Table of Contents:
  • Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810
  • Introduction: A New Sensibility for Classics
  • 1. Our Native Classics, Complete and Uniform
  • 2. The Elzevirs of Glasgow
  • 3. The Classics Move across Scotland
  • 4. Little Trifling Edition Revisited
  • 5. Prefaces and Bell's Connected System of Biography
  • 6. The Best Judges of Vendible Poetry: et al
  • 7. Robert Anderson's Comprehensive View of English Poetry
  • 8. Pocket Library
  • 9. A Body of Standard English Poetry?
  • 10. Splinter Canons, Fugitives, and Empire
  • Epilogue: A Library to Every House
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Poets
  • Index of Booksellers, Printers, Publishers