...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men,...Wilkes and some more gentlemen, on Wednesday, May 15. 1 Of which I was myself a great part. 2 Judged by Johnson's standards and ideas, Wilkes in private...

...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have •seen a greater number of literary...Wilkes and some more gentlemen, on Wednesday, May 1 5. 1 Of which I was myself a' great part. 2 Judged by Johnson's standards and ideas, Wilkes in private...

...thank you for your corrections, which are very judicious." ... at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men,...at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds." 1 It was an age of convivial hospitality, and the festive board brought together not only bookseller...

...for your corrections, which are very judicious." 50 ... at whose hospitable and well-covered table1 I have seen a greater number of literary men, than...at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds." 1 It was an age of convivial hospitality, and the festive board brought together not only bookseller...

...— the big house in the Poultry — 'at whose hospitable and well-covered table,' says Boswell, ' I have seen a greater number of literary men, than...at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' Thomas Cadell, too, the successor of Andrew Millar, celebrated the completion of Gibbon's Decline and...