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Creditor's Ledger Payments Book. Green leather covered with metal spine ledger detailing creditor payments between 1958 and 1977. The ledger lists date, company, job number and amount to be paid to the company by companies commissioning work from Holmes McDougall.

Accession Number: SH.2009.370.4

This ledger includes information of job commissioned by other Edinburgh printing and publishing firms.

The Holmes McDougall Group were based at Allander House, 137 - 141 Leith Walk. They were primarily educational publishers concerned with the publication of high quality primary and secondary educational books for use in schools both in the UK and abroad. The company slogan was 'The Teachers' Publisher'.

The company had a magazine division based in Glasgow which published weekly and monthly titles including the Scottish Farmer, Climber and Rambler, The Great Outdoors, Business Scotland and the Scottish Field.

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org
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