Picturesque beauties of Boswell, : part the first. Containing ten prints, /
Rowlandson, Thomas,1756-1827.
Collings, Samuel.
Cowan, William,1852-1929,former owner.StEdNL: F.7.a.27
[London] : Published in May, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Mary-le-Bone-Street, Golden-Square, and G. Kearsley, Fleet-Street.,
[1786]
Consists of 20 plates caricaturing Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides.
Artists' names: Thomas Rowlandson and Samuel Collings.
Title from upper wrapper.
Title on upper wrapper of volume 2 reads as volume 1 except for "part the second".
Imprint of volume 2 reads: Published in June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No.14, Mary-le-Bone-Street, Golden-Square, and G. Kearsley, No.46, Fleet-Street
In volume 1 plates dated 15 or 30 May, in volume 2 dated 10, 15 or 20 June.
Copy at S.309.a consists of the same plates, but each line of text below the plate begins with quotation marks. This does not apply to plates 2, 5 and 10 of volume 2, which are the same in all copies.
Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece, representing General Paoli, Dr. Johnson, and the Journalist practising his celebrated imitations. 2. The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck, or the Land of Stones. 3. The embrace at Boyd's Inn. 4. Walking up the High-Street, Edinburgh. 5. Tea at the Journalist's house in James-Court. 6. Chatting 'till two in the morning. 7. Veronica, with the breakfast scene. 8. Wit and wisdom, making preparations for dinner. 9. Setting out from Edinburgh on the tour. 10. Scotifying the palate at Leith. -- Volume 2. 1. Revising for the second edition, under the inspection of a learned friend. 2. The procession to St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews. 3. The vision at Lord Errol's, Slain's Castle. 4. Lodging at a M'Queen's, in Glenmorison, the celebrated spider scene. 5. Reconciliation at Glenelg, after the Journalist had rode away from Ursa Major. 6. Highland dance on the top of Dun-Can, the highest mountain in the island of Rasay. 7. The recovery, after a severe drunken frolick, at Corrichatacin. 8. Sailing among the Hebrides, the Journalist holding a rope's end. 9. The contest at Auchinleck, in which, Ursa Major made a severe retort on the Journalist's father. 10. Imitations at Drury-Lane Theatre, by the Journalist.
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Pencil note on front pastedown: Bought from the Trustees of the late Mr. William Cowan. 5th July 1929.
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784