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Johnston, John - Kincaid, Alexander

  • JOHNSTON, John bookseller Glasgow
    Calton Cross 1795
    Thomas Watson's Body of practical divinity. Glasgow, 1795 was printed for him.
    NLS Impr Ind
  • JOHNSTON, John merchant pocket book maker Glasgow
    Hutcheson Street 1828
    Burgess and Guild Brother as eldest son to Charles Johnston hammerman 19 August 1828.
    GlasBurg
  • JOHNSON, John printer and publisher Glasgow
    19 Glassford Street 1837
    Pigot 1837
  • JOHNSTON, John lithographic printer Greenock
    46 Hamilton Street 1834-61
    Greenock 1853 gives the address as 8 Hamilton Street.
    Schenck; Fowler 1834; 1836; Pigot 1837;Fowler 1834; 1836; Slater 1852
  • JOHNSTONE, John & Co printer and newspaper printer Inverness
    Inverness Courier East-street 1817-24
    The Inverness Courier commenced 4 December 1817 with John and Christian Johnstone as editors. Mrs Johnstone was a well-known novelist, and contributed considerably to the columns of the paper.
    Pigot 1820; Cowan; John Noble. Bibliography of Inverness Newspapers and Periodicals. Stirling, 1903.
  • JOHNSTON [JOHNSON], John paper maker Mid Calder
    West Mill 1825
    Adam's Brae Mill 1825
    Mill No 11. Not in the 1832 Mill List.
    Pigot 1825; Thomson
  • JOHNSTON, Kerr bookseller and stationer Greenock
    46 Hamilton Street 1834-36
    Fowler 1834; 1836
  • JOHNSTON, Neil printer Edinburgh
    Johnston and Glass Anchor Close, [243] High Street 1819
    Neil Johnston same address 1820-28
    Mrs Neil Johnston same address 1829
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Patrick bookbinder Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1600
    His daughter Margaret was baptised 17 August 1600. Andr. Areson was witness. Scottish Antiquary v, 90.
    Aldis 1904
  • JOHNSTON, Patrick bookseller Falkirk
    High Street 1825
    Pigot 1825
  • JOHNSTON, R. bookseller Falkirk
    Falkirk 1797
    Thomas Shepard's Parable of ten virgins printed for him by T. Johnston. Falkirk, 1797.
    NLS Impr Ind
  • JOHNSTONE, R. publisher Glasgow
    R. Johnstone & W. Paton Glasgow 1797-98
    R. Johnstone Glasgow 1798
    NLS Impr Ind
  • JOHNSTON, Robert bookbinder, bookseller and stationer Aberdeen
    19 Gallowgate 1828
    Probably related to Alexander Johnston. Alexander Johnston & Son was at this address 1829-30.
    Beavan
  • JOHNSTON, Robert grocer and bookseller Biggar
    Biggar 1825
    'Good' Oliver & Boyds Travellers Logbook NLS Acc.5000/78. Biggar not in Pigot 1820 or 1821; Robert Johnston is a 'Grocer &c' in Pigot 1825 but is not in Pigot 1837.
    Bell; Pigot 1825
  • JOHNSTON, Robert apprentice bookbinder Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1721
    Son to deceased James Johnston, writer, apprenticed to Charles Cosh bookbinder 4 January 1721.
    EdinPren
  • JOHNSTON, Robert stationer Edinburgh
    66 Bristo Street 1817-26
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1820; 1825
  • JOHNSTON, Robert bookseller Edinburgh
    76 Candlemaker Row 1832-39
    bookseller and stationer same address 1840-45
    bookseller same address 1846-47
    newsagent bookseller and printer 125 Nicolson Street 1848
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Robert printer Edinburgh
    10 Charlotte Street Lane 1837
    Pigot 1837
  • JOHNSTON, Robert newsagent Edinburgh
    6 Richmond Street [Place] 1843-44
    125 Nicholson Street 1845-46
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Robert printer Elgin
    Batchen Lane 1825
    Pigot 1825
  • JOHNSTON, Robert bookseller Huntly
    The Square 1837-52
    Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
  • JOHNSTON, T. printer Edinburgh
    of Neill & Co 12 Old Fishmarket Close 1834-37
    Gray 1834; 1837
  • JOHNSTON, Thomas Brumby engraver Edinburgh
    of W. & A. K. Johnston 1838-97
    Brother of William and Alexander Keith Johnston. Joint author of The historical geography of The Clans of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1872.
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Thomas writer, banker, printer and publisher Dumfries
    Dumfries 1836
    Sequestration in SRO 1836.
    SRO CS235 SEQ/I and J/1/41/1836
  • JOHNSTON, Thomas jeweller Edinburgh
    60 Princes Street 1822
    34 Princes Street 1823-24
    goldsmith, engraver and lapidary 36 Hanover Street 1825-29
    42 Hanover Street 1830-32
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Thomas printer Edinburgh
    11 West Adam Street 1843-67
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Thomas printer, newspaper printer, and bookseller Falkirk
    Falkirk 1797-1805
    East side of the Post Office 1806
    Falkirk 1807-19
    High Street 1820-31
    Archibald Johnston same address 1831-37
    Succeeded his father-in-law Patrick Mair 1797. Died in 1831. Chapbooks must have formed a principal part of his business. In an imprint in 1801 he writes 'of whom may be had variety of pamphlets and ballads in wholesale & retail'. Certainly very large numbers of chapbooks printed by him survive. He died in January 1831 and was succeeded by his son Archibald Johnston.
