Age of Johnson

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.

• Foreword PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEditorial PoliciesList of IllustrationsBibliography and Short-Title ReferencesPart I: Samuel Johnson IntroductionAutograph LettersAutograph Documents and Books Inscribed by and Associated with JohnsonOther Printed WorksEighteenth-Century Collected WorksBiographical Works and Quotation BooksMiscellany of Eighteenth-Century JohnsonianaWilliam DoddPart II: The Johnsonian SchoolIntroductionJames BoswellEdmund BurkeFrances BurneyDavid GarrickOliver GoldsmithHester Lynch Piozzi (Formerly Hester Lynch Thrale)Sir Joshua ReynoldsPart III: Johnson’s Nemesis: John WilkesIntroductionAutograph LettersPrinted Works: An Essay on Woman and North Britain No. 45Printed Works: The Middlesex Elections ControversyOther Printed Works by and Relating to Wilkes Part IV: The Age of JohnsonIntroductionRobert DodsleyIntroductionPrinted WorksHenry FieldingEdward GibbonThomas GrayAlexander PopeSamuel RichardsonRichard Brinsley SheridanChristopher SmartTobias SmollettLaurence SterneJonathan SwiftAppendix 1: Notable CollectorsIndex of EntriesIndex

"The collection is an extraordinary one, and the catalog will be of interest to Johnsonians as well as book collectors." - The Johnsonian News Letter