Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture

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On March 20, 1760, a fire broke out in the Cornhill district of Boston, destroying nearly 350 buildings in its wake. Probably the most ruined shops belonged to the eminent Boston bookseller Daniel Henchman, who had published some of Jonathan Edwards’s most essential works, including The Life of Brainerd in 1749. Not up to one year after the Great Fire of 1760, Henchman died. Edwards’s chief printer Samuel Kneeland and literary agent and editor, Thomas Foxcroft, had also gave up the ghost by the end of the decade, marking the end of an era. All over Edwards’s lifetime, and in the years after his death in 1758, the various first editions of his books had been published in Boston. But with the deaths of Henchman, Kneeland, and Foxcroft, the publications of Edwards’s writings shifted to Britain, where a new crop of booksellers, printers, and editors took at the task of issuing posthumous editions and reprints of his books.

In Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture, religious historian Jonathan Yeager tells the story of how Edwards’s works were published, including the people who were involved in their publication and their motivations. This book explores what the printing, publishing, and editing of Jonathan Edwards’s publications can let us know about religious print culture in the eighteenth century, how the way that his books were put together shaped society’s understanding of him as an creator, and how details such as the formats, costs, quality of paper, length, bindings, and the selection of reprints and abridgements of his works affected their reception.

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