William Creech

Not to be confused with William Creech Sr.

William Creech by Sir Henry Raeburn 1806
William Creech (1745–1815) (attributed to William Beechey)
Detail from James Gordon of Rothiemay's map of Edinburgh 1647. Creech's Land was the eastmost shop immediately behind St Giles Cathedral, facing the Market Cross

William Creech FRSE (12 May 1745 – 14 January 1815[1]) was a Scottish publisher, printer, bookseller and politician. For 40 years Creech was the chief publisher in Edinburgh. He published the first Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' poems, and Sir John Sinclair's influential "Statistical Accounts of Scotland". In publishing Creech often went under the pseudonym of Theophrastus.[2]

  1. ^ ODNB; Annual Register, 1815. Joel Munsell (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & co. gives the death date as 1 January 1815.
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: William Creech