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- MEARN auctioneer Glasgow
Mearn's Auction Rooms, Gibsons-Land, Saltmarket 1794
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- MECHANICS' LIBRARY Glasgow
18 Incle Factory Lane 1825
Pigot 1825
- MECHANICS' LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE Brechin
Junction of St Mary Street and Church Street 1838-20th
Century
Institute founded 1835. Building opened 28th June 1838. Library of
6000 books in 1888.
Membership for apprentices and others under 15 years 1s.6d.,
working people 2s., others 3s. per annum.
D.H. Edwards. Historical Guide to Brechin. 4th Ed.
Brechin, [1903?] 251-53.
- MECHANICS SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY Edinburgh
Strichen's Close 1831
6 James Court 1832
7 James Court 1833-46
8 James Court 1847
7 James Court 1848-54
Victoria Terrace 1855-65
5 Victoria Terrace 1866-90
22 St Giles Street 1891-92
Called Subscription Mechanic Library 1831-32. Gilbert Smith
librarian 1841: Daniel Cameron librarian 1847-54.
Edin Dir
- MEEK, David transcriber of old manuscripts
Edinburgh
14 Clerk Street 1832-42
14 Archibald Place 1843-48
Edin Dir
- MEEK, William bookbinder Edinburgh
265 High Street 1834-38
Craig's Close 1837
Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
- MEGGAT, Alexander bookbinder, bookseller, stationer
circulating library Dalkeith
James Megget Dalkeith 1764-82
Alexander Meggat Dalkeith 1783-93
North East Quarter 1794
Dalkeith 1795-1800
Circulating Library with stationery and binding tools for sale
Edinburgh Advertiser 8 April 1800 no name but probably
Meggat.
Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind
- MEGGET, Alexander bookbinder and bookseller
Edinburgh
Bristo Street 1786
Burgess 26 October 1786. Bunyan's Solomon's Temple
printed for A. Brown & A. Megget 1786.
EdinBurg; Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind
- MEGGET, James bookbinder and bookseller Dalkeith
Dalkeith 1764-82
Alexander Meggat Dalkeith 1783-1800
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- MEGGAT [MIGGET], James bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1742-46
James Meggat journeyman bookbinder married Catherine Friar,
daughter of the late John Friar resident in Galashiels 14 March
1742. Married Alison Simpson daughter of John Simpson skinner 21
December 1746.
EdinMarr
MEGGET, John bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1777?
Before 1777.
Bush.3
- MEIKLE, George apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1748
Son of Mr Alexander Meikle, Minister at Langholm, apprenticed to
Gideon Crawford bookseller 27 July 1748.
EdinPren
- MEIKLE, James travelling secretary to Bible Society
Edinburgh
16 Gilmore Place 1842
'colporteur?'
Edin Dir
- MEIKLE, William bookseller Glasgow
79 Stockwell Street 1844-49
Glas Dir
- MEICKLE, William bookseller and stationer
Strathhaven
Strathaven 1825
Pigot 1825
- MEIN, James bookseller and bookbinder Edinburgh
On the North side of the Street at the Cross 1684-86
Edinburgh 1687-98
Sold Jo. Miles. A true relation of the great victory by
Prester John against the Turks. Edinburgh, 1684 and
Relation of the procession enjoyn'd by Mahomet Solyman.
Holyroodhouse, 1686. Both are broadsides. Children buried in
Greyfriars Churchyard 24 February 1689 and 11 May 1690. John Mein
bookbinder buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 2 May 1698.
Aldis 1904; GreyBuri
- MEIN, John bookseller Edinburgh
South side of Parliament Close 1760-64
3rd Storey down the Post-Office Stairs, Parliament Close
1764
John Mein apprenticed to John Trail bookseller Edinburgh 1754;
Burgess and Guild Brother in right of father John Mein, sclater 3
December 1760. In February 1761 he advertised 'a great variety of
pretty little entertaining books for children'; in November 1763 he
announced that he would be giving up business on Whitsunday 1764 or
sooner; in April 1764 the roup of his house was set for 1 May.
Emigrated to Boston Mass in 1764. In 1766 went into partnership
with John Fleeming as printer there.
Maxted; Caledonian Mercury 6 September 1760; 21 February 1761;
20 January 1762; 9 March; 28 November; 21 December 1763; 28 April
1764; Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind
- MEIN, William bookseller Dumfries
Dumfries 1733-60
Apprentice: James Palmer, son of Matthew Palmer, apprenticed to
William Mein bookseller Dumfries 1741
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- MELDRUM, John bookseller Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy 1722-26
Sold copies of Papacy brought before the bar of
Scripture. Edinburgh, 1722 ; and a work of Ralph Erskine in
1726.
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- MELDRUM, Mrs bookseller Dunfermline
Dunfermline 1724-28
Sold copies of three works by Ralph Erskine.
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- MELROSE [MEUROS, MUEROS], James bookseller
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock 1742-1819
Waterloo Street 1820-1
To sell The British Magazine 1759. In October 1766 10
Bibles and 57 Quires of Poor Richard's Almanack, printed
in Ireland and addressed to James Meuros were seized at Irvine.
Meuros at first said that he had not commissioned them and asked
for them to be returned to Belfast, then changed his mind and asked
for them to be delivered, but they were condemned. Was indited with
Donaldson in the important case, which settled the question of
perpetual copyright in 1774..
NLS Impr Ind; Pigot 1820; McDougall. Smugglers
- MELVILLE music shop Glasgow
598 Argyll Street 1820
Glas Dir
- MELVILLE, Alexander apprentice stationer
Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1679
Son to umquhile David Melville in Easter Slisk, apprenticed to Mr
George Leslie stationer 22 January 1679.
EdinPren
- MELVILL, David bookseller Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1622-43
Was cautioner for Edward Raban when he was appointed Town Printer.
