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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... second edition of 'Fatal Falsehood',” wrote Hannah More to her sis- ter in 1780. “We talked over all the affairs. He gave me some very good advice.”13 There was nothing unusual about this exchange, even though Thomas Cadell was then at ...
... 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 ...
... second volume of the posthumous 1777 edition , Hume disowns his Treatise of Hu- man Nature and castigates unnamed ... second autobiographical work that Hume offered to the public during his final year , “ My Own Life , ” was another ...
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Inhalt
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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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