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Excerpt from The Club: 1764-1905 <p>The last entry in the first volume of the three which contain our records up to the end of the nineteenth century belongs to February 25, 1799, and relates solely to the amount of Madeira drunk and on hand. <p>The annals of The Club from 1764 to the end of the century can be supplemented to some extent from Boswell's Life of Johnson, and other works more or less connected with it. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.