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  • 33 - Scotland

  • from BEYOND LONDON: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, RECEPTION
  • Edited by John Barnard, University of Leeds, D. F. McKenzie, University of Oxford
  • With Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 November 2002, pp 687-700

  • Summary

    Protestantism played its part in the growth of the market for Scots printed vernacular texts. In law Protestantism replaced Roman Catholicism, and the Scottish abbeys were gradually dissolved. At the end of the seventeenth century the most successful Scottish book trade dynasty was that founded by George Anderson, who seems to have started printing in Edinburgh in 1637. The emphasis of book historians on the development of printing has tended to obscure the fact that bookselling, rather than book production, was the motive force in the expansion of the trade in Scotland, where the small domestic press was unable to satisfy the demand for books. Scotland has been well served by studies of Renaissance libraries, though the concentration has been largely on collections in Edinburgh or with Edinburgh associations. The Advocates' Library, created in Edinburgh in 1682, marks the high point of seventeenth-century Scottish collecting.