Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793

found: MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 4-1793; usage: R. Johnson)

found: His Juvenile trials, 1973: t.p. (Richard Johnson) pref. (printer who became a hack writer about 1770; Juvenile trials first published 1772 under pseud. Master Tommy Littleton)

found: Roscoe, S. John Newbery and his successors, 1740-1814, 1973: p. 87, etc. (Cooper, the Rev. Mr., alias The Rev. J., alias The Rev. Samuel (J82-85), the available evidence points to the three Coopers being (with the exceptions mentioned) Richard Johnson, the exceptions being the New history of England and part of the History of France; History of North America, 1789, 1st ed., America produced not less than 12 edd. in the period 1793-1818 (J169))

found: Weedon, M. J. P. "Richard Johnson and the successors to John Newbery", in The Library, 5th series, vol. 4 (June 1949): footnote on p. 47-48 ("According to the preface to the Plymouth (Mass.) 2nd ed. of Cooper's Histories [of Greece and Rome, of South and North America], 1818, the histories of North and South America are extracted almost entirely [by Richard Johnson] from Dr. [William] Robertson (The History of America, 2 vol 1777) and Dr. [William] Gordon (The History of The Rise ... of the United States of America ... 4 vol. 1788) of which they are good abridgements")

found: Instructive lessons conveyed to the youthful mind through the medium of tale and dialogue, 1800: t.p. (Lilliputius Gulliver)

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