Editing Colin Macfarquhar (section)

{{Short description|Scottish bookseller and printer}}
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'''Colin Macfarquhar''' (1744/5 – 2 April 1793)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{cite encyclopedia|year=2004|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|entry=Macfarquhar, Colin|title-link=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref> was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] bookseller and [[printer (publisher)|printer]] who is most known for co-founding ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' with [[Andrew Bell (engraver)|Andrew Bell]], first published in December 1768.<ref>{{Cite EB1911| wstitle=Prefatory Note |volume=1 |page=vi}}</ref><ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Encyclopaedia |volume=9 |page=377}}</ref> The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself.<ref name=":0" />