Oliver and Boyd

[2] By the 1830s, the firm was not only publishing but also printing and bookbinding under the same roof at Tweeddale Court, an innovative practice for Edinburgh in that period.

[6][7] In the years 1811–1841, Oliver and Boyd issued a number of catalogues for the firm's juvenile books "selling from a halfpenny upwards"[3] and also printed and published "abridged histories in fancy covers and songbooks".

[1] When Thomas Oliver retired and George Boyd died in 1843, the firm remained under family control with George's nephew Thomas Jamieson Boyd[8] being appointed as managing partner in 1843 and then acting as senior partner from 1869 to 1894.

[2] In this period the firm gained a reputation in the fields of education [9][10] and medical textbook publishing and had a strong presence in the British colonial markets.

[11] In 1896, Oliver and Boyd was taken over by three "well-established"[2] Edinburgh booksellers, George and James Thin and John Grant.