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Archibald Constable. A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New. Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer.
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., by Charles Hanna. 1900. Chapter IX. HARRISON COUNTY SETTLERS IN 1813. Following are the names of some of the early settlers and non-resident land-owners of Harrison county (outside of Cadiz village) up to and including the year 1813. This was the year in which Harrison county was erected, its territory before ...
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The business of the Constable firm was carried on by the publisher’s son Thomas, who also took over and expanded the Edinburgh printing business of his grandfather, David Willison (Archibald Constable’s father-in-law). In 1839 Thomas was appointed printer to Queen Victoria and in 1859 printer to Edinburgh University. By 1852 the company had ...
January 22, 1862. Benjamin Eggleston, and W.S. Groesbeck, Senate Chamber, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that they had been informed that the position of 2nd Lieutenant in the 11th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery was vacant; recommending the promotion of Sergeant William K. Perine to ...
1328292 Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 12 — Constable, Archibald 1887 Thomas Finlayson Henderson CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774–1827), Scottish publisher, son of Thomas Constable, land steward to the Earl of Kellie, was born at Carnbee, Fifeshire, 24 Feb. 1774.
Search for: 'Archibald Constable' in Oxford Reference ». (1774–1827),a Scots publisher who published most of Scott's early work. He established the Edinburgh Review in 1802, and bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1812. Yet in 1826 he went bankrupt, heavily involving Scott in his debts. In 1827 he established Constable's Miscellany, a ...
Archibald Constable was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer who began his career as an apprentice to an Edinburgh bookseller. Constable made a name for himself by buying the rights to publish the Scots Magazine, launching the Farmer's Magazine, and establishing the Edinburgh Review. Constable made a new departure in publishing by offering generous terms to authors. He paid the ...
