This table - which is still in draft form - shows the first British, Irish, and American editions of books published during the Scottish Enlightenment period (1746-1800). The data originally comes from Richard B. Sher's The Enlightenment & the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), Table 2. I want to thank Prof. Sher for allowing me to display his data online. I have some work to do to make it exactly match what is in his book (all errors are my own).
I should also note that a number of corrections (which I will incorporate) can be found here: "Corrections to the Enlightenment and the Book". Rick has also provided me with some further corrections to the above, which I will incorporate soon.
I will also be publishing an aggregate data analysis.
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Topic Codes
- PHIL - Philosophy
- SCI - Science
- HIST - History
- LIT - Literature
- FICT - Fiction
- MED - Medicine
- EDU - Education
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