ABSTRACT
Imprint Joseph Johnson (English, 1738–1809), eminent London publisher and bookseller. After his previous workplace was destroyed by a fire in 1770, he moved permanently to 72 St. Paul’s Churchyard. His sympathies leaned toward religious dissent and political radicalism. Benjamin Franklin, Henry Fuseli, William Godwin, Thomas Paine, Joseph Priestley and Mary Wollstonecraft were among the figures he published, collaborated with, and/or befriended; his Thursday-night suppers were legendary. All of Darwin’s works beginning with The Families of Plants (1787) bear Johnson’s imprint.
