THE POETICAL WORKS OF ... ENRICHED WITH ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY DR. JOHNSON
by Collins, William:
Price: $500.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 60427
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London: Printed by T. Bensley, for S. Harding, 1798.
Book Description
London: Printed by T. Bensley, for S. Harding, 1798.. xiv,[2],165,[1]pp. Octavo. Full contemporary red morocco, gilt extra, boards ruled with an attractive sequence of stringed bead-like lines, a.e.g. Early bookplate, extremities a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. First edition in this format, reprinting Johnson's life, and with an array of pictorial head and tail vignettes engraved by Edward Harding after Gardiner, Platt et al. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.150. ESTC T125340.
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