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Joseph Johnson Letterbook
John . Ed(S): Bugg
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Description for Joseph Johnson Letterbook
Hardback. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential Romantic-era publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809). Editor(s): Bugg, John. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809). Best known today for his work with politically progressive figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Priestley, over the course of his career Johnson was involved in the publication of thousands of works on a breathtaking range of subjects, from travel narratives to scientific writing to children's books. Johnson was also something of an impresario, and given his active involvement in shaping the books he published, he appears in the longue duree of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British print culture as a ... Read more
The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809). Best known today for his work with politically progressive figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Priestley, over the course of his career Johnson was involved in the publication of thousands of works on a breathtaking range of subjects, from travel narratives to scientific writing to children's books. Johnson was also something of an impresario, and given his active involvement in shaping the books he published, he appears in the longue duree of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British print culture as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199644247
SKU
V9780199644247
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About John . Ed(S): Bugg
John Bugg is author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 2014), which examines the relations between literary culture and political repression at the end of the eighteenth century. His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, TLS, Romanticism, The Huntington Library Quarterly, European Romantic Review, and Keats-Shelley Journal. He is co-founder, ... Read more
Reviews for Joseph Johnson Letterbook
Meticulously edited and annotated for publication by John Bugg. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is a slim, beautifully produced volume, and a treasure trove for scholars of Romanticism and book history.
Daisy Hay, The Times Literary Supplement
This outstanding edition of Johnson's surviving correspondence is of first-rate service to our understanding of this critical figure
James R. Raven, ... Read more
Daisy Hay, The Times Literary Supplement
This outstanding edition of Johnson's surviving correspondence is of first-rate service to our understanding of this critical figure
James R. Raven, ... Read more