Alexander_Arbuthnot_(printer)

Alexander Arbuthnot (printer)

Alexander Arbuthnot (printer)

Scottish printer

For others of the same name, see Alexander Arbuthnot (disambiguation).

Alexander Arbuthnot (died 1 September 1585) was an early printer in Edinburgh, Scotland, the fourth son of John Arbuthnot Sr in Portertown and of Legasland.

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Life

He printed the first edition of George Buchanan's first History of Scotland in 1582.[1] He married one Agnes Pennycuick and died intestate.[2]

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Chisholm 1911.
  2. [2]
    The Scots Peerage

References

  • Arbuthnot, Mrs P S-M (1920). Memories of the Arbuthnots. George Allen & Unwin.
  • Sir James Balfour Paul, ed. (1908). The Scots Peerage. founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's 'Peerage of Scotland'.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arbuthnot, Alexander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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