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.
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.