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Letters to & from Samuel Johnson Dublin 1788
Letters to & from Samuel Johnson Dublin 1788
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Heading: (Johnson, Samuel)
Author: Piozzi. Hester Lynch
Title: Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To Which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed. Published from the Original Mss. in Her Possession
Place Published: Dublin
Publisher:Printed for Messrs. R. Moncrieffe, L. White, P. Byrne [et al.]
Date Published: 1788
Description: 2 volumes in 1. xvi, 279, [1]; ix, [1], 306 pp. (8vo) period tree calf, re-backed with original spine strip laid down, red morocco spine label. First Dublin Edition.Samuel Johnson died in 1784. The letters cover a period from August 1765 (six months after their first meeting) to July 1784, when he expresses his grief at her marriage to Mr. Piozzi.
Condition
Moderate rubbing to binding, creasing to spine, front board nearly loose rear board shaken, armorial bookplate, light foxing; still very good.
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