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Stewarton : Revolutionary Plutarch
" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'179 Murdering en masse at Toulon by Brutus Buonaparte Citizen Sans-culotte. "'Barras & his entourage [two further entries] "The first and second entries are taken verbatim from the text, the first from a footnote -- so Beckford was reading attentively."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Beckford Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Diary of a Journey into North Wales
H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books: "His copy of an 1816 edition of Samuel Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales follows the general pattern, but by the time he was through with it, Beckford was sufficiently annoyed to include a long summary note, signed with his initials."