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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... engraving ( from fig . 2.20 ) 166 2.10 . David Hume engraved by Joseph Collyer the younger , 1788 170 2.11 . Tobias Smollett engraved by Joseph Collyer the younger , 2.12 . 1790 William Robertson by Sir Joshua Reynolds 171 174 2.13 ...
... engraved by James Caldwall , 1790s 2.27 . William Leechman by William Millar 189 192 3.1 . 2.28 . Frontispiece portrait in William Leechman's Sermons , 1789 Contract for Alexander Adam's Roman Antiquities , June 1794 193 239 4.1 . Title ...
... engravings , enabled readers to associate an author's name not only with a face but also with an attitude . Chapter 3 considers the ways in which the writing of Scottish authors was supported and compensated . It has sometimes been said ...
... engraved by Simon François Ravenet after a drawing by John Donaldson , the 1768 two - volume quarto edition of David Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects helped to raise Hume's stature as an author . Thomas Fisher Rare Book ...
... engraved by Ravenet ( fig . 1.1 ) , and the 1758 one - volume quarto edition that first col- lected Hume's shorter pieces in a single book and gave them the respectability of the quarto format . Although quartos normally dwarfed octavos ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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