'The dissemination of chapbook literature was taken up in 1848 by Peter Drummond, a Stirling seedsman (1799-1877). Grieved by what he regarded as Sabbath desecration in the custom of Stirling people visiting Cambuskenneth Abbey on the Lord's day, he wrote a leaflet. An edition of ten thousand copies of the tract, entitled 'The Sabbath' was exhausted within a month, and so ready and spontaneous was the welcome to this and later publications that Mr Drummond was persuaded to devote all his energies to the publication of pamphlets. From this humble beginning has grown the Stirling Tract Enterprise. the great bulk of his publications issued from the Stirling Observer Press.'
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Wirkungszeitraum1848-1980
Aktivitätpublisher
Internetquellehttp://www.nls.uk/ Scottish Book Trade Index online (list)