John Robertson Jr.
Identifiers
- Grubstreet: 4207
Occupations
- Bookseller
- Publisher
John Robertson, Jr., bookseller at Shakespear's Head, in the Saltmercat, Glasgow.
ROBERTSON (JOHN), junior, bookseller and bookbinder in Glasgow (Bushnell p. 347).
Bushnell gives no definite reference to him as a bookseller, but he is described as such in Ruddiman's lists of debts for books bought between 1st January and 20th May 1736, and for school books bought between 1st January and 15th December 1739 (N.L.S. MS 762).
—Robert Hay Carnie and Ronald Paterson Doig, "Scottish Printers and Booksellers 1668-1775: A Supplement," Studies in Bibliography 12 (1959), 131–159