Mercat Press is an imprint of the

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-based

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company

Birlinn Limited Birlinn Limited is an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1992 by managing director Hugh Andrew. Imprints Birlinn Limited is composed of a number of imprints, including: *Birlinn, which publishes Sc ...

. It was established in 1970 as a subsidiary of the bookseller

James Thin James Thin was a Scottish bookseller, stationer and publishing company. It was, until 2002, the principal academic bookshop in Edinburgh, with its main premises opposite Old College, University of Edinburgh on South Bridge. It also had branch ...

, and published facsimile editions of out-of-print Scottish works, such as the five-volume ''The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland'' by

MacGibbon and Ross David MacGibbon (2 April 1831 – 20 February 1902) and Thomas Ross (10 November 1839 – 4 December 1930) were Scottish architects. Their practice, MacGibbon and Ross was established in 1872 and continued until 1914. They are best known today fo ...

. Mercat was bought out by its management after James Thin went into

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in 2002, becoming an independent publisher. In 2007 Mercat Press was taken over by

, another Edinburgh-based publishing house, who now publish outdoor books, such as walking, climbing and cycling guides, under the Mercat imprint.

Notable authors and works

Martin C. Strong Martin Charles Strong (born 1960 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish music historian known for compiling discographies of popular music including ''The Great Rock Discography''. Strong has been described in broadsheet newspaper profiles as a "compiler ...

* ''The Great Scots Discography'' (2002)

References

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Mercat, an imprint of Birlinn Limited
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