{"id":106,"date":"2013-11-27T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=106"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:17:55","slug":"ownership-and-readership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Ownership and readership?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent part of yesterday morning in the\u00a0Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and\u00a0Book Studies at Senate House, consulting the useful collection of sale catalogue facsimiles in the multi-volume\u00a0Sale catalogues of libraries of eminent persons<\/em> (1973). In order to understand the circulation and likely influence of Macintosh’s book, it is necessary to reconstruct (as far as is possible) the book’s ownership and readership. 19th-century sales catalogues are a useful first step in determining who owned a copy of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa<\/em>\u00a0(although not, necessarily, who read it). Such catalogues are one means by which to select those individuals who warrant further attention.<\/p>\n

\"Edmund<\/a>

Edmund Burke (1729\u20131797), the enthusiastic antagonist of Warren Hastings. National Portrait Gallery, 655.<\/p><\/div>\n

A far from systematic trawl of some of these catalogues indicates that owners of Travels<\/em> included Edmund Burke, the principal antagonist of Warren Hastings (see page 21 of the\u00a0Catalogue of the library of of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke<\/em><\/a> (1833)). Burke’s copy of\u00a0Travels<\/em>\u00a0was purchased for 9 s. by one “Mr Bohn”\u2014most likely one of the bookseller brothers\u00a0Henry Bohn (1796\u20131884) and\u00a0James\u00a0Bohn (1803\u20131880).
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>

George Hibbert (1757\u20131837).<\/p><\/div>\n

The book collector, merchant, and slave owner\u00a0George Hibbert (1757\u20131837) was another eminent figure who owned Macintosh’s book (see page 442 of A catalogue of the library of George Hibbert, Esq. of Portland Place<\/em><\/a> (1829)). At the time of the publication of Travels<\/em>,\u00a0Hibbert had recently begun work in London at the Jamaica trading house of\u00a0Hibbert, Purrier and Horton (a firm which he later headed). Hibbert subsequently assumed a central role in the pro-slavery\u00a0Society of West India Planters and Merchants, and it is probable that his interest in Macintosh’s book related to that author’s experience as a Caribbean planter and merchant. Thus the list of potential readers grows longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent part of yesterday morning in the\u00a0Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and\u00a0Book Studies at Senate House, consulting the useful collection of sale catalogue facsimiles in the multi-volume\u00a0Sale catalogues of libraries of eminent persons (1973). In order to understand the circulation and likely influence of Macintosh’s book, it is necessary to reconstruct (as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}