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[JOHNSON, Samuel and others]: The Union: or Select Scots and English Poems. Edinburgh: for Archibald Monro & David Murray [in fact Oxford: for R. Baldwin]: 1751. 12° (152 x 92mm.). (Content's leaf misbound). Contemporary calf (scuffed, minor splits in hinges). Provenance: ?Author's corrections to 'Hardyknute'; D.M. Gregor (signature on title); G.W.F. Gregor (bookplate). Contains Samuel Johnson's 'On a Lady's presenting a Sprig of Myrtle to a Gentleman' signed 'Mr. Hammond' on p.117. NCBEL II, 1144; Tinker 2283-- with the second edition, London 1759, Dublin edition of 1761 (lacking G1-2), third edition of London 1766, and a new edition of Oxford 1796 (lacking H8 & I1-2). (5)