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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... Title page in William Buchan's Domestic Medicine , 9th ed . , 335 1786 341 5.5 . Title page in Sentimental Beauties and Moral Delineations , 1782 358 5.6 . 5.7 . Book advertisements in the London Chronicle , March 1777 Andrew Strahan by ...
... Title page in Dublin edition of Kames's Sketches , 1775 Page from the Graisberry ledgers 477 480 7.3 . Title page and frontispiece in William Robertson's History of America , Dublin , 1777 481 8.1 . Two pages from a Robert Bell ...
... titles by Scottish Enlightenment authors between 1787 and 1799. Re- cent studies of German and French translations and reprints of Scottish Enlighten- ment books, and their Continental impact, include Fabian, English Book in Eighteenth ...
... titles, perhaps because, among other factors, the certainty of Copyright ” 106–33; R ss, “Cop righ and the duration of the copyright period.73 A single-minded focus on problems relating to copyright has led to a preoccupation with the ...
... titles that were commercially successful among elite readers also appealed to a broader readership not only in Britain but also abroad . It is misleading to stress “ the weight , price , and immobility ” of books published before 1774 ...
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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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