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FOULIS, ANDREW (1712—1775)

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FOULIS, See also:ANDREW (1712—1775) and See also:ROBERT (1707—1776), Scottish printers and publishers, were the sons of a See also:Glasgow maltman. Robert was apprenticed to a See also:barber; but his ability attracted the See also:attention of Dr See also:Francis See also:Hutcheson, who strongly recommended him to establish a See also:printing See also:press. After spending 1738 and 1739 in See also:England and See also:France in See also:company with his See also:brother Andrew, who had been intended for the See also:church and had received a better See also:education, he started business in 1741 in Glasgow, and in 1743 was appointed printer to the university. In this same See also:year he brought out See also:Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione, in See also:Greek and Latin, the first Greek See also:book ever printed in Glasgow; and this was followed in 1774 by the famous 121110 edition of See also:Horace which was See also:long but erroneously believed to be immaculate: though the successive sheets were exposed in the university and a See also:reward offered for the See also:discovery of any inaccuracy, six errors at least, according to T. F. See also:Dibdin, escaped detection. Soon afterwards the See also:brothers entered into partner-See also:ship, and they continued for about See also:thirty years to issue carefully corrected and beautifully printed See also:editions of classical See also:works in Latin, Greek, See also:English, See also:French and See also:Italian. They printed more than five See also:hundred See also:separate publications, among them the small editions of See also:Cicero, See also:Tacitus, See also:Cornelius See also:Nepos, See also:Virgil, See also:Tibullus and See also:Propertius, See also:Lucretius and See also:Juvenal; a beautiful edition of the Greek Testament, in small 410; See also:Homer (4 vols. fol., 1756—1758); See also:Herodotus, Greek and Latin (g vols. 121110, 1761); See also:Xenophon, Greek and Latin (12 vols. 12mO, 1762—1767); See also:Gray's Poems; See also:Pope's Works; See also:Milton's Poems. The Homer, for which See also:Flax-See also:man's designs were executed, is perhaps the most famous See also:production of the Foulis press. The brothers spared no pains, and Robert went to France to procure See also:manuscripts of the See also:classics, and to engage a skilled engraver and a See also:copper-See also:plate printer.

Unfortunately it became their ambition to establish an institution for the encouragement of the See also:

fine arts; and though one of their See also:chief patrons, the See also:earl of See also:Northumberland, warned them to " See also:print for posterity and prosper," they spent their See also:money in See also:collecting pictures, pieces of See also:sculpture and See also:models, in paying for the education and travelling of youthful artists, and in copying the masterpieces of See also:foreign See also:art. Their countrymen were not ripe for such an See also:attempt, and the " See also:Academy " not only proved a failure but involved the projectors in ruin. Andrew died on the 18th of See also:September 1775, and his brother went to See also:London, hoping to realize a large sum by the See also:sale of his pictures. They were sold for much less than he anticipated, and Robert returned broken-hearted to See also:Scotland, where he died at See also:Edinburgh on the 2nd of See also:June 1776. Robert was the author of a See also:Catalogue of Paintings with See also:Critical Remarks. The business was afterwards carried on under the same name by Robert's son Andrew. See W. J. See also:Duncan, Notices and Documents illustrative of the See also:Literary See also:History of Glasgow, printed for the See also:Maitland See also:Club (1831), which inter alia contains a catalogue of the works printed at the Foulis press, and another of the pictures, statues and busts in See also:plaster of See also:Paris produced at the " Academy " in the university of Glasgow.

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