Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

Title:

The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Alternate Title(s):

Dr. Johnson's works

Published / Created:

Oxford : Printed for W. Pickering, London, and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825.

Physical Description:

11 v. : port. ; 26 cm.

Holdings:

Reference Library
Founder''s Room

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BEIN 2001 584: 23 cm. Advertising matter: 3 p. bound in before port. in v. 3; [1] p. pasted on front paste-down endpaper in v. 4; p. [5]-8, [1]-4, [13]-[16], [9]-10 (dated Nov. 15, 1824), and [11]-12 (dated February 1, 1825) bound in before half t.p. in v. 7; [1] p. pasted on front paste-down endpaper and [3] p. bound in before half t.p. in v. 9. Autograph in v. 10-11: William Black, junr.[?]. Bookseller's label: J. Seacome ... Chester. From the library of Herman W. Liebert.

BEIN 2002 567: Variant? printed on thinner paper. Bookplate: E.R. McC. Autograph pasted in: Joseph T. Torrence.

Edited by F. P. Walesby. cf. W. P. Courtney's Bibliography of Samuel Johnson.

Imprint varies irregularly throughout volumes. "Variant imprints are so differently distributed that no clear pattern emerges"--Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, 87.3W/22a.

On t.p. of v. 1-9: in nine volumes.

Note on cancels in vol. IX: "The binder is desired to insert the following cancels, given at the end of vol. IX."

Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, 87.3W/22a

Courtney, W.P. Johnson, 166-7

Index at end of v. 9.

Contents:

v. 1. Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] ; Poems, and tales -- v. 2-3. The Rambler -- v. 4. The adventurer and Idler -- v. 5. Miscellaneous pieces -- v. 6. Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of ominent persons -- v. 7-8. Lives of the poets -- v. 9. Journey to the Hebrides ; Tales of the imagination ; Prayers and sermons -- v. 10-11. Parliamentary debates.

Subject Terms:

Black, William, Jr. -- Autograph. | Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance. | Liebert, Herman W. -- Ownership. | Torrence, Joseph T. -- Autograph.

Form/Genre:

Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- J. Seacome. | Cancellation (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 1825. | Cancellation (Publishing) -- England -- Oxford -- 1825. | Publishers' advertisements.

Contributors:

Murphy, Arthur, 1727–1805. Essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. | Walesby, Francis Pearson, 1798–1858.