The most disreputable trade : publishing the classics of English poetry, 1765-1810
This title probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. Highly informative about the book trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Bonnell's study is also rich in details about book illustration, copyright law, canon formation, consumer culture, and the history of reading
History
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9780191559730, 9781281341297, 9781435642263, 9786611341299, 0191559733, 1281341290, 1435642260, 6611341293
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Our native classics, complete and uniform
The Elzevirs of Glasgow : Robert and Andrew Foulis
William Creech and John Boyle : the classics spread across Scotland
John Bell's little trifling edition revisited
Johnson's prefaces and Bell's connected system of biography
The best judges of vendible poetry : William Strahan, Joseph Wenman, et al
Robert Anderson's comprehensive view of English poetry
Charles Cooke's pocket library
John Sharpe and Alexander Chalmers : a body of standard English poetry
Splinter canons, fugitives, and empire