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Trade & plumb-cake for ever, huzza! : the life & work of John Newbery, 1713-1767 : author, bookseller, entrepreneur and pioneer of publishing for children by and put together by John Rowe Townsend; from a biography by Charles Welsh; with essays by Samuel Johnson & George Colman the Elder is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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"John Newbery was the London bookseller who pioneered publishing for children as a serious part of the book trade. The principal American award for children's literature is named, in his memory, the Newbery Medal. His most famous title, Little Goody Two-Shoes, is still remembered, though not read." "He was a farm boy who came to London and made good. He was the friend and sometimes the employer of Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and Christopher Smart (who became his son-in-law.) His little books for children, which sold in their thousands, were only part of a large and varied publishing output. He was a business man to his finger-tips, always on the look-out for profitable new enterprises; and he made most of his fortune from promoting patent medicines, most notably the once-famous Dr James's Fever Powder. Yet contemporaries praised his honesty and benevolence, and John Newbery was in his way a man of the Enlightenment, concerned to educate the rising middle class to which he belonged. His views on the raising of children were progressive; he believed, with "the great Mr Locke," that they should be treated kindly and helped to learn through pleasure, rather than being whipped into li

Author

and put together by John Rowe Townsend; from a biography by Charles Welsh; with essays by Samuel Johnson & George Colman the Elder

Publisher

Colt Books; COLT BKS

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780905899114

Subjects

Computer Science, Reference

Updated

2026-03-25