thesaurus/cni00057559 Reid, William, bookseller, Leith
Reid, William, bookseller, Leith
Record IDcni00057559
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cni00057559
Last Edit2014-03-14
General Note
Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 3 October 1796. Burgess and Guild Brother of Edinburgh in right of wife Jessie daughter of Charles Walker vintner 17 April 1804.'Foot of Queen Street' “Denovan's 1804”. He was joint residuary legatee of John Fairbairn, with Archibald Constable, 1810. He was Publisher of “Reid's Leith and London Smack direcctory”. He had a son William Charles Reid 1833-46. C.P. Reid 1847. Apprentice: Alexander Cannon printer Burgess and Guild Brother as apprentice to William Reid, printer and bookseller Leith 11 February 1841 apprenticed the same day as from 1 March 1822.
More Information
Dates of Activity1793-1886
Activitybookseller
printer and bookseller (1812)
printer and bookseller (1819 - 1821)
booksellers, stationers, printers and circulating library (1825 - 1840)
Online Resourcehttp://www.nls.uk/ Scottish Book Trade Index online (list)
Place of Activity
Place of ActivityLeith; Foot of Tolbooth wynd (1793 - 1795)