R & R Clark

R & R Clark was founded in 1846 and went on to play a prominent role in Edinburgh’s printing life, enjoying particularly close relationships with the authors Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw in particular. R & R Clark specialised in cheap editions of books. In the 1930s they produced the sixpenny Waverley Series, issuing all of Scott’s novels in bright paper covers. These were produced in issues of hundreds and thousands and sold at 6d each.

In 1946 Clarks underwent a change of ownership when in their year of centenary they were gifted to the University of Edinburgh. They then underwent a series of changeovers until the ill fated Clark-Constable merger which led to their close in 1979

More information on Clarks company history is available at The Scottish Printing Archival Trust.

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