---
_id: cni00057920
data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1687
      lang: eng
      start: 1670
      text: 1670-1687
  actNote:
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      text: 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:
    - Lee. Appendix xxiv
    - EBS.vi.8
    - '“Ravillac Redivivus”. London, 1678, p.63. “EdinPren'
    - EdinBurg
    - EdinMarr
    - Aldis 1904
    - GreyBuri
    - EdinTest
    - A.S. Hargreaves 'Some Later Seventeenth-Century Book-Trade Activities'. “Quadrat” 6 3-5 (1997)
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: "Son to Mr John Shaw, Minister of Selkirk, apprenticed with David Trinsh bookseller 5 September 1660. Burgess as apprentice to David Trinsh stationer 20 November 1667; he married Elisabeth Cunninghame 15 November 1672; Guild Brother by right of wife Elspeth daughter to William Cunninghame merchant 11 February 1674. He served on the jury at Major Weir's trial in April 1670, and was one of the six booksellers who appealed successfully against A. Anderson's monopoly in 1671. A child buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 1 March 1676. Sold Lockyer's antimonial “Pilulae Radiis Solis Extractae” in 1676. He married Marion Marshell 1 February 1683, and they had a son William. A 'halflin' was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 10 February 1687. Gideon Shaw was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 9 March 1687, and his will was registered 24 March 1688, the inventory was published in Bann.Misc.ii,292. Apprentices: Walter Cunningham 27 November 1667, Burgess 19 March 1679; John Harper 11 February 1673; Patrick Rutherford 16 February 1676; Andrew Chalmers 20 June 1683, Burgess 22 February 1689."
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Shaw
        - firstname: Gideon
        - addition: stationer
        - addition: Edinburgh
      usedBy:
        - NLS-SBTI
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: SCHAW
        - firstname: Gideon
      typeOfName: varn
  place:
    - end: 1687
      id: cnl00026636
      part:
        - name: Edinburgh
        - address: In the Parliament Close at the sign of the Blue Bible
      start: 1670
      typeOfPlace: actv
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z
  possibleMatch:
    - id: cni00058060
      similarity: 1
  remark:
    - 'SBTI original entry: SHAW, Gideon <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