Printing companies have often printed brochures to mark important points in their history. Where possible the Trust is scanning such histories to make them more widely available. Others are listed in the bibliography of resources available through the menu on the right. Many of the items listed below were scanned with the help of students in the School of Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders: if you have any information about current copyright holders for any of these items, please email the secretary.
Aberdeen
- Aberdeen University Press: Iain Beavan’s article from the Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society; a list of the archival sources in Aberdeen University Library’s Special Collections; background to the relaunched AUP in 2014.
- Arthur King [PDF 9.4Mb]
Dundee
- Harley and Cox [PDF 4.3Mb]
- Valentine: information about the archive
Edinburgh
- Bartholomew family website, and company archive. You can also explore the Duncan Street premises in Edinburgh’s Newington district, occupied by the firm from 1911 to 1995
- feature on the National Museums Scotland website on W & R Chambers, the encyclopaedia the company published and the printing methods used
- R & R Clark Ltd: short history. There is also an account of the social life of the firm on YouTube
- T & A Constable [PDF 5.9Mb]
- W & A K Johnston: 100 years of map making [PDF 7.1Mb]
- McLagan & Cumming [PDF 3.1Mb]
- Morrison & Gibb Ltd: short history
- Waddies [PDF 15.9Mb]
Glasgow
- Blackie: archive
- MacLehose: virtual exhibition and archive collection
Other
- Allen Lithographic Company Limited, Kirkcaldy Our Progress in Print [PDF 18.9Mb]
- Robert Cunningham and Sons, Alva, 40th Anniversary [PDF 3.5Mb] and 50th Anniversary booklets [PDF 5Mb]
- Neidpath Press, Peebles
- Robert Smail’s Printing Works Archive, Innerleithen