Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations
Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and AnnotationsJames Boswell had not, by publishing...
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Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

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Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

$105.00 $52.47
Author: Boswell, James,1740-1795
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

James Boswell had not, by publishing his great work, the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, completed his literary plans. He preserved the letters he received from notable persons, and retained copies of his own. For many years he kept a journal, in which he recorded not merely his conversations with Dr. Johnson, but the diurnal occurrences of his own life. Respecting his journal, in a letter to his friend Mr. Temple, dated 22nd May, 1789, he writes:You have often told me that I was the most thinking man you ever knew; it is certainly so as to my own life. I am continually conscious, continually looking back or looking forward, and wondering how I shall feel in situations which I anticipate in fancy. My journal will afford materials for a very curious narrative. I assure you I do not now live with a view to have surprising incidents, though I own I am desirous that my life should tell. Boswell evidently intended to adapt the contents of his journal to an autobiography; his early death precluded the intention. Besides a journal, Boswell kept in a portfolio a[xii] quantity of loose quarto sheets, inscribed on each page Boswelliana. In certain of these sheets the pages are denoted by numerals in the ordinary fashion; another portion is numbered by the folios; while a further portion consists of loose leaves and letterbacks. The greater part of the entries are made so carefully as to justify the belief that the author intended to embody the whole in a volume of literary anecdotes. At Boswells death his portfolio was sold along with the books contained in his house in London. It came into the possession of John Hugh Smyth Pigott, Esq., of Brockley Hall, Somersetshire, an indefatigable book collector. On Mr. Pigotts death in 1861 the volume, bound in russia, was sold along with the stores of the Brockley library. Purchased by Mr. Thomas Kerslake, bookseller in Bristol, it was afterwards sold by him to Lord Houghton. By his lordship it was lately handed to the Grampian Club, with a view to publication. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52163
Author: Boswell, James
Release Date: May 26, 2016
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Language: English

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