The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) - James Boswell - Books - Yale University Press - 9780300076813 - January 11, 1999
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The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) First Edition (Us) First Printing edition

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The latest volume in the Boswell Research Edition contains James Boswell`s correspondence over many years with the overseers of his Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire. The letters and the wealth of primary material used to annotate them are a trove of information on the agrarian and social history of eighteenth-century Scotland. The letters present Boswell in a light new to those who know him as a diarist, advocate, and biographer of Samuel Johnson. He appears here as one of the "gentlemen improvers" of largely agricultural southwestern Scotland on the brink of the Industrial Revolution. Accordingly, the volume offers an extensive case study of estate life and management during this important transitional period. .

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 11, 1999
ISBN13 9780300076813
Publishers Yale University Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 160 × 240 × 20 mm   ·   616 g
Language English  
Contributor John Strawhorn
Contributor Nellie Pottle Hankins

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