A substantial number of items were printed for him by Raban from
1622-33. Son Robert Melvill; buried 8 February 1643. Son Robert
succeeded him in the business.
Aberdeen Printers; Aldis 1904; STC
- MELVILLE, Mrs E. catholic bookseller Glasgow
17 Great Clyde Street 1847
Glas Dir
- MELVILLE, F and G. piano manufacturer and music seller
Glasgow
609 Argyle Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- MELVILLE, George bookbinder Edinburgh
7 Richmond Place 1850-51
11 West Nicolson Street 1852
Edin Dir
- MELVILLE, George pianoforte makers and music warehouse
Glasgow
14 Buchanan Street 1840-47
Glas Dir
- MELVILLE, Robert bookseller and bookbinder
Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1630-45
The son of David Melvill, Raban's patron and publisher. Admitted
Burgess as bookseller 7 November 1632 and was appointed to rule
'the clokis and bells within the burghe'. Apprentice: John Thomson
14 May 1630.
Mitchell
- MELVILLE, Robert H. plain and fancy stationer and
account-book maker Glasgow
358 Argyll Street 1847
6 Buchanan Street 1849
Glas Dir
- MENCE, John apprentice printer Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1763
John Mence apprenticed to James Chalmers printer Aberdeen
1763
Maxted
- MENNONS, John printer Edinburgh, Glasgow, Irvine
Brodie's Close Lawnmarket 1776-77
[Donald] Bayne & Mennons same address 1778
John Mennons same address 1778-9
& Co same address 1779-83
Duncan's Land Gibson's Wynd, Glasgow 1783
Glasgow Mercury Saltmarket 1783-84
Glasgow Advertiser 22 Saltmarket 1787
Printing Office Tontine Close shop 1st West from the Exchange
1789-95
J. & T. Mennons same address 1799-1802
Mennons & Co. Tontine Buildings Exchange 1810-13
J. Mennons & Son Irvine 1814-15
Born 22 February 1747 in The Canongate, son of John Mennons,
baxter, and Rebecca Galloway. He is believed to have served his
apprenticeship in the office of The Edinburgh Courant. The
Donald Bayne, who was his partner for a short time was the son of
John Bayne the typefounder. Mennons was printer of The
Edinburgh Evening Post 1780. About 1772, he married Janet
Moir. She must have died about the time he went to Glasgow in 1783
as editor of The Glasgow Advertiser. About 1785 he married
Jean daughter of James Steadman, a cutler in Glasgow. He became a
Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow 24 February 1786. In 1797,
Mennons purchased the country house of Jeanfield, he sold it in the
following year. In 1802, at the age of 55, he sold his share in
The Glasgow Advertiser and became a coalmaster. In 1802 he
offered the coalfield on lease, but without any success. By 1809 he
was bankrupt. 'Late printer, now corn merchant ... creditors to
meet in the Tontine Tavern there, 1st May to name a factor'
Edinburgh Evening Courant 27 April 1809. In 1810 he issued
The Glasgow Magazine and Clydesdale Register, it appeared
monthly and afterwards in book form. In 1812, it had reached three
volumes,and was succeeded by The Scotsman. This was
dropped in March 1813. In 1815 he was in Irvine and produced
The Irvine ad County of Ayr Miscellany from September 1814
to July 1815, with his son John, by his second marriage. Died at
Kilmarnock 2 February 1818 Glasgow Herald 6 February
1818.
NLS Impr Ind; Glas Dir; Glas Burg; James Gourlay 'John
Mennons an early Glasgow Journalist'in Records of The Glasgow
Bibliographical Society ix 58-72
(1931)
MENNONS, John type and lithographic printing office and
newspaper printer Greenock
Greenock Advertiser Office, Cathcart-street 1820
Greenock Advertiser Office, William Street 1825-30
John Mennons & Co and lithographers Greenock
Advertiser 8 William Street 1831-35
3 William Street 1836-43
Second son of John Mennons founder in 1783 of The Glasgow
Advertiser, and his second wife Jean Steadman. Printer of
The Greenock Advertiser Fowler 1820, and
publisher 1834-36. He married Catherine Mills. He died at Greenock
6 August 1843. His obituary appeared in The Greenock
Advertiser 11 August 1843. A small format miscellany called
The Chaplet, which John Mennons was working on at the time
of his death, was published in Greenock in 1848, it reprints the
obituary from The Greenock Advertiser.
Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837; Fowler 1831; 1834; 1836;
Schenck
- MENNYE, John printer, bookseller and auctioneer
Aberdeen
North Street 1769-71
Printed and sold James Harvey's Works. Aberdeen,
1771.
Beavan; NLS Impr Ind
- MENON, John G. bookseller Glasgow
7 London Street 1837
newsagent, bookseller and stationer, librarian &c. 76
West Nile Street 1840
Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
- MENSON, John bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1671
One of the booksellers who in 1671 successfully appealed to the
Privy Council against A. Anderson's attempted enforcement of his
monopoly. (Lee Appendix xxiv.)
Aldis 1904
- MENTEITH [MONTEITH], John printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1663-73
Coues Close 1674
Wife Elisabeth Edglie buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 8 January
1663. Married Anna Monteith 5 June 1663. Anna Menteith buried in
Greyfriars Churchyard 16 May 1673. John Menteith buried in
Greyfriars Churchyard 30 January 1674. Will registered 20 July 1674
Bann.Misc.ii,295
Aldis 1904; EdinMarr; GreyBuri; EdinTest
- MENZIES & BRUCE printers Glasgow
Concord Office 1 Wallace-court 1820
Menzies & Co Glas Dir 1820.
