Accession number
PML 37732
Creator
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.
Published
London : Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley ..., 1816.
Notes
One of 200 copies privately printed.
Two Dialogues in the manner of Johnson and Garrick is the subject of them.
Written with no view to publication, they were privately printed by Sir Joshua's niece, Lady Thomond, in 1816; and first published in Murray's ed. of Boswell's life of Johnson, 1835, but have been omitted in the later ed.--See Leslie, C.R. life and times of Sir J. Reynolds, London, 1865, II, 249.
Full imprint: London : Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Srreet (sic), 1816.
"The following Jeu d'Esprit was written by Sir Joshua Reynolds to illustrate a remark he had made, 'That Dr. Johnson considered Garrick as his property, and would never suffer any one to praise or abuse him but himself.' In the first of these supposed dialogues, Sir Joshua himself, by high encomiums upon Garrick, is represented as drawing down upon him Johnson's censure; in the second, Mr. Gibbon, by taking the opposite side, calls forth his praise"--T.p. verso.
On t.p.: Not published.
First ed.
Two Dialogues in the manner of Johnson and Garrick is the subject of them.
Written with no view to publication, they were privately printed by Sir Joshua's niece, Lady Thomond, in 1816; and first published in Murray's ed. of Boswell's life of Johnson, 1835, but have been omitted in the later ed.--See Leslie, C.R. life and times of Sir J. Reynolds, London, 1865, II, 249.
Full imprint: London : Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Srreet (sic), 1816.
"The following Jeu d'Esprit was written by Sir Joshua Reynolds to illustrate a remark he had made, 'That Dr. Johnson considered Garrick as his property, and would never suffer any one to praise or abuse him but himself.' In the first of these supposed dialogues, Sir Joshua himself, by high encomiums upon Garrick, is represented as drawing down upon him Johnson's censure; in the second, Mr. Gibbon, by taking the opposite side, calls forth his praise"--T.p. verso.
On t.p.: Not published.
First ed.
Description
15 p. ; 22 cm
Binding
Unbound in red cloth case.
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