Joseph Johnson (publisher)
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Joseph Johnson was an influential 18th-century London bookseller and publisher. His publications covered a wide variety of genres and a broad spectrum of opinions on important issues. Johnson is best
Engraving of Johnson by William Sharp, after a painting by Moses Haughton the Elder
Johnson commissioned this portrait of his close friend Joseph Priestley from his other close friend Henry Fuseli around 1783. The portrait is today in the collections of Dr Williams's Library.
Forms of Prayer (1783) by Joseph Priestley, a Unitarian liturgy published by Joseph Johnson
The second English edition of Francis Stoughton Sullivan's Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England, published by Johnson in 1776
Thoughts on the education of daughters: with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life is the first published work of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Published in 1
Detail from Rebecca Solomon's The Governess (1851)
Title page from the first edition of Hester Chapone's Letters (1773), one of the most popular conduct books at the time Wollstonecraft was writing Thoughts
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1791)
Mary Wollstonecraft Portrait