The
Edinburgh Review
The Edinburgh Review was founded by Lord
Henry Brougham in October, 1802 and remained in print
until October, 1929.
Broughham was a philanthropist who advocated for the improvement,
education and literacy of the working classes and was involved
in setting up Mechanic’s Institutes in the 1820’s.
Contributors to the Edinburgh
Review over the years included
such names as: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold,
Thomas Arnold, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, George
Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Oliphant, and William
Makepeace Thackeray. The Edinburgh Review could
be purchased for 6s. Circulation ranged from 800 of the
first issue,
up to 14,000 in 1818, and dropped to 2,100 by 1899.
(Richard
D. Altick. The English Common Reader:
A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900. University
of Chicago Press, 1957. The Waterloo
Directory of English
Newspapers and Periodicals,
1800-1900. Edited by John S. North.www.victorianperiodicals.com)
Articles sur l'histoire du livre:
| The Edinburgh
Review, or Critical
Journal: for November 1817-February
1818. To be Continued Quarterly. Edinburgh: Printed
by David Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company,
Edinburgh: and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown,
London, 1818. |
| Art. IX. Voyage en
Savoie, en Piemont, à Nice
et à Gènes.
Par A. L. Millin, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal de la
Legion d"honneur, &c. &c. 2 vol. 8vo. Paris, 1816.
pp.191-217. |
The article has a brief
passage on the
public library in
Turin (pp. 206),
first founded by Amadeus the VIIIth. There
are important manuscripts in the collection, including
letters of Isidore of Senlis and a tract
by St. Branlius. The author notes that "Isidore's
compilation, although it is a specimen of the antiquity
of the art of bookmaking, is nvertheless of great
utility. If any industrious scholar were to undertake
a new edition of the etymologies he would deserve
much credit; there are few works in which so much
would be gained by a careful collation of manuscripts." |
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