The Early Roxburghe Club 18121835: Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature

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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative for the formative years of the Roxburghe Club, for the bibliomania of the Romantic period and for early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature. By examining in detail the make-up and membership of the Club including their social and political affinities, this revised history of the first two decades of its existence offers both an alternative view of the early Club and its significant contribution to the move between antiquarian and scholarly areas of influence in the study of English literature.

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Shayne Husbands has recently completed her doctoral studies at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. Her area of interest is early nineteenth century book collecting.