The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society is the oldest continuing society of its kind. Based on an idea by the printer and stationer George Waterston III, the Society first met on 16 January 1890 when Archibald Constable (grandson of Walter Scott’s publisher) was elected president. George Pyper Johnston, who served as Secretary from 1890 to 1932, describes the early years in ‘The Story of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society’, reprinted in our Journal, number 1, 2006.
