Apprenticed to Charles Randall. When Mrs Randall gave up business in 1820, John Shearer bought the plates of “The History of Stirling” and published a third edition in 1825, and a further "third edition" in 1836, which he further reprinted without changing the date.
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actData1820-1869
bookbinder
bookseller (1820)
agent for the County Fire Office (1852)
electronicResourceshttp://www.nls.uk/ Scottish Book Trade Index online (list)
place
Stirling; Bakers-wynd, second shop above Bank Street (1820)