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The Age of Johnson: The Library of Loren and Frances Rothschild brings together the most comprehensive collection of rare books and autograph works in private hands of the 18th-century literary giant Samuel Johnson, together with extensive collections of the works of the other principal authors of the period long-known as the Age of Johnson— including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, Hester (Thrale) Piozzi, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift.
An introduction to each of these authors provides information placing the author in his or her historical and literary context, and the descriptive entries for each of the over 900 individual manuscripts, letters, and rare books records bibliographical information, significant facts, and critical information about the work recorded.
The individual entries, when viewed in the aggregate, survey and illuminate the breadth and depth of the literary and intellectual canon of the authors of the Age of Johnson, illuminate their relationships and their works to one another. The text taken as a whole demonstrates why Samuel Johnson, as an individual and as an author, defined the era long named for him.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Policies
List of Illustrations
Bibliography and Short-Title References
Part I: Samuel Johnson
Introduction
Autograph Letters
Autograph Documents and Books Inscribed by and Associated with Johnson
Other Printed Works
Eighteenth-Century Collected Works
Biographical Works and Quotation Books
Miscellany of Eighteenth-Century Johnsoniana
William Dodd
Part II: The Johnsonian School
Introduction
James Boswell
Edmund Burke
Frances Burney
David Garrick
Oliver Goldsmith
Hester Lynch Piozzi (Formerly Hester Lynch Thrale)
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Part III: Johnson's Nemesis: John Wilkes
Introduction
Autograph Letters
Printed Works: An Essay on Woman and North Britain No. 45
Printed Works: The Middlesex Elections Controversy
Other Printed Works by and Relating to Wilkes
Part IV: The Age of Johnson
Introduction
Robert Dodsley
Introduction
Printed Works
Henry Fielding
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Gray
Alexander Pope
Samuel Richardson
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Christopher Smart
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Swift
Appendix 1: Notable Collectors
Index of Entries
Index
