Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson…, , 1779. First Dublin Edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; and a Criticism on Their Works. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson…, 1779, 1781, 1781. First separate edition (preceding..... More
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; W. Nicol and Son…, 1821. With Two Very Fine Fore-Edge Paintings by Helen R. Haywood Depicting the Homes of Abraham Cowley and Alexander Pope - Both with a Fine Portrait FORE-EDGE PAINTING. HAYWOOD, Helen R., artist. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the most..... More
London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill’s “Johnsonian” Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. The first edition of this celebrated instance of the pot calling the kettle black..... More
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