The most disreputable trade [[electronic resource] ] : publishing the classics of English poetry, 1765-1810 / / Thomas F. Bonnell

• Autore: Bonnell Thomas Frank <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.5094109033
• Soggetto topico: Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English literature - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century; English literature - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Poetry - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Poetry - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Publishers and publishing - Great Britain - History; Monographic series - Publishing - Great Britain - History; Books and reading - Great Britain - History; Canon (Literature)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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 Partners ; That 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 Shine ; The 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The most disreputable trade
• ISBN: 1-4356-4226-0; 9786611341299; 0-19-155973-3; 1-281-34129-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465636403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II