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Andrew Bell: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1726 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died May 10, 1809 (aged 83) • Edinburgh • Scotland
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Bell, Andrew
Portrait of Andrew Bell by an unknown artist.
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William Smellie
William Smellie
Scottish publisher and scientist
Archibald Constable, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist after a painting by Sir Henry Raeburn
Archibald Constable
Scottish publisher
Benton, William
William Benton
United States senator and publisher
Horace Everett Hooper
Horace Everett Hooper
American publisher
Hugh Chisholm.
Hugh Chisholm
British editor
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Thomas Spencer Baynes
British scholar and editor
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
MacVey Napier.
MacVey Napier
Scottish lawyer and editor
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Charles Maclaren
Scottish journalist and editor
James Tytler
James Tytler
Scottish editor
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Colin Macfarquhar
Scottish printer
Mortimer Adler,1989
Mortimer J. Adler
American philosopher and educator
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Robert McHenry
American author and editor
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Clifton Fadiman
American editor
Walter Yust.
Walter Yust
American editor
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Franklin Henry Hooper
American editor
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John V. Dodge
American editor
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Thomas Stewart Traill
Scottish editor
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Frank E. Compton
American publisher
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Sir William Haley
British editor