    Jubilee of the Falkirk Herald, 1846-1896. Falkirk, 1896.; Eighty years 1845-1925 Falkirk Herald. Falkirk, 1925.; NLS Impr Ind; Local Notes and Queries reprinted from The Stirling Observer. Stirling, 1886; Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837
  • JOHNSTON, T. & Co stationery warehouse and reading room Glasgow
    426 Argyll Street 1835-40
    Glas Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Thomas & Co writing ink makers and stationers Glasgow
    137 George Street 1835-49
    Glas Dir
  • JOHNSTON, W. merchant and bookseller West Linton
    'Linton' probably West Linton 1742-49
    Sold a number of religious books. May be William Johnston of Newlandsborland. The two places are close.
    NLS Impr Ind
  • JOHNSON, William apprentice paper maker Broomhouse
    Broomhouse 1784
    Henry Taylor took William Johnson as apprentice 21 December 1784.
    Thomson
  • JOHNSTON, William grocer, bookseller and stationer Castle Douglas
    King-street 1820
    'Good' Oliver and Boyd Travellers Logbook. NLS Acc.5000/78.
    Pigot 1820; Bell
  • JOHNSTON, William general merchant and postmaster Ecclefechan
    Ecclefechan 1825-37
    'Good' Oliver and Boyd Travellers Logbook NLS Acc.5000/78. Ecclefechan not in Pigot 1820 or 1825. In 1825 the Post Master is Mr William Johnstone, a William Johnstone is also Grocer & Spirit Dealer in Pigot 1837
    Bell; Pigot 1825; 1837
  • JOHNSTON, William stationer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1688-92
    An edition of Bibliotheca universalis was printed for him and A. Ogston by J. Reid in 1688. Children buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 14 January 1691 and 27 May 1692.
    Aldis 1904; GreyBuri
  • JOHNSTON, William apprentice bookbinder Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1724
    Son to Mr John Johnston, schoolmaster, apprenticed to John Currie bookbinder 8 April 1724.
    EdinPren
  • JOHNSTON, William printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1796
    Married Minto daughter of James Kinnear gentleman's servant 29 April 1796.
    CanonMarr
  • JOHNSTON, William bookbinder Edinburgh
    183 Cowgate 1815-16
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, William and Alexander Keith engravers, printers and mapmakers Edinburgh
    160 High Street 1826-37
    (also at 107 George Street 1835-37)
    4 St Andrew Square 1838-78
    16 South St Andrew Street 1879-94
    Edina Works, Easter Road 1879-1968
    7 Hanover Street 1895-97
    20 South St Andrew Street 1898-1905
    2 St Andrew Square 1906-28
    12 Queen Street 1929-38
    38A George Street 1939-47
    Edina Works, Easter Road 1948-52
    W. & A.K. Johnston & G. W. Bacon Ltd same address 1953
    William Johnston, 3rd son of Andrew Johnston and Isabel Keith was born 27 October 1802. He was apprenticed to James Kirkwood & Sons engravers, and afterwards with W.H. Lizars. Set up on 1 December 1825 at 6 Hill Square, as a steel and copperplate engraver. Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-71) joined him in May 1826. William Johnston Burgess in right of father Andrew Johnston, Mayfield Cottage 28 July 1828; St Andrew's Square. Guild Brother 11 April 1839. Alexander Keith Johnston St Andrew's Square. Burgess and Guild Brother in right of father Andrew Johnston Mayfield Cottage 6 April 1841. They were Engravers and Printers to the King for Scotland 1834-37, and to the Queen 1837-1901. Listed as lithographers from 1851. On the death of W.H. Lizars, Messrs Johnston acquired that business with its important banknote printing operations. The firm eventually became part of Morrison & Gibb. William Johnston was elected to the Town Council of Edinburgh 26 September 1832, became a Baillie and was Lord Provost from 1848-51. He died 7 February 1888.
    DNB; Edin Dir; 'W. & A.K. Johnston Ltd. The World's Map Printers' The British Printer. vol.19 175-181 (1906); One hundred years of map making: the story of W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh [1925]. EdinBurg; Pigot 1837; Schenck
  • JOHNSTON, William printer Greenock
    14 Hamilton-street 1814-20
    and newspaper printer Commercial Clyde List, Hamilton Street 1825
    Schenck; Pigot 1820; 1825
  • JOHNSTON, William senior typographic and lithographic printer Greenock
    46 Hamilton Street 1831
    William Johnston & Son same address 1834-45
    William Johnston same address 1853-61
    bookseller and stationer same address 1868-75
    The son seems to have been John Johnston 1834-53
    Fowler 1831; 1834; 1836; Greenock 1845; 1853; 1861; 1868; 1873; 1875
  • JOHNSTON, William paper warehouse Leith
    St Andrew Street 1808-12
    paper and stone warehouse 81 St Andrew Street 1813-21
    stoneware merchant same address 1823-30
    Mrs William Johnston same address 1831-32
    Mrs William Johnston & Son same address 1833-34
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, Mrs W. and Son wholesale china, paper and rag merchants Leith
    81 St Andrew Street 1836-37
    Edin Dir
  • JOHNSTON, William merchant and bookseller Newlandsborland
    Newlandsborland 1741
    Possibly W Johnston of Linton. If Linton is West Linton the two places are close together. He sold James Fisher's A sermon. and Ralph Erskine's Christ Jesus the Lord. both Edinburgh, 1741.
