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- RAE, Alexander bookseller & druggist Portsoy
The Square 1852
Slater 1852
- RAE, J. & A. bookbinder Glasgow
Rae, T. & A. 14 Garthland Street 1840
Rae, J. & A. same address 1844
Glas Dir
- RAE, John bookbinder Glasgow
Glasgow 1659-91
Burgess as married Jonat daughter to Thomas Finniestoun maltman 10
February 1659. Spouse Jonet Finnisone will registered 18 August
1685. Will of John Rae stationer registered 5 February 1691.
GlasBurg; GlasTest
- RAE, John bookbinder Glasgow
5 South Hanover Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- RAE [John] & MACAULAY [A.] lithographic engravers and
ornamental printers Glasgow
120 Buchanan Street 1847
Glas Dir
- RAE, John & Co librarians, bookbinders and
stationers Glasgow
241 High Street 1844
booksellers 249 High Street 1847
Also in section Bookbinders in trade index Glas Dir
1847
Glas Dir
- RAE, John wright, glazier, stationer, bookbinder and
bookseller Perth
Perth 1745-66
Sold copies of James Craig's Spiritual life. Edinburgh,
1751. Apprentice: .Patrick Graham, son of Thomas Graham,
apprenticed to John Rae bookbinder Perth 1745
Maxted; NLS Impr Ind; R. H. Carnie. Publishing in
Perth before 1807. Abertay Historical Society Publication
No.6, 1960. Carnie II.
- RAE, John bookseller Stromness
Stromness 1852
Possibly also shopkeeper & dealer in sundries.
Slater 1852
- RAE, Peter minister and printer Kirkbride
Kirkbride 1703-1727
Kirkconnel 1732-48
He was born at Mouswald in 1671. In February 1692 he entered
Glasgow University, taking his M.A. 4 April 1694. On 21 March 1695
was appointed Precentor of the Church and Clerk to the Session of
Dumfries. A fortnight later he was appointed Clerk of the
Presbytery, and on 8 October was chosen Clerk of the Synod. In
March 1697, Rae resigned his Presbytery Clerkship and took the
divinty course at Edinburgh University. On 19 July 1697 he married
Agnes, eldest daughter of John Corsane of Meikleknox. On 15
November 1699 he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of
Penpont. He was obviously already showing mechanical ability, for
on 31 July 1702 he was admitted a freeman of the Incorporation of
Hammermen of Dumfries. On 22 April 1703 he was ordained Minister of
Kirkbride. He was not popular with his parishioners, who had not
had a minister since 1662, and he was involved in a series of
cases. These came to a head in July 1713. Fourteen of his
parishoners charged him with being "so taken up with mechanics and
worldly business that it takes him off his ministerial office ...
and that he causes print obscene ballads in his own house." They
also charged him with being agent for the Duke of Queensberry at
the Wanlockhead lead mines to the neglect of his proper duties. Rae
prosecuted his accusers for libel befor the Presbytery. The Synod
found that most of the charges were not so much as attempted to be
proven. It had come out in evidence that Robert Rae had printed
several copies of the ballad Maggy Lauder, in the absence of his
father. Rae submitted himself to the Synod on the Wanlockhead
affair, pleading that the business can scarcely be said to divert
him from his ministerial work, and that it was necessary for the
support of his family, he having a very small stipend which is very
ill payed. No book has been found with his name on it. The parish
was suppressed in 1727 by the Lords Commissioners of Teinds, and in
1732 he was translated to Kirkconnel. While there he made an
astronomical chiming clock for Charles 3rd Duke of Queensberry. He
died there 29 December 1748. He published A History of the
Rebellion of 1715, which was printed at Dumfries by his son
Robert in 1718..
DNB; William Stewart 'The Rae Press at Kirkbride and
Dumfries'. Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
vi 107-115 (1906); G.W.Shirley 'Mr Peter Rae V.D.M., printer'
Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society i 216-235
(1914)
- RAE, Robert printer Kirkbride and Dumfries
Kirkbride (Cellae S. Brigidae) 1711-14
Printing-house in the Kirkgate and shop on the East side of the
Street a
little below the Fish Cross Dumfries 1715-21
At the sign of the Hand and Bible same address 1721
Eldest son of Peter Rae, Minister of Kirkbride and Agnes Corsane.
He was born 20 May 1698. Printed on a press in the house of his
father 1711-14. In July 1713 his father was attacked for having a
printing-office in the manse. By 1715 the press had been
transferred to Dumfries. In 1721 he published a newspaper, The
Drumfries Mercury, of which No 18 May 1 to 8 1721 survives. By
2 February 1719, he had acquired the estate of Meikleknox from his
mother's relations and assumed his mother's name, being Robert
Corson of Meikleknox. To obtain the estates of his mother he
married Agnes M'Gowan the daughter of the other claimant. He died
17 February 1759.
NLS Impr Ind; Stewart, William. The Rae Press at
Kirkbride and Dumfries. Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical
Society vi pp.107-115. Edinburgh, 1906; G. W. Shirley Mr Peter
Rae, V. D. M. printer. Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical
Society i pp.216-35. Glasgow, 1914. G. W. Shirley: Dumfries
printers in the eighteenth century. Dumfriesshire and Galloway
Natural History & Antiquarian Society Transactions 3rd s.
viii, 129-186 (1934).
- RAE, T. & A. bookbinders Glasgow
14 Garthland Street 1840
J. & A. Rae same address 1844
Glas Dir
- RAE, William bookseller, bookbinder, printer and
publisher Wick
Stafford Place 1839
and reading room same address 1840-1850-
Stafford Street 1852
Born at Gillock, Wick 11 January 1811, he died 2 January 1893.
Probably acquired the plant of The Northern Star about
1841. In 1853 he acquired the Northern Ensign. His foreman
printer for many years was William Coghill. His son Sir Alexander
Rae carried on the press.
Slater 1852; John Mowat 'Books and Printing in
Caithness' Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society vi 84-94
(1920)
- RAEBURN, William perfumer Edinburgh
Bridge Street 1776-84
North Bridge 1786
Perfumer to the Prince of Wales 13 North Bridge-Street
1788-1811
Mrs. Raeburn same address 1812-16
Sold copies of George Packwood the celebrated razor strop maker's
pamphlet Packwood's whim. The goldfinch's nest; or, The way to
get money and be happy. London, 1796.
