LEADER 05822nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910823500203321 005 20240418145112.0 010 $a1-281-34129-0 010 $a9786611341299 010 $a1-4356-4226-0 010 $a0-19-155973-3 035 $a(CKB)24235061800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415920 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7037036 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415920 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10218531 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL134129 035 $a(OCoLC)316340272 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235061800041 100 $a20071107d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe most disreputable trade$b[electronic resource] $epublishing the classics of English poetry, 1765-1810 /$fThomas F. Bonnell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $axiv, 387 p. $cill 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and indexes. 327 $aIntro -- 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 them -- 3. William Creech and John Boyle: The Classics Spread Across Scotland -- The 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 Partners -- That Part which you might Call Piracy -- Bell'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 Shine -- The Cheapest and Most Perfect Edition of British Poets. 327 $aWanting 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 Empire -- The '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 -- Z. 330 $aThis fascinating book probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. 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