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The six-volume Supplement to the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions appeared in half-volumes from 1815 to 1824, edited by MacVey Napier (1776–1847), who later became editor of the Edinburgh Review and professor of conveyancing at the University of Edinburgh. Constable had known Napier from 1798 as one who “had been a hard student, and at college laid a good foundation for his future career, though more perhaps in general information than in what would be,...