NLS Impr Ind
- RAILLEY, William printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh before 1791
Helen daughter of deceased William Railley married Robert
Sutherland shoemaker 1 September 1791.
EdinMarr
- RAILWAY GAZETTE newspaper office Edinburgh
Scottish Railway Gazette 30 Hanover Street 1846-49
Railway Gazette same address 1850
Edin Dir
- RAIT, Alexander bookseller and stationer
Edinburgh
7 North St Andrew Street 1847
He appears in 1846 without a trade, and at the same home address,
17 Duke Street, Leith, as in 1847.
Edin Dir
- RAIT, Thomas printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1778
Married Helen daughter of Peter Ranken cowfeeder 15 December
1778.
EdinMarr
- RALEIGH, Margaret A. bookseller Edinburgh
21 West Register Street 1846-47
M. A. Raleigh in 1834 met a notorious prostitute and bawd,
Isabella Milligan, and shortly after went to live with her in her
retirement in Morningside. She died on 7 February 1844, and M.A.
Raleigh published Autobiography of Mrs Isabella Milligan by
M.A. Raleigh, 1845.
Edin Dir
- RALSTON, William bookseller, stationer and bookbinder
Campbeltown
Main-street 1820-25
bookseller and circulating library Back Street 1837
Main Street 1852
Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837; Slater 1852
- RAMAGE, Adam stationer Edinburgh
51 Candlemaker Row 1842-43
David Ramage same address 1844-45
Edin Dir
- RAMAGE, Adam papermaker Pennycuick
foreman Valleyfield Mill 1834-45
Edin Dir
- RAMAGE, Benjamin apprentice printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1752
Son to William Ramage, doctor of medicine at Giffordhall,
apprenticed to Adrian Watkins H.M. Printer and Stationer for
Scotland 29 July 1752.
EdinPren
- RAMAGE, David stationer Edinburgh
Adam Ramage 51 Candlemaker Row 1842-43
David Ramage same address 1844-45
Edin Dir
- RAMAGE, James engraver Edinburgh
11 Parkside Street 1825
8 Alison Square 1826
4 Charles Street 1827-29
5 Charles Street 1830
Edin Dir
- RAMAGE, James engraver and lithographer
Edinburgh
39 South Bridge 1849-53
Boroughlochhead Cottage 1854-56
30 Rankeillor Street 1857-61
Edin Dir; Schenck
- RAMAGE, James papermaker Pennycuick
Valleyfield Mill 1840-45
Edin Dir
- RAMAGE, William apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1642
Son to the late Gavin Ramage in Fisherrow, apprenticed with
William Knox bookseller 28 September 1642.
EdinPren
- RAMSAY, Adam bookseller Edinburgh
2 Victoria Street 1843
Edin Dir
- RAMSAY, Alexander newspaper office Banff
Old Market Street 1852
Editor of The Banffshire Journal
Slater 1852
- RAMSAY, Alexander bookseller Edinburgh
of R. Cadell bookseller 18 Gayfield Square 1833-34
18 Gayfield Square 1835-40
Gray 1833; Edin Dir
- RAMSAY, Allan wigmaker and bookseller Edinburgh
bookseller The Mercury opposite to Niddry's-Wynd
1718-22
at The Mercury opposite to the Cross Well 1722-25
Shop near the Cross 1725
Hawthornden's and Ben Jonson's Heads, East end of the Luckenbooths
1726-40
Shop near the cross 1729-34
Son of John Ramsay, factor to the Earl of Hopetoun and
superintendent of his lead mines, and Alice, daughter of Allan
Bower, of Derbyshire, he was born in Leadhills, probably in 1684.
Apprenticed to James Robertson, perriwig-maker in 1704, he became a
Burgess 19 July 1710. He married Christian, eldest daughter of
Robert Ross, writer, and of Elizabeth Archibald 14 December 1712. a
peruke-maker. About 1715, Alan Ramsay started publishing his poems
individually in sheets and small booklets. His first collected
Poems of 1721 consists of these bound together with a
general titlepage. In 1723 he published the first volume of The
Tea-Table Miscellany In 1725 he produced The Gentle
Shepherd a dramatic Scottish pastoral, to which he later added
songs.In 1725 he removed to a house at the East end of the
Luckenbooths, which had formerly been the London Coffee House.
Here, in place of Mercury, he adopted the heads of Ben Jonson and
Drummond of Hawthornden and established a circulating library. In
1728 he published a second volume of Poems. After 1730 he
wrote less, being interested in the theatre, for which he wrote
prologues and epilogues, and on occasion songs. With William
Hamilton he auctioned books 20 January 1737 Caledonian
Mercury 25 November 1736. In the year 1755 he is supposed to
have relinquished business.' Timperley 697-8. '... all the
villainous profane and obscene bookes and playes printed at London
by Curle and others, are gote doune from London by Allan Ramsey.
and lent out, for an easy price to young boyes, servant weemen of
the better sort, and gentleman, and vice and obscenity dreadfully
propagated. Ramsay has a book in his shope wherein all the names of
those that borrow his playes and books, for two pence a night, or
some such rate, are sett doun....' Robert Wodrow 1728.
Allan Ramsay died 7 January 1757 [i.e. 1757/58],
Andrew Gibson. New Light on Alan Ramsay. Edinburgh, 1927;
Burns Martin. Allan Ramsay: a study in his life and works.
Cambridge [Mass.] 1931; Alexander M. Kinghorn and Alexander
Law. The works of Allan Ramsay. Vol.IV. Edinburgh: Scottish
Text Society, 1970.
- RAMSAY, David weaver? Dalkeith
Dalkeith 1750
Wrote published and sold The weaver and housewife's
pocket-book; containing rules for the right making of linen
cloth. Edinburgh, 1750.
NLS Impr Ind
- RAMSAY, David printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh Evening Courant, Old Fishmarket Close 1778-1803
David Ramsay & Son [George?] same address, Office Opposite the
Cross 1804-11
Office 194 High Street 1812-24
208 High Street 1825-27
190 High Street 1828-47
188 & 190 High Street 1848-55
Married Miss Grace daughter of John Campbell farmer 15 October
1780. Burgess and Guild Brother 21 September 1786; Died at
Craigleith on 27 June 1813. Edinburgh Evening Courant 1
July 1813. Apprentice: William Clark Burgess as apprentice to David
Ramsay, printer 28 August 1839 apprentice same day as from 4
September 1819.
