The Enlightenment & the book [electronic resource] : Scottish authors & their publishers in eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, & America / Richard B. Sher.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.Description: xxvi, 815 p. : illOther title: - Enlightenment and the book
- English literature -- Scottish authors -- Publishing
- Scottish literature -- 18th century -- Publishing
- Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Publishers and publishing -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century
- Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Authors and publishers -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
- English literature -- Scottish authors -- Appreciation
- Scottish literature -- 18th century -- Appreciation
- Authors, Scottish -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- Enlightenment -- Scotland
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- Z326 .S54 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [709]-755) and index.
Composing the Scottish Enlightenment -- Identity and diversity among Scottish authors -- The rewards of authorship -- Forging the London-Edinburgh publishing axis -- The heyday of Scottish Enlightenment publishing -- The achievement of William Creech -- The rise and fall of Irish reprinting -- Making Scottish books in America, 1770-1784 -- A more extensive diffusion of useful knowledge : Philadelphia, 1784-1800.
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