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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne | Illustrations of local government and history | Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton | Taschenbuch | 380 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337204044 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Zustand: Wie neu. Fourth Edition overall [First Dublin Edition]. In Two Volumes (complete set). Small Octavo (10 cm x 18 cm). VI, 288, VIII, 288 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather with new spinelabels, made to style. Both Volumes now in protective Mylar. Some minor wormhole-damage to the last 20 pages of Volume Two.Minor lesions to some pages only. Faded dampstain to both Volumes. Still, both Volumes firm and complete. Important scottish enlightenment publication. From the library of one "John Courtenay", with his name in ink on the titlepages of both Volumes. This is possibly John Courtenay (22 August 1738 - 24 March 1816), who was an Irish officer in the British Army, later becing a politician in England. He was a Whig member of Parliament (MP) at Westminster from 1780 to 1807, and again in 1812. (Wikipedia) With interesting articles, especially on Female Matters of the 18th century: On Duelling (Regulations proposed) - Story of Captain Douglas / Remarks on the Poems of Ossian / Of Beauty - Philosophical Opinions of it / The Mussulman's Mirror / Censure of a particular piece of indecorum at the theatre / Of Female Manners / (Change to those of Scotland considered) / Description of a Tour through the Highlands, by a London Family / Of Education - A classical contrasted with a fashionable education / Description of a shopkeeper virtuoso, in a letter from his wife Rebecca Prune / Distresses of the families of Soldiers - Story of Nancy Collins / Danger of too refined an education to girls in certain circumstances, in a letter from Harriet B. / Behaviour of Great LAdies in town to their country acquaintance, in a letter from Elizabeth Homespun / Recital of a conversation critcism on the Tragedy of Zara / The Hardship of educating a young lady in an expensive manner and then leaving her with a very slender provision for her support; History of herself, by S.M. / Account of a younger brother in the country, in a letter from Joseph Fielding / Essay on Dreams / Of the privilege of fashion to alter nature; some accountof certain fashionable peculiarities in Edinburgh / Antiquarius on the Virtues of certain ancient medicines / On Superstition and the Fear of Death / Emilia on Female accomplishment / etc. etc. Mirror Club (act. 17761787), a prominent group of Scottish literati who published the Edinburgh journals The Mirror (177980) and The Lounger (17857), evolved from a small Edinburgh literary debating society known as the Feast of Tabernacles (177077). The latter was a self-selected group of young writers, lawyers, preachers, and landed scions whose acknowledged leader was the politician Henry Dundas. Many of these individuals had earlier belonged to the Belles Lettres Society (175963), the junior version of the Select Society, a famous grouping of Scottish politicians, philosophers, preachers, and writers. In its early evolution from the Feast of Tabernacles about 17767, the founding members of the Mirror Club included Henry Mackenzie, William Craig, Alexander Abercromby, William Macleod Bannatyne, and Robert Cullen. Other members from this time were the lawyers George Ogilvie (d. 1785), William Gordon of Newhall (d. 1778), and George Home of Wedderburn (17341820). Later corresponding members, who contributed essays or correspondence, included James Beattie, David Dalrymple, William Greenfield, Robert Henry, David Hume (bap. 1757, d. 1838), William Richardson, William Strahan, Alexander Fraser Tytler, and his father, William Tytler. The publisher and future lord provost of Edinburgh, William Creech, whose idea it was to publish The Mirror, should be considered an ex officio club member since he was the only contact for many of the correspondents. Any forced division between core and corresponding members is somewhat misleading, however, since Dalrymple, Richardson, and Alexander Fraser Tytler made a far greater contribution to the club's publications than certain full members. Tytler, in fact, became one of the club's principal essayists. The Mirror Club's ethical essayswhich copied the form and continued the function of The Spectator (171114) of Addison and Steeleappear to have been well received. Macleod Bannatyne reported that 400 copies of each issue were printed, the same number that was recorded in Eminent Scotsmen by William Chambers. This number significantly underestimates the number of actual readers in an age when paper periodicals were widely circulated. Many of the club's essays were printed elsewhere, with twenty-three papers and one poem appearing in the Caledonian Mercury, the Scots Magazine, and The Bee. The bound collection of The Mirror went through eleven editions prior to 1802 and The Lounger six editions before 1805. While no subscription lists have been found, acknowledged subscribers included James Beattie, William Strahan, Dugald Stewart, John Home, William Richardson, Hugh Blair, and Jane Gordon, duchess of Gordon. The indisputable driving force of the Mirror Club was Henry Mackenzie, who, from his early years, had been groomed by the Edinburgh literati to succeed David Hume as their convivial leader and adjudicator of literary taste. Mackenzie composed 49 of the 110 issues of The Mirror and 62 of the 101 issues of The Lounger. Occasionally he composed several different drafts of a paper that he sent to friends, including Adam Smith, for comment. He also revised the majority of the essays for publication. Three of Mackenzie's closest friends, William Craig, Alexander Abercromby, and Alexander Fraser Tytler, accounted for 68 of the remaining 100 essays. As a microcosm of the Scottish literati the publishing arm of the Mirror Club provides valuable insights into the socio-economic agenda, professional background, and inter-generational networks of landed and literary lowland society. All club members came from families well connected to Scotland's élite by status, interests, marriage, and profession. They viewed themselves as the legal and literary representative.…