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London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, first issue, with 12-line errata. The scarce first printing. "I had desired to visit the Hebrides ... and was ... induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion ... " Though Johnson's name does not..... Read More Item Details for A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Add to Wish List
Item #40064
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Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Johnson and Samuel F. Bradford, Coale & Oliver, Printers, 1803. First American edition. First edition was published 1779-81. Read More Item Details for The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works Add to Wish List
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London: J. Hadden, Printer, Tabernacle Walk, 1820. A New Edition. Read More Item Details for The Works of Samuel Johnson... to which is prefixed, An Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy. Esq Add to Wish List
Item #369404
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London: Printed for J. & P. Knapton, T. Longman, et al, 1747. First edition, second state. Signature A was reset to remove the address to Chesterfield on page 1, so that the text begins simply “My Lord”. Fleeman notes other changes (p. 34 in this copy has the corrected reading..... Read More Item Details for The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: Benjamin C. Buzby, 1819. Read More Item Details for The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works Add to Wish List
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London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, first issue, with 12-line errata and with "afford" on p. 199, l. 13. The scarce first printing. "I had desired to visit the Hebrides ... and was ... induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion ....... Read More Item Details for A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Add to Wish List
Item #308078
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London: Printed for Robert Jennings, 1816. First Edition, issue without Q2 ad leaf. This is the first printing of Johnson’s diary of a trip to Wales which he took with the Thrales in July-August of 1774. The diary was later incorporated into various editions of Boswell’s Life (e.g., Croker’s edition..... Read More Item Details for A Diary of a Journey into North Wales, in the Year 1774 Add to Wish List
Item #307526
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London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, et al, 1781. First London edition with this title, engraved portrait without the imprint, wi9th p. 505 of ads in Vol. Iv. Read More Item Details for The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: with Critical Observations on their Works Add to Wish List
Item #302797
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London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. Second edition, first issue, with 6-line errata and U4 corrected (as opposed to first edition) and the first two preliminary leaves on laid paper (as opposed to second edition, second issue, on wove). "I had desired to visit the Hebrides … and was..... Read More Item Details for A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E...... Read More Item Details for The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works Add to Wish List
Item #266706
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London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1776. First collected edition, one of 750 copies. Four tracts, the most famous is 'Taxation no Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress [1775]' pp. 169-264. Read More Item Details for Political Tracts. Containing, The False Alarm. Falkland's Islands. The Patriot; and, Taxation No Tyranny Add to Wish List
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London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition. First edition of "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (PMM). Strahan's ledger shows that..... Read More Item Details for A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers Add to Wish List
Item #247043
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London: Printed for T. Davies, 1774. Second edition, first issue, of the first two volumes and the first of the third. Issued without Johnson's approval while the Doctor was in Scotland. Read More Item Details for Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces Add to Wish List
Item #244302
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Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. and A. Ewing, J. Hoby, et al, 1749. First Irish edition. Johnson's only play, produced by Garrick. This is the first Dublin edition, a direct reprint of the first edition of the same year (Fleeman). Read More Item Details for Irene: A Tragedy. As It Was Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell & Son, 1798. A New Edition. Read More Item Details for A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Add to Wish List
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London: for R. and J. Dodsley ... and W. Johnston, 1759. First edition, one of 1500 printed by William Strahan. "Hawkins and Boswell agree that Rasselas was written to help the dying Sarah Johnson and eventually to pay for her funeral ... Johnson told Reynolds he wrote the work in..... Read More Item Details for [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Add to Wish List
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Baltimore: Published by Philip H. Nicklin and Co.; Farrand, Mallory and co. Boston; J. Green, Albany; E. Earle and B. B. Hopkins and Co., Philadelphia. Fry and Kammerer, Printers, 1810. First American edition. Read More Item Details for A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Add to Wish List
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London: John Murray, 1854. From Johnson's "Works of the English Poets" published in 1789-1790. Read More Item Details for The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets with Critical Observations of Their Works With Notes Corrective and Explanatory, by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1817. Printed by Ch. Whittingham, Chiswick. Read More Item Details for Rasselas Add to Wish List
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1952. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Letters of Samuel Johnson, with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. Collected and Edited by R.W. Chapman Add to Wish List
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1952. First editions. Read More Item Details for The Letters of Samuel Johnson, with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. Collected and Edited by R.W. Chapman Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, et al, 1781. First separate London edition. Read More Item Details for The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: with Critical Observations on their Works Add to Wish List
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London: C. Cooke, n.d. [ca. 1820]. Later printing of Cooke's edition, from "Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels" Bound with: Solyman and Almena. An Oriental Tale by Dr. LANGHORNE, from "Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels" Read More Item Details for The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Add to Wish List
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London: for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons [etc, John Stockdale and T. Cadell], 1796. A New Edition, in Twelve Volumes. Read More Item Details for The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on His Life and Genius, By Arthur Murphy, Esq Add to Wish List
Item #225503
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Newburyport [MA]: Published by Thomas & Whipple. Greenough & Stebbins, Printers, Nov. 1806. "Second American edition" A pocket-sized abridgment of Johnson's Dictionary, from the 14th London edition. Styled the second American edition - there were identically titled editions printed in Boston in 1804 and 1806, while the first unabridged American..... Read More Item Details for Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature. To which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, and a copious chronological table of remarkable events, discoveries, and inventions. By the Rev. Joseph Hamilton, M.A Add to Wish List
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