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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... Edinburgh High Street 51 57 111 2.2 . Parliament Square , Edinburgh 112 2.3 . Sibbald's Circulating Library , Parliament Square , Edinburgh 113 2.4 . The British Coffee House , London 130 2.5 . Title page in Guthrie's Geography , 11th ...
... Edinburgh Central Library EEC = Edinburgh Evening Courant ESTC = English Short-Title Catalogue EUL = Edinburgh University Library HL = Houghton Library, Harvard University HSP = Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia LDH = The ...
... Edinburgh's Centre for the History of the Book in July 2000, courtesy of Bill Bell. Many authors have obligations to ... Edinburgh, the incomparable National Library of Scotland was the cornerstone of my research activity, but I also ...
... Edinburgh, all of whom were either Scots or English provincials by birth (or, in the next generation, their London- born sons). The second part of the chapter traces the origins of the Lon- don– Edinburgh axis in Scottish Enlightenment ...
... 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 publishing partner, William ...
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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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