The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720
The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

Author: Alastair J. Mann

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2000-12-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1788854195

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This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was buffeted by the winds of economic and political circumstances. It is the public, not private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphsis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, governemt (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition.

Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead
Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead

Author: Michael F Graham

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0748685189

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This is the first modern book-length study of the case of Thomas Aikenhead, the sometime University of Edinburgh student who in 1697 earned the unfortunate distinction of being the last person executed for blasphemy in Britain.

The Surnames of Scotland
The Surnames of Scotland

Author: George F. Black

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2022-03-03

Total Pages: 2181

ISBN-13: 1788852966

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First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question (with many cross-references), making it an indispensable tool for those researching their own family history, as well as readers with a general interest in Scottish history. An informative introduction and glossary also provide much useful information.