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Journal Article
Translating Arabia in Enlightenment Edinburgh: Compilation, Comparison, and Robert Heron
2019
Overview
Elliot also paid Heron £23 2s for translating Claude-Étienne Savary's Letters on Greece shortly after its original publication in French in 1788.19 These are sums that would have supported a comfortable middle-class lifestyle for a month or so, but such one-off payments were minimal compensation for hundreds of pages of specialist translation. [...]the diary records that he frequently had to chase up money owed to him by the booksellers; and, as he often missed work deadlines, Heron's relationships with his patrons were unstable. There was undoubtedly an imaginative interest in the region, however. Besides the persistent popularity of the Arabian Tales, the bookseller Charles Elliot also sold in 1774 two copies of the orientalist William Jones' Poems Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick (1772), which included Jones' versions of poems that were inspired by or indirectly copied from Arabic originals.39 Jones' accompanying essay argued that \"we can properly lay the scene of pastoral poetry\" in Arabia Felix \"because no nation at this day can vie with the Arabians in the delightfulness of their climate. Through the booksellers, then, people could compile their own personal collections of worldly knowledge, adding Heron's translation of Niebuhr to a range of apparently disparate but in some cases directly comparable sources. [...]Hope Weir's purchase of the Grammar and James Jollie's preference for edited collections of travel literature point to another way in which information about Arabia was juxtaposed with other travelers' observations. According to Adam's biographer, the book \"was received with avidity, and large impressions were sold.