EdinMarr; EdinBurg; Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind; Pigot 1820; 1825;
1837
- RAMSAY, George merchant Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1751
An account of the particular soliloquies and Covenant
engagements of the worthy Lady Earlston was printed for him in
1751.
NLS Impr Ind
- RAMSAY, George & Co printers Edinburgh
Old Fishmarket-close 1808-23
John Stark (late George Ramsay & Co) Old Fishmarket Close
1824-26
Burgess and Guild Brother in right of father David Ramsay 3 June
1807. New Dir 1824 has George Ramsay & Co Old
Fishmarket Close, and John Stark as of George Ramsay & Co.
Apprentices: Geddes Calder Burgess 8 August 1820 entered apprentice
the same day as from 21 January 1809. Robert Inches Burgess and
Guild Brother as apprentice to George Ramsay & Coy, printers
and John Stark printer 6 October 1841 apprenticed the same day to
George Ramsay & Coy as from 5 June 1821.
Edin Dir; EdinBurg; Pigot 1820
- RAMSAY, George newspaper office Edinburgh
of the Courant Office 1850-51
188 High Street 1852-54
No address given Edin Dir 1850-51
Edin Dir
- RAMSAY, John newspaper editor Aberdeen
Aberdeen Journal office Adelphi Court 1834-47
John Ramsay was the son of John Ramsay, Master of a West Indies
trade, and Betty the only daughter of Alexander M'Donald of
Calcutta. When he was nine months old, his mother took him to
Aberdeen. He was educated at Aberdeen High School and King's
College, Aberdeen. He graduated in 1817 and became a teacher, first
as a private tutor, and afterwards at Robert Gordon's Hospital in
Aberdeen. In 1834 he gave up teaching to edit The Aberdeen
Journal In 1847 his mother died and Ramsay gave up the
editorship of The Aberdeen Journal. In 1851, he was
unsuccessful candidate for the Professorship of Mathematics at
King's College. He did not marry, and died 4 June 1870.
The Selected writings of John Ramsay, M.A. with memoir and
notes by Alexander Walker. Aberdeen, 1871.
- RAMSAY, John bookseller Edinburgh
Conn's Closs 1703
Sold copies of The use of the Lord's Prayer vindicated.
1703.
NLS Impr Ind
- RAMSAY, John bookseller Edinburgh
Within the foot of College Wynd 1716-1719
The age of the world collected in all its periods was
printed for him in 1716 and Alexander Monro's A short
account of the reformation in 1719.
NLS Impr Ind; Carnie & Doig I.
- RAMSAY, John & Co musicsellers Edinburgh
piano-forte maker 12 North St David's Street
1830-32
musicsellers same address 1833
28 Elder Street 1834
pianoforte warehouse same address 1835-38
2 Barony Street 1839-44
John Ramsay 6 Calton Street 1845-61
John Ramsay & Sons 65 Hanover Street 1862-66
5 Catherine Street 1867-70
10 Greenside Street 1871-75
John Ramsay same address 1876-79
Pianoforte Makers only in main sequence and street index Edin
Dir 1835-38.
Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
- RAMSAY, Patrick printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1660?-1680
Patrick Ramsay and John Reid 1680
Child buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 19 April 1673. Petitioned
the Privy Council in 1678 to claim exemption from watching and
warding as an employee of the King's Printer. Watson (10,13) says
that after the death of Higgins, the Society of Stationers
appointed Ramsay to be overseer to that house; and that about 1680
he set up with John Reid. A folio addressed Serenissimo
Principi Jacobo was printed by the partners in 1680.
GreyBuri; Register of the Privy Council of Scotland Ser. 3 v.
441; Aldis 1904
- RAMSAY, T. printer Edinburgh
21 Waterloo Place 1840
Edin Dir
- RANDALL, Charles printer and bookseller Stirling
Baxter's Wynd Stirling 1793-1812
Mary Randall Bakers-wynd 1813-20
Born in 1749, son of a Scottish surgeon who was out in the 45. The
first printer in Stirling, since Lekprevik, he published, in 1794,
A general history of Stirling which was several times
reprinted. His principle concern was the publication of large
quantities of chapbooks, some of which have the imprint 'Edinburgh:
printed for the booksellers', and he ran a circulating library
which he gave up in 1798. There is an advertisement in The
Glasgow Courier of 29 March in that year of its sale, which
describes it as consisting of 'upwards of three thousand volumes'.
There are two volumes in the Blair's College collection in the
National Library of Scotland with large oval labels for
RANDALL'S/CIRCULATING LIBRARY/STIRLING/No. He married, about 1806
Mary Stedman, who was his junior by some twenty-seven years. They
had three children, Margaret who died in 1830 at the age of 23;
James, who died in 1821, age 10, and Charles, who changed his name
to Randolph, and became a ship builder in Glasgow. His father died
in December 1812 aged 63 and is buried in Holy Rude Churchyard
Stirling. Mary Randall sold the business to William Macnie in 1820.
Charles Randall probably employed Francis Ireland, printer, in
1800. Apprentices: Francis Ireland, John Fraser and John
Shearer.
Chapbook Printers; NLS Impr Ind; Pigot 1820; Stirling Observer
Press: ninety years' progress 1836-1926. Stirling, 1926;
Harvey
- RANDALL, Mary printer, bookseller and circulating
library Stirling
Baker Street and Vennel Close 1813-20
After her husband Charles's death, Mary Randall continued to
publish large numbers of chapbooks most of which are undated. In
1816 she probably taught Peter Buchan to print in 'ten days
service'. In 1820 she retired, perhaps at the instance of her son
who had made a large fortune in Glasgow, and sold the business to
William Macnie. She died 28 November 1847, age 71, and was buried
beside her husband in Holy Rude Churchyard in Stirling.
Chapbook Printers; The Stirling Observer Press: ninety years';
Harvey
- RANDIE (RANDY), David bookseller Edinburgh and
Haddington
Haddington 1713
Edinburgh 1728
North side of the Cross 1729
Edinburgh 1730-36
Haddington 1739-46
"There is to be exposed by way of auction at Whitekirk in East
Lothian, a parcel of very good books... Catalogues thereof may be
seen in the hands of David Randie merchant in Haddingtoun..."
