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A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE
A History of the Glasgow Printing Industry
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Part Three - Expansion
With the improvement in communications and the consequent greater
ease of importing books from Edinburgh and London, the booksellers
began to dominate the scene to a larger and larger extent. No less
printing was done, but it was of a more anonymous nature, the names
of the booksellers! publishers being more prominent in imprints
and advertisements than those of the printers. The booksellers themselves
assumed a sort of anonymity — Duncan and Wilson, Brash and
Reid, Stewart and Meikle, Morrison and McCallum —no Christian
names, only the brisk businesslike surnames.
Newspapers flourished. The Glasgow Journal, founded in 1741, continued
on its way. The Glasgow Advertiser, later the Glasgow Herald, began
publication in 1783 and the Glasgow Courier in 1791. The Glasgow
Mercury lasted from 1778 to 1796, when it closed, not from lack
of success but because its printer and publisher, Robert Chapman
the younger, wished to concentrate on his printing business. This
he did, producing books of a very high standard, until his retiral
from the business in 1822. After the deaths of Robert and Andrew
Foulis, their press and their appointment as printers to the University
was carried on by Andrew Foulis the younger, the son of Robert Foulis.
He maintained the standards of the press until he moved to Edinburgh
in the mid 1790s leaving the University once again without a printer.
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Volume 2 published 1994
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