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[JOHNSON, Dr. Samuel] - Gerard Joh.Vossius. Etymologicon Linguae Latinae ... de literarum permutatione tractatus. Editio nova. Amsterdam: P. & I. Blaeu, 1695. 2° (350x222mm). Contemporary blindstamped vellum, in buckram case
FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR. JOHNSON (1) Sold at Dr. Johnson's sale at Christie's, 16 Feb. 1785, lot 316. Purchased by the bookseller John Walker for 3s6d. Sold to (2) William Windham of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk. He inscribed the volume in pencil on the half title 'fuit e libris cl[arissimi] viri Sam. Johnson W.W.1786'. Windham was a friend of Johnson and several other books are known to be at Felbrigg Hall with similar inscriptions. Mentioned by R.W.Ketton-Cremer, The early life and diaries of William Windham (1930) p.270; and in Windham's Diary, ed. Mrs.H.Baring (1866) p.86. Notes by Wm.Windham of the Conversation of Samuel Johnson was published by the Philobiblion Society in 1863. Sold at the sale of Windham's library by Robins, Pall Mall, 20 July 1810, lot 502. (3) Purchased by J.B.J. [according to Fleeman, James Boswell Jun.], who inscribed the half title 'fuit e libri clarissimi viri William Windham, 1810'. (4) Robin Waterfield, booksellers in Oxford, purchased on their behalf at an auction at King, Chasemore & Co., Pulborough, December 1979; offered in their catalogue 35 no.66. (5) John Denham Austin, with his bookplate.
Cf. J.D.Fleeman, A preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books associated with Dr.Samuel Johnson, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984; no.277
Included with the lot are two autograph letters signed by William Windham, one dated 1794, the other undated
FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR. JOHNSON (1) Sold at Dr. Johnson's sale at Christie's, 16 Feb. 1785, lot 316. Purchased by the bookseller John Walker for 3s6d. Sold to (2) William Windham of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk. He inscribed the volume in pencil on the half title 'fuit e libris cl[arissimi] viri Sam. Johnson W.W.1786'. Windham was a friend of Johnson and several other books are known to be at Felbrigg Hall with similar inscriptions. Mentioned by R.W.Ketton-Cremer, The early life and diaries of William Windham (1930) p.270; and in Windham's Diary, ed. Mrs.H.Baring (1866) p.86. Notes by Wm.Windham of the Conversation of Samuel Johnson was published by the Philobiblion Society in 1863. Sold at the sale of Windham's library by Robins, Pall Mall, 20 July 1810, lot 502. (3) Purchased by J.B.J. [according to Fleeman, James Boswell Jun.], who inscribed the half title 'fuit e libri clarissimi viri William Windham, 1810'. (4) Robin Waterfield, booksellers in Oxford, purchased on their behalf at an auction at King, Chasemore & Co., Pulborough, December 1979; offered in their catalogue 35 no.66. (5) John Denham Austin, with his bookplate.
Cf. J.D.Fleeman, A preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books associated with Dr.Samuel Johnson, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984; no.277
Included with the lot are two autograph letters signed by William Windham, one dated 1794, the other undated