Duncan Wu

Homage to Joseph Johnson, the radical 18th-century publisher

Thanks to his talent-spotting genius, works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and other free-thinkers were first made widely available

Joseph Johnson by William Sharp, after Moses Haughton the Elder. [Alamy]

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