Circulating enlightenment : the career and correspondence of Andrew Millar, 1725-68 / Adam Budd, editor.

Format:

Book

Series:

Oxford scholarly editions online.

Oxford scholarly editions online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768.

Millar, Andrew.

Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768--Correspondence.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain.

Publishers and publishing.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century--Sources.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (656 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Andrew Millar (1705-68) published some of the most important works of the eighteenth century across many genres. This is an extended study of his commercial and social role in the commissioning, production, circulation, and consumption of Enlightenment literature in Britain, and it presents hundreds of previously unpublished letters.

Contents:

The Correspondence

Andrew Millar's Last Will and Testament

1 Andrew Millar to Robert Wodrow (15 July 1725)

2 Andrew Millar to Robert Wodrow (5 August 1725)

3 Andrew Millar to Robert Wodrow (10 August 1725)

4 Andrew Millar to Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudon (15 June 1727)

5 Andrew Millar to Brian Fairfax the Younger (23 August 1728)

6 James Thomson to Andrew Millar (16 January 1730)

7 Andrew Millar to Allan Ramsay (7 November 1730)

8 Allan Ramsay to Andrew Millar (13-15 July 1732)

9 Thomas Ruddiman to Andrew Millar (c.20 July 1734)

10 James Thomson to Andrew Millar (9 August 1734)

11 Allan Ramsay to Andrew Millar (16 December 1734)

12 Allan Ramsay to Andrew Millar (20 May 1735)

13 Andrew Millar and John Gray to Alexander Gordon (22 October 1736)

14 Andrew Millar and John Gray to Alexander Gordon (29 October 1736)

15 Andrew Millar and John Gray to Alexander Gordon (c.29 October 1736).

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 5, 2021).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191943072 (ebook) :

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Restricted for use by site license.