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Joseph Johnson

London bookseller and publisher (1738-1809) · Died at 71

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Joseph Johnson was an influential 18th-century London bookseller and publisher. His publications covered a wide variety of genres and a broad spectrum of opinions on important issues.

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Johnson commissioned this portrait of his close friend Joseph Priestley from his other close friend Henry Fuseli around 1783.[13] The portrait is today in the collections of Dr Williams's Library.Johnson commissioned this portrait of his close friend Joseph Priestley from his other close friend Henry Fuseli around 1783.[13] The portrait is today in the collections of Dr Williams's Library.Forms of Prayer (1783) by Joseph Priestley, a Unitarian liturgy published by Joseph JohnsonForms of Prayer (1783) by Joseph Priestley, a Unitarian liturgy published by Joseph JohnsonThe second English edition of Francis Stoughton Sullivan's Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England, published by Johnson in 1776The second English edition of Francis Stoughton Sullivan's Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England, published by Johnson in 1776Laws Respecting Women (1777), published by JohnsonLaws Respecting Women (1777), published by JohnsonDespite having bought the copyright, Johnson generously gave William Cowper the profits from this fifth edition of the poet's Poems.Despite having bought the copyright, Johnson generously gave William Cowper the profits from this fifth edition of the poet's Poems.Along with the portrait of Priestley (pictured above), The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli (1781) hung above Johnson's dinner guests.[67]Along with the portrait of Priestley (pictured above), The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli (1781) hung above Johnson's dinner guests.[67]Detail from James Gillray's political cartoon New Morality published in the Anti-Jacobin Review (1798); most of the radical pamphlets issuing from the "cornucopia of ignorance" were published by Johnson: Darwin, Wakefield, Horne Tooke, Paine, Coleridge, Priestley, and others.Detail from James Gillray's political cartoon New Morality published in the Anti-Jacobin Review (1798); most of the radical pamphlets issuing from the "cornucopia of ignorance" were published by Johnson: Darwin, Wakefield, Horne Tooke, Paine, Coleridge, Priestley, and others.

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Joseph Johnson was an influential 18th-century London bookseller and publisher. His publications covered a wide variety of genres and a broad spectrum of opinions on important issues. Johnson is best known for publishing the works of radical thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Thomas Malthus, Erasmus Darwin and Joel Barlow, feminist economist Priscilla Wakefield, as well as religious Dissenters such as Joseph Priestley, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Gilbert Wakefield, and George Walker.

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Lived 1738 to 1809 · aged 71

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