---
_id: cni00057663
data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1732
      lang: eng
      start: 1721
      text: 1721-1732
  actNote:
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      text: bookseller
  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:
    - EdinBurg
    - NLS Impr Ind
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: Mr James Robertson bookbinder admitted Burgess and Guild Brother of Edinburgh 31 August 1720. "Mr James Robertson Bookseller now Minr in Edr" (National Library of Scotland Ms 763) in "Debts for Books sold by Mr Thomas Ruddiman this 19 May 1736". He was not apparently a Minister of the Church of Scotland. Carnie & Doig I.
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Robertson
        - firstname: James
        - addition: bookseller
        - addition: Edinburgh
      usedBy:
        - NLS-SBTI
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: ROBINSON
        - firstname: James
      typeOfName: varn
  place:
    - id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
      start: 1721
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Opposite the Cross
      start: 1723
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: 'North side of the Street, over against the Cross'
      start: 1724
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: Over against the Cross-Well
      start: 1728
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1732
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
      start: 1730
      typeOfPlace: actv
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z
  possibleMatch:
    - id: cni00057668
      similarity: 1
    - id: cni00057669
      similarity: 1
  remark:
    - 'SBTI original entry: ROBERTSON, James <bookseller> 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