Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, The new London letter writer , 1948
- Title(s):
- The new London letter writer : containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance, and perspicuity as is now practised by all persons of respectability / by Samuel Johnson, M.A. ; foreword and decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.
- Published/Created:
- London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
- Physical Description:
- 63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsPE1495 .J646 1948Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1736730
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "The New London letter writer has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford, at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Caslon's Old Face type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork by W.S. Cowell Ltd, of Ipswich, under the supervision of Geoffrey Smith. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Nos. 1-100 are specially bound."--Colophon.
Selected from an undated 'new edition' of a work that seems to have been published originally in 1794. - Foreword.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 179
SML,Y Ia780 794jb: "No. 379."
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 29 of 500, signed by the editor. Bound in crimson quarter morocco with marbled paper covered boards. - Subject Terms:
- English language -- Rhetoric.Letter writing.Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil -- Autograph.Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
- Form/Genre:
- Wood engravings -- 1948.
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. - Export:
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