05623nam 2200841Ia 450 991046563640332120200520144314.01-4356-4226-097866113412990-19-155973-31-281-34129-0(CKB)2560000000296116(EBL)415920(OCoLC)316340272(SSID)ssj0000205787(PQKBManifestationID)11200929(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205787(PQKBWorkID)10212541(PQKB)10460305(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021913(MiAaPQ)EBC415920(Au-PeEL)EBL415920(CaPaEBR)ebr10218531(CaONFJC)MIL134129(EXLCZ)99256000000029611620071107d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe most disreputable trade[electronic resource] publishing the classics of English poetry, 1765-1810 /Thomas F. BonnellOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (402 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-953220-6 0-19-170099-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and indexes.Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction: A New Sensibility for Classics; 1. Our Native Classics, Complete and Uniform; After the Greek and Roman Classics; A Classical Apollo for Britannia; Diff'rent Sorts of Fare from a Miscellany; Copyright and Canon; A Reputable Trade-or Pitiful, Beggarly, Precarious?; 2. The Elzevirs of Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis; Gilt by Association; The Character of a University-Printer; Enterprising Scotsmen and the Impartial Briton; An Elzevir for English Poetry; Readers Glad to have them3. William Creech and John Boyle: The Classics Spread Across ScotlandThe Most Celebrated British Poets; As Great a Pirate as the Worst; Beattie's Place among that Fraternity; All that is Valuable of the Whole English Poets; The Best Schemes the Most Ruinous; 4. John Bell's Little Trifling Edition Revisited; In the Elzeverian Stile; Pictures of the Highest Authority; The Progress of Piracy; The Brilliancy of its Reception; Booksellers Printing upon One Another; 5. Johnson's Prefaces and Bell's Connected System of Biography; The Magnum Nomen; An Apology to the PartnersThat Part which you might Call PiracyBell's Use of Johnson's Prefaces; Additional Materials Interwoven; 6. The Best Judges of Vendible Poetry: William Strahan, Joseph Wenman, et al; All the English Poets of Reputation; A Considerable Degree of Demand; The Parnassian Library of Wenman; Every Syllable Written by the Respective Authors; Rendering the Collection More Complete; 7. Robert Anderson's Comprehensive View of English Poetry; Active and Liberal Cooperation between Publisher and Editor; Appearing as Editor; Scatter'd Gems that Round Parnassus ShineThe Cheapest and Most Perfect Edition of British PoetsWanting to Complete the Arrangement; 8. Charles Cooke's Pocket Library; The Important Object of Easy Purchase; Stamped with Universal Approbation; Ardour and the British Bard; Attracting the Notice of the Artist; Ornamental for the Book-Case; 9. John Sharpe and Alexander Chalmers: A Body of Standard English Poetry; The Truly Eminent English Poets; Deviation from Preceding Systems; To the Curious in Prints; The Minnow Tribe Swims on; Perpetuating Editions in this Manner; 10. Splinter Canons, Fugitives, and EmpireThe 'Old Canon': How Sudden and How Rigid?Classically Fugitive; Rejecting the Female's Rightful Part; English Canons and Scottish (and Irish) Bards; Circulation of the British Classics; Epilogue: A Library to Every House; Select Bibliography; Index of Booksellers, Printers, Publishers; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZLiterature publishingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryLiterature publishingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish literaturePublishingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryEnglish literaturePublishingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPoetryPublishingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryPoetryPublishingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPublishers and publishingGreat BritainHistoryMonographic seriesPublishingGreat BritainHistoryBooks and readingGreat BritainHistoryCanon (Literature)Electronic books.Literature publishingHistoryLiterature publishingHistoryEnglish literaturePublishingHistoryEnglish literaturePublishingHistoryPoetryPublishingHistoryPoetryPublishingHistoryPublishers and publishingHistory.Monographic seriesPublishingHistory.Books and readingHistory.Canon (Literature)070.5094109033Bonnell Thomas Frank1953-921452MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465636403321The most disreputable trade2066715UNINA