The Jamieson-Higgins Co. was closely tied-in with James McKinney & Co., the presumed printer of S.W. Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table. McKinney printed some (possibly many) of the books published by Jamieson-Higgins, and, as is mentioned on the Erdnase thread of the Genii forum, James McKinney may have been a major stockholder in Jamieson-Higgins (see The Bookseller, January 1903).
Of special interest is the now well-accepted fact (demonstrated by Dick Hatch, with additional support from Bill Mullins) that S.W. Jamieson filled out copyright paperwork in connection with The Expert at the Card Table. Just what the significance of that is, has not really been demonstrated (yet!).
Stillman B. Jamieson was also involved with Jamieson-Higgins, and according to the Erdnase thread (I think based on research by “mam”), he was S.W. Jamieson’s brother. I don’t know what S.W. looked like, but here is an image of Stillman, on a Library of Congress website, from the December 1, 1900, issue of The Chicago Eagle:
—Tom Sawyer
July 14, 2023
July 17, 2023 note: On the same page of The Chicago Eagle (linked-to above) is a rather interesting little article about Stillman.
The Armchair Bibliographer 