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Born 1740 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died June 24, 1795 (aged 55) • Edinburgh • Scotland

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Bell, Andrew
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Charles Maclaren
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James Tytler
James Tytler
Scottish editor
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Mortimer J. Adler
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Robert McHenry
American author and editor
Walter Yust.
Walter Yust
American editor
Hugh Chisholm.
Hugh Chisholm
British editor
Thomas Spencer Baynes
British scholar and editor
Archibald Constable, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist after a painting by Sir Henry Raeburn
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Scottish publisher
Thomas Stewart Traill
Scottish editor
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William Benton
United States senator and publisher
Horace Everett Hooper
Horace Everett Hooper
American publisher
Clifton Fadiman
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Warren E. Preece.
Warren E. Preece
American editor
Franklin Henry Hooper
American editor
John V. Dodge
American editor
Times New Roman
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