Bonnell, Thomas Frank. The most disreputable trade : publishing the classics of English poetry, 1765-1810

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and indexes

Contents

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