Background
He was the son of James Hogg, was born near Edinburgh on 26 March 1806, and educated under the Review Thomas Sheriff, who became minister of Fala, in the presbytery of Dalkeith, in 1828, and died in 1836.
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James Hogg
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On 24 August 1818 Hogg was bound apprentice to James Muirhead, printer, Edinburgh. He subsequently entered the book house attached to the Caledonian Mercury, where the printing of the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica had been commenced in 1827, and became reader on the Caledonian Mercury. In 1837, he commenced business on his own account as a printer and publisher in Edinburgh.
The first publication which bears his imprint is The Honest Waterman, a small tract brought out in 1837.
On 1 March 1845 appeared the first number of Hogg"s Weekly Instructor, an unsectarian periodical of promise. In 1849 the title was changed to the ‘Instructor;’ later on it was known as ‘Titan.’ The last number is dated December 1859, and the entire work is comprised in twenty-nine volumes.
He also published the principal works of George Gilfillan. To the Weekly Instructor De Quincey contributed his Autobiographic Sketches and other papers, and then agreed with Hogg to bring out his Collected Works.
The firm of James Hogg & Sons was dissolved in July 1867.
Achievements
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Besides other works, including the Churchman"s Family Magazine, the firm now published several series of successful juvenile books, and the periodical entitled London Society, which was projected by James Hogg, jun., in February 1862, and attained at one time a circulation of twenty-five thousand monthly.
