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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... in Robertson's Charles V , 2nd ed . , 1772 175 2.14 . Frontispiece portrait in James Macpherson's History of Great Britain , 2nd ed . , 1776 176 2.15 . Frontispiece portrait in Robert Henry's History of Great List of Illustrations.
... Charles Maconochie Welwood for permission to quote from the correspondence of Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, us- ing microfilm copies in the Special Collections Department at Edinburgh University Library. For permission to quote ...
... Charles-Joseph Panckoucke; Selwyn, Everyday Life in the German Book Trade; Zachs, First John Murray; Birn, Forging Rousseau; and various studies of the Société typographique de Neuchâtel and its publications, especially by Robert ...
... Charles Elliot and John Bell in Edinburgh, who also tried to secure worthy Scottish authors and to copublish their books across the London– Edinburgh axis. Chapter 6 explores the career of Strahan and Cadell's most important Edinburgh ...
... by George Vertue after a painting by Pope's friend Charles Jervas , which conveyed a carefully cultivated. 26. Genette, Paratexts, xviii. 33. Home to Elliot, 1 June [1757], NLS, MS 11009, Composing the Scottish Enlightenment • 59.
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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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