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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... quarto and octavo Books Printed for W. Strahan , and T. Cadell in the Strand The Cross and the Luckenbooths on the Edinburgh High Street 51 57 111 2.2 . Parliament Square , Edinburgh 112 2.3 . Sibbald's Circulating Library , Parliament ...
... quarto edition from the same period, such as William Robertson's History of America or Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (both priced at two guineas for two bound volumes), cost the equivalent of about £89/$162 per volume, Author's Note • xxv.
... quarto formats and were later reprinted in smaller and more affordable formats if they proved to be popular . But ... quartos were used only for certain kinds of genres and were more readable than smaller formats ( an important ...
... 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 bore some relation to differences in their costs of production ...
... quarto vol- ume. Hume declares himself “extremely desirous” to have such a quarto edition. In order to achieve this end, he acts aggressively as intermediary between his Edinburgh and London copublishers, appealing to the for- mer's ...
Inhalt
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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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