Sudden Elevations of Mind
Colin Burrow: Dr Johnson, 17 February 2011
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols XXI-XXIII: The Lives of the Poets
edited by John Middendorf.
Yale, 1696 pp., £180, July 2010,978 0 300 12314 2 Show More
edited by John Middendorf.
Yale, 1696 pp., £180, July 2010,
“... given that its own life began effectively with a commercial problem. In 1777 the Scottish printer John Bell was flooding the London market with cheap editions of English poets, in defiance of the copyright interests of English publishers. A consortium of London stationers decided to blow Bell out of the water with a set of editions of significant English ... ”
