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Born July 10, 1802 • Peebles • Scotland
Died March 17, 1871 (aged 68) • Scotland • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Founder “Chambers’s Encyclopaedia”
Frank E. Compton
American publisher
Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
George Smith
British publisher
Robert Foulis
Scottish printer
Bennet, James Gordon
James Gordon Bennett
American editor [1795-1872]
William Blackwood, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Allan; in a private collection
William Blackwood
Scottish publisher
Archibald Constable, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist after a painting by Sir Henry Raeburn
Archibald Constable
Scottish publisher
Bell, Andrew
Andrew Bell
Scottish publisher
Bartholomew, John George
John George Bartholomew
Scottish cartographer and publisher
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
John Cowles
American publisher
Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
François Didot
French printer and bookseller
Pierre Didot
French printer and typesetter
Nathaniel Currier
American lithographer
Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Robert Ballard
French printer
Hyacinthe-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher