Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/43
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    211 Johnson (Samuel) The Vanity of Human WiIsHEs: the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated, FIRST EDITION, 4to., full calf gilt, Printed for R. Dodsley, 1749 430 The FIRST PUBLICATION TO BEAR JOHNSON’S NAME. A sixteen-line inscription on the back of the title in a contemporary hand sets out the Argument of the satire. 212 — ‘The ADVENTURER,” FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, folio, cont. hf. calf, J. Payne, 1753-54 412 A complete set of the 140 original numbers. Hawkesworth was the Editor, and Johnson contributed 24 numbers [those signed by the initial ‘‘T”’], and possibly those signed ‘‘T. Misargyrus.” 213 ——-— Dictionary of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, folio, calf (neatly rebacked), Printed by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, €&c., FINE copy, 1755 — $12 214 IRENE: a Tragedy, as it is acted at the. Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 8vo., morocco gilt, g.e., 1769 £3 10s FIRST EDITION, with the rare half-title, but no advert. leaf at end. 215 [ ] Taxation No TyRANNY: an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress, FIRST EDITION (lacks half-title), 8vo., tree calf, rebacked, 1775 £3 15s 216 A JournrEY to the WESTERN IsLanps of SCOTLAND, FIRST EDITION, Svo., calf gilt, 1775 . £3 10s First Issue, with the 12-line errata. 217 ———. Prayers and Mepirations, published from his Manu- scripts by George Strahan, FIRST EDITION, 8vo., ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, 1785 48 218 [ ] Memorrs of CiaRLES FREDERICK, Kine of Prussia... to which are added Translation of Select Poems, written by the King of Prussia, FIRST EDITION, portrait, 8vo., calf gilt, g.e., 1786 £1 10s 219 DEBATES in PARLIAMENT, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo., cont. calf (restored), 1787 3 220 Lives of the Eneiisn Ports, and a Criticism on their Works, 3 vols, 8vo., cont. tree calf, gilt backs, Dublin, 1779 rapa | Livrs of the most Eminent EneuisuH Ports, with Critical Observations on their Works, portrait, 4 vols, 8vo., cont. calf, 1781 222 ——— Works of, portrait, 11 vols, 8vo., hf. calf, Oxford, 1825 £4 223 [CAMPBELL (Archibald)] LexipHanres: a Dialogue... Attempt to Restore the English Tongue to its Ancient Purity, &c., First Eprition, sm. 8vo., cont. calf, 1767 £2 10s A satire on Dr. Samuel Johnson and his style. 224 [Johnstone (Charles)] The Revert, or a Flight to the Paradise of Fools, 2 vols, 12mo., cont. calf, London, 1767 15s
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