---
_id: cni00057081
data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1690
      lang: eng
      start: 1678
      text: 1678-1690
  actNote:
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      text: bookbinder and stationer
  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:
    - Aldis 1904
    - EdinBurg
    - EdinMarr
    - "Mirjam M. Foot. 'A binding by Alexander Ogstoun, c.1689' (English and Foreign Bookbindings 31). “The Book Collector” xxix, 255-7 (1980). H.M. Nixon “Broxbourne Library, styles and designs of bookbindings”. London, 1956 163-65. John Morris. 'Wheels and Herringbones: some Scottish bindings 1678-1773'. “Bookbinder” i,39-49 (1987);"
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: "On 13 February 1680, Ogstoun became a Burgess and Guild Brother 'being well commended by H.M. Advocate and many of the College of Justice, and likely also to be useful to the good toun' and on 16 April he married Martha Stevenson. In 1683 Alexander Ogstoun and George Mosman were employed in binding books for the newly formed library of the Faculty of Advocates. In the accounts for the 14th of February appears the entry 'By money peyed to Alexr Oigstoun bookbinder for binding ane parcell of the ffaculties books as per accompt order and receipt 0200.16.0 By money peyed to George Mosman bookbinder for ditto George Mosman 0219.02.00' Faculty Records 40 folio A3. The National Library still has three volumes of Gesner's Historia Animalium 1551-5, given to the Advocates Library by the two grateful bookbinders. They are inscribed 'Hunc Librum cum duobus fratribus Alexr Oigstoun, et Georgius Mosman ffacultatis juridicae Bibliopeg: peritissimi Bibliothecae faculatis predict' dono dederunt'. Unfortunately the volumes have been rebound. John Reid worked for him as a journeyman in 1686. In 1688 he was threatened for selling anti-popish books, and in the same year Mrs Anderson seized some octavo Bibles he had imported from London (Fountainhall ii,852,866). He died in 1690, was buried at the North side of Greyfriars Churchyard on 29 March, and was succeeded in the business by his widow. Two of his four children Alexander and James seem also to have been bookbinders. His name also appears in the imprints of seven books between 1685 and 1688."
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Ogstoun
        - firstname: Alexander
      usedBy:
        - NLS-SBTI
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: OGSTON
        - firstname: Alexander
      typeOfName: varn
  place:
    - end: 1684
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
      start: 1678
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1690
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: In the Parliament Close
      start: 1685
      typeOfPlace: actv
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z
  remark:
    - 'SBTI original entry: OGSTOUN, Alexander <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