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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. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.   Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review The Enlightenment & the book: Scottish authors & their publishers in eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, & America User Review  - Not Available - Book VerdictIn 1757, when philosopher David Hume boasted that the Scots were "the People most distinguish'd for Literature in Europe," he was undoubtedly pitching it a bit strong. But as Sher (Church and ... Read full review Contents Introduction 1 Designs and Disclaimers 25 Part I Scottish Authors in a World of Books 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 Copyright Other editions - View all The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in ... Richard B. Sher No preview available - 2007 The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in ... Richard B. Sher No preview available - 2010 Common terms and phrases Adam Ferguson Adam Smith advertisement Aitken Alexander American Edition Andrew Millar Andrew Strahan appeared Balfour Bell’s book trade Boswell brds Britain British Edition Buchan Cadell & Davies Cadell’s Campbell Carey century Charles Charles Elliot Constable copublished copy money culture David Hume Dilly Dobson Dublin Dublin booksellers Edinburgh eighteenth eighteenth-century Elliot English engraving Exshaw Ferguson firm George Glasgow Hamilton Henry Henry Mackenzie History of England Hugh Blair Hume’s History imprint Ireland James Beattie James Boswell John Murray Johnson Kames Kames’s Kincaid letter Library literary literature London booksellers Lord octavo octavo edition Philadelphia Poems political printer profit publication published quarto Reid Reid’s Robert Robinson Scotland Scots Scottish authors Scottish Enlightenment Scottish Enlightenment books second edition sellers Sermons Sher Smollett Society sold Strahan and Cadell subscription Table 2 continued Thomas Cadell tion titles Tobias Smollett University volume William Creech William Smellie William Strahan writing Young About the author (2008) Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh. Bibliographic information Title The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America ACLS Humanities E-Book Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series Author Richard B. Sher Edition illustrated, revised Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 0226752542, 9780226752549 Length 842 pages Subjects History  › Europe  › Great Britain  › General History / Europe / Great Britain / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General     Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home