Author: WHYTE (S. and E. A.):
Title: Miscellanea Nova; Containing amidst a Variety of Other Matters Curious and Interesting, Remarks on Boswell's Johnson; With Considerable Additions, and Some New Anecdotes of that Extraordinary Character; A Critique on Bürger's Leonora; in which she is clearly proved of English extraction; And an Introductory Essay on the Art of Reading and Speaking in Public, In Two Parts. A New Edition.
Description: Dublin: Printed by Robert Marchbank, for the Editor, Edward-Athenry Whyte..., 1800. 8vo, pp. [ii], xi [xii adverts], 220, [41] - 56, [271] - 276, [2], [liv] - lvi, [5 pp. adverts], contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine; possibly lacking two contents leaves, water-stained throughout, worn, with mottle removing some of binding and with heavy scoring of covers Most copies exhibit similarly curious paginations and omissions; this one omits the essay on the art of reading (or disguises it well) but includes letters from Sheridan, as well as the leaf on "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Recreant Knights Discomfited." The first leaf after the title-page is headed "Contents," but begins with p. 128 but accurately describes the contents thereafter. Sold with no guarantees of completeness, which may be what the authors intended!

Keywords: anthology Samuel Johnson prose


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