The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.09.2008 - 842 Seiten 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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... 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 ...
... edition ” of Essays and Trea- tises on Several Subjects , handsomely bound ... octavo volumes in 1764 and 1767. A splendid two - volume quarto edi- tion ... octavo edition in 1770 , two - volume octavo editions in 1772 and 1777 , and so ...
... 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 ...
... octavo edition that was sometimes marketed as a duodecimo , the 1764 two - volume octavo edition , the 1768 two - volume quarto edition that contained a frontispiece portrait engraved by Ravenet ( fig . 1.1 ) , and the 1758 one - volume ...
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25 | |
41 | |
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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