Alexander Whitelaw (editor)

Alexander Whitelaw (1803–1846)^[1][2] was a Scottish editor and writer.

Life

Whitelaw was born in Glasgow,^[1] and became an assistant to Robert Watt in the compilation of Bibliotheca Britannica.^[3] He later was a journalist and poet. Hired by the publishers Blackie, he edited illustrated books;^[1] he also edited the Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon, which appeared from 1834 to 1842.^[4]

Edited works

• The Casquet of Literary Gems (1828)^[5]
• The Republic of Letters (1833)^[6]
• Works of Robert Burns, 2 vols., 1843–4^[7]
• The Book of Scottish Song (1844)^[8]
• The Book of Scottish Ballads (1845)^[9]

Notes

1. "Scottish Notes and Queries". Internet Archive. 3rd series. November 1906. p. 76. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
2. Finlayson, James (1897). "An Account of the Life and Works of Dr. Robert Watt". London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 40. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
3. Samuel Austin Allibone (1871). A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors living and deceased. p. 2696.
4. Daniele Besomi (1 March 2013). Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias. Routledge. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-136-72290-5.
5. Alexander Whitelaw (1828). The Casquet of Literary Gems. Blackie, Fullarton & Company.
6. Alexander Whitelaw, ed. (1833). The Republic of Letters.
7.  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Burns, Robert (1759-1796)". Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
8. Alexander Whitelaw, ed. (1844). The Book of Scottish Song, Collected and Illustrated with Historical and Critical Notices.
9. Alexander Whitelaw (1845). The Book of Scottish Ballads; Collected and Illustrated with Historical and Critical Notices.