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MILLAR, ANDREW (1707-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILLAR, See also:ANDREW (1707-1768) , See also:British publisher, was See also:born in 1707. About 1729 he started business as a bookseller and publisher in the Strand, See also:London. His own See also:judgment in See also:literary matters was small, but he collected an excellent See also:staff of literary advisers, and did not hesitate to pay what at the See also:time were considered large prices for See also:good material. " I respect Millar, See also:sir," said Dr See also:Johnson in 1755, " he has raised the See also:price of literature." He paid See also:Thomson £105 for The Seasons, and See also:Fielding a See also:total sum of £700 for Tom See also:Jones and £See also:i000 for Amelia. He was one of the See also:syndicate of booksellers who financed Johnson's See also:Dictionary, and on him the See also:work of seeing that See also:book through the See also:press mainly See also:fell. He also published the histories of See also:Robertson and See also:Hume. He died at his See also:villa at See also:Kew See also:Green, near London, on the 8th of See also:June 1768.

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