Scots Courant 12 August 1713. Ruddiman's manuscripts
(National Library of Scotland MS 762) list debts owed to Ruddiman.
Daughter Isobel married Robert Muirhead, merchant in Hamilton 10
September 1730. A debt for books supplied to Randie in September
1731 was unpaid in October 1739 when Randie is described as "now
Mert in Haddington". He sold copies of William Halyburton's
Love to our country in 1746 when his address is again
given as Haddington.
NLS Impr Ind; EdinMarr; Bushnell; Carnie & Doig I &
II
- RANDOLPH, David bookseller Edinburgh
Canongate 1725
Sold copies of George Buchanan's Latin paraphrase of the
Psalms printed in Edinburgh 1725.
NLS Impr Ind
- RANKIN & TURNBULL lithographers Glasgow
65 Jamaica Street 1842
Schenck
- RANKIN, J. & J. lithographers Glasgow
66 Trongate 1840
Glas Dir
- RANKINE, John bookseller Falkirk
Falkirk 1798-1800
bookbinders & stationers High Street 1820-25
William Secker's A Wedding Ring fit for the Finger was
printed for him in 1798 and James Wilson's The importance of
charity in 1800.
Local Notes and Queries reprinted from The Stirling
Observer. Stirling, 1886; NLS Impr Ind; Pigot 1820;
1825;
- RANKIN, John bookbinder Glasgow
Glasgow 1775-81
Appears in list of debts owing by deceased Robert & Andrew
Foulis 1781, with arrears to 1775.
GUL MS Murray 602
- RANKEN, Peter bookseller and auctioneer
Edinburgh
11 Calton Street 1819
bookseller and stationer same address 1820
Edin Dir; Pigot 1820
- RANKEN, Peter & Co printer, bookseller and
bookbinder Forfar
Castle Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- RANKIN, William printer Glasgow
Sydney Court, 62 Argyll Street 1847-49
First part of address from trade index Glas Dir
1847
Glas Dir
- RANKIN, William stationer and account book maker
Glasgow
54 Argyll Street 1849
Glas Dir
- RANNIE, Alexander bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1753
Edward Moore's The gamester was printed for him in
1753.
NLS Impr Ind
- RATTRAY, Charles bookbinder, stationer and librarian
Glasgow
460 Argyll Street 1840
470 Argyll Street 1844
and bookseller same address 1847-49
home address: 5 Normal Place, Garscube Road 1847-49
This sounds like his home address, but he is listed separately
under it in the trade index under Librarians, though not under
Bookbinders or Booksellers in Glas Dir 1847. In Glas
Dir 1849 it is made clear that this is the home address of
Charles Rattray of 470 Argyll Street.
Glas Dir
- RATTRAY, James bookseller, stationer and newsagent
Glasgow
86 Trongate 1849
Glas Dir
- RAVENSCROFT, Edward printer Aberdeen
Aberdeen 1844
43 Union Street 1845
Office of Chalmers & Co, Adelphi 1846
Aberdeen 1847-48
Owner of North of Scotland Family Journal and
Scottish Farmer.
Beavan
- RAY, Ebenezer printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1771
Married Elizabeth daughter to M. Francis Morrison of Hughend,
Dunkeld 5 May 1771.
EdinMarr
- RAY, Francis printer Dundee
Dundee shortly before 1800
Chalmers Ray & Co 1804
'for a brief time was the printer of the Dundee
Advertiser. He issued the first Gazeteer of Scotland,
and also an edition of Rollins Ancient History with
engravings by Thomas Ivory of Dundee.
Millar
- READ, James music engraver Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1759-61
The signature 'James Read sculpt., Edinburgh' occurs on Bremner's
Curious Collection of Scots Tunes. Edinburgh, 1759 and
Stewart's Collection of the Newest and Best Reels.
1761.
Bush.2
- READIE [READY], Andrew engraver Glasgow
Glasgow 1763-78
Andrew Ready apprenticed to Hector Gavin engraver Edinburgh 1763;
Married Margaret Boswell. Son, also Andrew Ready, christened 1
January 1776. Will registered 17 October 1778. Daughter Agnes
married James Symington bookseller in Edinburgh in Canongate Kirk,
Edinburgh, 18 May 1793. Witness Thomas Brown bookseller
Edinburgh.
GlasTest; CanonMarr; Bush.2; Johnst3
- REARDON, Robert papermaker Lasswade
foreman Springfield Paper Mill 1833-34
Christian name Edin Dir 1834.
Edin Dir
- REDPATH, Alexander bookseller and army stationer
Edinburgh
295 High Street 1841-74
Edin Dir
- REDPATH, Maitland paper maker Colinton
Redhall Mill 1798
Married Jean daughter of deceased William Ritchie of Pennycuik 3
March 1798.
EdinMarr
- REFORMERS GAZETTE newspaper office Glasgow
75 Argyll Street 1847-49
Glas Dir
- REFORMERS GAZETTE newspaper office Paisley
9 St Mirren Street 1851
John Parkhill Reporter
Paisley 1851
- REID, Mrs See REID, William
- REID and BATHGATE booksellers Edinburgh
James Bathgate 22 College Street 1804-09
1 College Street 1810
Reid and Bathgate same address 1811-12
James Bathgate same address 1813-15
3 College Street 1816
Edin Dir
- REID and DOUGLAS stationers Edinburgh
Foot of the Fishmarket Close 1774
Edin Dir
- REID & HENDERSON booksellers Glasgow
170 Trongate 1818-25
Glas Dir; Pigot 1820; 1825
- REID and SCOTT booksellers and stationers
Edinburgh
66 South Bridge Street, opposite the College 1801-02
Edin Dir
- REID & SON booksellers, stationers and printers
Leith
36 Shore 1847-63
34 Shore and 55 Bernard Street 1864-70
35 Shore and 55 Bernard Street 1871-73
35 Shore and 54 Bernard Street 1874
35 Shore and 38 Timber Bush 1875-86
Earlier history under William Reid. C.P. Reid of Reid & Son
1847-48. Mrs C.P. Reid of Reid & Son 1871-75.
