"north of the Adam Mausoleum, southwest of the church. He was well-acquainted with Robert Burns. Burns' assessment is engraved on Smellie's tombstone: ""Here lies a man who did honour to human nature"". Burns also described him fondly in a letter as ""that old Veteran in Genius, Wit and Bawdry"". William Smellie (encyclopedist) William Smellie (1740–1795) was a Scottish printer who edited the first edition of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"". He was also a naturalist and antiquary, who was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a friend of Robert Burns. He"
"edition was published in 1910-1911. In 1920, the trademark and publication rights were sold to Sears Roebuck, which held them until 1943, when ownership passed to William Benton. The 12th edition was published in 1921-1922, and the 13th edition was published in 1926. A thoroughly revised 14th edition was published in 1929. By the mid-1930s, the company headquarters had moved to Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the editorial staff were now no longer disbanded after the completion of a new edition, but kept on as a permanent editorial department, to keep pace with the rapid increase in knowledge at the"
"in 1772 by Benjamin Edes and John Gill in Boston, illustrated with prints made by Paul Revere. The book strongly influenced the first cookery book by an American author, Amelia Simmons's ""American Cookery"" (1796), with parts copied almost word for word. An appendix was added to an 1803 American edition, adding ""receipts"" [recipes] ""adapted to the American mode of cooking"" - such as Indian puddings, buckwheat cakes, pumpkin pie, maple molasses, and maple beer. The appendix may have been translated from a Swedish book, ""Rural Oeconomy"": the same appendix appears in an 1805 edition of Hannah Glasse's ""The Art of"
"Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the John Rylands Library in Manchester. It proved popular and was reprinted in 1498 and 1529 with some additions and changes by Wynkyn de Worde who succeeded Caxton's press. Three more editions were published before the English Civil War: William Copland's (1557), Thomas East's (1585), and William Stansby's (1634), each of which contained additional changes and errors (including the omission of an entire leaf). Thereafter, the book went out of fashion until the Romantic revival of interest in all things medieval; the year 1816 saw a new edition by Walker and Edwards,"
"and it soon began to circulate and talk of publication became inevitable. In 1822 Dorothy put together a more refined version, she had lost the original and it was completed from memory, but a publisher was never located.[7] It would not be until 1874, nearly 20 years after her death in 1855, that John Campbell Shairp would publish it for the first time. It sold so well a second edition came soon after including one in the US. Then a third edition in 1894, and then another in 1897. In 1941 it was recognized again when Ernest de Selincourt published"
"the American public. Eight of the volumes were his own translations. The remainder were by other translators with their consent. Various bibliographic references to these sets list either fifteen or sixteen volumes (the sixteenth being ""The Flatey Book and recently discovered Vatican Manuscripts concerning America as early as the tenth century, etc.""). The most common number of volumes listed is fifteen. James William Buel (1849–1920), a prolific American author, compiler, and editor of numerous books in a wide range of subjects, acted as managing editor. T.H. Smart held the copyright. Despite the fact that the Norroena Society has been recognized"
"1720. Subscribers would have their names recorded for posterity in a list included in the book, and those ordering six copies would get a seventh free. True to his word, in September 1720he announced that the book was almost ready, offering a last chance for subscription as he would not print more than what was required to meet these advance orders. The book was made available in December 1720. Isaac Newton and Hans Sloane were amongst the subscribers. William Mears (publisher) William Mears (1686 – c.1740) was an eighteenth century English publisher and entrepreneur noted for his publication of scientific"
"World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 1901- ), the Everyman's Library (J. M. Dent, 1906- ), the Penguin Classics (Penguin Books, 1945- ) and the Penguin English Library (1963- ). Reprint series were also published in the United States, including the Modern Library (Boni & Liveright, 1917- ), in Germany, including the Universal-Bibliothek (Reclam, 1867- ), and in most other countries of the world. The early 19th century saw numerous improvements in the printing, publishing and book-distribution processes, with the introduction of steam-powered printing presses, pulp mills, automatic type setting, and a network of railways.[3] These innovations enabled the likes of"
