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Roxburghe Club publications are produced in two states. Each member of the Club receives a copy bound in half calf. In the list of members of the Club, each recipient's name is printed in red ink. Normally, not more than 42 copies are printed in this form. Additionally a member can print up to 300 copies of the title usually bound in cloth. These are available for sale, usually through the antiquarian bookdealers listed below.

Maggs Bros., 48 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DR
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 7493 7160
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7499 2007
Email: robert@maggs.com
Attention of: Robert Harding

Bernard Quaritch Limited, 36 Bedford Row, Holborn, London WC1R 4JH
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 7297 4888
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7297 4866
Email: rarebooks@quaritch.com

JAMES BOSWELL’S BOOK OF COMPANY AT AUCHINLECK.

Sale Notes

Price: £260.00

Sale Vendor

Quaritch

Notes

Edited by Mary, Viscountess Eccles and Gordon Turnbull. The Roxburghe Club, 1995. The Book of Company is much more than a visitor’s book, since Boswell’s comments on the men and women he met and entertained, and the occasions of his doing so, are all his own. It is therefore an important addition to his many-sided self-portrait.

Beginning in 1782, two years before Johnson died, and ending five months before Boswell’s own death in May 1795, it reflects Boswell’s anguished uncertainties, as well as the everyday details of where he was, with whom he dined, whom he saw in the evening and – punctually recorded – how many bottles of wine and spirits were dispatched. The book is here reproduced in full facsimile, interleaved with a transcript on facing pages. At the foot of each page is a commentary, largely drawn from Boswell’s correspondence and journals, which converts it into a comprehensive day by day diary of Boswell’s thoughts and actions throughout the period.

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• HERALDO MEMORIALE. OR MEMOIRS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARMS FROM 1727 TO 1744.
• VOLTAIRE. THÉRÈSE, A FRAGMENT.
• ASPECTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY. By John Dreyfus.
• THE GARDYNERS PASSETAUNCE (c. 1512).
• REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS WORTH SEEING IN ITALY GIVEN TO JOHN EVELYN 25 APRIL 1646.
• TWO EAST ANGLIAN PICTURE BOOKS.
• THE LAST YEARS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
• SIR THOMAS SMITH’S MISMANAGEMENT OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY BY NICHOLAS FERRAR.
• SYON ABBEY.
• JAMES BOSWELL’S BOOK OF COMPANY AT AUCHINLECK.
• IL QUADRIREGIO.
• THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.
• JAN HUYGEN VAN LINSCHOTEN AND THE MORAL MAP OF ASIA.
• THE GREAT BOOK OF THOMAS TREVILIAN.
• RONALD FIRBANK. LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER, 1920-24 and LA PRINCESSE AUX SOLEILS.
• THE TOLLEMACHE BOOK OF SECRETS.
• THE WIZARD EARL’S ADVICES TO HIS SON.
• FRAGMENTA REGALIA. OBSERVATIONS OF THE LATE QUEENE ELIZABETH, HIR TIMES AND FAUORITES.
• THE ARUNDEL CHOIRBOOK.
• HOLKHAM LIBRARY: A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION.
• THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS TRESHAM AND THOMAS BRUDENELL.
• INIGO JONES’S ROMAN SKETCHBOOK.
• THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR DISRAELI AND MRS BRYDGES WILLIAMS, 1851-1863.
• THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY. SOCIABILITY AND BOOK COLLECTING IN MID-VICTORIAN BRITAIN. BY DAVID MCKITTERICK. THE ROXBURGHE CLUB, 2020
• A Letter from India, written in 1824 by Reginald Heber. Edited by Nicolas Barker
• THE BRUSH HAS BEAT THE POETRY! ILLUSTRATIONS TO LORD BYRON'S WORKS. EDITED BY JOHN R. MURRAY
• BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA.
• THE MIRROURE OF THE WORLDE. MS BODLEY 283 (ENGLAND c. 1470-1480).
• THE LUMLEY INVENTORY. ART COLLECTING AND LINEAGE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. EDITED BY MARK EVANS. THE ROXBURGHE CLUB 2010.
• THE ROXBURGHE CLUB: A BICENTENARY HISTORY By Nicolas Barker. The Roxburghe Club, 2012
• A DYNASTY OF DEALERS: JOHN SMITH AND SUCCESSORS, 1801-1924. A STUDY OF THE ART MARKET IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LONDON.
• The AMORES of Sigismondo Boldoni
• Esther Inglis's LES PROVERBES DE SALOMON, a facsimile with an introduction by Nicolas Barker
• AN EARLY BRETON GOSPEL BOOK. A NINTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT FROM THE COLLECTION OF H. L. BRADFER-LAWRENCE (1887-1965)
• JOHN MEADE FALKNER: ABNORMAL ROMANTIC
  A biography by Richard Davenport-Hines