Author: Samuel Johnson; R. W. Chapman [editor]
Title: The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale&Apos;S Genuine Letters to Him
Description: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952. Cloth. Three volumes of the letters of writer and critic Samuel Johnson, with illustrations. Includes the original unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in three volumes. These volumes were planned as a supplement to Boswell's great Life of Johnson. The letters of Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. With correspondence to: Includes genuine letters to Dr. Johnson from Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, a Welsh-born diarist, author, socialite and patron of the arts, who is considered an important source on Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century English life. Edited by Robert William Chapman, a British scholar, book collector and editor. This set includes: Volume I - 1719 to 1774. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece. Volume II - 1775 to 1782. Illustrated with three plates to the front of the text. Volume III - 1783 to 1784. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated complete. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities only. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spine and panel edges with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Letters Samuel Johnson Thrale Chapman Samuel Johnson Not Stated


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