Glas Dir; Pigot 1820
- MENZIES, Mrs reading room Leith
Thomas Menzies Leith Reading Rooms, 123 Constitution Street
1824-36
129 Constitution Street 1842-46
Mrs Menzies 129 Constitution Street 1847-56
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, Alexander printer Edinburgh
6 Carnegie Street 1808-09
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, Duncan printer and publisher Edinburgh
Robert Menzies printer Brodie's Close, Lawnmarket
1810-11
304 Lawnmarket 1812-36
printer and publisher 20 Bank Street 1837-45
Duncan Menzies printer same address 1845
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, George engraver Edinburgh
J. & G. Menzies 201 High Street 1819-23
199 High Street 1824-31
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, George engraver Edinburgh
8 Adam Street 1824
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, James bookseller Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock 1778-84
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- MENZIES, John engraver Edinburgh
Clamshell Turnpike 1805-06
Fleshmarket Close 1807-14
201 High Street 1815-18
J[ohn] and G[eorge] Menzies same address 1819-23
199 High Street 1824-31
John Menzies same address 1832-35
20 North Bridge 1836-37
170 High Street 1838-39
J. Menzies & Son same address 1840-42
Burgess as apprentice to John Rymer engraver 8 January 1806.
Edin Dir; EdinBurg; Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837; Bush.2
- MENZIES, John engraver Edinburgh
West Nicolson Street 1824
35 West Nicolson Street 1825
of J. & G. Menzies same address 1826-28
25 West Nicolson Street 1829
Of John and George Menzies. The above are house addresses.
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, J[ohn] and G[eorge] engravers Edinburgh
J. Menzies Clamshell Turnpike 1805-06
Fleshmarket Close 1807-14
201 High Street 1815-18
J[ohn] and G[eorge] Menzies same address 1819-23
199 High Street 1824-31
John Menzies same address 1832-35
20 North Bridge 1836-37
170 High Street 1838-39
J. Menzies & Son same address 1840-42
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, John bookseller, stationer and printseller
Edinburgh
61 Princes Street 1833-59
wholesale bookseller Hanover Street 1859-67
John Menzies & Company same address 1867-ca 1914
Rose Street ca 1914-
bookseller 16 and 17 Princes Street 1928
Before starting his own business he was employed by Charles
Tilt.
1808-79. Apprenticed to an Edinburgh bookseller, and afterwards
employed by the London publisher, Charles Tilt. Returned to
Edinburgh in 1832 when his father died leaving him to provide for a
step-mother and two sisters. From the first he involved himself in
wholesale bookselling. In 1835 he published his first stock list.
In 1845 he started a monthly booklist. In 1845 he married a Miss
Marr. In 1857 he started acquiring bookstalls on Scottish Railways.
In 1859, premises were acquired in Hanover Street, and the retail
part of the business was dropped. The Glasgow branch opened in
1868. John Menzies died in 1879.
Edin Dir; The House of Menzies. Edinburgh, 1958; The Menzies
Group. Edinburgh, 1965.
- MENZIES, John engraver Edinburgh
1 Ladyfield Place 1846
5 Romilly Place 1847
12 Tobago Street 1848-49
Buccleuch Pend 1850-51
1 Gardner's Crescent 1852-56
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, John bookseller Port Glasgow
Port Glasgow 1773
Estate sequestered. Edinburgh Evening Courant 18
September 1773.
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- MENZIES, R. & A. bookbinders Glasgow
169 Trongate 1820
127 Tron-gate in Pigot 1820.
Glas Dir; Pigot 1820
- MENZIES, Robert printer and publisher Edinburgh
printer Brodie's Close, Lawnmarket 1810-11
304 Lawnmarket 1812-36
printer and publisher 20 Bank Street 1837-45
Duncan Menzies printer same address 1845
Published slip ballads, catchpennies and an occasional chapbook
from the Lawnmarket address, and a cheap cookery book, P. Carruth's
Domestic economy; or General recipe book, from 20 Bank
Street. Hawkie describes his experiences with this printer.
Edin Dir; Chapbook Printers; Hawkie the autobiography of a
gangrel. Glasgow, 1888 pp.99-101.
- MENZIES, Thomas printer Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1845-55
Of The Observer Office, from 1847 of The Gazette
Office.
Beavan
- MENZIES, Thomas reading rooms Leith
Leith Reading Rooms, 123 Constitution Street 1824-36
129 Constitution Street 1842-46
Reading Rooms 130 Constitutional Street 1847
Mrs Menzies 129 Constitution Street 1848-56
'139' Edin Dir 1844. No mention of Menzies Edin Dir
1847
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, William bookseller Edinburgh
9 Middle Arthur Place 1828-32
Edin Dir
- MENZIES, William bookbinder Glasgow
11 Saltmarket 1815
Salt-market 1820
Glas Dir; Pigot 1820
- MERCER, George newspaper office Edinburgh
of Courant Office 208 High Street 1830
Edin Dir
- MERCER, James newspaper office Edinburgh
of Courant Office Old Fishmarket Close 1831-33
Edin Dir
- MERCER, John bookseller and printer Kincardine
High Street 1837
Kincardine 1852
Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
MERCHANT, Alexander engraver Edinburgh
2 Salisbury Street 1824-29
Edin Dir
- MERRILEES, Charles wood engraver Edinburgh
1 Leven Street 1833
17 Leven Street 1834
Edin Dir
- MERRILEES, Charles newspaper printer and publisher
Forres
High Street 1852
Printer and publisher of The Forres Journal
Slater 1852
- MERRILEES, Euphemia & Ann grocers, drapers and
librarians Dirleton
Dirleton 1852
Librarians to the parochial library
Slater 1852
- MERRY, Thomas Bicket lithographer & engraver
Ayr
10 High Street 1852
Slater 1852
- MERRY, Thomas Bicket engraver & lithographer
Kilmarnock
56 King Street 1852
Slater 1852
- MEUROS [MELROSE, MUEROS], James bookseller
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock 1742-1819
Waterloo Street 1820-1
To sell The British Magazine 1759. In October 1766 10
Bibles and 57 Quires of Poor Richard's Almanack, printed
in Ireland and addressed to James Meuros were seized at Irvine.
