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Scottish publishers and English literature, 1750-1900
In view of the value placed in Scotland on education, reading, and self-improvement and the enterprise and inventiveness with which the inhabitants of the far poorer northern kingdom responded to the opportunities opened up to them by the Union with England, it is not surprising that Scotsmen were heavily represented in the printing and publishing trades. An altogether disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world, whose names were to become household words, including Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder and Strahan, were founded by men, often enough of quite humble origin, from "north of the border.
Introduction: Scotland and the modern world -- Scottish publishers and English letters.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 109, pt. 2