Edin Dir
- REID, Alexander bookseller Dundee
Top Seagate 1818-22
Murray-gate 1820-25
bookseller and confectioner Opposite Exchange Door
1824
stationer 159 Seagate North side 1829
bookseller 139 Seagate 1837 [Pigot 1837]
197 Overgate 1837 [Pigot 1837]
Dundee 1818; Pigot 1820; 1825; Dundee Delin; Dundee 1829;
Pigot 1837
- REID, Alexander P. stationer Dundee
22 High Street. House 7 Dock Street 1846
Dundee 1846
- REID, Alexander P. bookseller Glasgow
144 Argyll Street 1844
Glas Dir
- REID, Andrew musicseller Edinburgh
piano-forte maker 1 East Broughton Place 1829-32
music-seller same address 1833
Edin Dir
- REID, Archibald circulating library Dumbarton
Librarian Dumbarton Subscription High Street 1837
Pigot 1837
- REID [C.P.?] & SON booksellers, stationers and
printers Leith
36 Shore 1847-63
34 Shore and 55 Bernard Street 1864-70
35 Shore and 55 Bernard Street 1871-73
35 Shore and 54 Bernard Street 1874
35 Shore and 38 Timber Bush 1875-86
Earlier history under William Reid. C.P. Reid of Reid & Son
1847 and 1850.
Edin Dir
- REID, Daniel printer Glasgow, Falkirk and Carron
Opposite to Bell's Wynd, above the Cross, Glasgow 1772
Stirlingshire printing-House in the High Street near the South
Gate of the Church (in Gardiner's Land) 1773-83
Broomedge Hall near Carron 1785-86
One of the most important of the Scottish chapbook printers. In
some of his imprints he advertises 'where travelling booksellers
may be served for rags or money'. His business passed to Patrick
Mair in 1783, and he removed from Falkirk to Broom-edge-hall, near
Carron, on Stirling New Road in 1785, where he printed a few books
(not chapbooks) in 1785 and 1786.
Chapbook Printers; NLS Impr Ind
- REID, E[llen] stationer and confectioner Dundee
10 Murraygate 1846
Ellen Reid bookseller 10 Seagate 1852
Dundee 1846; Slater 1852
- REID, Francis bookseller and publisher Glasgow
91 Trongate 1835
Glas Dir
- REID, George printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1668-85
A child buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 17 June 1668. Married
Margaret Maxwell 23 August 1685.
EdinMarr; GreyBuri
- REID, George paper warehouse Edinburgh
Kincaid's Land Cowgate 1773
Edin Dir
- REID, George printer Edinburgh
Fisher's Land Close, Lawnmarket 1775-84
Baillie Fyfe's Close 1786-88
West Bow Head 1790
Head of West Bow 1793-95
Opposite Magdalene's Chapel [Cowgate Head] 1796-97
George Reid & Co same address 1799-1803
Bailie's Land, opposite Magdalene Chapel, Cowgate Denovan's
1804
Cowgate Head 1805
George Reid same address 1806-08
'Vender of all Dr Hill's and other valuable medecines' Edin
Dir 1775-84. Apprentice: The National Library of Scotland has
a notice of his apprenticeship by James Allan 'James Allan, came to
Mr Reid's Printing-Office, on the 15 March 1802; and he was bound
on the 5 April 1802; and e will be done with his apprenticeship on
the 5 April 1808; which will be seven years and three weeks that he
has served to Mr George Reid and Co. as an apprentice, with the
small allowance of three shillings per week, with a most horrid
grudge'.
Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind
- REID, George wright and printing press maker
Edinburgh
'wright and best printers press maker in Edinburgh!' Candlemaker
row 1778
'the best printing press maker in Europe, and all printing
utensils' same address 1780
'supper [sic] excellent in making all kinds of printing presses
etc.' same address 1782-88
Magdalen's Chapel, Hammerman's Close, Cowgate 1793-1804
Edin Dir
- REID, Isaac bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
47 Broughton Street 1844-45
Edin Dir
- REID, J. bookseller and stationer Edinburgh
47 Broughton Street 1845
Edin Dir
- REID, J. & E. stationers Glasgow
2 Argyle Street 1825
3 Argyll Street 1828-35
41 Argyle Street 1837-49
John Reid is listed separately as of J. & E. Reid Glas
Dir 1835
Glas Dir; Pigot 1825; 1837
- REID, J. bookseller Lanark
Lanark 1769
Sold copies of A cloud of witnesses for the royal prerogatives
of Jesus Christ... Glasgow, 1769.
NLS Impr Ind
- REID, J. bookseller Leith
Leith 1760-61
To sell The British Magazine Caledonian Mercury
9 January 1760; 29 July 1761
- REID, James apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1668
Brother-german to John Reid, Burgess of Haddington, apprenticed to
John Cairnes bookseller 12 August 1668.
EdinPren
- REID, James bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1676-1701
Son to James Reid, indweller in Tranent, apprenticed to John
Geddes 'stationer' 24 May 1676. John Geddes was a bookbinder.
Married Janet Davidson 10 July 1681; wife Janet Davidson buried in
Greyfriars Churchyard 26 September 1697. James Reid 'stationer'
married Catharine Carmichall, daughter of James Carmichall of
Grangehall 28 April 1699. Apprentices: Rodger Robertson 7 April
1686, Burgess 5 February 1696; James Grant 25 June 1701; Charles
Cosh Burgess by right of father Thomas Cosh litster 3 September
1712, Guild Brother as apprentice to James Reid bookbinder 3 June
1724.
EdinPren; EdinMarr; GreyBuri; EdinBurg
- REID, James journeyman printer Edinburgh
of The Heirs of Andrew Anderson 1678
Petitioned the Privy Council to claim exemption from watching and
warding as an employee of the King's Printer.
Register of the Privy Council of Scotland Ser. 3 v.
441
- REID, James printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1698
A child buried in Greyfriars Churchyard [14-16] September
1698.
GreyBuri
- REID, James bookseller, stationer, account book
manufacturer and newsagent Glasgow
124 Queen Street 1849
Glas Dir
- REID, James bookseller Leith
Leith 1750-70
To sell The British Magazine Caledonian Mercury
9 January 1760; 29 July 1761
NLS Impr Ind
- REID, James bookseller Peterhead
Broad Street 1852
Slater 1852
- REID, James printer St Andrews
Kirk Wynd 1837
Pigot 1837
- REID, James bookseller and coal, lime, wood and salt
agent Tain
High Street 1852
Slater 1852
- REID, John printer Edinburgh
P. Ramsaeus & J. Rhedius, Edinburgh 1680
In Bell's Wynd at the head of the Court of Guard 1683-1716?
