outsetter
Scottish legal and trade usage from 'outset' (to set out/publish).
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Scottish legal and trade usage from 'outset' (to set out/publish). Before modern publishing houses, an outsetter was typically a printer-bookseller who both produced and distributed printed works. The term reflects the undivided printing-publishing trade of early modern Scotland.
The pamphlet was printed by an outsetter in Edinburgh's Lawnmarket and sold from his shop window by noon.
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(Scotland, obsolete) A publisher.
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