Oliver [Thomas] & Boyd [George]
Heading Oliver [Thomas] & Boyd [George] [NLS-SBTI]
Dates of Activity1799-
Activity Notepublishers, booksellers and printers
General NoteBurgess as apprentice to James Robertson printer, Horse Wynd, 20 March 1817. Archives of Oliver & Boyd in NLS. Thomas Oliver (1776-1853), apprentice compositor to James Robertson, printer, Horsewynd, was a witness at the trial of Walter Berry and James Robertson for publishing a seditious libel in 1792; In 1801 he took George Boyd (died 1843) into partnership. Their catalogues from 1811 to 1841 show them selling juvenile books at a halfpenny, penny, twopence, threepence, fourpence and sixpence and upwards to half-a-crown. They also printed and sold abridged histories in fancy covers and songbooks. The juvenile series up to twopence, at least, were numbered, and some of the twopenny ones have lists of the series on the back cover. Unfortunately nothing under sixpence was listed under title in the firms wholesale catalogues until 1827. From that date the twopenny series is listed. The threepeny series was discontinued in 1818, the fourpenny in 1835, and all cease after 1841. The archives of Oliver and Boyd are on deposit in the National Library of Scotland. Apprentices: Hugh Sinclair, printer, Burgess 28 August 1828; John Thomson, printer, of Elbe Street, Leith, apprenticed 12 October 1812, Burgess 15 September 1840.
1799-1800: Edinburgh: North Richmond Street.
1801: Edinburgh: Fountain Well, High Street. [business]
1801-1809: Edinburgh : Baron Grant's Close, Nether Bow, High Street.
1810-: Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court [Baron Grant's Close] 16 High Street. CERL Thesaurus
Thomas Oliver & Co
Variant Name [Thomas] Oliver & [George] Boyd
SourceNLS Impr Ind
Last Edit2024-08-15 10:50:08