Shop below the Caledonian Coffee-House 1702
Libberton's Wynd 1713
Burgess 100 merks to the poors box by act of Council 6 November
1678. Apprenticed to the Heirs of Andrew Anderson. Left their
service in 1680 and started to print with Patrick Ramsay. As a
result of the decree against Sanders in 1680, Mrs Anderson took out
letters of horning against him as an apprentice of hers who had not
served his term, and had set up as a printer, and had him
imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth. He was released by order of the
Privy Council on 6 January 1681. On 1 February 1681, he was freed
on condition that he find caution 'to serve the Kings printer in
the termes and for the space contained in his said band, and in the
meantime doe ordaine him to close up his presse' (Register of
the Privy Council of Scotland Ser 3.vii.3, 31-33). At the end
of 1683, Agnes Campbell and James Anderson her son complained that
John Reid in manifest contempt of that decree did not only desert
the complainer's service, but set up a press. The Privy Council
found that Reid had served ' for a considerable time' and allowed
him to continue printing until the case in the Court of Session was
settled. In November of the same year Mrs Anderson brought a
further action against him for stealing type from her printing
office. Married Margaret Edward 12 October 1675; Margaret Edward
buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 30 November 1684; Child buried 13
April 1684; 'a halflin' 11 May 1686. Married Anna Halyday 2 July
1687. Children buried 11 July 1694; 16 November 1700; Anna Halyday
buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 30 May 1695. household in Poll Tax
Returns 1694 wife Anna Halliday; children John
and Margaret; apprentices James Voy, George Byres,
Archibald Wright, William Cochrane, Peter McGregor; George Byres
apprenticed 12 May 1697. Will of 'John Reid elder printer' proved
11 May 1716. Margaret Reid was his daughter. He had a son John, but
not apparently the printer, who was perhaps a nephew. Printed a
number of broadsides and chapbooks. The latter include An
account of the last words of Christian Ker, by Archibald Deans
1702; An account of the admirable conversion of one Sarah
Howley, a child of eight 1704; and A true and full
relation of the witches of Pittenweem, 1704. After his death
in August 1712 his daughter Margaret carried on the business.
Aldis 1904; EdinBurg; EdinMarr; GreyBuri; EdinTest; Aldis
1904; NLS Impr Ind; Edin Poll Tax Returns 1694; Chapbook Printers;
Edinburgh Gazette 20 November and 21 December 1699
- REID, John junior printer Edinburgh
Printing House Libberton's Wynd 1699-1719
The second laigh shop below Mary-King's Closs 1705
a little within the Head of Borthwick's Closs over against the
Cross-Well on the South Side of the Street July 1712
In Pearson's Closs opposite to the Parliament Closs (a little
above the Cross) 1714-20
Possibly a nephew of John Reid fl. 1680-1713. A prolific printer
of last dying speeches, ballads and chapbooks. The imprint of A
sermon by Mr James Rows 1715 adds after the address 'where are
to be sold choice of little books and ballads'. Married Agnes
Bowie, widow of John Currie, merchant, 6 September 1696. Started a
paper-mill on the Water-of-Leith called Jinkabout 1714. His widow,
Agnes Bowie, married Mr Samuel Arnot printer 8 August 1721. 'The
printer hereof is removed from Liberton's Wynd, to a little within
the Head of Borthwick's Closs, over against the Cross-Well on the
South-side of the Street' The Scots Postman 3 July 1712.
Plomer has muddied the waters as far as the two John Reids and
Margaret Reid are concerned. Watson says that John Reid junior
started business in 1699 (History of Printing p.18) but no book of
his bearing that date has been found.
Aldis 1904; NLS Impr Ind; Chapbook Printers; Edin Marr;
Watson; Waterston 1; Thomson
- REID, John engraver Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1718
Subscribed to Nisbet's Essay on armories. Edinburgh,
1718.
Bush.2
- REID, John bookseller Edinburgh
Head of the College Wynd 1748
Within the Society Gate 1755
Edinburgh 1756
NLS Impr Ind
- REID, John printer Edinburgh
Hamilton, Balfour, Neill and Reid in the College 1759-60
Alexander Donaldson and John Reid Castle Hill 1760-65
John Reid Baillie Fyfe's Close 1767-73
Apprenticed to Alexander Murray & James Cochran printers for 6
years 2 September 1761. Burgess and Guild Brother as apprentice to
Alexander Murray printer 2 September 1761. Was the printing partner
of Hamilton Balfour Neill and Reid from 1759-1760, but could not
raise the capital to continue the partnership, and became a partner
with Alexander Donaldson from 1760-65 when the partnership was
dissolved, The partners failed to agree and in February 1769,
Donaldson took the matter took the matter to the Court of Session.
The resultant Session Papers gave a great deal of interesting
information about the partnership. There is a set of the papers in
the National Library of Scotland. They comprise The Petition of
Alexander Donaldson bookseller in Edinburgh 28 February 1769;
Answers for John Reid printerin Edinburgh to the Petition of
Alexander Donaldson 25 April 1769; The Petition of John Reid
printer in Edinburgh 20 July 1769; Answers for Alexander Donaldson
to the Petition of John Reid 8 October 1769. A specimen of
the printing types and flowers belonging to John Reid,
printer. Edinburgh: printed by John Reid, 1768, is in a
private collection in the U.S.A. There are photocopies in St
Bride's Printing Library and The National Library of Scotland. He
was sued in 1773 by William Johnston of London for printing an
edition of Henry Brooke's Fool of Quality.
NLS Impr Ind; Edin Dir; EdinPren; EdinBurg; McDougall.
Smugglers
- REID, John bookseller Glasgow
Glasgow 1665-76
John Reid merchant Burgess as serving apprentice with deceased
William Bogill bookbinder 25 July 1665. Guild Brother same right 14
January 1670. One of the debtors in A. Anderson's inventory 1676
(Bann.Misc.ii,283)
GlasBurg; Aldis 1904
- REID, John & Co bookseller Glasgow
Glasgow 1831
58 Hutcheson Street 1832
booksellers, stationers, publishers and importers of foreign
books 81 Queen Street 1835
36 [30 in index] Queen Street Pigot 1837
Glasgow 1838-40
Second son of John Reid M.D. and Jean Gavin, was born in Glasgow 2
April 1808. Apprenticed to a firm of booksellers in Glasgow. At the
end of his apprenticeship he went to London, where he worked for
Black & Young, foreign publishers. In a few years he returned
to Glasgow, where he started as a bookseller and publisher on his
own account. While studying Gaelic a friend asked him to catalogue
his Gaelic books for him. This led to the compilation of
Bibliotheca Scoto-Celtica, which he published in 1832. He
married Anne McLaren in 1836, and they had one daughter. In 1840 he
gave up his business and went to Hong Kong to edit a newspaper and
prepare a Chinese dictionary. He died there in 1841 or 1842.