Meuros at first said that he had not commissioned them and asked
for them to be returned to Belfast, then changed his mind and asked
for them to be delivered, but they were condemned. Was indited with
Donaldson in the important case, which settled the question of
perpetual copyright in 1774..
NLS Impr Ind; Pigot 1820; McDougall. Smugglers; The decision
of the Court of Session, upon the question of literary property; in
the cause John Hinton of London, bokseller, pursuer; against
Alexander Donaldson and John Wood, booksellers in Edinburgh, and
James Meurose bookseller in Kilmarnock, defenders. Published by
James Boswell Esq; Advocate, one of the Counsel in the cause.
Edinburgh, 1774.
- MEWER, James apprentice bookbinder Glasgow
Glasgow 1767
James Mewer apprenticed to Peter Tail bookbinder Glasgow 7 August
1767. Surely Muir or Moore or perhaps Moir or More
Maxted
- MICHAEL, Thomas bookseller Creetown
Creetown 1852
Slater 1852
- MICHIE, J. occasional seller of pamphlets
Aberdeen
55 Hadden Street, Cotton 1845
Beavan
- MICHIE, James bookseller & druggist Forres
High Street 1852
Slater 1852
- MICHIE, R[ichard] engraver Edinburgh
19 South St David Street 1839-42
and lithographer same address 1843
Richard S. Michie engraver and copperplate printer same
address 1844-47
14 South St David's Street 1848
16 South St David's Street 1849-51
19 St David Street 1853-54
In street directory Edin Dir 1842 Richard Meekie. No
number in main sequence Edin Dir 1848, number from street
index. Not in Edin Dir 1852. Richard S. Michie engraver
Portobello admitted to Sanctuary for debt at Holyroodhouse 20 July
1849
Edin Dir; Cadell
- MIDDLEMES, N. bookseller Stichill
'Stichel' 1747
NLS Impr Ind
- MIDDLETON, James engraver and copperplate printer
Glasgow
14 Stirling Street 1837
and lithographic printer 167 High Street 1844-45
74 Argyll Street 1846-48
Pigot 1837; Glas Dir; Schenck
- MIDDLETON, Richard printer Edinburgh
10 Middle Arthur Place 1846-47
Edin Dir
- MIDDLETON, William bookseller, stationer, bookbinder and
account book manufacturer Dundee
45 Union Street 1837
66 High Street, house Mid Wynd Perth Road 1846
64 High Street 1852
Pigot 1837; Dundee 1846; Slater 1852
- MIDDLETON, William running stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1781
Married Anne daughter of deceased - Thomson gardener at Pinkie 10
January 1781.
EdinMarr
- MILL, James bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1721
Daughter Jean married John Mathie gardener in Restalrig 17
November 1721.
EdinMarr
- MILL, James paper maker Lasswade
Lasswade 1774
Took in linen for bleachfield Edinburgh Evening Courant
19 March 1774.
NLS Impr Ind
- MILL [MILNE, MYLNE], John papermaker Colinton,
Slateford and Edinburgh
of Cowan & Co 21 West Register Street 1832
Woodhall Mill, Slateford 1833-40
clerk Mossiemill, Colinton 1841-42
wholesale stationer 8 Hunter Square 1842-50
3 Hunter Square 1851-53
97 George Street 1854
papermaker West Calder 1855-57
mill board manufacturer New Milne West Calder 1858-67
Edin Dir
- MILL, John stationer Edinburgh
of Cowan & Co 21 West Register Street 1832
Edin Dir
- MILL, John newspaper office Edinburgh
of J. & J. Gray [Advertiser Office] 6 Ingliston Street
1835
94 Pleasance 1837-41
of J. & J. Gray 39 Montague Street 1842-48
of the North British Advertiser same address 1849
2 Buccleuch Place 1850-66
1 Lord Russell Place 1867-76
Gray 1835; Edin Dir
- MILL, Robert engraver Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1736
Will registered 19 August 1736.
EdinTest
- MILLER & ADAMSON book and printseller &c
Edinburgh
36 Lothian Street 1836
booksellers and stationers 51 Lothian Street 1837
J. Miller & Co same address 1838-40
Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
- MILLER [Robert] & BUCHANAN [David S.]
lithographers Glasgow
21 Argyll Street 1846-51
Robert Miller same address 1852-64
'The business appears to have been started by James Miller
(retired 1842) taking over the business of a lithographic printer
named Cleland. This business was taken over by Campbell & Rae
in 1842. Robert Miller and David S. Buchanan appear at the same
address in 1846. In 1849 they published T. Fairburn
Glasgow and printed lithographs in colours in it. Andrew
MacLure (1812-85) and A. MacDonald later of MacLure & MacDonald
were apprenticed to James Miller.
Glas Dir; Geoffrey Wakeman & Gavin D R Bridson. A
guide to nineteenth-century colour printers. Loughborough,
1975.
- MILLER & FAIRLEY [FAIRLY], Robert printers
Edinburgh
11 Horse Wynd 1845-60
12 Horse Wynd 1861-63
Fairly's christian name Edin Dir 1860.
