Books by Robert Dodsley

This best-selling anthology of 18th century poetry was edited by Alexander Pope's protege, Robert Dodsley. Dodsley became the most celebrated publisher of the age when the anthology went through 11 editions in 34 years.

Robert Dodsley was London's leading literary publisher of the mid eighteenth century. Numbering about four hundred pieces, the correspondence reflects the publisher's relations with such people as Edmund Burke, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, David Garrick, Thomas Gray, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, and Horace Walpole.