The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 sep 2008 - 842 pagina's The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. |
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... March 1777 Andrew Strahan by William Owen 364 377 5.8 . Thomas Cadell by Sir William Beechey 377 6.1 . Letter from William Strahan to William Creech , 16 July 1771 411 6.2 . " Verses to the Author of the Man X • Illustrations.
... Andrew Strahan , who were among the leading pub- lishers of the age although they were not booksellers . In contemporary usage , the term “ copy money ” ( often hyphenated ) re- ferred either to the purchase price of a copyright or ...
... Andrew Millar, William Strahan, Gavin Hamilton, John Bal- four, and Alexander Kincaid. The most important of these figures, Mil- lar, set himself up in the Strand during the late 1720s in the shop of his former master, James M'Euen, and ...
... Andrew Strahan and Thomas Cadell, Jr. (partnered with William Davies, as Cadell & Davies)—who continued to work together as publishers, and especially reprinters, of Scottish En- lightenment books until well into the nineteenth century ...
... Andrew Strahan , the partnership steadily lost ground after Cadell's retirement in 1793 and death in 1802. Cadell's son Thomas , Jr. , and manager , William Davies , trading as Cadell & Davies , continued to publish their firm's star ...
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Part II Publishing the Scottish Enlightenment in London and Edinburgh | 263 |
Part III Reprinting the Scottish Enlightenment in Dublin and Philadelphia | 441 |
Tables | 611 |
Bibliography | 709 |
Index | 757 |
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