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Gerald P. Tyson

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Description:University of Iowa Press, Iowa City [Published 1979]. Hardcover, xix, 276 pp; 21 cm; Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Joseph Johnson after Moses Haughton, seven additional black and white plates, and a reproduction of Horwood's 1799 London map as decorative endpapers. A scholarly biography of the pioneering British publisher Joseph Johnson (1738 - 1809). Traces Johnson's rise from Liverpool bookseller to influential London publisher, highlighting his liberal political affiliations, publication of controversial works by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Joseph Priestley, and William Godwin, and his 1795 trial and imprisonment for disseminating dissenting ideas. Tyson draws on extensive archival research to demonstrate Johnson's central role in late eighteenth-century intellectual and political life. Contents include Preface; Introduction; Liverpool and London (1738 - 70); No. 72 St. Paul's The First Decade (1770 - 79); Forming the Circle (1780 - 88); The French Revolution (1789 - 94); Trial and Imprisonment (1795 - 1800); The Final Years (1800 - 09); A Note on Writings about Johnson; Key to Frequently Cited References; Notes; Index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Joseph Johnson, A Liberal Publisher. To get started finding Joseph Johnson, A Liberal Publisher, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 276

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Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Release: 1979

ISBN: 0877450889

Description: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City [Published 1979]. Hardcover, xix, 276 pp; 21 cm; Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Joseph Johnson after Moses Haughton, seven additional black and white plates, and a reproduction of Horwood's 1799 London map as decorative endpapers. A scholarly biography of the pioneering British publisher Joseph Johnson (1738 - 1809). Traces Johnson's rise from Liverpool bookseller to influential London publisher, highlighting his liberal political affiliations, publication of controversial works by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Joseph Priestley, and William Godwin, and his 1795 trial and imprisonment for disseminating dissenting ideas. Tyson draws on extensive archival research to demonstrate Johnson's central role in late eighteenth-century intellectual and political life. Contents include Preface; Introduction; Liverpool and London (1738 - 70); No. 72 St. Paul's The First Decade (1770 - 79); Forming the Circle (1780 - 88); The French Revolution (1789 - 94); Trial and Imprisonment (1795 - 1800); The Final Years (1800 - 09); A Note on Writings about Johnson; Key to Frequently Cited References; Notes; Index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Joseph Johnson, A Liberal Publisher. To get started finding Joseph Johnson, A Liberal Publisher, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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