The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Title:
The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Author/Creator:
Edition:
A new edition, in twelve volumes / with an essay on his life and genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq.
Publication:
London : Printed for T. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin ... [and 32 others], MDCCXCII [1792]
Physical description:
12 volumes, plate : portrait ; 23 cm (8vo)
Binding:
12 volumes bound in brown leather with gilt decoration and gilt lettering on spine. Volume 1 contains bookseller's label: "Sold by Hookham and Carpenter, Bond Street".
Provenance:
Volume 1 has handwritten ink inscription (partially crossed out) on front pastedown endpaper: "Sixth Form. Matthew Arnold. June, 1839. History Prize". A further inscription in a different hand opposite indicates that in 1846 it was passed on to Joseph Tice Gellibrand, Jr, a friend and fellow-student of Arnold's at Oxford, who travelled to Tasmania in 1851, at the same time as Matthew Arnold's brother Thomas. Gellibrand's inscription also appears on the other volumes.
Notes:
Index in volume 12.
Volume 1 frontispiece portrait of Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds (engraved by John Hall) dated: Jany. 1st. 1787.
Indexed in:
English short title catalogue, T83955
Contents:
v. 1. An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Poems. Irene, a tragedy. Miscellaneous poems. Poemata -- v. 2. Philological tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays -- v. 3. A dissertation upon the Greek comedy, translated from Brumoy. General conclusion to Brumoy's Greek theatre. Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth. Adventurer. History of Rasselas -- v. 4-6. The Rambler -- v. 7. The Idler -- v. 8. Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the western islands of Scotland -- v. 9-11. The lives of the English poets -- v. 12. Lives of eminent persons. Letters. Prayers.
Condition:
Condition review 2021: Fragile; some covers detached. Volume 12 lacks spine cover.
Alternate Title:
Works. 1792
Record ID:
SD_ILS:492442