Colin Macfarquhar

Colin Macfarquhar (1745? – 2 April 1793, Edinburgh, Scotland) was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding Encyclopædia Britannica with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768.[1][2] The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself.[3]

Macfarquhar was born in Edinburgh to a father who was a wigmaker. His formal education ended when he was apprenticed to a printing firm and achieved the status of a master printer in 1767 and married the daughter of a Glasgow accountant. Macfarquhar opened a printing shop in Edinburgh one or two years after getting married.[4] The first edition of Britannica was sold at his printing office in Nicolson Street.[5] Macfarquhar also contributed heavily to the second and third editions of Britannica.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Prefatory Note". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ "Encyclopaedia", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 9, retrieved 2018-07-28
  3. ↑ "Encyclopædia Britannica - Colin Macfarquhar". Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  4. ↑ Kafker, Frank A. (2008-10-01). "THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ANDREW BELL and COLIN MACFARQUHAR AS THE FIRST PUBLISHERS OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 18 (2): 139–152. doi:10.1111/j.1754-0208.1995.tb00185.x. ISSN 1754-0194.
  5. ↑ "Colin Macfarquhar | Scottish printer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  6. ↑ "Bell, Andrew". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004.


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