Commonplace book of James Boswell [manuscript], ca. 1755.

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Commonplace book of James Boswell [manuscript], ca. 1755.

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A commonplace book with a few extracts from standard authors painstakingly copied in a few pages of the book, with a number of engraved Scottish coats of arms, engraved by Robert Mylne and evidently cut out of a heraldic book. Boswell's eight headings are "Death and Immortality," "Prodigies," "Travelling," "Persecution through Superstition," "Pastoral Life," "Grandeur, the great uncertainty of it," "Sleep," and "Sterling." Inside the front cover is written "Alexander Boswell 1798 This was my father's common place Book at a very early period of his life."

1 v. : coats of arms.

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Mylne, Robert, 1643?-1747

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Boswell, Alexander, Sir, 1775-1822

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Eldest son of James Boswell, the elder. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1821 Oct. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270514153 Eldest son of James Boswell. From the description of Autograph letter in verse signed : Edinburgh, to Andrew Gibb, Auchinleck House, Edinburgh, 1792 [Jan.] 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270513485 ...

Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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James Boswell (1740-1795) was the author of one of the most influential biographies in the English language, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He also wrote two successful travel books: An Account of Corsica, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. He worked intermittently as a lawyer, and in 1782 succeeded his father as Laird of Auchinleck in Scotland. From the description of James Boswell letters, 1762-1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612839330 Boswell wa...