 | England - 1861 - 814 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...period, my brother having it in contemplation to present Bamfield to the Roxburghe Club, and not aware of the poverty and insignificance of my establishment,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service ; and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...having viewed a portable press invented by Mr. John Knthven, an ingenious printer in Kdinburgh, I purchased one, and commenced compositor. At this period... | |
 | John Martin - Private presses - 1834 - 596 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service; and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...and commenced compositor. At this period my brother (Mr. James Boswell) having it in contemplation to present ' Barnficld' to the Roxburghe Club, and not... | |
 | John Martin - Private presses - 1834 - 290 pages
...Edinburgh, I purchased one, and commenced compositor. At this period my brother (Mr. James Boswell) having it in contemplation to present ' Barnfield'...insignificance of my establishment, expressed a wish that his tract should issue from the Auchinleck Press, I determined to gratify him; and the portable press... | |
 | England - 1861 - 830 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...this period, my brother having it in contemplation to präsent Jiamßeld to the Roxburghe Club, and not aware of the poverty and insignificance of my establishment,... | |
 | Scotland - 1861 - 996 pages
...1815, having viewed a portable press invented by Mr. Johu Rnthven, an ingenious printer in Ediuburgh, I purchased one, and commenced compositor. At this...period, my brother having it in contemplation to present Bamfield to the Roxburghe Club, and not aware of the poverty and insignificance of my establishment,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1862 - 410 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...having viewed a portable press invented by Mr John Ruthveu, an ingenious printer in Edinburgh, I purchased one, and commenced compositor. At this period,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1863 - 428 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...period, my brother having it in contemplation to present Bam field to the Roxburghe Club, and not aware of the poverty and insignificance of my establishment,... | |
 | Sir Alexander Boswell (bart.) - English poetry - 1871 - 338 pages
...and infancy of the Auchinleck Press are best described by its founder. In a letter of date May 5th, 1819, and addressed to Dr. Dibdin, he says: — "...this period, my brother, having it in contemplation MEMOIR. XXV to present 'Barnfield' to the Roxburghe Club, and not aware of the poverty and insignificance... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1900 - 440 pages
...contractions. I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815,...period, my brother having it in contemplation to present Bamfield to the Roxburghe Club, and not aware of the poverty and insignif1cance of my establishment,... | |
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I was thus enlisted and articled into the service, and being infected with the type fever, the fits have periodically returned. In the year 1815, having viewed a portable press invented by Mr John Ruthven, an ingenious printer in Edinburgh, I purchased... 