On 24 Aug 1818 Hogg was bound as an apprentice to James Muirhead, a printer in Edinburgh.
On 1 March 1845 appeared the first number of Hogg's Weekly Instructor, an unsectarian periodical of promise.
To the Weekly Instructor De Quincey contributed his Autobiographic Sketches and other papers, and then agreed with Hogg to bring out his Collected Works.
Besides other works, including the Churchman's Family Magazine, the firm now published several series of successful juvenile books, and the periodical entitled London Society: An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, which was edited by James Hogg, jun., in February 1862.
[1] Hogg married Helen Hutchison (1803–1890) of Hutchiestown Farm, near Dunblane, on 13 November 1832.