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Samuel Johnson | First Editions
1709 - 1784
See below our stock of Samuel Johnson First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Origin and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language, and an English Grammar. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed for G. and J. Offor, W. Allason [et al.], 1822. [Dictionary] OFFOR'S EDITION, third impression thus. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm). pp.[4] 60; 1029 [3]; pp.[4] 1084. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and a leaf with spare paper spine labels bound in..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson. With An Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy.
London: Printed by Luke Hansard for J. Johnson and J. Nichols and Son [etc.], 1806. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Complete in 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 36cm) Portrait frontispiece to volume I. Contemporary dark green full marbled calf, with gilt titles to black labels, gilt decoration to spines..... More
Letters To and From the Late Samuel Johnson. To Which Are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed. Published From the Original Manuscript in Her Possession by Hester Lynch Poizzi.
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1788. [Letters] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, with scarce errata slip to p.xvi. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[iv]; xv; [1]; 397; [3], pp.[ii]; xi; [1]; 424; [1]. Brown half-calf with marbled paper over boards, red label to spine lettered..... More
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. Whittingham's Edition. In Seven Volumes. With Two Hundred and Thirty Embellishments; a Life of the Poet; The Preface by Dr. Johnson; and a Glossarial Index.
London, Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1814. [Shakespeare's Works] LEATHER-BOUND COMPLETE SET, Whittingham's Edition. Complete in seven volumes. Small octavo (12 x 8 x 22cm), pp.lxxii; 68; 68; 84; 76; 82 [2]; pp.[6] 78; 64; 80; 78; [2] 80; 86 [2]; pp.[6] 80; 92; 56; 72; 78; [2] 80 [2];..... More
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[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
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