General Information

The Scottish Text Society is a major publisher of important texts from Scotland’s literary history. Since 1882 it has played a significant part in reviving interest in the literature and languages of Scotland. The Society’s editions are both scholarly and accessible.

To date, the Society has published over 150 volumes, covering poetry, drama, and prose, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The majority of its editions are in the high period of Older Scots literature, from 1500 to 1700. Recent publications in that period include Rhiannon Purdie (ed) Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances, Richard Holland’s The Buke of the Howlat edited by Ralph Hanna, and Archibald Pitcairne’s The Phanaticks, edited by John MacQueen. The Society’s first paperback, Jeremy Smith’s Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader, offers a guide to understanding and to reading all kinds of Older Scots texts.

Members wishing to buy items from the back list should contact the administrative secretary; non-members can order volume directly from Boydell and Brewer.

Membership

The Society has members all over the world. Subscription rates, in return for which members receive the Society’s annual volume or volumes published by the Society in its main series in that year and the right to buy back copies at a discount, are £30 for private individual members and £40 for institutional membership. Prospective members should contact the Membership Secretary via email or via the Society’s institutional postal address:

Scottish Text Society,
25 Buccleuch Place,
Edinburgh, EH8 9LN

The Society holds both editorial and publishers’ copyright in its publications. Applications for permission to reproduce material appearing in the Society’s publications should be made to the Editorial Secretary. A fee may be charged and appropriate acknowledgement of the Society’s copyright is required.

Proposals for editions should be sent to the Editorial Secretary at the address given in the Contacts page. Please use the Proposal Form for Editions, using the Guidelines for Editors. If you wish your proposal to be discussed at the Spring meeting of the Editorial Committee, your proposal should be in by 1 February. If you wish your proposal to be discussed at the Autumn meeting of the Editorial Committee, your proposal should be in by 1 August. The Society’s institutional address is 25 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LN; for email contact details see our Contacts page.

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