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A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE
A History of the Edinburgh Printing Industry




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Beattie, William, ‘An Outline Of Scottish Printing’ in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Library Associations, 1951.

Beattie, William, The Scottish Tradition In Printed Books, Edinburgh. 1949.

Berry, W.T. and Johnston, A.F., Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types by English and Scottish Printers and Founders, 1665—1830.

Bremner, D., The Industries of Scotland, Edinburgh 1869.

Bryden, David J., ‘A Short Catalogue of the Types Used By John Reid, Printer in Edinburgh’, 1761—1774, in The Bibliot heck, 1971.

Couper, W.J., ‘Andrew Symson; Preacher, Printer and Poet’, in Scottish Historical Review, October 1915.

Couper, W.J., James Watson: King’s Printer, Glasgow, 1910.

Couper, W.J., Mrs Anderson and the Royal Prerogative in Printing, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1918.

Couper, W.J., ‘The Pretender’s Printer’, Scottish Historical Review, 1915.

Couper, W.J., Robert Waldegrave: King’s Printer for Scotland, Glasgow, 1916.

Couper, W.J., The Edinburgh Periodical Press, Glasgow, 1878.

Couper, W.J., Scottish Rebel Printers, Edinburgh, 1912. Dickson, Robert and Edmond, John Philip, Annals of Scottish Printing, Cambridge, 1890.

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Dobson, William T., History of the Bassandyne Bible, Edinburgh. 1887.
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Fraser, William, ‘Remarks on the Constitution and Errors of Friendly Societies, with the Laws of the Edinburgh Compositors Society, Instituted upon the Principles recommended by the Highland Society of
Scotland’, in The New Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 1827—1828.

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Pillans and Wilson; A Printing House of Old and New Edinburgh, 1775—1925, Edinburgh 1925.

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