John Robertson

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1661

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Publisher
  • Bookseller

John Robertson, printer and bookseller, Edinburgh.

ROBERTSON (JOHN) , printer and publisher in Edinburgh, c. 1760–90 (Bushnell p. 348).
     As Bushnell points out, he purchased the Ruddiman's printing-house and materials in 1772. The following imprint, in which he describes himself as their successor, as printer and bookseller, is interesting as supplementing this. See also under WILSON (JOHN).

Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Edinburgh: Printed and sold by J. Robertson, Successor to Tho. and Wal. Ruddiman. MDCCLXXIII (Mc-Intosh).

 

—Robert Hay Carnie and Ronald Paterson Doig,
"Scottish Printers and Booksellers 1668-1775: A Supplement,"
Studies in Bibliography 12 (1959), 131–159