Macvey Napier was a Scottish solicitor, legal scholar, and an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was Professor of Conveyancing at the University of Edinburgh.
Macvey Napier
39 Castle Street (now known as North Castle Street), Edinburgh home to Macvey Napier
Macvey Napier by J P Slater
The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia.
The 15th edition of the Britannica; the initial volume with the green spine is the Propædia; the red-spined and black-spined volumes are the Micropædia and the Macropædia, respectively. The last three volumes are the 2002 Book of the Year (black spine) and the two-volume index (cyan spine).
Children's Britannica
Thomas Spencer Baynes, editor of the 9th edition. This portrait, painted in 1888, hangs in the Senate Room of the University of St Andrews.
The title page of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1771