Edin Dir
- MILLAR & GUTHRIE bookseller & library
Kilmarnock
77 King Street 1852
Slater 1852
- MILLER & RICHARD typefounders Edinburgh
William Miller & Co, Reikie's Court, Nicolson Street
1809-10
83 Nicolson Street [same address] 1810
65 Nicolson Street [same address] 1811-24
William Miller, Typefounder to His Majesty for Scotland same
address 1825-33
William Miller & Co, Letter-Founders for Scotland same address
65 Nicolson Street 1834-41
[William] Miller & [Walter] Richard, Letter Founders to Her
Majesty for Scotland same address 1842-1901
Miller & Richard same address 1901-1951
A William Miller typefounder of Glasgow married a Margaret Duff 29
April 1792 at Glasgow, and they had children, including Mary 7 June
1800; William 7 January 1803, and Robert 21 July 1807. On 19
September 1808, a William Millar typefounder of Glasgow married
Ellison Morison, daughter of Daniel Morison, Comptroller of Customs
at Glasgow. On 31 December 1808 a daughter, Helen, was born to
Ellison Morison and William Millar. If the William Millers are the
same person, presumably Margaret Duff had died between 21 July 1807
and 19 September 1808. In 1809 the firm of William Miller & Co
opened in Edinburgh and rapidly began to expand.. The competition
at the time was not very great. The typefoundry started in Reikie's
Court, a back court off Nicolson Street. It expanded to take in the
surrounding buildings including a chapel, a school, a lying-in
hospital and finally a street was roofed over to make a woodworking
shop. The firm was a success from the beginning, and cut the
special type for Bradshaw's railway guides. In 1825 Miller took his
son-in-law Walter Richard into the firm. In 1842 his name was added
to the style of the firm. In the 1840s an Old Style type was cut
for the firm, shortly followed by a series of ornaments to go with
it. This became the most influential type of its day, the original
of all the Scotch Romans. An American punch-cutter called Alexander
Phemister claimed to have cut this face. He was apprenticed to the
Edinburgh punch-cutter, William Grandison. The Edinburgh
type-foundries at this time did not employ their own punch-cutters.
His account of the matter mentions Duncan Sinclair as being
present. Mr Sinclair was the head of a rival firm, so there must at
least be some doubt as to whether it was the famous old style that
he cut. William Miller was very interested in type-casting
machines, and designed his own with some success. When the firm
closed in 1951, it was bought by Stephenson Blake. They attempted
to market Old Style, but soon gave up because of problems of
incompatibilty between their machines and those of Miller &
Richard. They haveretained punches and matrices for the Old Style.
The remainder had been disposed of as scrap metal, except for one
set of punches and one of matrices, which were saved by George
Birkbeck and are now in The National Library of Scotland.
Edin Dir; Glasgow Parish Registers
- MILLER, Alexander printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1716 - before 1758
Married Christian Lindsay 1 June 1716. Christian Lindsay relict
married Alexander Fairbairn smith 23 July 1758.
EdinMarr
- MILLAR, Alexander stationer and printer Glasgow
bookbinder Glasgow 1724-29
stationer Saltmarket 1730
Mr Carmichael, Jo & Ja Brouns, Alexander Millar & Mris
Broun in Company printers 1731-36
Alexander Carmichael, Alexander Millar, John & James Broun in
Co 1736
Alexander Carmichael & Alexander Millar in Co 1736
Alexander Millar The middle of the Salt Mercat opposite to the
Well 1738
Glasgow 1739-40
Alexander Miller, bookbinder, Burgess and Guild Brother gratis 24
March 1724. Stationer in 1730. [Sleeping?] partner in firm of
printers from 1733. Will registered 3 September 1742 and 11
September 1745. Apprentices: Archibald Simpson, son of John Simpson
deceased, apprenticed to Alexander Miller bookbinder Glasgow 1724;
Robert Urie printer Burgess and Guild Brother as serving apprentice
with deceased Alexander Miller, merchant and printer 28 July 1748;
William Smith printer Burgess and Guild Brother as serving
apprentice with deceased Alexander Miller printer and after his
death with Robert Urie printer 16 May 1775; Archibald Millar
merchant Burgess and Guild Brother as only son to deceased
Alexander Millar bookseller Glasgow who neglected to enter in his
lifetime by right of his wife Mary daughter to deceased Archibald
Cameron maltman. 31 July 1769.
NLS Impr Ind; GlasBurg; Maxted; GlasTest; Roy A.
Gillespie. 'The Glasgow Book Trade to 1776' in A Glasgow
Collection: essays in honour of Joe Fisher. Glasgow City
Libraries, 1990 pp.53-63.
- MILLER, Alexander bookseller and printer
Hamilton
Castle Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- MILLER, Alexander bookseller Stirling
103 Baker Street 1852
Slater 1852
- MYLLAR, Andrew bookseller and printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1503-7
In the Southgait 1508
A Burgess of Edinburgh, he was selling books as early as March
1503, and had books printed for him by Pierre Violette of Rouen in
1505-06. In September 1507, with Walter Chepman, he received
letters patent from James IV allowing them to set up the first
printing-press in Scotland. Myllar seems to have been the practical
printer, and several of the Chepman and Myllar prints produced by
the partners in 1508 have his device. His name however does not
appear anywhere in The Aberdeen Breviary, which appeared
in 1509-10. He used the device of miller carrying a sack up a
ladder to a windmill, with the name Androu Myllar, a merchant's
mark with the monogram MA and two shields with three fleurs-de-lys
(France old).
Aldis 1904; DNB; Dickson & Edmond chapters 2-8;
The Chepman and Myllar prints, a facsimile with a
bibliographical note by William Beattie. Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society, 1950; Thomas Rae. Androw Myllar a
short study of Scotland's first printer. Greenock: The Signet
Press, 1958.
- MILLER, Andrew apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1720
Andrew Miller, son of Robert Miller clerk of Paisley, apprenticed
to James M'Euen bookseller of Edinburgh 1720
Maxted
- MILLER, Andrew printer and bookbinder Hamilton
Castle-wynd 1820
Pigot 1820
- MILLER, Barbara apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1766
Barbara Miller apprenticed to James Davidson bookseller Edinburgh
1766
Maxted
- MILLAR, D. merchant and bookseller Campsie
Campsie 1781
To receive subscriptions for Samuel Rutherfoord's
Letters. 1781.