    NLS Impr Ind
  • JOHNSTONE, William Francis bookseller Dumfries
    44 High Street 1852
    Slater 1852
  • JOHNSTONE, William Francis bookbinder Maxwelltown
    50 Glasgow Street 1837
    Pigot 1837
  • JOINER, James bookseller Crieff
    High Street 1852
    Slater 1852
  • JOLLIE bookseller Carlisle
    Carlisle 1785-97
    NLS Impr Ind
  • JOLLIE, Patrick bookseller and circulating library Leslie
    Leslie 1837
    stationer & bookbinder Leslie 1852
    Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
  • JONES, ----- printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh before 1798
    Daughter Rosetta of late ----- Jones, printer, married John Gordon mariner 10 February 1798.
    CanonMarr
  • JONES, Francis bookseller and stationer Glasgow
    44 Miller's Place 1847
    bookseller and bookbinder same address 1849
    In section 'Names too late for insertion' 1847.
    Glas Dir
  • JONES, John book agent Aberdeen
    Long Acre 1816
    Agent for Brightly & Childs of Bungay. Aberdeen Journal 20 March 1816.
    Beavan
  • JONES, John book publisher Edinburgh
    10 Carnegie Street 1815
    14 Richmond Street 1816-19
    90 Pleasance 1820-22
    Nicolson Square 1823
    10 Nicolson Square 1824
    10 Nicolson Square and 47 Nicolson Street 1825-26
    93 Nicolson Street 1827
    10 Nicolson Square 1828-29
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837
  • JONES, John & Son bookbinders Edinburgh
    17 Roxburgh Street 1824
    2 Drummond Street 1825-28
    4 Infirmary Street 1829-31
    59 South Bridge 1832-36
    Admitted to Sanctuary for debt at Holyroodhouse 14 January 1835.
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1825; 1837; Cadell
  • JONES, John bookseller Edinburgh
    2 Hay Street, Nicolson Square 1830-40
    'publisher' 1838-39.
    Edin Dir
  • JONES, John bookbinder Glasgow
    141 Trongate 1809-15
    Post Office Court, Trongate 1818-20
    Glas Dir
  • JONES, John, junior bookseller Glasgow
    13 Nelson Street 1818-19
    and reading room 12 Nelson Street 1820
    Glas Dir
  • JONES, John circulating library, reading room and bookbinder Glasgow
    11 Nelson-street 1820
    Pigot 1820
  • JONES, W.G. bookbinder Edinburgh
    90 South Bridge 1838
    Edin Dir
  • JORNAW [JOURNAN], Thomas bookbinder Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1630-before 1638
    Grandson of Robert Woodhouse bookbinder, with whom he was apprenticed 17 March 1630. Married Margaret Breadfoote 4 July 1634. She married John Muild 20 September 1638.
    EdinPren; EdinMarr; Mitchell
  • JOURNAL newspaper office Edinburgh
    251 High Street 1812-20
    Journal Office (Weekly) same address 1821-24
    James Ballantyne & Co printers; office 251 High Street 1825-43
    27 Hanover Street 1844-45
    30 Hanover Square 1846
    2 Hunter Square 1847
    Edin Dir
  • JOURNAL newspaper office Glasgow
    75 Argyll Street 1844
    Glas Dir
  • JUNIUS, R. printer Edinburgh
    See YOUNG, Robert

    K., J. J.K[niblo]., J.S[olingen]. & J.C[olmar]. printers Edinburgh
    See LINDSAY, D. and partners
  • KASTER, Michael paper maker See KEYSAR, Michael
  • KEY, Andrew printer and newspaper printer Montrose
    Chronicle Office New Wynd 1825
    Pigot 1825
  • KEAY, Ebenezer printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1784
    Married Esther daughter of Robert Falconer 8 May 1784.
    EdinMarr
  • KAY, George printer Stirling
    Head of Baker Street 1832
    George Kay advertised in the Stirling Journal 16 February 1832 that he was setting up a printing office 'G. K. being enabled to perform the operative department himself, his charges will be found extremely moderate'. Nothing more is known about the venture.
    Harvey
  • KAY, J[ohn] & W[illiam] papermakers and pasteboard manufacturers Slateford and Edinburgh
    Saughton Mill 1831-37
    and 80 Potterrow 1834-37
    and 8 Drummond Street, Edinburgh 1836
    Chrstian Names from the street index in Gray 1834. Saughton Mills were in the possession of P. Macniven in 1838. Mill No 76. Not in Mill List 1852.
    Edin Dir; Gray 1834; 1837; Pigot 1837; Thomson
  • KEY, James printer and publisher Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1798
    Middle Leith Walk East side 1799
    Jolly's Land Cowgate 1800-01
    Published Jonathan Carver's Three years travels through interior of North America. Edinburgh, 1798.
