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Colin Macfarquhar

Colin Macfarquhar (1744/5 – 2 April 1793)[1][2] was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding Encyclopædia Britannica with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768.[3][4] The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Macfarquhar, Colin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004.
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Prefatory Note" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. vi.
  4. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Encyclopaedia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 377.

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Colin Macfarquhar French コリン・マクファーカー Japanese Colin Macfarquhar Portuguese Макфаркар, Колин Russian Colin Macfarquhar SCO Colin Macfarquhar VI

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