Download or read book Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana written by Topham Beauclerk and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliotheca Heberiana Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber Esq which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby and Son at Their House Wellington street Strand on Thursday April 10 and Twenty five Following Days written by Sotheby's (London) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bibliotheca Heberiana Catalogue Of The Library Of The Late Richard Heber Esq written by Richard Heber and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bibliotheca elegantissima Monroiana A catalogue of the library of John Monro which will be sold by auction written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Museum Southgatianum Being a Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Books Coins Medals and Natural History of the Late Rev Richard Southgate written by Richard Southgate and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books written by Thomas Egerton (Bookseller) and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Henry B Humphrey Esq written by Henry B. Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the valuable library of Henry B Humphrey written by Leonard and Co. and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Download or read book Dr Johnson s Friend and Robert Adam s Client Topham Beauclerk written by David Noy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to a dispute about the bill. He was one of the leading book-collectors of the time, with a library of 30,000 volumes whose sale after his death was a major literary event. He also used his wealth to indulge interests in science and astronomy and a passion for gambling. As a result, he ran through his inheritance as quickly as he could sell it, falling into ever-increasing debt as his lawyer grew richer. Beauclerk knew all the leading figures of the British and French Enlightenments. He was a friend of Johnson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes and David Garrick. He met Rousseau and Voltaire, and immersed himself in French salon culture. He could charm people when he chose to, but did not always try. Recently he has been overshadowed by his wife, Lady Di (née Spencer), whose life by Carola Hicks (Improper Pursuits, 2001) has made her artistic talent and unconventional life well-known. The story of their adultery and marriage has not previously been told from Beauclerk’s point of view, and many other inaccuracies have crept into authoritative works such as the ODNB; he is regularly and unfairly dismissed as a bad husband. This biography shows that he was much more than the close associate of Johnson known from the pages of Boswell: a man of widely varied interests, from the Grand Tour to the contemporary theatre, who lived Enlightenment life to the full in a way which would not have been possible a generation earlier or later. Based on research in unpublished letters, legal documents and financial records, including some concerning the Adam house, as well as published diaries, letters and memoirs, it shows that he may have left no enduring legacy of his many talents, as even his friends admitted, but he made the most of all the opportunities available and lived a fascinating life which illuminates every aspect of Georgian elite society, from auctions to zoology, from care of one’s wig to building an observatory, and from mishaps in Venice to sea-therapy in Brighton.

Download or read book Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England written by David Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware public.