EBS Publications

Journal article submission guidelines The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, published annually, is dedicated to the promotion of studies in Scottish book history and bibliography. It welcomes submissions of articles for refereed publication consideration throughout the year. Essays submitted can cover any period of book history or bibliographic interest, with the proviso that they include a Scottish focus. They should be no more than 8,000 words and should not have been published previously. Examples of articles from past journal issues are available for downloading in pdf format here: * Printing for the British Publishing Industry * The Story of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society * George P. Johnston Submissions should conform to the MHRA style guide and be submitted electronically to Dr. Joseph Marshall via email Alternatively, hard copy accompanied by a CD with electronic version of the file can be sent c/o: Dr. Joseph Marshall, Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9LJ
Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society - No 5 2010 Cover Illustration Contents:
Introduction - p10
Alexander Cunningham, Book Dealer: Scholarship, Patronage, and Politics by John W. Cairns - p11
'Every One is Sure to Get Something for his Money': a 1712 Book Lottery and Auction in Edinburgh, by Murray C. T. Simpson - p36
Alexander MacDonald’s Ais-Eiridh, 1751 45 by Ronald Black - p45
New Materials Discovered at Abbotsford By Michael Buck & Peter Garside - p65
Notes:
From Thistle to Kowhai: Books with Scottish Provenance from a New Zealand Collection by Anthony Tedeschi - p84
John Bell’s Travels in the 21 st Century by David McVey - p92
Constructing the Collected Poems of Marion Bernstein by Edward H. Cohen and Linda Fleming - p99
From the archives:
Type-Design and Type-Founding in Scotland By A. F. Johnson - p106
Book Reviews:
DAVID PEARSON Books as History: the Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts (Murray C. T. Simpson) - p113 GILES MANDELBROTE AND BARRY TAYLOR, eds. Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library’s Printed Collections (Joseph Marshall) - p115 DANIEL DE SIMONE A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books ; PETER PARSHALL AND RAINER SCHOCH Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and their Public ; PETER PARSHALL ed., The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe (Martin Moonie) - p117 ELIZABETH A. SUDDOTH The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: an illustrated catalogue (Joseph Marshall) - p122 SIR WALTER SCOTT The Talisman; SIR WALTER SCOTT Woodstock (Alan Grant) - p123 EDWARD J. COWAN AND MIKE PATERSON e ds. Folk in Print: Scotland’s Chapbook Heritage 1750-1850 (Heather Holmes) - p128 MICHAEL F. SUAREZ AND H.R. WOUDHUYSEN eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book (Helen Vincent) - p131 ROBIN MYERS, MICHAEL HARRIS AND GILES MANDELBROTE, eds. Books for Sale: The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century (Heather Holmes) - p136 BRONWEN WILSON The World in Venice: Print, the City and Early Modern Identity (David Laven) - p138 FRANZ J. POTTER The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade (Anthony Mandal) - p140 TERENCE ALLAN HOAGWOOD AND KATHRYN LEDBETTER ‘Colour’d Shadows’: Contexts in Publishing, Printing and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (Stephen Colclough) - p143 VALERIE GRAY Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer ( Sarah Wadsworth) - p144
Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society - No 4 2009 Contents:
Introduction
Housing books in Scotland before 1800 - By Murray C. T. Simpson
Book Transmission in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century North East Scotland: the Evidence of William Guild’s Books By Christine Gascoigne *To accompany Christine Gascoigne’s piece in this issue of the Journal regarding the book collection of the Aberdonian benefactor William Guild (1586-1657) we are pleased to feature the following data files as extra downloads unique to this website: a) catalogue of books from the library of William Guild b) list of former owners of books from the library of William Guild b) main article
A.P. Watt and the marketing of ‘Ian Maclaren’ By Andrew Nash
Notes
Johannes Soter and the Vita Caroli Magni (Cologne, 1521): Ethiopia comes to Scotland - By Alasdair A. MacDonald
Sir Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick, 1811 - By B.J.McMullin
From the Archives: The Human Factor in Bibliography - By Arthur W. Pollard
Book Reviews
BETH QUITSLUND The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603 (Jamie Reid Baxter) RALPH HANNA. ed. The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane (David J Parkinson) T.H. HOWARD-HILL The British Book Trade, 1475–1890: A Bibliography (Richard B. Sher) BILL BELL, ed. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland Volume 3: Ambition and Industry 1800-1880 (Joseph Marshall) DAVID FINKELSTEIN AND ALISTAIR MCCLEERY, eds The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880-2000 (Murray C.T. Simpson) STEPHEN BROWN, ed. Consuming Books; The Marketing and Consumption of Literature (Iain Stevenson) ALISTAIR MCCLEERY, DAVID FINKELSTEIN AND JENNIE RENTON, eds An Honest Trade: Booksellers and Bookselling in Scotland (Heather Holmes) IAN MACDOUGALL, ed. Through the Mill: Personal Recollections by Veteran Men and Women Penicuik Paper Mill Workers (Heather Holmes)
Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society - No 3 2008 (Thirty two illustrations) Cover Illustration Contents:
Introduction
Publishing Abbotsford: Walter Scott’s Literary Legacy and the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels By Ruth McAdams
The Publication History of Ranjitsinhji’s The Jubilee Book of Cricket By David Finkelstein
Blasphemy and Bibliography in Kenilworth By Brian McMullin
Samuel Smiles and Self-Help, a Nineteenth-Century Bestseller By David McClay
Liminary Verse: The Paratextual Poetry of Renaissance Scotland By Jamie Reid Baxter
The Content of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues By Priscilla Bawcutt
Archibald Constable’s Private Library and the Sequestration of 1826 By Ross Alloway and Peter Garside
From the Archives: Three Authors on Early Scottish Printing
Book Reviews
JAMES RAVEN, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade (Roger Gaskell)
SIMON ELIOT and JONATHAN ROSE, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book ( Ross Alloway)
EAMON DUFFY, Marking the Hours: English People & their Prayers 1240-1570 (Martin Moonie)
THOMAS F. BONNELL, The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810 (William Zachs)
ROBIN MYERS, MICHAEL HARRIS and GILES MANDELBROTE, eds, Fairs, Markets and the Itinerant Book Trade (Heather Holmes)

Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society - No 2 2007 (Fourteen b&w and two colour illustrations) Cover Illustration Contents:
Introduction
New information on the publication of the early editions of Waverley By Peter Garside and Iain Gordon Brown
An Oasis in a Desert: The Transatlantic Publishing Success of Katherine Cecil Thurston By Caroline Copeland
‘Critics as a Race are Donkeys’: Margaret Oliphant, Critic or Common Reader? By Katie Halsey
‘An Infant Son to Truth Engage’: Virtue, Responsibility and Self-Improvement in the Reading of Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock, 1747-1815.' By Mark Towsey. (This article won The David Berry Prize for 2007. Funded by the David Berry Trust and the Royal Historical Society, it is awarded annually to a scholar for the best published scholarly journal article or essay on a subect dealing with Scottish History. To read the full text of the awarding panel's commendation, see the Royal Historical Society press here.)
Sir John Pringle (1707-1782) and his Annotations By Iain Milne
A Bibliography of Scottish Agricultural Books to 1790 By Heather Holmes
From the Archives:The Pleasure and Power of Bibliography By John Ferguson
Book Reviews:
JOHN HIGGITT (ed), Scottish Libraries, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, Vol. 12 (Joe Marshall).
CAROLE GERSON and JACQUES MICHON (eds), History of the Book i n Canada, Vol. III: 1918-1980 (Andrew Nash).
JOHN HINKS and CATHERINE ARMSTRONG (eds), Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade (David Finkelstein).
ALISTAIR McCLEERY, DAVID FINKELSTEIN and SARAH BROMAGE (eds), Papermaking on the Water of Leith (Heather Holmes).
RICHARD B. SHER, The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland and America (Martin Moonie).

Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society - No 1 2006 (Six b&w and two colour illustrations) Cover Illustration Contents:
Introduction
J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter: Publishing, But Not as We Know It By Diana Patterson
Printing for the British Publishing Industry: The Rise and Fall of Aberdeen University Press By Iain Beavan
The Dieterichs Collection in the National Library of Scotland and the Advocates Library By Christoph Meixner and Graham Hogg
Wrapping the News: The Historical Register and the Use of Blue Paper Cover Wrappers on Eighteenth-Century Scottish Magazines By Stephen W. Brown
Jacobite Books in Toulouse By Edward Corp
The Workes of King James VI & I and its Revolutionary Readers, 1617–1689 By Joseph Marshall
From the archives:
The Story of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society By George P. Johnston
George P. Johnston By William Beattie

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Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions made up the second series of our regular publications and appeared in parts over six volumes 1938-2005. The following (except those marked **) are still in stock. Free to members (postal charge of £5.00 for up to 3 publications per UK mailing). Please send your request with payment to the Treasurer. These are only available while stocks last.*
Volume VI, part 7 (2005)	M. C. SEYMOUR. Some Lydgate Manuscripts: The Troy Book. DAVID SCHENCK. Directory of the Lithographic Printers of Scotland 1820-1870: Additions, Corrections and Revisions. JOHANN GERRITSEN. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1597): An Alternative View. A. A. MacDONALD. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis Once More

Volume VI, part 6 (2004)	I. C. CUNNINGHAM. Sir James Balfour’s Manuscript Collection: The 1698 Catalogue and other sources.

Volume VI, part 5 (2002)	M. C. SEYMOUR. Some Lydgate manuscripts: The Siege of Thebes. DANIEL WILLIMAN and KAREN CORSANO. Medieval Latin manuscripts in Scotland: some provenances

Volume VI, part 4 (1998)	A. A. MACDONALD. The gude and godlie ballatis (1597): a ghost no more? ROBERT DONALDSON. Fragments of the Aberdeen Breviary: further consideration. W. R. OWENS and P. N. FURBANK. New light on John Pierce, Defoe's agent in Scotland. ROBERT DONALDSON. James Hamilton Louden 1910-1996. ROBERT DONALDSON. Alexander Law 1904-1995.

