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ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE

Archibald Constable was a Scottish bookseller and publisher. He was born in 1774 and died in 1827. He was the original publisher of the Edinburgh Review, the poems of Sir Walter Scott, the Waverley Novels, the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and other valuable works. In 1825 he projected the well-known series of works, Constable's Miscellany. In 1826, however, the firm was compelled to stop payment with liabilities exceeding 250,000 pounds. Sir Walter Scott, who was heavily involved, practically sacrificed his life in the endeavour to meet his creditors, and Constable himself died in 1827.
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