From the Editor
Letters to and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to Which are added Some Poems Never Before Printed.
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadelll, 1788.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition. [ii], xv, [i, blank], 397 [i.e. 399], [1]; xi, [i], 424, [16, ads] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. From the Editor. Original boards, manuscript labels, untrimmed and unpressed. Spine of vol. I worn. Small owner signature, Brooke, on front pastedown Cloth folding box. Courtney & Smith, pp. 168-9; Chapmen & Hazen, p. 165; Fleeman 88.3L/1; Rothschild 1270-1; Hill-Powell ii, 43.
Item #338517
"... the first publication and canonization of a large body of [Johnson's] correspondence (some 338 letters)" (ODNB)
With a presentation inscription on the front flyleaf, “From the Editor” [Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi], and with the errata slip.
