 or earlier, and remained with it until his death in 1846'
Edin Dir; Biographical Sketch of the late William Oliphant Esq., publisher,
Edinburgh. [Edinburgh, 1860]
- OLIPHANT, William clerk to H.M. Printers Edinburgh
of the King's Warehouse 1805-06
Burgess and Guild Brother 21 May 1806
EdinBurg
- OLIPHANT, William bookseller Edinburgh
Oliphant and Brown, High Street 1807
2 Hunter Square 1808
Oliphant and Balfour, same address 1809-10
[William] Oliphant, [John] Waugh and Innes same address 1811-17
Waugh and Innes booksellers, publishers and stationers same address
1820-35
William Oliphant 22 South Bridge 1818-32
7 South Bridge 1833-35
William Oliphant & Son same address 1836-46
publishers same address 1847-60
William Oliphant & Co same address 1861-71
57 Frederick Street 1872-74
24 St Giles Street and 35-37 St Mary Street 1875-80
Oliphant, [Robert] Anderson & [J.S.] Ferrier same address 1881-88
30-37 St Mary Street 1889-98
30 St Mary's Street 1899-20th Century
William Oliphant married Mary Irvine. The sons were Walter Oliphant and William
Oliphant junior 1842-44.
Edin Dir ; Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837
- OLIPHANT, William publisher Edinburgh
William Oliphant 22 South Bridge 1818-32
7 South Bridge 1833-35
William Oliphant & Son same address 1836-46
publishers same address 1847-60
William Oliphant was the son of William Oliphant, bookseller and Mary Irvine.
He was born on 14 January 1807; educated at Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh
University. He learnt the trade with his father, and afterwards for a year
with Mr Curry of Dublin. In 1831 he went into partnership with his father.
He married, in 1841, Martha, only daughter of James Marshall, merchant of
Glasgow, but they had no children. After the death of his father in 1842,
and of his younger brother, Walter, who had also entered the business, in
1846, he remained sole partner in the business until about 1858. At that point
his own ill-health caused him to take two partners [perhaps Robert Anderson
and J.S. Ferrier]. He was interested in science, and was Secretary and Treasurer
at different times of The Royal Physical Society. He also was a Justice of
the Peace for the City of Edinburgh.
Edin Dir ; Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837; Biographical Sketch of the
late William Oliphant Esq., publisher, Edinburgh. [Edinburgh, 1860]
- OLIPHANT, William junior & Co printer Edinburgh
William Oliphant & Co 23 South Bridge 1837-40
Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
- OLIPHANT, William heraldic and ornamental engraver Glasgow
107 Buchanan Street 1849
Glas Dir
- OLIPHANT, William junior printer Leith
Broad Wynd, Leith 1807-08
Telegraph Office, Broad Wynd 1809-11
Edin Dir
- OLIVER [Thomas] & BOYD [George] publishers, booksellers and printers
Edinburgh
Thomas Oliver North Richmond Street 1799-1800
Thomas Oliver & Co Baron Grant's Close, Nether Bow, High Street 1801-07
[Thomas] Oliver & [George] Boyd same address 1808-09
Tweeddale Court [Baron Grant's Close] 16 High Street 1810-Twentieth Century
Burgess as apprentice to James Robertson printer, Horse Wynd, 20 March 1817.
Archives of Oliver & Boyd in NLS. Thomas Oliver (1776-1853), apprentice
compositor to James Robertson, printer, Horsewynd, was a witness at the trial
of Walter Berry and James Robertson for publishing a seditious libel in 1792;
In 1801 he took George Boyd (died 1843) into partnership. Their catalogues
from 1811 to 1841 show them selling juvenile books at a halfpenny, penny,
twopence, threepence, fourpence and sixpence and upwards to half-a-crown.
They also printed and sold abridged histories in fancy covers and songbooks.
The juvenile series up to twopence, at least, were numbered, and some of the
twopenny ones have lists of the series on the back cover. Unfortunately nothing
under sixpence was listed under title in the firms wholesale catalogues until
1827. From that date the twopenny series is listed. The threepeny series was
discontinued in 1818, the fourpenny in 1835, and all cease after 1841. The
archives of Oliver and Boyd are on deposit in the National Library of Scotland.
Apprentices: Hugh Sinclair, printer, Burgess 28 August 1828; John Thomson,
printer, of Elbe Street, Leith, apprenticed 12 October 1812, Burgess 15 September
1840.
NLS Impr Ind; Chapbook Printers; EdinBurg; Edin Dir; W.M. Parker.
'The house of Oliver and Boyd'. Publishers Circular & Booksellers
Record 15 August 1953; W.M. Parker. The house of Oliver & Boyd:
a record from 1778 to 1948, unpublished manuscript in the National Library
of Scotland; Alan Bell. The Oliver and Boyd papers - a preliminary report.
Read to the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society on 21 January 1971, unpublished
manuscript in the National Library of Scotland.
- OLIVER, James bookseller Jedburgh
Jedburgh 1757
James Oliver & Son Jedburgh 1773
Baillie of Jedburgh, Sold James Burgh's Britains remembrancer. Edinburgh,
1757 & Alexander Peden's Life & prophecies. 1773
NLS Impr Ind
- OLIVER, John subscription library New Castleton
New Castleton 1852
Slater 1852
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