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Robert Chambers: Quick Facts

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Born July 10, 1802 • Peebles • Scotland
Died March 17, 1871 (aged 68) • Scotland
Founder “Chambers’s Encyclopaedia”
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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George Smith
British publisher
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Robert Foulis
Scottish printer
Bennet, James Gordon
James Gordon Bennett
American editor [1795-1872]
William Blackwood, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Allan; in a private collection
William Blackwood
Scottish publisher
Archibald Constable, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist after a painting by Sir Henry Raeburn
Archibald Constable
Scottish publisher
Bell, Andrew
Andrew Bell
Scottish publisher
Bartholomew, John George
John George Bartholomew
Scottish cartographer and publisher
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John Cowles
American publisher
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Nathaniel Currier
American lithographer
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Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
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Frank E. Compton
American publisher
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Joseph Medill McCormick
United States senator
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Henry Richard Vizetelly
British-Italian publisher
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François Didot
French printer and bookseller
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Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
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Hyacinthe-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
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Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
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Pierre Didot
French printer and typesetter