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The Correspondence & Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the "Life of Johnson"
Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
This valuable collection presents James Boswell’s quest over a period of some twenty years to amplify his personal knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, through correspondence with a wide network...
James Boswell's Life of Johnson
An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 2: 1766-1776
This is the second volume of the annotated transcription of James Boswell’s manuscript of The Life of Johnson, with its numerous complex revisions and wide array of supplementary materials. The transcription covers the...
The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
The latest volume in the Boswell Research Edition contains James Boswell’s correspondence over many years with the overseers of his Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire. The letters and the wealth of primary material used to...
Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from The Jewish Museum
A Catalogue Raisonné
The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is...
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Volume 1: 1766-1767
This book is the first in a two-volume edition of James Boswell's correspondence during a period that was one of the happiest and most productive of his life—from his return from the Grand Tour in February 1766 to his...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 6
Volume 6: Scientific and Philosophical Writings
This volume contains two major manuscript notebooks of Jonathan Edwards—"Natural Philosophy" and "The Mind"—as well as a number of shorter manuscript writings connected with his scientific interests and philosophical...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1
Volume 1: Freedom of the Will
This inaugural volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards is his major contribution to theology and stands as a leading document on Calvinist thought. Mr. Ramsey’s introduction provides a fresh analysis of Edwards’...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2
Volume 2: Religious Affections
This volume contains Edwards’ most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening. In developing criteria for such judgment he...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 3
Volume 3: Original Sin
The controversy over human deprivation which raged throughout the eighteenth century was no mere intramural squabble among theologians but an important phase of the evolution in Western man’s estimate of his nature and...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 4
Volume 4: The Great Awakening
Interpreting the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century was in large part the work of Jonathan Edwards; whose writings on the subject defined the revival tradition in America. Moving from sensitive descriptions of "the...