| Administrative History | William 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 |
| Description | He will send a little essay on dreaming to Mirror. Thought on 'The story of La Roche', Mirror, 19, 22 and 26 June 1779, nos 42-44. He is sorry Charles Dilly has printed 1500 copies of new essays, as 750 is already a large edition for such book. Creech must have seen octavo edition of poems, which differ in some ways from the one Creech printed. |