Book industries and trade
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Archives of the Edinburgh Typographical Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4068
Dates:
circa 1840-circa 1945.
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.229
Dates:
1900-1965.
Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents
Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.
Ledgers of Pillans and Wilson, printers, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.10614
Dates:
1878-circa 1928.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.196
Dates:
1641-20th century.
Records of the Edinburgh branch of the National Union of Printers, Bookbinders, Machine Rules and Paper Workers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4395/1-35
Dates:
1822-1956.
Records of the Society of Master Printers of Scotland and its predecessor and associated bodies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8291/1-78
Scope and Contents
Other bodies include: the Edinburgh branch of the Master Printers Association, the Scottish Newspaper Proprietors` Association, and the Edinburgh branch of the Young Master Printers Association.The Edinburgh Printing and Kindred Trades Employers’ Association was formed in April 1917 by the amalgamation of The Edinburgh Master Printers Association, The Edinburgh and Leith Master Lithographers Association, The Edinburgh and District Jobbing Printers and the Association of Master...
Dates:
Circa 1920-circa 1970.
Sample of adhesive wafers produced by Smith, Elder, and Co.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13873
Dates:
Circa 1870.
Three ledgers and day-books of Gordon Wilson, jobbing printer, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.11827
Dates:
1906-1925.
Type specimen and sample books of Gordon Wilson, jobbing printer, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.12419
Dates:
circa 1900-1918.