R & R Clarks

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 Waverly 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 they 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