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Name
  
Alexander Whitelaw


Role
  
Editor

Alexander Whitelaw (1803–1846) was a Scottish editor and writer.

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Life

Whitelaw was born in Glasgow, and became an assistant to Robert Watt in the compilation of Bibliotheca Britannica. He later was a journalist and poet. Hired by the publishers Blackie, he edited illustrated books; he also edited the Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon, which appeared from 1834 to 1842.

Edited works

  • The Casquet of Literary Gems (1828)
  • The Republic of Letters (1833)
  • Works of Robert Burns, 2 vols., 1843–4
  • The Book of Scottish Song (1844)
  • The Book of Scottish Ballads (1845)

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