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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... History 598 606 Appendix : Tables 611 1. Scottish Enlightenment Authors , 1746–1800 613 2. British , Irish , and ... Archive , 1793-1798 705 Bibliography 709 • Index · 757 Illustrations 1.1 . Title page and frontispiece in Hume's Essays viii ...
... Hume's Essays and Treatises , 1768 48-49 1.2 . 1.3 . 2.1 . Hume's Essays and Treatises in quarto and octavo Books ... History of Great Britain , 2nd ed . , 1776 176 2.15 . Frontispiece portrait in Robert Henry's History of Great List of ...
... History of Great Britain , vol . 4 , 1781 2.16 . Frontispiece portrait in ... History of Scotland , 1797 185 186 2.24 . Frontispiece portrait in Mungo Park's ... Hume's Essays , Moral and Political , 3rd ed . , 1748 286 4.2 . Kincaid ...
... History of America , Dublin , 1777 481 8.1 . Two pages from a Robert Bell advertisement , " To the American World ... Hume's History , 1795 583 Abbreviations AUL = Aberdeen University Library BL = British Library, Illustrations xi •
... Hume “Really it is admirable how many Men of Genius this Country produces at ... Hume's statement is also an exaggeration. Did he really believe that in 1757 ... History of Scot- land, which would not appear in print for another two years ...
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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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