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James Dodsley

Mansfield 1724 – 1797-02-19 London English, French, Latin Main: London bookseller publisher writer James Dodsley, 1724-1797 (viaf) Dodsley, James (cerl) James Dodsley (wikidata)

Contributions

  1. Paul & Mary, an Indian story translation publisher
  2. Phocion's Conversations, or, the Relation between Morality and Politics: Originally translated by Abbé Mably, From a Greek Manuscript of Nicocles with Notes By William Macbean, A. M. And Master of a Boarding-School at Newmarket. Inscribed to the Friends of Morality and just Politics translation publisher
  3. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to that event: In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris has translation publisher

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James Dodsley was taken into partnership at his elder brother Robert's bookshop in Pall Mall, which became R. & J. Dodsley. He succeeded Robert in 1759. He was a member of the Congeries, a group of booksellers who produced Samuel Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets', alongside other works. In 1790, he sold 18,000 copies of Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'.

He led a secluded life and eventually handed his business over to George Nicol. He then dealt wholesale in his own publications.

Dodsley died on 19th February 1797 at his house in Pall Mall, and was buried in St James' Church, Westminster. He left most of his ≈£70,000 fortune to his nephews and nieces.

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'Dodsley, James', in 'Dictionary of National Biography' London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1885–1900. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Dodsley,_James