DNB
- REID, John bookseller and newspaper office
Glasgow
13 Commerce Street 1844
83 King Street, Tradeston 1847
Glas Dir
- REID, John & Son printers, booksellers and
stationers Paisley
18 High Street 1851-52
James Reid bookseller, stationer and newsagent same
address 1868
Paisley 1851; 1868; Slater 1852
- REID, M. W. printer Edinburgh
1 Gabriel Road 1834-37
4 Nottingham Place 1842-45
M. W. Reid and Son same address 1846-54
Gray 1834; 1835; 1837; Edin Dir
- REID, Margaret (Lucky) printer Edinburgh
Cowgate at the foot of the Horsewynd 1712-20
Daughter of John Reid and his first wife Margaret Edward. On the
death of her father, she seems to have taken over her father's
types and the printing-office of Andrew Symson who died about the
same time. Until at least 1720 she produced from that address a
stream of last dying speeches, ballads, chapbooks etc. most of
which have the address but neither name nor date. She fell foul of
Allan Ramsay for pirating one of his poems and the result was the
'Elegy on Lucky Reid'.
NLS Impr Ind; Edin Poll Tax Returns 1694; Chapbook
Printers
- REID, Peter bookbinder Aberdeen
5 Long Acre 1827
40 Broad Street 1832
Learned trade with John Philip.
Beavan
- REID, Peter printer Edinburgh
Clark's Entry, Bristo 1800-01
Edin Dir
- REID, Peter bookseller, printer and seller of fishing
materials Wick
Bridge End Pulteney 1829-37
& newspaper printer same address 1836-1852
Born Gallowhill, Wick 1809, died 18 February 1886. Set up a
printing press in 1832, probably taking over W. Todd's press.
Published The John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Monthly
1st February 1836. Within 16 months it was a weekly. From 1836-42
it was edited by Benjamin Miller Kennedy. It warmly adopted
political reform, free trade, temperance, and non intrusion.
Kennedy went to Arbroath and after an interlude was succeeded as
editor by John Mackie of Fraserburgh about 1845. In 1850 Mackie
broke away and started The Northern Ensign.
Pigot 1837; Slater 1852; Cowan; John Mowat 'Books and
Printing in Caithness' Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical
Society vi 84-94 (1920)
- REID, Robert printer & stationer Lauder
Lauder 1852
Slater 1852
- REID, Robert bookseller and stationer Leven
36 High Street October 1834
and printer same address 1839-August 1854
Robert Reid was the son of John Reid of St Cuthbert's parish in
Edinburgh, and was born in 1808. On 18 November 1830 he married, in
Kirkcaldy, Catherine Lambert, daughter of Andrew Lambert, weaver in
Linktown. His occupation at that time is given as bookbinder. He
possibly came to Leven because of the death in February 1834 of
John Elder, Pastor of the Congregational Chapel in Leven also acted
as librarian, bookseller and stationer. In 1852 he was recorded as
bookseller, stationer, printer, sub-distributor of stamps and
circulating library. He went bankrupt in August 1854, and he and
his family emigrated to Australia. Unfortunately, about 1000 miles
out of Melbourne, the ship sprung a leak, and everyone had to take
turns at the pumps. He survived the ship's arrival in Melbourne
only six weeks, dying on 3 June 1855.
Campbell Leven; Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
- REID, Robert bookseller Paisley
Paisley 1786-88
Cotton-Street New Town 1789
Martin Luther's Commentary upon Galations was printed for
him in Paisley in 1786. In 1789 he published the Whole works of
the Rev. Mr. Robert Millar. Glasgow Mercury 10 March
1789.
NLS Impr Ind; Crawford
- REID, Thomas bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1644-48
Married Janet Wilkie 17 July 1644. Burgess by right of wife Jonet
daughter to umquhile John Wilkie candlemaker 29 January 1645. Will
registered February 1648.
EdinMarr; EdinBurg; EdinTest
- REID, Thomas book warehouse and temperance depository
Glasgow
32 Maxwell Street 1840
Glas Dir
- REID, Walter seal engraver Edinburgh
21 George Street 1838
seal engraver from Paris (after an absence of twenty-five
years from his native city) 7 Queen Street 1871-84
Reid & Reid (Walter junior) same address 1885
picture dealers & printsellers 198 Rose Street
1886
Edin Dir
- REID, William bookseller Aberdeen
Milton's Head Upperkirkgate 1802
Aberdeen 1803-18
Took over the account-books of George Ironside. Described as 'late
bookseller' in Aberdeen Directory 1831.
Beavan
- REID, William printer Edinburgh
Canongate 1788
Married Catherine daughter of the deceased John Paterson shoemaker
26 February 1788.
CanonMarr
- REID, William printer Edinburgh
33 Howe Street 1826
1 Gabriel's Road 1827-33
Mrs W. Reid same address 1834-41
Edin Dir; Pigot 1837
- REID, William printer and bookseller Glasgow
James Brash and William Reid 114 Trongate opposite the Laigh Kirk
Close 1790-91
Trongate 1799-1801
170 Trongate 1803-17
Son of Robert Reid baker and Christian Wood, was born in Glasgow
10 April 1764. He was apprenticed to the typefounder of the
Wilsons, and then learned bookselling with Dunlop and Wilson of
Glasgow. In 1790 he entered into partnership with James Brash with
whom he set up a highly successful bookselling business. William
Reid wrote additional verses for some of Burn's songs, Of a' the
airts the winds can blaw ad John Anderson my jo, as well as to
Robert Fergusson's Lea Rig, and a Monody on the death of Burns. All
these appeared in Brash and Reid's Poetry Original and
Selected. The business was dissolved by mutual consent on 3
November 1817. William Reid then took his brother-in-law, Archibald
Henderson into partnership, as Reid and Henderson. When that
partnership too was wound up on 3 April 1826, he carried on the
business with his son, also called William, as William Reid &
Son. The father retired about 1829 and died 22 November 1831, being
survived by his wife, Elizabeth Henderson. There was an obituary in
The Scots Times 29 November 1831.
