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Tom Campbell is in miserable distress his son insane his wife on the point of becoming so. I nunc, et versus tecum meditare canoros. We, i.e. Doctor Dibdin too, and Utterson, all old Roxburghe men. Pleasant party, were it not for a bad cold, which makes me bark like a dog. April 29.
With Illuminated Plate of Arms of the Bishop of Bath and Wells and 10 other Plates of Arms, etc. Imperial octavo, £2 2s. Large Paper Copies, £3 3s. WITH MAPS, PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND COATS OF ARMS. Crown folio, cloth. Crown folio, Roxburghe binding, price £1 15s. In crown octavo, price 15s. cloth. Demy quarto, a few copies at the reduced price of £1 5s. cloth.
And this same Boccaccio was the point of attack which formed the climax in the great contest of the Roxburghe roup, as the Duke's fellow-countrymen called it. I am not aware that any of the English bibliographers have alluded to any special cause for this volume's extreme rarity.
The circle was a very exclusive one, however; the number limited to thirty-one members, "one black ball excluding;" and it used to be remarked, that it was easier to get into the Peerage or the Privy Council than into "the Roxburghe."
My health continues good, and bettering, as the Yankees say. I have gotten a choice manuscript of old English Romances, left here by Richard, and for which I know I have got a lad can copy them at a shilling a day. The King has granted me liberty to carry it home with me, which is very good-natured. I expect to secure something for the Roxburghe Club. Our posts begin to get more regular.
The thoughts of the subjects require sometimes to be turned to the sovereign, were it but only that they may remember there is such a person. The Bannatyne edition of Melville's Memoirs is out, and beats all print. Gad, it is a fine institution that; a rare one, by Jove! beats the Roxburghe.
Letters or Tour of Paul in 3 vols. 3000 Reprint of Bevis of Hampton for Roxburghe Club, Essay on the Neapolitan dialect, Can this prelate be Rogers's "Good Old Cardinal," who told the pleasant tale of the Bag of Gold, and is immortalised by the pencil of Landseer seated at table en famille with three of his velvet favourites? See Italy, fcp. 8vo, 1838, p. 302.
He was sometimes called Tristram Shandy and sometimes Yorick, a very great favourite of the gentlemen. One day" namely, on the aforesaid 18th of March "my master had company to dinner who were speaking about him the Duke of Roxburghe, the Earl of March, the Earl of Ossory, the Duke of Grafton, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Hume, and a Mr. James."
The pecuniary stake at issue, and the consequent excitement when the Valdarfer Boccaccio was knocked off, so far exceeded all anticipation, that at the festive board a motion was made and carried by acclamation, for meeting on the same day and in the same manner annually. And so the Roxburghe Club, the parent of all the book clubs, came into existence.
The stem of this brave name, in subsequent times, became two great branches, the Roxburghe and the Lothian. "This," continued Ker, "was the errand on which I came to the earl. Think then my horror, when in my journey I found redoubled legions hemming in the hills; and on advancing toward Bothwell Castle, was seized with that nobleman, who, they said, was condemned to lose his head!"
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