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Oak Knoll Press, a scholarly publisher, would like to introduce you to their
newest publication -
"Hurd, Sir, is a man whose acquaintance is a valuable acquisition."
- Samuel Johnson to Boswell
A Bibliography of Richard Hurd
Compiled by Donald D. Eddy
This much anticipated bibliography from one of America's leading scholars
offers a wealth of new research on one of the 18th century's "prolific men
of letters." Richard Hurd (1720-1808), a Bishop in the Anglican Church, was
a consummate writer and editor of books. Hurd's editions of Horace, and his
Moral and Political Dialogues, the Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel,
and his Letters on Chivalry and Romance all went through numerous London and
Dublin editions, and many other translations. He was a close friend of
King George III and his wife, and was held in high esteem by Dr. Samuel
Johnson, William Warburton and other leading literati of his age. One of
Hurd's sharpest critics was Horace Walpole.
This annotated bibliography describes 80 editions which Hurd either wrote,
edited, or to which he contributed. This is followed by 26 entries of
Hurdiana, works to which Hurd responded as well as those books and pamphlets
written against Hurd and his writings. There are discussions of many aspects
of bookmaking: press figures, cancels, variant title pages, royal paper
copies, bookbindings, and the vexing problem of shared printing. Appendix I
lists all works in the book chronologically by month, day and year of
publication, where possible. Appendix II is an index of printers,
publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, engravers, and others in the book
trade, including Isaac Gosset, who made a wax model of Bishop Hurd,
reproduced in an engraving. There are 19 full-page illustrations of
portraits, title pages, watermarks, and bindings. One sequence shows the
tools used in seven calf bindings on one book, executed by six Cambridge
binders in 1749. Many previously unpublished letters are quoted, especially
those pertaining to the printing and publication of Hurd's edition of the
Works of William Warburton and Hurd's Life of Warburton.
Author Donald D. Eddy is a Professor of Bibliography and English Literature,
Emeritus, at Cornell University. Eddy taught at Cornell for 35 years.
This well researched and authoritative bibliography will be a welcome
addition to the libraries of historians and bibliophiles of 18th-century
British literature.
1999, 9" x 11", illustrated, 354 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 1-58456-002-9 / Order# 55470-EM / Price $85.00 + shipping
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