    NLS Impr Ind; Edin Dir
  • KAY, James bookseller Edinburgh
    1 Ronaldson's Buildings, Leith Walk 1823-26
    1 Ronaldson's Buildings and 18 Haddington Place 1827
    2 Blenheim Place 1828-33
    - House 18 Haddington Place 1833-34
    James Kay & Co same address 1835-36
    3 Elm Row 1837-40
    7 Elm Row 1841-42
    3 Bank Street 1843
    Bankrupt Johnstone's Political Register 1 December 1832. Anonymous printed advertisement for sale of books in Gray 1836
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1825;Gray 1833; Gray 1833
  • KEY, James bookseller Leith
    7 Giles Buildings 1819-20
    Edin Dir
  • KAY, James & Co printer Glasgow
    179 Argyll Street 1844
    Glas Dir
  • KAY, John printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1752
    Married Isobel M'Intosh relict of Henry Buchanan soldier of the City Guard 5 January 1752.
    EdinMarr
  • KAY, John engraver and miniature painter Edinburgh
    Near the Cross 1786
    227 High Street 1787
    High Street, South Side 1788
    Baillie Fyfe's Close 1790
    Bull Turnpike 1793-99
    miniature painter 10 Parliament Square 1800
    printseller same address 1801-05
    Parliament Square 1806-10
    14 Parliament Square 1811-12
    243 High Street 1813-19
    15 Parliament Square 1820-22
    75 Princes Street 1823
    227 High Street 1825
    John Kay was born in April 1742, at Gibraltar near Dalkeith, son of John Kay, mason, and Helen Alexander. He was apprenticed to George Heriot, barber of Dalkeith, and purchased the freedom of the Society of Surgeon-Barbers of Edinburgh 19 September 1771. William Nisbet of Dirleton took him into his household, and he there he learnt to draw and paint in miniature, in which he was encouraged by the family. After his patron's death, Kay published some etchings, and these were so successful that he gave up his old profession in 1785 and supported himself entirely by his etching and by miniatures.He married a Miss Lilly Steven, 6 March 1765, by whom he had his son William who did some etchings. She died in March 1785. He married again in 1787, Margaret Scott, who surv ived him and died in November 1835. John Kay died 21 February 1826, his son William predeceased him. The National Library of Scotland has a Catalogue of the works and other genuine property of the late Mr John Kay of Edinburgh, the celebrated caricaturist engraver, print seller, and picture dealer, to be sold by Mr Walker of the Agency Office, in his rooms, opposite the College, on Mondaythe 22d day of February 1836, and following days .He had meant to publish his etchings during his lifetime,and prepared some short memoirs for the publication, including a brief autobiography. After his death the plates were acquired and published by Hugh Paton, a carver and gilder, with biographical notes by James Paterson. The parts began to appear in 1837. A Prospectus for the part edition of 'The Works of the Edinburgh Caricaturist the late John Kay' is in the appendix to the Edinburgh Directory for 1838. The text was revised for the 1842 edition. By then the plates were showing signs of wear, and most in that edition were offset onto lithographic stones and printed that way. A subsequent edition published by A. & C. Black in 1877, has the plates reentered by the graver.
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1825; Bush.2; Kay; DNB; Dalkeith Advertiser 24 September 1896; James Paterson. Autobiographical reminiscences. Glasgow, 1841 Includes: 'Kay's Edinburgh portraits--how they were got up in 1832.' Johnst3
  • KAY, J[ohn] & W[illiam] papermakers and pasteboard manufacturers Slateford and Edinburgh
    Saughton Mill 1831-37
    and 80 Potterrow 1834-37
    and 8 Drummond Street, Edinburgh 1836
    Chrstian Names from the street index in Gray 1834. Saughton Mills were in the possession of P. Macniven in 1838. Mill No 76. Not in Mill List 1852.
    Edin Dir; Gray 1834; 1837; Pigot 1837; Thomson
  • KAY, Joseph bookseller and principal agent in Scotland for Bradshaw's Railway Guide Edinburgh
    6 Broughton Street Edinburgh 1848-53
    Advt 1848. Agent Joseph Kay
    Edin Dir
  • KAY, Peter publisher Edinburgh
    of Oliver & Boyd 1842-50
    Edin Dir
  • KAY, Thomas printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1799
    Daughter Ann married Walter Lawrie smith 18 January 1799.
    CanonMarr
  • KAY, William etcher Edinburgh
    Edinburgh ca 1785-94
    Son of John Kay and Lilly Steven. He etched some prints of Edinburgh life, but predeceased his father.
    Kay
  • KAY, William wholesale stationer Edinburgh
    27 Cross Causeway 1850
    Edin Dir
  • KAY, William paper maker Falkirk
    Falkirk 1800
    Water driven paper mill mentioned in an insurance policy as insured for £300. Location not known.
    Ewen Jardine. 'The history of paper mills in Central Scotland'. IPH Yearbook vol.7 1988 81-93
  • KAYE, William & Co printers Glasgow
    61 Prince's Street 1825
    Pigot 1825
  • KEARY, Robert paper maker Edinburgh
    Canongate? 1798
    Married Elizabeth daughter of the late John Lockhart innkeeper in Edinburgh 26 April 1798.
    CanonMarr
  • KEDDIE [KEDIE], Archibald bookbinder Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1792-99
    Don's Close, Luckenbooths 1815
    Covenant Close 1816-19
    Miln's Court 1820-22
    Old Bank Close 1820
    Married Hellen daughter of John Carstairs surgeon in the Canongate 29 February 1792. Married Mary daughter of Alexander Petrie weaver 6 May 1799. The Old Bank Close address is from Pigot 1820.
