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Appendix 1 - The Club Membership 1812–1835

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2018

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Presented in alphabetical order with the title shown in square brackets being that held by the individual at the time of joining the Club.

Barnard, Benjamin

A Club member from 1834 to 1848, he was elected to replace a founder member.

He presented Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry, from MSS. In the Ashmolean Museum, with an Appendix to the Club in 1840.

Bentham, William

A Club member from 1812 to 1837 and one of the first 18 who met on the evening of the Roxburghe auction.

He presented Ceremonial at the Marriage of Mary Queen of Scotts with the Dauphin of France to the Club in 1818.

Bolland, William (1772– 1840)

A Club member from 1812 to 1839 when he resigned and one of the first 18 who met on the evening of the Roxburghe auction.

William Bolland was a lawyer, a Recorder of Reading and a somewhat successful amateur poet. He appeared in T. F. Dibdin's works as ‘Hortensius’.

Bolland was most notably the host of the meal held on the eve of the sale of the Valdarfer Boccaccio at which Dibdin alleges that the decision was first made to meet for dinner at the St. Albans Tavern the next evening. He was further instrumental in the direction that the Club would take as he is credited with the idea of reprinting rare items of early poetry for distribution among the membership (an idea he raised at the first anniversary dinner held in 1813 and made concrete by donating the first Club edition at the dinner of the following year) and also with the notion of printing the alphabetical list of members’ names in the front of the volume with the intended recipient's name in red, a custom adopted thereafter in Roxburghe Club volumes.

He presented Certaine Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, turned into English Meter to the Club in 1814.

Boswell, Alexander [Sir] (1775– 1822)

A Club member from 1819 to 1822, he was elected to replace a founder member.

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The Early Roxburghe Club 1812–1835
Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature
, pp. 177 - 190
Publisher: Anthem Press
Print publication year: 2017

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