NLS Impr Ind
- MILLAR [MILLER], David printer Edinburgh
Within the foot of Forester's Wynd 1749
David Millar & Matthew Jarvie New stairs a little above the
Meal Market 1753
David Millar Middle of the West Bow sign of the White Lion
1755
Son to David Miller, tenant in Little Gourdy, apprenticed to
Robert Fleming printer 29 March 1738 for six years anent the not
booking of the Indentures the Court does dispense. 10 April 1754.
Married Henrietta Bain 6 June 1742. 'Journeyman printer' married
Barbara daughter of deceased Nathaniell Pittillo shipmaster in Elly
30 June 1751. Married Elizabeth daughter to David Ruthven in Perth
12 April 1752.
EdinPren; EdinMarr; EdinBurg; NLS Impr Ind
- MILLER, David typefounder Edinburgh
15 Clerk Street 1841
61 Clerk Street 1842-46
11 Canning Place, Causewayside 1847-51
West Sciennes Street 1852-56
Edin Dir
- MILLER [MILLAR], D[avid] & W[illiam] printers
Edinburgh
Old Stamp Office Close [221 High Street] 1830-48
David Millar same address 1849-51
24 Salisbury Street 1852-55
David's first name from street index Edin Dir 1849.
Edin Dir; Gray 1833; Pigot 1837
MILLER, David bookseller Stirling
4 Baker Street 1837-52
Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
- MILLER, Ebenezer printer Glasgow
Saltmarket 1783-90
Candleriggs 1800
NLS Impr Ind; Glas Dir
- MILLER, Ebenezer printer Glasgow
53 Princes Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- MILLER, George bookseller Dunbar and Haddington
J.& G. Miller grocers and booksellers Dunbar
1789-91
circulating library 1789
G. Millers Circulating Library 1792
East Lothian Press 1795-1804
High Street 1799
Dunbar and Country Circulating Library 1809
The India Tea Warehouse ... Agricultural, Commercial, Military
Intelligence, News and Reading Room 1811
Born 14 January 1771 son of James Miller, general merchant in
Dunbar and Elizabeth Wilson. His mother died when he was six.
George Miller was apprenticed to Alexander Smart, bookseller and
bookbinder in Dunbar for four years on 20 September 1785. In
January 1788, Smart returned to Edinburgh, from which he had
originally come. In September 1788 the indenture was cancelled and
Miller returned to Dunbar. He was to go into partnership with his
brother James, but they quarreled, and his father persuaded George
to go to England for the experience. He was working for a Newcastle
bookseller called Miller, when he was summoned home, because his
father was dying. His father died 27 June 1789. He started as a
grocer, but was given a printing press as a wedding present in
1795, and eked out his grocery business with general and jobbing
printing, including some chapbooks. He tended to the improving kind
of chapbook, and published a series with the title 'Cheap tracts
calculated to promote the interests of Religion, Virtue and
Humanity', and two chapbook magazines The Cheap Magazine
from January to December 1815, and later The Monthly Monitor
and Philanthropic Museum. He had a second shop in Haddington
to which he transferred the printing press in 1804, where it was
operated by his son James under the title George Miller & Son
from 1812-16. The Cheap Magazine was published from there.
Miller was an enterprising man and for a time ran an extensive
business as an auctioneer to the book trade. His business however
was caught up in the trade recession after the Napoleonic wars, and
though he struggled manfully, he was declared bankrupt in 1817 and
had given up bookselling by 1823.
George Miller. Latter struggles in the journey of life.
Edinburgh, 1833; W.J. Couper. The Millers of Haddington, Dunbar
and Dunfermline: a record of Scottish bookselling. London,
1914.
- MILLAR, George bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1791
Married Janet daughter of deceased William Jameson overseer at
North Berwick 3 June 1791.
EdinMarr
- MILLAR, George engraver, lithographic and copperplate
printer Edinburgh
71 Princes Street 1846-47
68 Princes Street 1848-50
Colour lithographed advertisement (trade card) Edin Dir
1847
Edin Dir; Schenck
- MILLER, Hugh newspaper office Edinburgh
Esq 5 Sylvan Place 1841
no trade 16 Archibald Place 1842
editor of The Witness 16 Archibald Place 1843-46
[2] Stuart Street, Portobello Road 1847-53
Born in the town of Cromarty 10 October 1802, son of Hugh Miller,
a sea captain. The father died when Miller was young. He was
apprenticed to David Wright, a mason, and laboured at one for many
years, but spent what hours of leisure that left him looking at
stones, and became a most important geologist. He also wrote
stories and polemic theology and became editor of The
Witness 5 January 1840. Committed suicide 24 December
1856.
Edin Dir; DNB; Peter Bayne. The life and
letters of Hugh Miller. 2 vols. London, 1871.
- MILLER, Isabella bookseller Oban
George Street 1852
Slater 1852
- MILLER, J. bookseller Glasgow
246 High Street 1818-20
Glas Dir
- MILLER, J. & Co booksellers Edinburgh
51 Lothian Road 1838-40
9 Bank Street 1845
J. Miller same address 1850
Edin Dir
- MILLER, J.W. printer Leith
21 Tolbooth Wynd 1850
In trade index only Edin Dir 1850. Main directory has
Miller, John bookseller, printer and publisher, alphabetised under
John. In the Street index there is a J. Miller bookseller at this
address. This seems to be John Miller bookseller [q.v.]