    CanonMarr; EdinMarr; Edin Dir; Pigot 1820
  • KEDDIE, Archibald bookbinder Glasgow
    3 Prince's Street 1809
    Glas Dir
  • KEGGIE, James printer Edinburgh
    Old Assembly Close 1815-21
    Edin Dir
  • KEITH & GIBB lithographers and engravers Aberdeen
    John Henderson Aberdeen 1843-49
    Keith & Gibb 15 Union Buildings 1848-70
    3 Queen Street 1871-79
    Gibb & Hay same address 1880-82
    3 Queen Street and 40 Broad Street 1883-86
    Andrew Gibb & Co same address 1887-96
    10 Belmont Street 1897-20th Century
    Schenck
  • KEITH, Adam paper-frame maker Edinburgh
    11 Gray Street, Newington 1821-22
    Maggots Land Abbey Hill 1825
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1825
  • KEITH, Alexander printer, bookseller and engraver Aberdeen
    Long Acre 1801-2
    Alexander Imlay and Alexander Keith same address 1803-8
    Alexander Keith same address 1809-24
    7 Long Acre 1825-34
    Mrs Keith same address 1835-38
    Printed and published a number of undated chapbook songsters 1810?-1835?. He does not appear in Pigot 1837
    Beavan; Chapbook Printers; Pigot 1820; 1825
  • KEITH, Andrew bookseller Dingwall
    High Street 1837
    Pigot 1837
  • KEITH, Archibald paper maker's frame maker and paper maker Lasswade and Newbattle
    paper maker's frame maker Polton Bank, Lasswade 1795
    paper maker Newbattle Mill 1795-98
    'In 1795 Archibald Keith, who for a long time had been a mould maker, bought some of the machinery of Melville Mill and built a small paper mill at Newbattle. this mill was subsequently operated and enlarged by Robert Craig & Co.' He married Rebecca Foord relict of Alexander Robertson gentleman's servant 14 November 1796 [16th under Ford] in Edinburgh. Daughter Marion married Thomas Brumly quartermaster in the 88th Regiment in Canongate Kirk 12 May 1795 . Daughter Isobel married Andrew Johnston writer in Edinburgh 10 May 1798. 'Rothes was built by Archibald Keith (of Newbattle) for his son William. Unfortunately William died before the mill was finished and the lease was signed by Archibald Keith junior. Production started in 1806, but Keith was bankrupt in 1810'.
    Thomson; EdinMarr; CanonMarr
  • KEITH, Archibald papermaker Water of Lethen
    East Paper Mill 1813
    Statement of the various erections and machinery on the Water of Leven. 1st March 1813. Broadside R.Tullis, Printer, Cupar (NLS S.Sh.s.1.90.34)
  • KEITH, Charles bookseller Inverness
    21 Church Street 1852
    Slater 1852
  • KEITH, Charles H. bookseller Edinburgh
    76 Abbeyhill 1841
    88 Abbeyhill 1842-50
    Edin Dir
  • KEITH, Donald librarian Cardross
    Librarian Cardross Subscription Library Geilstown 1837
    Pigot 1837
  • KEITH, James bookseller & stationer Dingwall
    High Street 1852
    Author of The Book of Psalms rendered into common metre verse. London, 1868. The book was published anonymously in London, but a copy in The National Library of Scotland is a presentation copy with his signature.
    Slater 1852
  • KEITH, James printseller, picture frame maker and artists colorman Edinburgh
    25 Hanover Street 1846-47
    60 Princes Street 1848-54
    Edin Dir
  • KEITH, James newspaper printer Greenock
    Intelligencer Office 1836
    Fowler 1836
  • KEITH, John auctioneer and bookseller Glasgow
    5 Hutcheson Street 1828-47
    Son of Duncan Keith, Edinburgh, Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow by purchase 8 May 1833.
    GlasBurg; Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
  • KEITH, M. music shop Glasgow
    26 Hutcheson Street 1809
    Glas Dir
  • KEITH, R. bookseller Edinburgh
    19 Dalrymple Place 1827
    Edin Dir
  • KEITH, William bookseller and patent medicine seller Aberdeen
    23 Queen Street 1845
    Aberdeen 1846-48
    Agent for Jacques & Davis' eradicative medicines.
    Beavan
  • KELLAHIN, John bookseller & printer Kilmarnock
    18 King Street 1852
    Slater 1852
  • KELLAHIN, Robert bookseller Irvine
    High Street 1852
    Slater 1852
  • KELLY [KELLEY], Bruce bookbinder Newton Stewart
    Newton Stewart 1837-52
    bookseller bookbinder stationer and printer 1852
    Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
  • KENNEDY & MCCRONE booksellers and stationers Glasgow
    44 Argyle Street 1825
    Pigot 1825
  • KENNEDY & RAMSAY newspaper publishers Arbroath
    Market Place 1852
    Publishers of The Arbroath Guide
    Slater 1852
  • KENNEDY & Co stationers Paisley
    30 Causeyside 1834
    John C. Kennedy teacher Academy 7 Oakshaw Street
    - house 30 Causewayside 1834-38
    Kennedy Brothers lithographers and engravers 30 Causewayside 1851
    There is a John Kennedy of [Dundas] Porteous & [John] Kennedy engineers and machine makers at the same address 1838 and it was also the business address of Porteous & Kennedy.
