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… Poem (London: W. Flexney, 1763), p. 3-4; James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No Matter by Whom (London: R. Griffiths, 1758). 2 . Paul J. Korshin, ‘Types of … Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, over the patronage of his Dictionary. In 1746, Johnson was asked by a consortium of booksellers to create an authoritative dictionary of the English language. Though they agreed to pay him the substantial … Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 77. For Johnson, the booksellers had become the enablers of a project like the dictionary, and the author was paid as a consequence of a …
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