JOHNSON (Samuel):

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. The Third Edition.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...and W. Johnston..., 1760. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 159 [160 blank]; viii, 165 [166 - 168 blank], contemporary calf; margins of title-page volume 1 browned, page numbers vii-viii in volume 2 holed from press, M1 in volume 2 detached at inner margin, front cover volume 1 detached, joints cracked and tender, tops and bases of spines chipped, corners worn. With an armorial bookplate of a shield surmounted by a bearded figure carrying an uprooted tree and the motto "Les Ses Dire." Fleeman 59.4R/4.

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Book number: 4197

Catalogue: Dr. Johnson

Keywords: Dr. Johnson fiction literature

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.

Prologues and Epilogues, celebrated for their Poetical Merit.

Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson, and sold by S. Bladon..., no date [1790]. 12mo, 169 x 103 mms, pp. [viii], 263 [264 blank], 19th century ribbed cloth, morocco label; rebacked with part of old cloth spine laid down; lacks portrait. With the armorial bookplate of George Stephens on the front paste-down end-paper. Many of the prologues and epilogues are taken from Dryden's plays. "Vol. I" appears in the lower margin of the recto of the first leaf in each gathering, but I have not been able to discover is there were further volumes. ESTC N12159 locates copies in Oxford Christ Church; Folger, Harvard, UCLA, Chicago, and Yale. ECCO suggests a date of 1780.

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Book number: 8221

Catalogue: Dr. Johnson

Keywords: Dr. Johnson poetry literature