Booksellers and bookselling
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Account and letter books of W Green and Son Ltd, and of their predecessors, Bell and Bradfute, law publishers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.193
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12384/1-285
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1741-1753, 1788-1798, 1801, 1807, 1825-1826, 1836-2004, undated.
Copy of "Shaw's Diary for 1864" containing various accounts of William Green, bookseller, Edinburgh (who became macer to the Court of Justiciary in 1871).
Item
Identifier: MS.8918
Scope and Contents
The accounts consist chiefly of a list of books supplied to Dundee Free Library, July-December 1869 (folios 1-7), and accounts rendered (chiefly for law books), 1869-1871 (folios 1-45 inverted).
Dates:
1869-1871.
Correspondence and pamphlets relating to the setting up of the bookshops Lavender Menace, West and Wilde and Open Gaze, by Bobby Orr.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12766
Dates:
circa 1980-1989.
Further papers of John Grant, Booksellers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14405
Content Description
Includes cash books, minutes of meetings of the directors, correspondence regarding premises on George IV Bridge, printed sales catalogues, and notes regarding the Edinburgh booktrade.
Dates:
1843-1989.
Further records of the Edinburgh Booksellers' Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14473
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Annual Reports 1945-52, 1953-62.
Cash books 1884-1921, 1940-1966.
Correspondence 1967-1983.
Investment register, 1923-1958.
EBS Social Fund, 1922-1940.
Expedition to Grasmere, 1933.
Laws and regulations, 1792, 1959, 1975, 1984.
Dates:
1884-1989
Ledgers, receipts, contracts and other business papers and correspondence of Messrs John Grant Ltd, booksellers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5024 [ledgers] (1)-Box 6(4)
Dates:
1886-1960, undated.
Minute books of the Booksellers Association of Great Britain, Scottish branch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9780
Dates:
1898-1985.
Office correspondence and accounts of Bell and Bradfute, booksellers and publishers, Edinbrugh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.317
Dates:
1771-1854.
Papers concerning the business affairs and bankruptcy of George Johnstone, bookseller, Dumfries.
File
Identifier: Acc.10262
Dates:
1809-1821.
Papers of the firm of John Grant, Edinburgh bookseller and publisher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10406
Dates:
1841-1926.
Records of the Edinburgh Booksellers' Society Limited, including minute books, cash books, correspondence and printed administrative documents.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.303-is now Acc.14472
Dates:
1776-1958.
Records of the Edinburgh Booksellers' Society Limited, including minute books, cash books, correspondence and printed administrative documents.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14472
Dates:
1776-1958.
Six volumes of "scrapbooks" constituting the memoirs of David Douglas, bookseller, chronicling the years 1847-1903.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12309
Dates:
1903-1906.
Word processed manuscript, 'James Thin booksellers, 1826 to 2002', by Ainslie Thin.
File
Identifier: Acc.14140
Dates:
2019.