The publishers' now retired Managing Director, L. lngram-Brown, here writes of the background of the business, its less familiar products and its present state. In a period of publishing conglomerates, it is indeed welcome to read of a small publisher devoted to quality and traditional standards and quite clearly equally devoted to its independence.
The Company was established in a small way about 1850 as a retail stationery business, with initial premises on the south side of the River Clyde in Glasgow, next to the Railway terminus in Bridge Street. In those early days there was no railway bridge across the River Clyde to the Central Station, and the business was near the sailing ships which, at that time, navigated right up the Clyde into the heart of the City, so that it was little problem for the captains and crews of vessels to visit the book shop.
These visits led the firm into the publishing of works connected with shipping. In those early days there would appear to have been few publications on maritime affairs available, except perhaps Norie's Epitome of Navigation.
The Company was established in a small way about 1850 as a retail stationery business, with initial premises on the south side of the River Clyde in Glasgow, next to the Railway terminus in Bridge Street. In those early days there was no railway bridge across the River Clyde to the Central Station, and the business was near the sailing ships which, at that time, navigated right up the Clyde into the heart of the City, so that it was little problem for the captains and crews of vessels to visit the book shop.
These visits led the firm into the publishing of works connected with shipping. In those early days there would appear to have been few publications on maritime affairs available, except perhaps Norie's Epitome of Navigation.
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