A Select Collection of Old ENlish Plays

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He is said to have been apprenticed to a stocking-weaver in Mansfield, from whom he ran away, going into service as a footman. He soon became one of the foremost publishers of the day. One of his first publications was Samuel Johnson 's London for which he paid ten guineas in He published many of Johnson's works, and he suggested and helped to finance Johnson's Dictionary.

Pope also made over to Dodsley his interest in his letters. In , the publication of Paul Whitehead 's Manners was voted scandalous by the House of Lords and led to Dodsley's imprisonment for a brief period.

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He was also publisher to the Rev. In Dodsley retired, leaving the conduct of the business to his brother James — , with whom he had been in partnership for many years. He died and was buried at Durham while he was on a visit to his friend Joseph Spence. In Dodsley published his first work, Servitude: This was followed by a satirical farce called The Toy-Shop Covent Garden , , in which the toymaker indulges in moral observations on his wares, a hint which was probably taken from Thomas Randolph 's Conceited Pedlar.

Dodsley displayed his egalitarian leanings with the anonymous The Chronicle of the Kings of England by "Nathan ben Saddi" , rewriting English history in the style of the King James Version of the Pentateuch. The Oeconomy of Human Life appeared in , a collection of moral precepts attributed to ancient authors in India and China, set out in a King James Version style of English attributed to an anonymous translator. Dodsley is, however, best known as the editor of two collections, one of plays, and one of poems.

The first was the Select Collection of Old Plays 12 vols. Dodsley's collection of poems, A collection of Poems by Several Hands , 3 vols. Please enter your name.

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