"published by Ephraim Chambers in 1728. Although later editions of Chambers' ""Cyclopaedia"" were still popular, and despite the commercial failure of other English encyclopedias, Macfarquhar and Bell were inspired by the intellectual ferment of the Scottish Enlightenment and thought the time ripe for a new encyclopedia ""compiled upon a new plan"". Needing an editor, the two chose a 28-year-old scholar named William Smellie who was offered 200 pounds sterling to produce the encyclopedia in 100 parts (called ""numbers"" and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on 6 December 1768 in Edinburgh,"
"sold by B. Crosby and Company, headed by Benjamin Crosby, in London. The tile page contained an epigraph from the 1810 ""The Curse of Kehama"" by Robert Southey. Shelley gave one copy of the poem, which was published as a twenty page pamphlet with a Preface, Notes, dedication page, and Errata page, to his cousin Pilfold Medwin who took it to Italy. It remained lost for 204 years. It was the 12 millionth printed book added to the Bodleian Library in 2015 when its contents were made available after its purchase. The work was published anonymously as by “a gentleman"
"as publishers, while at the same time Scholastic, Inc. produced paperback versions for sale primarily through direct mail order, book clubs, and book fairs. Harper Collins also published several one-volume collected editions containing the full text of the series. As noted below (see Reading order), the first American publisher, Macmillan, numbered the books in publication sequence, whereas Harper Collins, at the suggestion of Lewis's stepson, opted to use the series' internal chronological order when they won the rights to it in 1994. Scholastic switched the numbering of its paperback editions in 1994 to mirror that of Harper Collins. The seven"
"1754. The edition of 1598 was reprinted, edited by William John Thoms, in 1842, in 1846, and (with illustrations) in 1876. An edition based on that of 1598, edited by Henry Morley, was published in 1889, and has been reprinted on several occasions since. A critical edition, based on that of 1603 and edited in two volumes by C. L. Kingsford, was published in 1908, and republished with additional notes in 1927. This remains the standard scholarly edition. A more popular single-volume edition was published in Everyman's Library, with an introduction by H. B. Wheatley, in 1912 (revised edition 1956),"
"forty-six cents, but by October 23, there were sufficient funds to purchase the following volumes: Charles Rollin's ""Ancient History"", Lewis' ""Roman History"", and William Robertson's ""History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth"". No more volumes were purchased until the end of 1820, when the society acquired the works of Livy, Tacitus, and John Marshall's ""Life of Washington"". Three months later, the society purchased a bookcase for its growing collection. In April 1821, the society further expanded its library with the acquisitions of Nathaniel Hooke's ""Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth"", the works"
"into the possession of Eamon Ó Ceallaigh (Co. Roscommon) in 1732, then of Dr. John O'Brien by 1768 and finally of Cornelius O'Daly (Mitchelstown, Co. Cork). The Royal Irish Academy acquired the first volume in 1789, when General Charles Vallancey purchased it for the academy for 3 guineas from Cornelius O'Daly. O'Daly also owned the second volume, which comprises nine leaves, but was unaware that it belonged to the larger volume. In 1789, this volume was acquired by Chevalier O'Gorman, by George Smith of College Green in the next century and by the Academy sometime after 1844. The manuscript is"
"the manuscript with an introduction by James Halliwell-Phillipps (named James Halliwell at the time of publication). Halliwell-Phillipps purchased the manuscript shortly afterwards, and in the 1860s conferred it to the collection of George Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick in the 1860s. Following the Earl’s death in 1893, Henry Clay Folger purchased the manuscript in 1897. The manuscript now resides in the Folger Shakespeare Library (V.b.34) in Washington, DC. In his introduction to the original transcription of the manuscript, Halliwell-Phillips notes that the since the corrections to the manuscript were written by a hand proven to be Dering’s (based on letter"
"were exclusively translated to English, converted to Imperial units, printed in Gotha, Germany by Justus Perthes and became part this edition. Later editions only included Perthes' great maps as low quality reproductions. According to Coleman and Simmons, the content of the encyclopedia was distributed as follows: Hooper sold the rights to Sears Roebuck of Chicago in 1920, completing the ""Britannica""'s transition to becoming a substantially American publication. In 1922, an additional three volumes (also edited by Hugh Chisholm), were published, covering the events of the intervening years, including World War I. These, together with a reprint of the eleventh edition,"
