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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/58
Alt Ref NoMS 30 c.58
TitleCharles Dilly to James Beattie from London
Date21 May 1771
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryCharles Dilly [1739-1807] Bookseller in The Poultry, London, with his brother Edward [see Edward Dilly for more info]

Alexander Kincaid [1734-1777] Edinburgh printer and bookseller, partner of John Bell 1768-71

John Bell. Bookseller and publisher in Edinburgh, partner of Alexander kincaid from 1768 to 1771
DescriptionKincaid worthy, but past the time for an active part in the business. Bell has to manage printing and vending. Agreable to Beattie's direction has sent Minstrel to print a second edition on a fine paper. Dilly understands little if any profit can arise from the first edition of 500 printed at Edinburgh. Five hundred copies of Essay on Truth will be sold by June. Bell has shipped 200 more
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