Hugh’s printing protégé becomes his publisher. The story of Alexander Strachan or Strahan, publisher of The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller

Abstract

• I am researching Hugh Miller’s unusual publishing arrangements, including the frequency with which his firm, Miller & Fairly, printed his books for their Edinburgh publishers before and after his death. The obvious exception is Peter Bayne’s family-approved The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller (1871), printed in London for Strahan & Co., the London publishing business of Alexander Strahan. So I did some digging in that book, and in Patricia Srebrnik’s 1986 biography Alexander Strahan: Victorian Publisher, and elsewhere.