Author: JOHNSON Samuel
Title: Johnsoniana. A Collection of miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Samuel Johnson gathered from nearly a Hundred different Publications. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Description: Henry G. Bohn,, 1845. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, twentieth century brown cloth, original backstrip gilt laid down, primrose endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Printed separately from Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. The illustrated title carries a view of Streatham Place engraved by Finden after Stansfield. The fine engraved portrait of Mrs. Piozzi appears here for the first time. NCBEL II; 1158.

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