    Fowler 1834; Paisley 1838; 1851
  • KENNEDY, Alexander bookseller Scotland?
    1681
    Three books printed in 1681 have the imprint 'Printed for Alexander Kennedy' and are probably Scottish; John Guthrie's To the suffering protestants, owning protestation ...; William Guthrie's Crumbs of comfort: or grace in its various degrees, and yet oneness in kind ... and A. Stewart's It's like the most part ... . All are covenanting publications, and the mystification is probably intentional.
    Aldis 1904
  • KENNEDY, Alexander bookseller Edinburgh
    32 Leith Walk 1835-37
    Gray 1835; 1836; 1837; Pigot 1837
  • KENNEDY, Ben. M. printer and publisher Arbroath
    86 High Street Office Market Place 1846
    Angus 1846
  • KENNEDY, Denis [Dennis] bookseller, publisher, printer and stationer Glasgow
    5 Miller Place 1828
    Waterport Buildings 16 & 17 Great Clyde Street 1835-40
    and bookbinder same address 1844
    A publisher and seller of Roman Catholic books.
    Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
  • KENNEDY, Gilbert stationer Glasgow
    [Robert] Weir and [Gilbert] Kennedy Argyle Street 1817
    Gilbert Kennedy 89 Argyll Street 1828
    Mrs Gilbert Kennedy same address 1835-37
    G. Kennedy same address 1840
    and account book manufacturer same address 1844-47
    Gilbert Kennedy merchant Argyle Street partner in Weir and Kennedy stationers Burgess and Guild Brother by purchase 22 August 1817. 'Gilbert' in street directory Glas Dir 1844.
    GlasBurg; Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
  • KENNEDY, James stationer Glasgow
    115 Ingram Street 1835-44
    wholesale stationer and bookbinder same address 1847
    Burgess and Guild Brother as younger son to Thomas Kennedy merchant (1817) 24 September 1844.
    GlasBurg; Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
  • KENNEDY, James D. bookseller,bookbinder, printer and circulating library Hawick
    Sandbed 1837
    Teviot Square 1852
    Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
  • KENNEDY, John surgeon and paper maker Colinton
    Colinton 1723
    John Kennedy surgeon & representatives of deceast William Blair roup of the utensils of the Paper Mill of Collington. Edinburgh Evening Courant 22 October 1723.
    NLS Impr Ind
  • KENNEDY, John bookseller & stamp distributor Stewarton
    High Street 1852
    Slater 1852
  • KENNEDY, M.R. journeyman paper maker Crook of Devon
    Crook of Devon Mill 1827-41?
    Apprenticed at Auchterarder Mill, went to Crook of Devon in 1827 after a year unemployed. Was first a beaterman and afterwards a coucher there. Emigrated to America about 1841.
    Ewen Jardine. 'The history of paper mills in Central Scotland'. IPH Yearbook vol.7 1988 81-93
  • KENNEDY, W[illiam].P. bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
    16 South St Andrews Street 1843
    15 South St Andrews Street 1844-59
    79 George Street 1860-65
    7 London Street 1866
    publisher 56 George Street 1868
    Edin Dir
  • KENNEDY, William bookseller and stationer Denny
    Denny 1825
    Pigot 1825
  • KENNY, J.B. bookseller Edinburgh
    - house 20 Abercromby Place 1833
    Gray 1833
  • KERKNETT, Salomon compositor Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1576-77
    In the employ of Bassandyne, who brought him from Magedburg to work upon the Bible. In 1576-7 he brought an action against Bassandyne for payment of wages.
    Aldis 1904; DE.286; P.C.Reg.li.582
  • KERNCROSS, Robert bookbinder Hawick
    High-street 1820
    Pigot 1820
  • KER, Andrew apprentice printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1667
    Son to William Ker, printer in Aberdeen, apprenticed to Joseph Storie printer 28 August 1667.
    EdinPren
  • KER, Andrew apprentice bookbinder Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1736
    Son John Ker, indweller, apprenticed to Samuel Grahame bookbinder 17 March 1736.
    EdinPren
  • KER, Andrew bookseller Kelso
    Kelso 1745
    Thomas Boston's The triple testimony was printed for him in Edinburgh in 1745.
    NLS Impr Ind
  • KERR, Charles Esq His Majesty's Printer for Scotland Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1789-94
    George Square South Side 1795
    Charles Kerr Esq 4 George Square, South side 1796-97
    43 George Square 1799
    12 East Thistle Street 1800-03
    Burgess and Guild Brother in right of father James Kerr jeweller and goldsmith 7 July 1788. No trade given in Edin Dir except in 1793. Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 18 November 1790 and 27 April 1793.
    Edin Dir; EdinBurg; Sher. Edinburgh Booksellers
  • KERR, Colin stationer and inkmaker Edinburgh
    Hand and Pen below the foot of Blackfriars Wynd Cowgate 1755
    Advertisement Edinburgh Evening Courant 9 January 1755. Will registered 27 April 1761.
    NLS Impr Ind; EdinTest
  • KER, David printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1770
    Married Marion daughter to Alexander Rainie slater in Prestonpans 11 November 1770.
