Item #245365 Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm. Samuel Johnson, Gabriel Austin.

Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm.

Somerville, New Jersey: [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967.

Price: $250.00


About the item

First edition, one of 1000 of the first volume and 1250 of the second. Illustrated. xxii, 113; [xii], 135 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed brown paper boards. Fine in fine marbled slipcase.

Item #245365

Lavishly produced set of volumes designed by P.J. Conkright documenting the residence of Donald and Mary Hyde, and the library, including the Johnson collection (now at Harvard). Herbert Cahoon, long-time curator of manuscripts at the Morgan library and bibliographer of Joyce, contributed a bibliography to Four Oaks Library.

Inscribed by Mary Hyde (now Eccles) to Hal Friedlander in 1994.