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Author: Gall, James

Biography:

GALL, James (1784-1874: Scottish Book Trade Index)

The son of James Gall and his wife, Mary (Jack), he was born at Edinburgh. He became a notable Edinburgh printer and publisher and his firm, under various names, existed from 1808 into the twentieth century. On a visit to Paris, he saw examples of books for the blind and was motivated to develop a system for printing educational books to be used by the Edinburgh Blind Asylum. In 1805 he married Ann Collie (d 1847); they lived in Trinity, Leith. The only edition of Doctrines in Rhyme that has been found is the fourteenth. (Scottish Book Trade Index; ancestry.co.uk 6 May 2020)

 

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