Johnson, Joseph
Joseph Johnson (November 15, 1738 – December 20, 1809) was a bookseller and publisher in London with a reputation for publishing controversial works by radical thinkers, including supporters of women's rights, abolitionists, and Dissenters. He also hosted weekly dinners at his house with unconventional thinkers that became a sort of salon for philosophical discussion, known as the 'Johnson Circle'. Johnson's embrace of radical ideas led him to publish works in support of the French Revolution (including critical appraisals of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France), which caused him to come under great pressure from the authorities. He was imprisoned in 1799 for seditious libel, after which he published less controversial works. Nevertheless, Johnson remained a very prominent publisher, perhaps the most prominent in London, for having recognized early the value of publishing inexpensive works for a wide readership. He is remembered particularly for promoting women writers, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and Priscilla Wakefield, at a time when they were generally neglected by the reading public.
The beauty and horrors of the New World.
A Map of Guiana etc.
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This is a significant 1793 map of Guiana by John Gabriel Stedman and Thomas Conder, published to accompany Stedman's The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. Although parts of this region were claimed by European powers and Europeans resided near the coast, trading and managing plantations, the geography, climate, and peoples of the interior were poorly understood when this map was published. (more details)