    EdinMarr
  • KERR, George and LIVINGSTONE, George paper makers Edinburgh and Yester
    Yester Mill, East Lothian 1703-
    Braid Mill near Edinburgh 1703-
    The Scots White Writing Paper Company made a tack of the two paper-mills 17 September 1703 to George Kerr, merchant and George Livingstoune wright both of Edinburgh on condition that they retained the existing apprentices and workmen. Both mills were still working as papermills in 1714, and Yester was offered for let in working order in 1774. Waterston illustrates photographs of a mark YESTER in an ornamental cartouche in a deed of 20 June 1705.
    Waterston 1; Thomson
  • KERR, James printer Edinburgh
    Heron's Court, Cowgate 1811
    Edin Dir
  • KERR, James bookseller and circulating library Edinburgh
    32 Nicolson Street 1847-59
    Mrs James Kerr bookseller same address 1860-88
    Edin Dir
  • KERR, James engraver and printer Glasgow
    30 Trongate 1825
    Laigh Kirk Close, 59 Trongate 1828-35
    engraver, copper and lithographic printer 4 Laigh Kirk Close 1837
    59 Trongate 1837-44
    145 Argyll Street 1845-54
    Succeeded by John Scott.
    Glas Dir; Pigot 1825; 1837; Schenck
  • KERR, James senior bookseller Greenock
    103 Hamilton Street 1820
    Hamilton Street 1825
    and stationer and librarian 22 Hamilton Street 1831-34
    Pigot 1820; 1825; Fowler 1831; 1834
  • KERR, James junior bookseller and bookbinder Greenock
    49 Hamilton Street 1820
    and circulating library Cathcart Street 1825
    10 Hamilton Street 1831-45
    17 Hamilton Street 1853
    3 Hamilton Street 1861
    and stationer Fowler 1834; not junior 1836-45
    Pigot 1820; 1825 ; 1837; Fowler 1831; 1834; 1836; Greenock 1845; 1853; 1861
  • KERR, John printer Edinburgh
    9 Simon's Square 1824
    Edin Dir
  • KERR, John engraver and printer Edinburgh
    79 Princes Street 1831
    Edin Dir
  • KERR, John librarian and bookseller Glasgow
    11 College Street 1840
    Glas Dir
  • KERR, John bookbinder Glasgow
    Glasgow 1843
    Burgess and Guild Brother as skinner by purchase 23 November 1843.
    GlasBurg
  • KERR, John stationer Prestonpans
    Prestonpans 1841-43
    Edin Dir
  • KERR, Malcolm wholesale stationer Glasgow
    Fleming and [Malcolm] Kerr stationers Argyle Street 1823
    7 Argyle Street 1825
    15 Argyll Street 1828
    Malcolm Kerr 89 Queen Street 1837-47
    Burgess and Guild Brother by purchase 19 August 1823.
    GlasBurg; Pigot 1825, 1837; Glas Dir
  • KERR, Mark and Charles printers Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1789-98
    His Majesty's Printers for Scotland. Apprentices: James Main 2 February 1790, Burgess 8 August 1818; Alexander Clark 1 July 1790; David Clark 1 July 1790; Neil McGregor 1 July 1790; Andrew Stewart 1 July 1790, Burgess 12 March 1795; William Ross 2 December 1790; John Bruce 1 March 1792; Thomas Couper 1 March 1792; John McArthur 17 April 1794; Alexander Bankes 38 March 1798, Burgess 3 September 1839.
    NLS Impr Ind; EdinBurg; EdinPren
  • KERR, Robert papermaker Aytoun
    Aytoun ca 1780-1810?
    Son of James Kerr, M.P. for Edinburgh and Elizabeth Kerr he was born at Bughtridge in Roxburghshire. He studied at Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh, and was appointed Surgeon of the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital. He gave up this post to become manager of a papermill at Aytoun in Berwickshire. This eventually proved a failure, and he returned to Edinburgh about 1810 and occupied himself with historical and biographical work. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He died at Edinburgh 11 Octoer 1813.
    DNB
  • KERR, Robert printer Edinburgh
    Scott's Entry, Argyle Square 1830-31
    Edin Dir
  • KERR, Robert printer Edinburgh
    42 Thistle Street 1836-37
    press overseer 32 Thistle Street 1840
    printer and press overseer 8 Thistle Street 1841-43
    Gray 1837; Edin Dir
  • KERR, Robert stationer and stamp office Paisley
    Gilmour Street 1837
    Ker in text Kerr in index.
    Pigot 1837
  • KERR, Thomas & Co wholesale stationers Edinburgh
    of Dickson & Kerr 7 Hunter Square 1835
    Thomas Kerr & Co 4 Princes Street 1836
    and account book manufacturers 33 St Andrew Square 1837-38
    Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
  • KER, W. printer Aberdeen
    Aberdeen 16??
    Beavan quoting Aldis
  • KERR, William antiquarian bookseller Glasgow
    10 Bazaar Candlerigg Street 1825-28
    20 Wilson Street 1835
    Pigot 1825; Glas Dir
  • KERR, William bookseller Glasgow
    6 College Street 1837
    Not in the index.
