Two Satires. By Samuel Johnson, A.M.
Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759. 8vo (200 x 115 mm). Modern half calf and marbled boards. Condition : last leaf faintly spotted. Provenance: from C.A. Stonehill, 1987, $2700. first edition of a rare work , one of 250 copies issued for private circulation . Reprinting London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, Chapman & Hazen noted it as follows, "It would be interesting to know at whose suggestion and at whose expense this edition was produced. Its scarcity and the abscence of any bookseller's imprint, suggest's a small edition, perhaps intended for private circulation…" A description laid in details that "…the printing record is preserved… and shows that only 250 copies were printed" and suggests that Thomas Wharton was responsible for issuing it. Not found in the exhaustive Maggs 1038 catalogue (nor ABPC). Courtney only mentions it, but does reproduce the title page for what is presumably a different state of the present work as it features a wholly different device above the imprint. Not in ABPC.com. Courtney, p. 7. Very rare.
Two Satires. By Samuel Johnson, A.M.
Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759. 8vo (200 x 115 mm). Modern half calf and marbled boards. Condition : last leaf faintly spotted. Provenance: from C.A. Stonehill, 1987, $2700. first edition of a rare work , one of 250 copies issued for private circulation . Reprinting London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, Chapman & Hazen noted it as follows, "It would be interesting to know at whose suggestion and at whose expense this edition was produced. Its scarcity and the abscence of any bookseller's imprint, suggest's a small edition, perhaps intended for private circulation…" A description laid in details that "…the printing record is preserved… and shows that only 250 copies were printed" and suggests that Thomas Wharton was responsible for issuing it. Not found in the exhaustive Maggs 1038 catalogue (nor ABPC). Courtney only mentions it, but does reproduce the title page for what is presumably a different state of the present work as it features a wholly different device above the imprint. Not in ABPC.com. Courtney, p. 7. Very rare.
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