JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84) -- Hester Lynch PIOZZI (1741-1821). Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life, London: T. Cadell, 1786. 8°, postcript leaf at end (without the half title, title browned at margins). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Courtney & Smith p.161; Rothschild 1549. With 10 other works relating to Samuel Johnson in 17 volumes including The Rambler ... the Eighth Edition (London, 1771, 4 vols., contemporary calf), A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London, 1775, modern old-style calf, FIRST EDITION), Prayers and Meditations ... published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan ... the second edition (London, 1785, modern half calf), Hester Lynch Piozzi's Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson (London, 1788, 2 vols., contemporary calf), Jerome Lobo's A Voyage to Abyssinia ... translated from the French by Samuel Johnson (London, 1789, modern calf), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (Montrose, 1800, 4 vols., contemporary calf, rebacked) and Johnsoniana: or, Supplement to Boswell (London, 1836). (18)
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84) -- Hester Lynch PIOZZI (1741-1821). Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life, London: T. Cadell, 1786. 8°, postcript leaf at end (without the half title, title browned at margins). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Courtney & Smith p.161; Rothschild 1549. With 10 other works relating to Samuel Johnson in 17 volumes including The Rambler ... the Eighth Edition (London, 1771, 4 vols., contemporary calf), A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London, 1775, modern old-style calf, FIRST EDITION), Prayers and Meditations ... published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan ... the second edition (London, 1785, modern half calf), Hester Lynch Piozzi's Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson (London, 1788, 2 vols., contemporary calf), Jerome Lobo's A Voyage to Abyssinia ... translated from the French by Samuel Johnson (London, 1789, modern calf), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (Montrose, 1800, 4 vols., contemporary calf, rebacked) and Johnsoniana: or, Supplement to Boswell (London, 1836). (18)
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