NLS Impr Ind; J. C. Ewing. Brash and Reid booksellers in
Glasgow and their collection of Poetry original and selected.
Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society xxi
pp.1-20, 1936; DNB
- REID, William and Company printer Glasgow
Courier Office Trongate second entry from King Street
1791-96
At the Cross 1796-1809
6 Gallowgate 1815-20
Near the Cross 1820
Tontine Back Buildings 1825-28
Died in April 1829, aged 71 years, Timperley p.909.
printer of The Glasgow Courier. W. J. Couper. 'The Glasgow
periodical press in the eighteenth century.' Records of the
Glasgow Bibliographical Society viii. 128-131; NLS Impr
Ind; Glas Dir; Pigot 1820; 1825
- REID, William & Son booksellers Glasgow
54 Trongate 1828
Glas Dir
- REID, William stationer and account book manufacturer
Glasgow
35 Queen Street 1840-44
Glas Dir
- REID, William hawker of books Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute 1799
Sometime a hawker of books, and latterly teacher of a country
school at Lubas in the parish of Kingarth, Isle of Bute. Will
registered 28 January 1799.
IslesTest
- REID, William stationer Johnston
High Street 1825
Pigot 1825
- REID, William bookseller Kirkwall
Main Street 1837
& print seller Broad Street 1852
Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
- REID, William bookseller Leith
Foot of Tolbooth wynd 1793-95
New Quay 1796-1811
printer and bookseller same address 1812
74 Shore and opposite the New Custom House North Leith
1813-18
printer and bookseller 40 Shore and opposite the New
Custom-House North Leith 1819-21
40 Shore - Commercial List Office, 3 Bernard Street 1822
William Reid & Son 40 Shore 1823-24
booksellers, stationers, printers and circulating library
40 Shore, printing office 3 Bernard Street (1830) 1825-40
36 Shore 1841-43
William Charles Reid same address 1844
William Reid & Son same address 1845-46
Reid & Son same address 1847-63
34 Shore and 55 Bernard Street 1864-70
35 Shore and 55 Bernard Street 1871-73
35 Shore and 54 Bernard Street 1874
35 Shore and 38 Timber Bush 1875-86
Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 3 October 1796.
Burgess and Guild Brother of Edinburgh in right of wife Jessie
daughter of Charles Walker vintner 17 April 1804.'Foot of Queen
Street' Denovan's 1804. He was joint residuary legatee of
John Fairbairn, with Archibald Constable, 1810. He was publisher of
Reid's Leith and London Smack direcctory. He had a son
William Charles Reid 1833-46. C.P. Reid 1847. Apprentice: Alexander
Cannon printer Burgess and Guild Brother as apprentice to William
Reid, printer and bookseller Leith 11 February 1841 apprenticed the
same day as from 1 March 1822.
NLS Impr Ind; EdinBurg; Gray 1833; Edin Dir;
Constable; Sher. Edinburgh Booksellers
- RELIGIOUS TRACT & BIBLE WAREHOUSE bookseller
Glasgow
10 Wilson Street 1818-20
Glas Dir
- RELIGIOUS TRACT DEPOSITORY Edinburgh
13 Queen Street 1835
Edin Dir
- RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY Edinburgh
6 East Register Street 1824-32
Edinburgh Bible Society Repository 13 Queen Street 1833-44
Edinburgh Religious Tract Society 6 York Place 1845-53
13 South St Andrew Street 1854-85
99 George Street 1886-20th Century
New Dir 1824 has 16 East Register Street.
Edin Dir
- RENFREWSHIRE ADVERTISER OFFICE newspaper office
Greenock
2 Cathcart Street 1845
Continues The Paisley Advertiser 3 August 1844. Absorbed
by The Glasgow Constitutional in 1850.
Newsplan Scotland; Greenock 1845
- RENFREWSHIRE REFORMER newspaper office Glasgow
56 Trongate and 28 Nelson Street 1835
Glas Dir
- RENNIE, George printer Aberdeen
61 Broad Street 1845-76
Beavan
- RENTON, Henry newspaper office Edinburgh
Of The Edinburgh Star 10 Hunter Square - house 15
Buccleugh Place 1824-26
Edin Dir
- RENWICK, John stationer Jedburgh
High Street 1837
Canongate 1852
Pigot 1837; Slater 1852
- RENWICK, William bookseller, stationer, druggist and
postmaster Jedburgh
High-street 1820
bookseller and printer same address 1825
'Doubtful; Requires renewals too often but has a good business and
is too well liked' Oliver and Boyd Travellers Logbook NLS
Acc.5000/78
Pigot 1820; 1825; Bell
- REOCH [ROACH] and RAMSAY bookbinders Edinburgh
Reoch and Ramsay 36 Rose Street 1830
Roach and Ramsay same address 1831-32
Peter Roach bookbinder 208 Canongate 1833-48
James Roach bookbinder same address 1849-65
Edin Dir
- REOCH, George H. stationer Leith
14 Tolbooth Wynd 1847
Edin Dir
- RETTIE, John bookseller and stationer Aberdeen
8 Union Street 1829
14 Union Street 1831
Succeeded Alexander Angus & Son.The National Library of
Scotland has Catalogue of books belonging to the bankrupt
estate of Mr John Rettie, bookseller, Aberdeen. To be sold by
auction for the behoof of his creditors by John Carfrae & Sons,
Edinburgh 28 November 1831.
Beavan
- RETTIE, William printer Aberdeen
John Burnett and William Rettie printers Nether Kirk Gate
1795-99
William Rettie The Close, opposite the Post Office, Netherkirkgate
1799-1800
9 Long Acre 1800-01
Aberdeen 1802
Partnership between John Burnett and William Rettie ended in March
1800. Aberdeen Journal 31 March 1800.
William R. MacDonald. 'Circulating libraries in the North-East of
Scotland in the eighteenth century'. The Bibliotheck v
121, 129-130. NLS Impr Ind; Beavan
- REYNOLDS, Andrew printer Edinburgh
10 South St James Street 1825-31
Edin Dir
