Sign-In
Cart
The Ballantyne-Humbug Handled: In a Letter to Sir Adam Fergusson
Paperback
Literary CriticismGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9781022797734
Publisher: Legare Street Pr
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This letter, originally written in 1826, takes a critical look at the publishing business and the literary culture of the time. Lockhart takes specific aim at the works and business practices of James Ballantyne and his brother, both prominent publishers in Edinburgh at the time.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Also from
Lockhart, John Gibson
The Quarterly Review; Volume 42
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: The Text and Introduction, Notes, and Editorial Material
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies Contained in Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Respecting the Messrs. Ballantyne
Lockhart, John Gibson
Ballantyne, John Alexander
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review, Volume 111
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review, Volume 55
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Begun by Himself and Continued by J.G. Lockhart. 2 Vols. [An Abridgment of the Memoirs]
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review; Volume 176
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 39
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 10
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 158
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 9
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 38
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 41
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 191
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
Remarkes On the Novel of Reginald Dalton [By J.G. Lockhart] With Extr. From That Work Illustrative of Life in Oxford
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review; Volume 141
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 99
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 129
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
Remarks On The Novel Of Reginald Dalton: With Extracts From That Work, Illustrative Of Life In Oxford (1824)
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
Some Passages in the Life of MR Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: By J. G. Lockhart, ... in Four Volumes, Volume 2...
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: By J. G. Lockhart, ... in Four Volumes, Volume 1...
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: To Which Is Added, Postscript Addressed to Samuel T. Coleridge; Volume 2
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review; Volume 136
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Hardcover
Lectures on the History of Literature: Ancient and Modern, Volume 1
Lockhart, John Gibson
Von Schlegel, Friedrich
Paperback
The Quarterly Review, Volume 55
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Hardcover
Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Begun by Himself and Continued by J.G. Lockhart. 2 Vols. [An Abridgment of the Memoirs].
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review, Volume 46
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review, Volume 181
Gifford, William
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Paperback
Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle
Lockhart, John Gibson
Hardcover
The Quarterly Review, Volume 51
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Hardcover
Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Begun by Himself and Continued by J.G. Lockhart. 2 Vols. [An Abridgment of the Memoirs]
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 12
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Hardcover
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., by John Gibson Lockhart.Vol. 2
Lockhart, John Gibson
Lockhart, J. G.
Paperback
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., by John Gibson Lockhart.Vol. 4
Lockhart, John Gibson
Lockhart, J. G.
Paperback
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., by John Gibson Lockhart.Vol. 1
Lockhart, J. G.
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic. Tr. by J. G. Lockhart, Esq.
Lockhart, J. G.
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., by John Gibson Lockhart.Vol. 3
Lockhart, John Gibson
Lockhart, J. G.
Paperback
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., by John Gibson Lockhart.Vol. 5
Lockhart, J. G.
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 28
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 16
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 46
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: By J. G. Lockhart, ... in Four Volumes, Volume 4...
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: To Which Is Added, Postscript Addressed to Samuel T. Coleridge; Volume 2
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The History of Matthew Wald [Purporting to Be Ed. by J.W.R., Really Written by J.G. Lockhart.].
Wald, Matthew
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 136
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
The Quarterly Review; Volume 12
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
The Quarterly Review, Volume 63
Gifford, William
Prothero, George Walter
Lockhart, John Gibson
Paperback
The Quarterly Review, Volume 163
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
The Quarterly Review, Volume 58
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
The Quarterly Review, Volume 161
Lockhart, John Gibson
Prothero, George Walter
Coleridge, John Taylor
Paperback
Also in
General World History
Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier
Lintner, Bertil
Hardcover
Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Green, John
Hardcover
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Green, John
Hardcover
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Sides, Hampton
Hardcover
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Hardcover
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Egan, Timothy
Paperback
The ZERO Percent: Secrets of the United States, the Power of Trust, Nationality, Banking and ZERO TAXES!
Dey, Du'vaul
Paperback
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Dawson, Kate Winkler
Hardcover
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
King, Charles
Hardcover
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paperback
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Satow, Julie
Hardcover
Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
Campbell, Olivia
Hardcover
Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women
Silverstein, Julie
Pruwer, Tami Schlossberg
Hardcover
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
MacIntyre, Ben
Hardcover
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
Mahnke, Aaron
Hardcover
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
National Public Radio, Inc
Fensterstock, Alison
Hardcover
Silence Equals Consent - the sin of omission: Speak Now or Forever Lose Your Freedom
Federer, William J.
Paperback
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Letts, Elizabeth
Paperback
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Large Print Edition)
Applebaum, Anne
Paperback
Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
Browne, David
Hardcover
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
Paperback
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
Williams, Paul L.
Paperback
Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women
McBride, Anita
Carlin, Diana
Kegan Smith, Nancy
Paperback
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded
Treuer, Anton
Paperback
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History
Humphries, Suzanne
Bystrianyk, Roman
Paperback
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History
Clark, Nicola
Hardcover
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
Prouty, L. Fletcher
Paperback
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Paperback
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Slater, Dan
Hardcover
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Elledge, Jonn
Hardcover
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Hobbs, Jeff
Hardcover
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
Gorton, Stephanie
Hardcover
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
Moore, Kate
Paperback
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Rosen, Jeffrey
Hardcover
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
Kang, Lydia
Pedersen, Nate
Hardcover
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives
Ocker, J. W.
Hardcover
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Putnam, Robert D.
Paperback
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Gee, Henry
Hardcover
Guerra Contra Todos Los Puertorriqueños: Revolución Y Terror En La Colonia Americana
Denis, Nelson A.
Paperback
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
Miles, Rosalind
Paperback
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
Paperback
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Mundy, Liza
Paperback
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
McGilchrist, Iain
Paperback
The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
Hardcover
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
Kahler, Abbott
Hardcover
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Woodard, Colin
Paperback
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Ziblatt, Daniel
Levitsky, Steven
Paperback
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Goldstone, Nancy
Hardcover
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
Harl, Kenneth W.
Hardcover
The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine
Kanafani, Ghassan
Fuleihan, Layan S.
Al-Charif, Maher
Paperback
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Schwartz, Yardena
Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
Kitagawa, Kate
Revell, Timothy
Hardcover
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
Hardcover
The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
Waller, Douglas
Hardcover
Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
Krefft, Vanda
Hardcover
Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
Evans, Diane Carlson
Hardcover
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War I
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Paperback
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
Lewis, David Levering
Hardcover
Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion
Macdonell, Nancy
Hardcover
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Hartman, Saidiya
Paperback