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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

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