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
Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-centur
Title page from Barbauld's Lessons for Children (1778–79)
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1791)
Title page from Rousseau's Emile (1762)
Sketch for the frontispiece for the 1791 edition of Original Stories, by William Blake. Scanned from Blake's sketch and digitally restored.