Prefaces, biographical and critical, to The works of the English poets.. By Samuel Johnson.
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Category
Books
Date
1779 - 1781
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3219985
Summary
Bibliographic description
10v., plate :. ill.., plate, port.. ;. 16mo. 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 Prefaces: volume number gold-lettered on red oval label (nos. 59-68, following on from v.1-58 of the 1779 Works of the English poets); 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) , author