    Pigot 1837
  • KER, William stationer Paisley
    6 Gilmour Street 1837
    Pigot 1837
  • KEY See KAY
  • KEYSAR, Michael papermaker Edinburgh
    Michael Keysar and Mungo Russall Dalry Paper Mill 1590-1591
    Michael Keysar, John Seillar and Gideon Russall Dalry Paper Mill 1591-1605
    James VI granted a privilege for making paper in Scotland in February 1590 to Peter Graet Haere, and a grant of a monopoly under the Privy Seal to Pietter Gryther and Michael Kysar almanis on 5 December 1590. Michael Keysar in partnership with Mungo Russell opened a mill at Dalry very shortly afterwards. On Mungo Russall's death in 1591, the inventory of his will shows him owed a large sum for printing paper by Robert Waldegrave, the King's Printer. In May 1594 Gideon Russall made a grant of the Dalry Paper Mill for eleven years to Keysar and Seillar who are described as almanis [i.e. Germans], on condition that they do not set up any other paper mill in Scotland during that time. Waterston illustrates a watermark of the royal sign manual IR6 with a crown from a Privy Council Paper of 15 December 1589, and another with IR and AR monograms and a crowned thistle from another of 25 January 1593.
    Waterston 1; Waterston 2; Thomson
  • KHULL, Edward printer Glasgow
    Napier & Khull Glasgow 1798
    Argyll Street 1799
    Niven, Napier & Khull Post Office Court Trongate 1803-08
    Edward Khull 43 Trongate 1810
    & Co 5 Saltmarket 1815
    8 East Clyde St 1816-19
    Khull, Blackie and Co same address 1819-26
    Edward Khull & Son same address 1827-30
    65 Virginia Street 1830
    Edward Khull same address 1831-33
    Printer to the University same address 1833-36
    25 Dunlop Street 1836-46
    Of German origin, Edward Khull, hammerman and printer, Saltmarket was made Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow by purchase 18 December 1815. In 1819 he became a partner with John Blackie, whose premises he shared from 1815, becoming virtually the printing department of Blackies. In 1826 he left the partnership, but for a time continued to occupy the lower floors of the Blackie offices, moving only in 1830. Edward Khull junior merchant Burgess and Guild Brother as eldest son of Edward Khull hammerman 1 July 1828. He was succeeded as University Printer in 1848 by George Richardson. Eventually he went to Australia and became a bullion broker.
    James Maclehose. The Glasgow University Press 1638-1931. Glasgow. 1931 pp.233-9; Agnes A. Blackie. Blackie & Son 1809-1959: a short history of the firm. London and Glasgow, 1959; NLS Impr Ind; Glas Dir; GlasBurg; Pigot 1837
  • KHULL BLACKIE & CO booksellers Aberdeen
    Dee-street 1820
    Pigot 1820
  • KIDD, John printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1778
    Married Henrietta daughter of James Paterson tailor 24 January 1778.
    EdinMarr
  • KIDD, Thomas & Co booksellers Edinburgh
    22 South Richmond Street 1823
    Edin Dir
  • KIDD, William bookseller Dundee
    at Frederick Shaw's 35 Reform Street 1850-71
    3 Union Street 1871-75
    3 Union Street and 35 Reform Street 1875
    bookseller, bookbinder, printer and lithographer 112 Nethergait 1876-85
    7 Whitehall Street 1885-1905
    William Kidd & Sons same address 1906-
    Born 1835. Entered bookselling business of Frederick Shaw 1850. Died 21 April 1916.
    Millar
  • KILGOUR & PATERSON papermakers Balerno
    Ballarno Mills 1825
    Mill No 52. Established sometime before 1810, in the possession of George Laing & Co in 1832.
    Pigot 1825; Thomson
  • KILGOUR & PATERSON
    Loch Mill 1820-25
    Thomas Kilgour junior Loch Mill 1832
    Mill No 30. in the possession of Scott & Drennan in 1852.
    Pigot 1820; 1825; Thomson
  • KILGOUR, Thomas paper maker Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1798
    Married Jean daughter of William Dun farmer in Bathgate 7 May 1798.
    EdinMarr
  • KILOH, James engraver and printer Aberdeen
    6 Correction Wynd 1844-45
    Beavan
  • KILOH, John bookseller, stationer, engraver and copperplate printer Aberdeen
    74 Union Street 1825-28
    bookseller 107 Union Street 1829-39
    engraver 12 St Nicholas Street 1828-39
    Employee of Alexander Brown before he went into business on his own account. A notice to creditors published 1830. Bible Society Depository 1831-36.
    Beavan; Pigot 1837; Bush.2
  • KILPATRICK, George printer Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1610
    Married Margaret Sampsone 31 May 1610.
    EdinMarr
  • KILPATRICK, James cloth merchant and bookseller Gatehouse of Fleet
    Front Street 1821-37
    'Good; Cloth Merchant & late Provost (pays well)' Oliver and Boyd Travellers Logbook NLS Acc.5000/78. Gatehouse of Fleet not in Pigot 1820; Woollen and Linen Cloth Merchant and Dealer in Hardware and Stationery, he was also Provost that year Pigot 1821; in 1825 he was no longer Provost but was still a Cloth Merchant, Hardwareman and Dealer in Stationery and fancy goods; in 1837 he is listed as Linen & Woollen Draper and Merchant, a Ship Owner and Stamp Distributer and Collector of Taxes, the members of the Town Council are not given after 1825.
    Bell; Pigot 1821; 1825; 1837
  • KINCAID, Alexander bookseller Edinburgh
    Edinburgh 1705
    Burgess and Guild Brother as apprentice to late Mr James M'Ewen, bookseller, by Act of Council, dispensing with his not being booked on entering 23 January 1705.
    EdinBurg