The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Samuel Johnson. ...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Category
Books
Date
1790
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3155225
Summary
Bibliographic description
75v. ; 8vo.Imperfect: Vols. 65-73 only. Provenance: book label, printed J.C. Bolton. Binding: full eighteenth-century green-stained calf sewn onto recessed bands; gold-rolled on boards to form perimeter border; gold-tooled on spine: red spine label: Johnson's Works: volume number gold-lettered on red oval label (nos. 69-77 , following on from v.1-58 of the 1779 edition of the Works of the English poets and ten volumes of Johnson’s Prefaces); poet's name gold-lettered onto spine; marbled endpapers, yellow-stained edges. Bound uniform with other works by Johnson.
Makers and roles
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)