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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... Cadell Successors and Rivals 6. The Achievement of William Creech The Career of a Bookseller The Reputation of a ... Thomas Cadell , Sr. , in the Strahan Archive , 1793-1798 705 Bibliography 709 • Index · 757 Illustrations 1.1 . Title ...
... Thomas Cadell engraved by H. Meyer 328 5.3 . 5.4 . Page from William Strahan's printing ledgers , 1777–78 Title page in William Buchan's Domestic Medicine , 9th ed . , 335 1786 341 5.5 . Title page in Sentimental Beauties and Moral ...
... Thomas Cadell Papers at Duke University Library. Among privately owned collections, I thank the Blair Oliphant of Ardblair family for permission to quote from the William Creech letterbooks that I consulted by means of microfilm copies ...
... Thomas Cadell was then at the head of the largest and most prestigious publishing enterprise in Britain, if not in the world. The success of books depended on publishers in many ways. In the process of generating new books, publishers ...
... Thomas Cadell and John Bell, centered on one particular new title: An Essay on the History of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson. Chapter 5 treats the heyday of Scottish Enlightenment publishing from the late 1760s to the 1790s. After the ...
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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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