JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84, contributor) A Miscellany of Poems by several hands, Oxford, by Leon Lichfield, 1731, 8°, FIRST EDITION (lacking all between title and E2, H2 cleanly-torn and repaired with needle and cotton), contemporary panelled calf. [Courtney & Smith p. 1]

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JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84, contributor) A Miscellany of Poems by several hands, Oxford, by Leon Lichfield, 1731, 8°, FIRST EDITION (lacking all between title and E2, H2 cleanly-torn and repaired with needle and cotton), contemporary panelled calf. [Courtney & Smith p. 1]

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"It is stated in the preface that 'The Translation' into Latin [pp.111-17] of Pope's Messiah was delivered to his tutor [William Jorden], as a college exercise, by Mr Johnson, a Commoner of Pembroke College.....this is the first printed composition of Johnson" (Courtney).

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