Edinburgh Guilds and Crafts: A Sketch of the History of Burgess-Ship, Guild Brotherhood, and Membership of Crafts in the City (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

James David Marwick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0428958389 ISBN 13: 9780428958381

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Edinburgh Guilds and Crafts: A Sketch of the History of Burgess-Ship, Guild Brotherhood, and Membership of Crafts in the City

When the foregoing was written, Sir James seems to have been under the impression that the printing of the book was stopped at the time of his removal to Glasgow, but in this respect his recollection was not quite exact. Continued at intervals and under obvious disadvantages, it was still going on in 1878, as is shown by a reference on p. 114 to the second volume of the Privy Council Register, which was published that year. It must have been after this that Chapter II. Was completed, and, with the exception of a couple of sheets, printed off. A first proof of the remainder of the book, chiefly made up of extracts. From the Town Council Registers down to the year 1872, had been obtained and was waiting revisal for the press and the writing of a connecting narrative; but at this stage the printers, seeing no early prospect of the release of their type in the ordinary way, took it down, thus removing at least one incentive to speedy publication.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0428958389
• ISBN 13: 9780428958381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278