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JOHNSON (Samuel): - A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, M. Saunders...[inter alia], 1775. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 162 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], 192; [3] 26 - 120, 289 -384, contemporary calf, rebacked, with old label laid, but with hinges rather crudely taped, with an autograph "S West head" on the front paste-down end-paper and another in pencil on the top margin of the title-page. Fleemanj 75.1J/4. "The printer made an attempt to produce a page-for-page reprint of the 1st London 8vo edition...in a 2 vol. 12mo format, but the effort failed after 2 sheets..., and in vol. 2 where the pagination commenced at 25 the attempt was less successful, though a new star was again made at F1 (p. 289). This section may have been the work of another printer if the work was shared out to hasten the reprint, thought the type is the same." The reprint was, of course, a piracy.
GBP 330.00 [Appr.: EURO 385.75 US$ 419.04 | JP¥ 65224] Book number 8981

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