Abstract
Abstract This essay examines new archival evidence relating to the planning, publication, and advertising of The Museum, a fortnightly periodical published in London in 1746–1747 and known now to scholars for its publication of poetry by a number of canonical English poets. This evidence shows that the periodical was not the work of Robert Dodsley alone, as has been claimed, but was in fact a collaboration between Dodsley and fellow booksellers Charles Hitch, Thomas Longman, and John Rivington. It was Rivington, not Dodsley, who carried out the details of arranging advertisements, paying printers and newspapers, and registering The Museum with the Stationers’ Company. This new evidence also clarifies the contributions of Mark Akenside and John Campbell, and suggests that prose essays, reviews, and history were more important features of The Museum than poetry.
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