JOHNSON, SAMUEL, owner . The New-Years-Gift, complete: In Six Parts. Composed of Meditations and Prayers for every Day in the Week. London: J. Heptinstall for H. Mortlock 1709. 12mo, 127 x 74 mm. (5 x 2 7/8 in.), old calf, extensive old damage, possibly due to water, throughout the volume, mostly affecting outer margins, the paper and binding restored, morocco pull-of case. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper "This Book belonged to Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell" IN BOSWELL'S AUTOGRAPH. Engraved frontispiece. J.D. Fleeman, A preliminary handlist of copies of books associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson (Oxford Bibl. Soc.), 1984, no. 218. Sold as an association copy not subject to return. Provenance: Sold at the Auchinleck sale, Sotheby's, 23 June 1893, lot 324, to Hatchards, five guineas -- Unidentified owner (sale, Christie's London, 20 June 1990, lot 148).
JOHNSON, SAMUEL, owner . The New-Years-Gift, complete: In Six Parts. Composed of Meditations and Prayers for every Day in the Week. London: J. Heptinstall for H. Mortlock 1709. 12mo, 127 x 74 mm. (5 x 2 7/8 in.), old calf, extensive old damage, possibly due to water, throughout the volume, mostly affecting outer margins, the paper and binding restored, morocco pull-of case. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper "This Book belonged to Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell" IN BOSWELL'S AUTOGRAPH. Engraved frontispiece. J.D. Fleeman, A preliminary handlist of copies of books associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson (Oxford Bibl. Soc.), 1984, no. 218. Sold as an association copy not subject to return. Provenance: Sold at the Auchinleck sale, Sotheby's, 23 June 1893, lot 324, to Hatchards, five guineas -- Unidentified owner (sale, Christie's London, 20 June 1990, lot 148).
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