---
_id: cni00053487
data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1805
      lang: eng
      start: 1786
      text: 1786-1805
  actNote:
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      text: 'bookseller, bookbinder and stationer'
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      start: 1805
      text: bookbinder
  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
    - Chapbook Printers
    - EdinBurg
    - EdinMarr
    - Edin Dir
    - EdinPren
    - Sher. Edinburgh Booksellers
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: "Burgess in right of father Henry Elder weaver 2 November 1786; Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 31 March 1787. Guild Brother 13 April 1797; Married Elizabeth daughter of William Cleghorn bookbinder 22 September 1789. Agent for the Cheap Repository Tracts. Indicted for publishing “The declaration of the rights of man by the National Assembly” September 1792. Apprentice: Joseph Clark 29 November 1789. Menzies Bain and Robert Elder clerks or shopmen 1792, witnesses in his trial for sedition. Indictment NLS L.C.1133(5)"
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Elder
        - firstname: John
        - addition: 'bookseller, bookbinder and stationer'
        - addition: Edinburgh
      usedBy:
        - NLS-SBTI
  place:
    - end: 1788
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Middle of the Horsewynd
      start: 1786
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1801
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: 9 North Bridge
      start: 1792
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026636
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: house
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: 37 North Bridge
      start: 1793
      typeOfPlace: resd
    - end: 1802
      id: cnl00026636
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Binding Shop and house
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Parliament Square
      start: 1800
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1802
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: 41 North Bridge
      start: 1801
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1805
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Post-House Stairs Parliament Close & Foot New Bank Close
      start: 1803
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: 'Old Post Office Stairs, Parliament Close'
      start: 1804
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Parliament Square
      start: 1805
      typeOfPlace: actv
  related:
    - note:
        - lang: eng
          text: '19 & 20 Parliament Close, **Edinburgh'
      part:
        - entry: John Watson John Elder & Co
      start: 1791
      tmp: sbti:add record link
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
    - note:
        - lang: eng
          text: '7 North Bridge, **Edinburgh'
      part:
        - entry: John Elder
      start: 1791
      tmp: sbti:confirm related
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z
  remark:
    - 'SBTI original entry: ELDER, John <bookseller, bookbinder and stationer> 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