Volume VI, part 3 (1995)	ROBERT DONALDSON. Fragments of the Aberdeen Breviary. JOHN MORRIS. A Bible bound at Restalrig in 1709. BRIAN HILLYARD. Acquisitions of incunables by the Advocates' Library before 1808.

Volume VI, part 2 (1993)	BERTHOLD WOLPE. Caledonian miscellany. J. D. FLEEMAN. Dr Johnson and Revd William Dodd. TRISTRAM CLARKE. Politics and prayer books: The Book of Common Prayer in Scotland c. 1705-1714.

Volume VI, part 1 (1990)	I. C. CUNNINGHAM. President's foreword. MURRAY C. T. SIMPSON. Some aspects of book purchasing in Restoration Scotland: two letters from James Fall to the Earl of Tweeddale, May 1678. F. J. M. BLOM. The publications of Charles Leslie. ROBERT DONALDSON. Ian Grant 1914-1990.

Volume V, part 5 (1988) ***	WARREN MCDOUGALL. Copyright litigation in the Court of Session, 1738-1749, and the rise of the Scottish book trade. IAN C. CUNNINGHAM. Two poems on the Virgin (National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 18.5.14). D. WYN EVANS. James Watson of Edinburgh: additions to the Bibliography. A. D. C. SIMPSON. James Watson of Edinburgh and Sir Robert Sibbald. JAMES R. SEATON. William Beattie, 1903-1986.

Volume V, part 4 (1985)	ELIZABETH ANNE FRAME. The Copyright Collection of Music in the University Library, St Andrews: a brief account. M. C. SEYMOUR. Some Lydgate manuscripts: Lives of SS. Edmund and Fremund and Danse Macabre. BRIAN HILLYARD. Some seventeenth-century Scottish editions of Virgil. PETER B. FRESHWATER. The elusive Andrew Brown. A new edition of the works of David Hume.

Volume V, part 3 (1983)	RONALD P. DOIG. Further notes on Gough's British Topography. JEROME MITCHELL. Hoccleve's Minor poems: addenda and corrigenda. IAN C. CUNNINGHAM. Beverland's catalogue of manuscripts in England. JOHN DURKAN. Medieval Scottish pressmarks. ROBERT DONALDSON. An early printed fragment of the 'Buke of the Howlat' - addendum.

Volume V, part 2 (1982)	D. WYN EVANS. James Watson of Edinburgh: a bibliography of works from his press 1696-1722.

Volume V, part 1 (1978).	JOHN DURKAN. Henry Scrimgeour, Renaissance bookman. A. S. G. EDWARDS. Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes: a further manuscript.

Volume IV, part 7 (1974)	M. C. SEYMOUR. The manuscripts of Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.

Volume IV, part 6 (1973)	PRISCILLA J. BAWCUTT. Gavin Douglas and the text of Virgil. ROBERT HAY CARNIE. The Pitsligo Press of George Hay Forbes: some additions and corrections IAN C. CUNNINGHAM. Bruce and Wallace (National Library of Scotland Advocates'Manuscript 19.2.2)

Volume IV, part 5 (Session 1965/66)***	M. C. SEYMOUR. The English manuscripts of Mandeville's Travels

Volume IV, part 4 (1996)	WILLIAM JAMES ANDERSON. The 'Compassio Beate Maria' in manuscript and print. IAN C. CUNNINGHAM. Alexander Cuningham on the text of Tacitus. G. THOMAS TANSELLE. The Columbian Lyre, 1828.

Volume IV, part 3 (1963)	ALEXANDER LAW. William Perry, his Academy and printing press in Edinburgh, and his publications. RONALD P. DOIG. A bibliographical study of Gough's British topography.

Volume IV, part 2***	MARIO M. ROSSI. Herbert of Cherbury's Religio aici: a bibliographical note. J. B. PRIMROSE. The Pitsligo Press of George Hay Forbes

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Occasional Publications The Society publishes a series of Occasional Publications, now in association with Oak Knoll Books, 310 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720, USA. THE FOLLOWING TITLES ARE ALSO FREE TO MEMBERS, WHILE STOCKS LAST:
Directory of the lithographic printers of Scotland, 1820-1870: their locations, periods, and a guide to artistic lithographic printers, by David H. J. Schenck. Royal octavo. 124 pp. Illustrated. Paper cover. ISBN 1 872116 29 9. 1999. £20.00
David Steuart Esquire: an Edinburgh book collector; the 1801 sale catalogue of his library, reproduced from the unique copy in New York Public Library, with an introductory essay, by Brian Hillyard. Royal octavo. 88 pp. Illustrated. Paper cover. ISBN 1 872116 03 5. 1993. £16.00
The best and finest lawers and other raire bookes: a facsimile of the earliest list of books in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, with an introduction and modern catalogue by Maureen Townley. Royal octavo. 163 pp. Illustrated. Paper cover. ISBN 1 872116 05 1. 1990. £16.00
Clement Litill and his Library: the origins of Edinburgh University Library, by Charles P. Finlayson. 1980. £8.50. Published in association with the Friends of Edinburgh University Library, and still available from Edinburgh University Library. This was issued in lieu of Transactions for Sessions 1974/75 & 1975/76.

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