Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 177.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: "Norman D. Hinton" <hinton@springnet1.com> (16)
Subject: Re: 14.0171 King's publishing venture: publishing
history
[2] From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> (10)
Subject: Re: 14.0171 King's publishing venture: publishing
history
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:35:55 +0100
From: "Norman D. Hinton" <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0171 King's publishing venture: publishing history
I'm certainly willing to take correction on this matter -- but that's what
I was
taught in graduate school (long ago, alas)....Johnson's letter to Chesterfield
about his determination to go on with the Dictionary (through subscriptions)
despite C's lack of financial support has been called "the death-knell to
patronage", and Johnson has also been called the first writer to break the
tyranny
of the book-sellers. I'm not surprised if more recent scholarship has
overturned
these judgments -- that's one of the things scholarship is supposed to do.
>
> A pedantic correction to Norman Hinton's note: I believe the practice of
> selling subscriptions to works yet to be completed and published was a
> well-established practice in 18th-century London well before Samuel
> Johnson's Dictionary.
>
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:36:45 +0100
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: 14.0171 King's publishing venture: publishing history
Speaking of subscription publishing: Let us not forget Murray's English
Dictionary Based on Historical Principles which later became know by its
nickname: The Oxford English Dictionary
Thanks!
So nice to hear from you!
Michael S. Hart
<hart@pobox.com>
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