William Godwin
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William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery
c. 1797 portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft
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