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being appointed as managing partner in 1843 and then acting as senior partner from 1869 to 1894. In this period the firm gained a reputation in the fields of education and medical textbook publishing and had a strong presence in the
British colonial markets. When Benjamin Disraeli visited the firm
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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. By 1836, the firm carried out printing there on a "massive scale". Prior to Oliver & Boyd, printing and publishing in
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The firm operated from the 1820s until the 1970s at the same address in
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