Solomon Harry M.ABAA
RISE OF ROBERT DODSLEY.THE
199658279Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1996. cloth dust jacket. Dodsley Robert. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. ix iii 3991 pages. First printing. This is the first biography of Robert Dodsley in nearly a century. He was England's most important eighteenth-century publisher and served as protege publisher or patron of authors Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson Voltaire Horace Walpole and many more. Solomon documents Dodsley's ingenious articulation of his financial interests in newspapers journals and book publishing proving that contrary to the traditional view of booksellers Dodsley was no insignificant tradesman. Includes a bibliography and index. Southern Illinois University Press unknown books
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