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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... octavo Books Printed for W. Strahan , and T. Cadell in the Strand The Cross and the Luckenbooths on the Edinburgh ... ed . , 1788 134 2.6 . Subscription list in the Edinburgh edition of Burns's Poems , 1787 137 2.7 . 2.8 . Title page in ...
... edition of Guthrie's Geography gave the exchange at 18s.51⁄2d. Irish to £1 ... octavo published in the 1770s at a price of six shil- lings, such as Lord ... edition from the same period, such as William Robertson's History of America or ...
... editions or their production costs, in the eighteenth century a quarto first edition and an octavo second edition were very different entities (always in their paper and type, and usually in their content), and their respective prices ...
... octavo edition in 1770 , two - volume octavo editions in 1772 and 1777 , and so on throughout the century . Jerome Christensen 4. Boswell , Ominous Years , 278 . tary And Darm Hous ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS Composing the ...
... octavo editions of 1764 and 1770. Occasionally copies of a book from the same edition were sized and priced differently because some were printed on larger paper than the rest . Nevertheless , in com- mon parlance , and when not ...
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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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