biography
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Constable, Archibald
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1774–1827)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Carnbee, Fife, E Scotland, UK. He began as a bookseller in Edinburgh, then drifted into publishing, and was chosen as publisher of the Edinburgh Review (1802). He published for all the leading writers of the time, and his quick appreciation of Scott became the envy of the book trade. In 1812 he purchased the copyright of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; but in 1826 came the financial crash which ruined Constable and plunged Scott heavily into debt. |
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