Colin Macfarquhar

Colin Macfarquhar (1745? – 2 April 1793) was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is best known as being, with Andrew Bell, the founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica, first published in 1768.[1] Macfarquhar also contributed heavily to the second and third edition.[2] The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Prefactory Note". Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition. 1911.
  2. ↑ "Bell, Andrew". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004.
  3. ↑ "Encyclopædia Britannica - Colin Macfarquhar". Retrieved 2015-08-03.


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