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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.
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 ...
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Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 by Archibald Constable, and became Sir Walter Scott's publisher. In 1897, Constable released the most famous horror novel ever published, Bram Stoker's The Un-Dead, albeit with a last-minute title change to Dracula. In 1813, the company was the first to give an author advance against royalties.
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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 ...
views 2,797,180 updated. Constable, Archibald (1774–1827). Publisher. Son of the earl of Kellie's land steward and apprenticed to Peter Hill, an Edinburgh bookseller, Constable soon established himself independently. Drawing on London and Scottish contacts, he ventured into publishing with theological and political pamphlets, before becoming ...
Archibald Constable (1774 - 1827) RA Collection: People and Organisations Publisher, in Edinburgh. Profile. Born: 1774 Died: 1827
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.
