![JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). Letters ... to which are added some poems never before printed, London: for A Strahan & T. Cadell, 1788. 2 volumes, 8°, 16-page publisher's advertisement at end of volume II (a few leaves spotted). Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with repeated Greek urn motif and red and black morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Charles [?]Mallet and Thomas Lerrier (old signatures on front pastedowns). Courtney & Smith p.68; Rothschild 1220.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CSK/2005_CSK_05618_0039_000(093457).jpg?w=1)
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JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). Letters ... to which are added some poems never before printed, London: for A Strahan & T. Cadell, 1788. 2 volumes, 8°, 16-page publisher's advertisement at end of volume II (a few leaves spotted). Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with repeated Greek urn motif and red and black morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Charles [?]Mallet and Thomas Lerrier (old signatures on front pastedowns). Courtney & Smith p.68; Rothschild 1220.
With 10 other works or part works in 12 volumes relating to Samuel Johnson including W. Kenrick's A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare: in which the Ignorance, or Inattention, of that Editor is Exposed (London, 1765, modern calf), Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. Volume the First (London, 1774, vol. one only (of 3), second edition), The Beauties of Johnson: consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous (London, 1781, FIRST EDITION), a Dublin edition of the same, Hester Lynch Piozzi's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (Dublin, 1786, this edition not in BMC), Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk: containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners (London, 1798) and A Collection of Epitaphs ... To which is prefixed, An Essay on Epitaphs by Dr. Johnson (London, 1806, 2 vols., finely-bound in contemporary scarlet morocco gilt). (14)
With 10 other works or part works in 12 volumes relating to Samuel Johnson including W. Kenrick's A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare: in which the Ignorance, or Inattention, of that Editor is Exposed (London, 1765, modern calf), Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. Volume the First (London, 1774, vol. one only (of 3), second edition), The Beauties of Johnson: consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous (London, 1781, FIRST EDITION), a Dublin edition of the same, Hester Lynch Piozzi's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (Dublin, 1786, this edition not in BMC), Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk: containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners (London, 1798) and A Collection of Epitaphs ... To which is prefixed, An Essay on Epitaphs by Dr. Johnson (London, 1806, 2 vols., finely-bound in contemporary scarlet morocco gilt). (14)
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