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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/274
TitleWilliam Creech to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date23 December 1776
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryWilliam Creech [1745-1815] Bookseller in Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh University, and originally intended to enter medicine, but was apprenticed to bookseller Alexander Kincaid in 1764, becoming Kincaid partner when the latter's partnership with John Bell dissolved in 1771 - just after the firm had published the first edition of the first book of the Minstrel. His shop became a well-known meeting place, and he published the work of many of the Scottish literati. Beattie had a long and generally happy relationship with him from 1771, both personally and in business matters
DescriptionSir William Forbes's recovery. No man more universally beloved. Has today shipped 256 quartos on the Grocers. Ship friendship to sail on Thursday with the remainder. Thought it safer to divide them than to risk the whole in one bottom. Will with all his heart undertake an elegant octavo edition of Beattie's poems, with head and tail pieces.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionNote in Beattie's hand: book now printed and copies lodged at Dilly's in Poultry, to whom subscribers should send receipts
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