Loren Rothschild, a former attorney and business executive, is chairman emeritus of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, Botanical Gardens. He has been collecting rare books and manuscripts for 50 years. Rothschild has donated his collections of the works of Sir Richard and Lady Isabel Burton, Evelyn Waugh, and Paul Theroux to the Huntington Library. His collection of the works of William Somerset Maugham is recorded in a bibliographic catalogue published by Heritage Book Shop, Los Angeles, in 2001. Throughout the past fifty years, British and Irish 18th-century literature has remained Rothschild's primary intellectual and collecting interest. Frances Rothschild has shared and encouraged Loren’s interest in compiling his manuscript and rare books collections. Frances is a presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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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
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
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