"approbation of mankind"". The first edition was reprinted in London, with slight variants on the title page and a different preface, by Edward and Charles Dilly in 1773 and by John Donaldson in 1775. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the 1st edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. published a facsimile of the 1st edition, even including ""age spots"" on the paper. This has been periodically reprinted and is still part of Britannica's product line. After the success of the first edition, a more ambitious second edition was begun in 1776, with the addition of history and biography articles. Smellie"
"William Carmichael of Skirling in 1712. In the early Eighteenth Century, Allan Ramsay reproduced pieces from the manuscript in his compilation ""The Ever Green"" between 1724 and 1727. The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates' Library of Edinburgh in 1772. Walter Scott took an interest in the document and participated in an eponymous club dedicated to the study and publication of historic Scots literature. The first printed transcript of the manuscript was published by the Bannatyne Club, in three volumes, between 1827 and 1855. The Hunterian Club published a new transcript in 1896. The manuscript is now held by The"
"George Kahrl writes that ""the overall arrangement of the [Capell] catalogue baffles understanding, and as a working tool it is worthless and frustrating"". The earliest item in the collection, a Wynkyn de Worde printing of ""Robert the Devil"", dates from around 1517. The latest item is a collected edition of William Wycherley's ""Plays"" printed in 1735. The collection, as received by the Museum in April 1780, did not include Garrick's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, which remained the property of Garrick's wife, Eva Maria. Following her death in 1822 the remainder of Garrick's library, including the Shakespeare volume, was sold"
"was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. It was not until 1995 that the work in its entirety was published openly in the UK, by Arrow Books. The identity of ""Walter"" is unknown. There is no scholarly consensus in favour of any of the candidates proposed. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert"
"Folio syndicate. At the start of the 17th century's third decade, when Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard were preparing to publish the First Folio, they needed to obtain the rights to eighteen Shakespearean plays already in print. (They had trouble getting the rights to ""Troilus and Cressida,"" and stuck that play into the First Folio late and unpaginated.) Aspley's price for his rights was inclusion in the syndicate as one of its ""junior partners,"" along with John Smethwick. It is not known that Aspley played any active role in the publication of the First Folio; but he maintained"
"the publisher of such 19th century American literary figures as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles. Wiley worked in partnership with Cornelius Van Winkle, George Long, George Palmer Putnam, and Robert Halsted. The firm took its current name in 1865. Wiley later shifted its focus to scientific, technical, and engineering subject areas, abandoning its literary interests. Charles Wiley's son John (born in Flatbush, New York, 4 October 1808; died in East Orange, New Jersey, 21 February 1891) took over the business when his father died"
"the painting in 1820. For decades the painting had been passed from family member to family member, but Frances Atkinson Freeman sold the painting in 1872. The painting was bought by John Fisher Sheafe (1805–82) for his brother-in-law, James Lenox. Lenox was a wealthy American philanthropist, bibliophile, and art collector. He ultimately founded Lenox Library for the public to use his books and see his art collection. The Lenox Library was demolished and the Frick Collection was built by Henry Clay Frick. Upon demolition of the Lenox Library, in 1876, the books and artwork of the Lenox Library were donated"
"in 1936. The firm was bought in 1957 by Ansbacher & Co., headed by Max Reinhardt. During this period Bodley Head published the work of authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Graham Greene, Charles Chaplin, William Trevor, Maurice Sendak, Muriel Spark, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sam Haskins and Alistair Cooke. Max Reinhardt was also responsible for the expansion of one of the outstanding children's books lists in modern publishing. The imprint was still important in the 1970s when it was drawn into the Jonathan Cape/Chatto & Windus group. The firm was sold to Random House in 1987, who published children's books under"
"on May 16, 1791, in two quarto volumes, with 1,750 copies printed. Once this was exhausted, a second edition in three octavo volumes was published in July 1793. This second edition was augmented by ""many valuable additions,"" which were appended to the 1791 text; according to Boswell's own ""Advertisement,"" ""These have I ordered to be printed separately in quarto, for the accommodation of the purchasers of the first edition."" The third edition, appearing in 1799 after Boswell's death, was the responsibility of Edmond Malone, who had been instrumental in the preparation of the previous editions. Malone inserted the additions in"