Edin Dir
- MILLER, James bookbinder Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1660-61
'Item to James Miller bookbinder for binding off Mr Jon Paterson
and Mr John Meingzes Sermons afoersaid 44lb 2s'. (Aberdeen
Treasurer's Accounts 1660-61; Ab.P.xxxvi)
Aberdeen Printers; Aldis 1904
- MILLAR, James bookseller Dundee
West Side Hillton 1824-29
Dundee 1824; 1829
- MILLER, James bookbinder and bookseller
Edinburgh
In the Cowgate at the sign of S. John the Divine at the foot of
the Colledge-wynd 1665
On the North side of the Street against the Crosse, at the sign of
S. John the Divine 1671
Burgess as apprentice to John Miller bookbinder 27 September 1664
(In apprentice registers it is John Miller who is apprenticed to
John Miller 7 October 1657). James Millar and Jean Mathie
parochiners in the south congregation of Edinburgh married in the
Kirk of Halyroodhouse be Mr James Kid minister Sabbath 16 October
1664. His wife Jane Mathie buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 22 May
1672; a child 28 June 1668. One of the six booksellers who in 1671
appealed against A. Anderson's attempted enforcement of his
monopoly (Lee Appendix xxiv); Buried in Greyfriars
Churchyard 6 June 1672. Will registered 2 August 1672
(Bann.Misc.ii,295); A. Nasmyth's Divine poems was
printed for him in 1665, and the Psalms of David in meeter
in 1671. Apprentices: John Biglay 5 January 1668 John Biglay
stationer Burgess as apprentice to umquhile James Millar stationer
14 September 1681; Henry Nisbet 29 March 1671.
CanonMarr; Aldis 1904; GreyBuri; EdinTest; EdinPren
- MILLAR, James running stationer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1764
Married Jean daughter to deceast John Melvill weaver in Gorgie
miln 14 October 1764.
EdinMarr
- MILLER, James stationer Glasgow
Catchcart [!] Street 1828
Glas Dir
- MILLER, James lithographic printer Glasgow
85 Trongate 1825-30
85 Trongate and 21 Argyll Street 1831-33
21 Argyll Street and 256 Buchanan Street 1834
21 Argyle Street 1835-39
Burgess and Guild Brother by purchase 2 July 1828. Succeeded to
the business of John Cleland. In 1837 he added engraving. David
Allan, Andrew Maclure and Archibald Macdonald were trained in his
shop. He was succeeded by Archibald Campbell.
GlasBurg; Glas Dir; Pigot 1837; Schenck
- MILLER, James bookseller, stationer and librarian
Glasgow
256 Buchanan Street 1835-1840
Glas Dir
- MILLER, James bookseller and printer Haddington
George Miller & Son Haddington 1812-1816
James Miller High-street 1817-33
James Miller was the eldest son of George Miller, bokseller of
Hadiington and Dunbar. He was born at Dunbar on 21 December 1791.
Before he was fourteen he was working in George's workshop at
Haddington. He was formally bound apprentice to his father as
printer, the apprenticeship to end 14 April 1811. In 1807 he ran
off to Edinburgh and worked at Oliver & Boyd's office, but
returned to Haddington in June 1808. At the expiration of his
apprenticeship, he proposed to work an extra year. Afterwards he
travelled for three months visiting printer-publishers in England.
At Whitsun 1812 the lease on the Haddington shops expired, and new
premises at the foot of the High Street. In 1815, Miller's niece
who had been running the grocery side of the business, went into
business on her own account, and the grocery side of George
Miller's business fell on James as well as the running of the
printing office. In May 1816, the firm abandoned the grocery side
of the business. The disaster to George's business in September
1816, made the partnership no longer of advantage, and James
carried on alone. In the emergency James added grocery and spirits
to the goods he dealt in once again. About this time, jame also
married a Janet Craw from Garvald. Like is father, James Miller
published a good number of poetical works. In 1830 he also
published his History of Dunbar. James was elected a
merchant-councillor of Haddington on 14 October 1825. His relations
with the Council however deteriorated. On 2 March 1832 he was paid
for the last work he was to do for them. John Wood was now printing
for them, and in December 1832 George Neill & Sons became their
printer. By 1833 he was commonly drunk and had lost both his shop
and his house. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Home of Refuge on 7
May 1864, and died there 21 May 1865.
Chapbook Printers; Pigot 1820; 1825; W.J. Couper. The
Millers of Haddington, Dunbar and Dunfermline: a record of Scottish
bookselling. London, 1914. 183-242
- MILLER, James papermaker Invergowrie
Bullionfield Paper Co 1852
manager Bullionfield Paper Co; William Dawson clerk
Slater 1852
- MILLER, James bookseller, bookbinder, printer, circulating
library and news room Oban
Argyle Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- MILLER, John bookseller & bookbinder
Barrhead
Barrhead 1852
Slater 1852
- MILLER, John bookbinder Dumbarton
High Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- MILLER, John printer and bookseller Dunfermline
South West corner of Abbey Park Place 1805-06
Bridge Street 1807-1834
John Miller & Son 7 Bridge Street 1835-37
Bridge Street 1838-59
9 Bridge Street Slater 1860-66
Born at Dunbar 4 September 1780. His mother, Mary Deans, died in
child birth, and his father when he was nine. When his half
brother, George Dunbar, married, he went to live with them. On 10
October 1794 he was apprenticed to his guardian for four years. At
the end of his apprenticeship, he took charge of George's
bookselling and printing business, and acted as clerk at the
country sales. On 4 September 1805 he set up in business for
himself in Dunfermline. His brother George presented him with a
printing press as a parting present. On 16 June 1806, he married
Helen Laing of Saltoun. He published a numbered chapbook series
Cheap Tracts between 1826 and 1829, and other chapbooks at
least until 1833, including a monthly chapbook periodical in 1832
The Monthly Scrap Book. Introduced lithography in 1828.
