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Smellie, William

Record IDcnp01371430
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01371430
Gendermale
Biographical Data1750 - 1795
Place of BirthPleasance, Edinburgh
Place of DeathEdinburgh
Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Imprimeur, éditeur scientifique et naturaliste
1768 veröffentlichte er die erste Ausgabe der Encyclopaedia Britannica
1780 Gründer der Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Drucker, Naturforscher
Brit. Verleger

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Further Biographical Data1750?-1795
XX.XX.1740-24.06.1795
1740-1795
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)English
ActivityPersonen zu Buchwissenschaft, Buchhandel (2.2p) (sswd)
Antiquar (gnd)
Drucker (gnd)
Verleger (gnd)
Geographic NoteGB (iso3166)
Großbritannien
NationalityUnited Kingdom

Place of Activity

Place of BirthPleasance, Edinburgh
Geburtsort
Place of ActivityEdinburgh
Wirkungsort
Place of DeathEdinburgh
Sterbeort

Names

HeadingSmellie, William
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Smellie, William
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Variant NameSmellie, Gulielmus
Smellius, Gulielmus

Sources

Found inBBA. — DNB. — The philosophy of natural history / William Smellie, 2001 [reprod. de l'éd. de 1790]. — DNB. — BLNA, 2000-10. — BN Cat. gén.
depiction of ...
William Smellie, engraved by Henry Bryan Hall after George Watson (1840). From: John Wilson and Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns: A Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet (Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1840), facing vol. II, p. 4.William Smellie (1740-95) printed the Edinburgh editions of Robert Burns's works and was a close friend of the poet. Besides being a Master Printer, Smellie was a learned and versatile man of letters and knew many of the most prominent writers and philosophers of Enlightenment Edinburgh. He edited the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1771), published a Philosophy of Natural History (1790), and started the Edinburgh Magazine and Review (1773-76) with Gilbert Stuart.
[Henry Bryan Hall / http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/engravers/images/smellie.html -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William Smellie00.jpg]

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Porträt William Smellie (1740 - 1795)
[This image from the German Museum of Books and Writing collection "Portraits of printers, editors, book dealers and book binders" is freely available under CC0 1.0]
image of Smellie, William
Porträt William Smellie (1740 - 1795)
[This image from the German Museum of Books and Writing collection "Portraits of printers, editors, book dealers and book binders" is freely available under CC0 1.0]
image of Smellie, William
Porträt William Smellie (1740 - 1795)
[This image from the German Museum of Books and Writing collection "Portraits of printers, editors, book dealers and book binders" is freely available under CC0 1.0]

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