---
_id: cni00051665
data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1779
      lang: eng
      start: 1777
      text: 1777-1779
  actNote:
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      text: 'typefounder, printer, publisher, and inkmaker'
  extResource:
    - display: http://www.nls.uk/
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Scottish Book Trade Index online (list)
      url: http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index
  external:
    - auth: NLS-SBTI
      country: UK
      date: 20080207
  foundIn:
    - NLS Impr Ind
    - Edin Dir
    - Ronald P. Doig 'A note on John Baine' in “The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions” iii 222 (1955)
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: 'A fount of English, weight, 381 lib. // Ditto, Small Pica, 220 // Ditto, Brevier 234 // Also a quantity of Printing Ink.'
    - lang: eng
      text: "As on the 17 April 1779, Bayne and Mennons had advertised that \"Printing ink. Of an excellent quality... may be had in any quantities, by applying at Bayne and Mennons' printing-office ...\", it looks as though this may have been Donald Bayne's stock. George Paton wrote to Richard Gough 27 May 1780 'now young Bain may be gone to pot, but the Father still works.' This account mentions a partnership with a son which chimes with a reference in William McCullough's notes on Isaiah Thomas's “History of printing in America”. 'The son of the old gentleman was a dashing fellow; and I cannot learn that he did anything at the business. He did not behave well and died prematurely."
    - lang: eng
      text: "N.B. The types are all new, and specimens of the different founts may be had by applying to John Campbell writer, Crichton Street, George's Square, Edinburgh. ..."
    - lang: eng
      text: "Son of John Bain, typefounder, and Helen Campbell Donald Bayne was chrisstened in Glasgow 20 November 1744. He married Susannah Ibbetson at St Martin's in the fields, London, 6 November 1767. He sems to have been in partnership with his father, and to have accompanied him back to Edinburgh from London. Afterwards he was partner with John Mennons in the firm of Bayne and Mennons; On 25 October 1779, The Edinburgh Evening Courant announced the bankruptcy of \"Donald Bayne, letter-founder and printer\". Finally on the 1 January 1780, an anonymous advertisement appeared in the Caledonian Mercury:- // PRINTING TYPES AND PRINTING INK // To be sold, the following quantities of printing types, viz."
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Bain
        - firstname: Donald
      usedBy:
        - NLS-SBTI
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: BAYNE
        - firstname: Donald
      typeOfName: varn
  place:
    - end: 1779
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Standwell Lodge
      start: 1777
      typeOfPlace: actv
  related:
    - end: 1779
      part:
        - entry: Bayne & Mennons
      start: 1777
      tmp: sbti:add record link
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z
  remark:
    - 'SBTI original entry: BAIN, Donald <typefounder, printer, publisher, and inkmaker> Edinburgh'
    - 'Warning: the SBTI information was converted from unstructured format by automation. The assignment of data elements is to be regarded with caution.'
  status: n