John Miller died 24 March 1852. After John Miller's death, the
business was continued by his son, John Laing Miller, who retired
to Liverpool in 1866. He died there 18 January 1883. He is said to
have been succeeded by an employee, John Stewart.
Chapbook Printers; W.J. Couper. The Millers of
Haddington, Dunbar and Dunfermline: a record of Scottish
bookselling. London, 1914. Pigot 1837; Schenck
- MILLAR [MILLER], John bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1655-56
Married Janet Williamesone 14 September 1655. Burgess. Will
registered 15 July 1656.
EdinMarr; EdinTest
- MILLER, John bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1655-75
Burgess 12 September 1655.. Apprentice: James Miller bookbinder
Edinburgh 7 October 1657, Burgess 27 September 1664, (In apprentice
registers it is John Miller who is apprenticed to John Miller 7
October 1657). Will registered 21 January 1675
(Bann.Misc.ii,296).
EdinBurg; EdinPren; EdinTest; Aldis 1904
- MILLER, John apprentice bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1657
Son to late John Miller, couper, Burgess of Ayr, apprenticed with
John Miller bookbinder 7 October 1657. Buried in Greyfriars
Churchyard 28 March 1663.
EdinPren; GreyBuri
- MILLER, John apprentice bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1729
Son to Malcolm Miller gardener, apprenticed to George Buchannan
bookbinder 6 August 1729.
EdinPren
- MILLER, John apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1735
Son to Mr John Miller, apprentice to Alexander Kincaid bookseller
8 January 1735.
EdinPren
- MILLER, John printer Edinburgh
Leith Wynd 1806-12
14 Carnegie Street 1813-19
9 Carnegie Street 1820-24
Edin Dir
- MILLER, John typefounder Edinburgh
15 Clerk Street 1841-44
Edin Dir
- MILLER, John engraver Edinburgh
15 Wright's Houses 1843
1 Portland Place 1844-45
John Miller engraver Holyrood admitted to Sanctuary for debt at
Holyroodhouse 2 February 1833.
Edin Dir; Cadell
- MILLER, John newspaper printer and printer
Forres
High Street 1837
Caroline Street 1852
Publisher of The Forres Elgin & Nairn Gazette Northern
Review & Advertiser 1837; Publisher of The Forres,
Elgin and Nairn Gazette 1852
Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
- MILLER, John bookseller Glasgow
67 Trongate 1828
Glas Dir
- MILLER, John bookseller and stationer Glasgow
85 Ingram Street 1844-47
Glas Dir
- MILLAR, John bookseller Glasgow
246 High Street 1820-25
Pigot 1820; 1825
- MILLER, John bookseller Leith
21 Tolbooth Wynd 1848-50
20 Tolbooth Wynd 1851
See also under MILLER, J.W.
Edin Dir
- MILLAR, John bookseller Paisley
Paisley 1805-11
Publisher of The Paisley Repository.
Crawford
- MILLER, Joseph & Co booksellers Edinburgh
51 Lothian Road 1838-40
9 Bank Street 1841-46
Joseph Miller same address 1847-50
9 Bank Street and 25 George IV Bridge 1851-53
Joseph Miller & Co 25 George IV Bridge 1854-55
Christian name Edin Dir 1846
Edin Dir
- MILLAR, Ludivick paper printer Edinburgh
Canongate 1778
Son to John Millar, married Hannah daughter to the deceased John
Daull baker in Canongate Kirk 13 November 1778.
CanonMarr
- MILLER, R.T. bookseller Dundee
Dundee 1797-1811
NLS Impr Ind; Doughty
- MILLER, Robert bookseller Dundee
Dundee 1793-94
Wife died 18 February 1794. Glasgow Courier 1 February
1794.
NLS Impr Ind
- MILLAR, Robert bookbinder Edinburgh
Back of Gavinloch's Land, Forrester's Wynd 1804
Forrester's Wynd 1805-09
Royal Bank Close 1810-11
Mill's Court, Lawnmarket 1812-13
101 Cowgate - house 149 Richmond Lane 1814-15
149 Richmond Lane 1816
Post-Office Close 1817
bookbinder and stationer 253 High Street 1818
Drummond Street 1819
Son of late John Miller, shipmaster in Leith, apprenticed to
Alexander Smiton bookbinder for 6 years 11 May 1797. Married Jean
daughter of deceased John Low builder 26 May 1795. Burgess as
apprentice to Alexander Smiton bookbinder 11 May 1797; Guild
Brother 8 September 1817.
EdinPren; EdinMarr; EdinBurg; Edin Dir
- MILLER, Robert bookseller Edinburgh
Parliament Square 1795
Appears in the rolls of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers 1795.
Burgess and Guild Brother in right of father James Miller skinner
23 February 1797.
NLS Impr Ind; EdinBurg
- MILLER, Robert bookseller and stationer
Edinburgh
Manners and Miller 23 Parliament Close 1794-1802
Parliament Close 1803-07
Cross 1808-12
208 High Street 1813-24
92 Princes Street 1825
(late Manners & Miller) same address 1826-30
of Manners & Miller. Appears in the rolls of the Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers 1795.Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's
Society 4 April 1796. Burgess and Guild Brother in right of father
James Miller skinner 23 February 1797.
Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind; EdinBurg; Sher. Edinburgh
Booksellers
- MILLER, Robert bookbinder Edinburgh
333 Lawnmarket 1821-22
Edin Dir
- MILLER, Robert bookbinder Edinburgh
2 James' Court, Lawnmarket 1824-25
Edin Dir
- MILLER, R[obert] and J. booksellers stationers and
circulating library Glasgow
215 Gallowgate 1835
Robert Miller same address 1837-44
57 Gallowgate Street and 21 Argyll Street 1847
57 Gallowgate 1849
Second address from the trade index Glas Dir 1847.
Glas Dir; Pigot 1837