"This is probably as a result of the high total selling price and a very lengthy period of publication that spanned two major wars and a famine (1805). A full first edition set comprising all 5,416 pages is now a great rarity, with only three essentially complete copies being known for certain to have survived, all of which are in private ownership. There are numerous extant part-sets, usually comprising little more than the first half to two-thirds of the work. None of the quarto coloured plates is known to have survived. Sowerby's son, James de Carle Sowerby published two supplements"
"of its philosophical, psychological, and spiritual insight is a step up from anything Browning produced before or after, and the poem was almost universally hailed as a work of genius, restoring the pioneering reputation among the first rank of English poets which Browning had lost with Sordello nearly thirty years previously. The book lost popularity with readers during the 20th century; after its printing by Scribner's in the early twentieth-century, ""The Ring and the Book"" was printed by W. W. Norton & Company in the 1960s and 1970s. It is now currently available, though still difficult to acquire affordably or"
"Dodd, Mead and Co. of New York (f. ib) to William Augustus White (d. 1928) of Brooklyn, 26 Jan 1887. Inherited by his daughter, Mrs Frances Hillard Emerson (d. 1957) of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Presented by Mrs F. H. Emerson. Now in the possession of British Library: Additional MS 49460. Notebook of William Blake The Notebook of William Blake (is known also as the Rossetti Manuscript from its association with its former owner Dante Gabriel Rossetti) was used by William Blake as a commonplace book from c.1787 (or 1793) to 1818. The Notebook consists of 58 leaves and contains autograph drafts"
"near New Madrid, Missouri. Mark Twain's book, ""Life on the Mississippi"", covered the steamboat commerce which took place from 1830 to 1870 on the river before more modern ships replaced the steamer. The book was published first in serial form in ""Harper's Weekly"" in seven parts in 1875. The full version, including a passage from the then unfinished ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and works from other authors, was published by James R. Osgood & Company in 1885. The first steamboat to travel the full length of the Lower Mississippi from the Ohio River to New Orleans was the ""New Orleans"""
"United States in 1926. In 1936, Salten sold some rights to the novel to MGM producer Sidney Franklin who passed them on to Walt Disney for the creation of a film adaptation. After Salten's death in 1945, his daughter Anna Wyler inherited the copyright and renewed the novel's copyrighted status in 1954 (U.S. copyright law in effect at the time provided for an initial term of 28 years from the date of first publication in the U.S., which could be extended for an additional 28 years provided the copyright holder filed for renewal before the expiration of the initial copyright)."
"in fifteenth or sixteenth century)"" indicating ownership at that point, and the four volumes may (although there is no evidence for this) have belonged to the Rochefoucauld family until the 18th century, but were dispersed by the 1720s. The three volumes previously in Amsterdam were acquired in two separate purchases by the 19th-century English antiquary and book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps and have subsequently been sold twice. Dr. Timothy Bolton of Sotheby's said of the ex-Amsterdam volumes, ""It is a monumental format, with 107 miniatures, each a dazzling jewel of early Gothic illumination. The scenes often have a riotous energy..."
"right to publish the works. Both plays were issued in individual quartos before the end of 1600, editions printed for Wise and Aspley by Valentine Simmes. Neither play appears to have been a major success in printed form, since neither was reprinted prior to its inclusion in the First Folio in 1623. Aspley had another, minor link to Shakespeare: some copies of Thomas Thorpe's first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) read ""to be sold by William Aspley"" on their title pages. Yet it was his possession of the copyrights to two Shakespearean plays that won him inclusion in the First"
"Corelli, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde (""De Profundis"", 1905) as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ""Tarzan of the Apes"". In 1910 the business was converted into a limited liability company with E. V. Lucas and G.E. Webster joining the founder on the board of directors. The company published the 1920 English translation of Albert Einstein’s ""Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition"". With knowledge he had gained of children's literature at the publisher Grant Richards, E. V. Lucas built on the company's early success. Among the authors Lucas signed to the company were A."