A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Anderson (George)

by Henry Robert Plomer

ANDERSON (GEORGE), printer at Edinburgh, "in King James his college, 1637–38; at Glasgow in Hutshisons Hospitall in the Trongate," 1638–47. Commenced printing in Edinburgh in 1637, having acquired a considerable part of the printing materials of Robert Young, q.v. In 1638 Anderson removed to Glasgow, taking a press with him. He worked chiefly for the General Assembly, but in 1644 he printed the Rev. John Row's Hebrew Grammar and Vocabulary, probably one of the earliest books in that language, printed in Scotland. George Anderson is believed to have died in 1648. He left a son, Andrew Anderson, who ultimately succeeded to the business. [H. G. Aldis, List of books printed in Scotland before 1700.]