Keywords: William Smellie00.jpg en 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 http //www walterscott lib ed ac uk/portraits/engravers/images/smellie html Creator Henry Bryan Hall Sr Public domain William Smellie Henry Bryan Hall Sr PD-old-100 |