Observations, good or bad, stupid or clever, serious or jocular, on Squire Foote's dramatic entertainment, intitled, The minor. By a genius.
Boswell, James,1740-1795.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL
Boswell, James,1740-1795,inscriber.StEdNL
Barnbougle CastleLibrary,former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh : printed in the year,
1760.
With a half-title.
A genius = James Boswell.
ESTC
Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Roseberry on the front pastedown. Cut-out catalogue inscription loosely enclosed between the front pastedown and free endpaper from the Auchinleck Library sale in 1893. Manuscript inscription in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand on the verso of the front original wrapper "The note on the half title is in Boswells Autograph. The pamphlet of course was written by him". Stamp of Barnbougle Castle Catalogue at the head of the half-title page. Manuscript inscription on the half-title page "By James Boswell Esqr. This was an idle performance and written inconsiderately; for I disapprove much of the Minor, as having a profane and illiberal tendency".
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