Sales catalogue 569: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/114
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 569: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL: GENERAL: JOHNSON (DR. S.)—continued. 1056 ———— Tue Lives or THE Mosr Eminent ENcLisH Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works. With engraved portrait of Johnson by T. Trotter after Sir Josh. Reynolds. First Ocravo Epirion. : 4 vols., 8vo. Fine copy in original calf, gilt backs. London, Printed for C. Bathurst, etc., 1781. £14 14s. With the rare advertisement leaf at the end of Vol. 4, p. 505. This is the second great work with which Johnson’s name is now generally associated. It was the simplest in style and expression of all his literary labours, the subject appealed to every man of letters in the three kingdoms, and it abounded in anecdote and in criticism. 7 WITH THE RARE “ PRINCIPAL ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.” 1057 ———— Tue Lives or tHE Most Eminent ENc.isu Posts. With engraved portrait. Another copy of the Firsr Ocravo Epirion. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt backs. London, 1781. £21 Having besides the rare advertisement leaf in Vol. 4, ‘‘ The Principal Additions and Corrections in the Third Edition of Dr, Johnson’s Lives of the Poets; collected to complete the Second Edition,’’ paged 507-534, besides the title. These “ Addi- tions and Corrections ’’ were printed separately in 1783 and offered gratis to the purchasers of the edition of 1781. Scarcely a single copy was demanded, hence its extreme rarity. 1058 ———— Tue Lives or THE Mosr Eminent ENcuisH Poers. With engraved portrait. Another copy of the Frrsr Ocravo Epirion. 4 vols. 8vo. Original calf (rebacked), London, 1781. £8 8s. With the rare leaf of Advertisements in Vol. 4. 1059 —-——— Jue Lives or tHE ENneLiso Poets. 3 vols., 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked. Dublin, 1781. 2203; 1060 ———— Tue Works of THE Encuisu Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. With engraved portrait of each poet. 75 vols. Small 8vo. Fine copy in old tree calf, gilt backs. London, Printed by John Nichols, 1790. £25 Te this edition fourteen new lives were added, including those of Churchill, Matthew Green, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Soame Jenyns.
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