Carss & Co

The Scottish Book Trade Index gives 1849 as the latest date for the firm but the name continues to appear in the Glasgow Post Office Directory right through to 1877 and the firm was clearly being used by Euing through to his death in the early 1870s. Dibdin, in his fabulous Bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in the northern counties of England and in Scotland (Euing’s copy was fittingly bound by Carss!) met Mr Carrs [sic] “the favourite book-binder among the cognoscenti at Glasgow” in the late 1830s.