Illustrations

1.1. Title page and frontispiece in Hume’s Essays and Treatises, 1768 48–49 1.2. Hume’s Essays and Treatises in quarto and octavo 51 1.3. Books Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand 57 2.1. The Cross and the Luckenbooths on the Edinburgh High Street 111 2.2. Parliament Square, Edinburgh 112 2.3. Sibbald’s Circulating Library, Parliament Square, Edinburgh 113 2.4. The British Coff ee House, London 130 2.5. Title page in Guthrie’s Geography, 11th ed., 1788 134 2.6. Subscription list in the Edinburgh edition of Burns’s Poems, 1787 137 2.7. Title page in Cullen’s Treatise of the Materia Medica, 1789 158 2.8. Detail of line engraving (from fi g. 2.16) 166 2.9. Detail of stipple engraving (from fi g. 2.20) 166 2.10. David Hume engraved by Joseph Collyer the younger, 1788 170 2.11. Tobias Smollett engraved by Joseph Collyer the younger, 1790 171 2.12. William Robertson by Sir Joshua Reynolds 174 2.13. Frontispiece portrait in Robertson’s Charles V, 2nd ed., 1772 175 2.14. Frontispiece portrait in James Macpherson’s History of Great Britain, 2nd ed., 1776 176

000A-C3949-FM.indd0A-C3949-FM.indd ixix 110/27/060/27/06 12:24:3712:24:37 PMPM x • Illustrations 2.15. Frontispiece portrait in Robert Henry’s History of Great Britain, vol. 4, 1781 177 2.16. Frontispiece portrait in Hugh Blair’s Lectures, 1st ed., 1783 178 2.17. Frontispiece portrait in Hugh Blair’s Lectures, 6th ed., 1796 179 2.18. Frontispiece portrait in James Fordyce’s Poems, 1786 180 2.19. Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth 182 2.20. Frontispiece portrait in the Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns’s Poems, 1787 182 2.21. Frontispiece portrait in James Ferguson’s Select Mechanical Exercises, 2nd ed., 1778 183 2.22. Frontispiece portrait in Benjamin Bell’s System of Surgery, 5th ed., 1791 184 2.23. Frontispiece portrait in John Pinkerton’s History of Scotland, 1797 185 2.24. Frontispiece portrait in Mungo Park’s Travels, 1799 186 2.25. Frontispiece portrait in John Brown’s Elements of Medicine, 1795 188 2.26. John Brown engraved by James Caldwall, 1790s 189 2.27. William Leechman by William Millar 192 2.28. Frontispiece portrait in William Leechman’s Sermons, 1789 193 3.1. Contract for Alexander Adam’s Roman Antiquities, June 1794 239 4.1. Title page in Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 3rd ed., 1748 286 4.2. Kincaid & Bell’s shop, Edinburgh 317 4.3. Title pages in the fi rst three editions of Adam Ferguson’s Essay, 1767– 68 319 5.1. William Strahan by an unknown artist 328 5.2. Thomas Cadell engraved by H. Meyer 328 5.3. Page from William Strahan’s printing ledgers, 1777– 78 335 5.4. Title page in William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, 9th ed., 1786 341 5.5. Title page in Sentimental Beauties and Moral Delineations, 1782 358 5.6. Book advertisements in the London Chronicle, March 1777 364 5.7. Andrew Strahan by William Owen 377 5.8. Thomas Cadell by Sir William Beechey 377 6.1. Letter from William Strahan to William Creech, 16 July 1771 411

CC3949.indb3949.indb x 110/12/060/12/06 11:20:0411:20:04 AMAM Illustrations • xi 6.2. “Verses to the Author of the Man of Feeling,” by William Creech 421 6.3. Frontispiece portrait in William Creech’s Fugitive Pieces, 1815 429 6.4. Archibald Constable by Andrew Geddes 437 7.1. Title page in Dublin edition of Kames’s Sketches, 1775 477 7.2. Page from the Graisberry ledgers 480 7.3. Title page and frontispiece in William Robertson’s History of America, Dublin, 1777 481 8.1. Two pages from a Robert Bell advertisement, “To the American World,” 1771 520–21 8.2. Proposals for Philadelphia edition of Kames’s Sketches, 1775 529 8.3. Robert Aitken by an unknown artist 533 8.4. Robert Aitken’s logo 533 9.1. Title page in Thomas Dobson’s Encyclopaedia, 1798 557 9.2. Advertisement for Thomas Reid’s Essays in William Young’s Universal Asylum, December 1792 568 9.3. Dedication in William Young’s edition of Reid’s Essays, 1793 569 9.4. William Young by an unknown artist 571 9.5. Title page in volume 1 of Mathew Carey’s edition of Guthrie’s Geography, 1794 580 9.6. Page from Mathew Carey’s edition of Guthrie’s Geography, 1794 581 9.7. Title page and frontispiece in Robert Campbell’s edition of Hume’s History, 1795 583

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