Accession number
PML 19058
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Published
London : Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's-head Pall-mall and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row, M DCC XLIX [1749].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
PML copy missing half-title page.
Description
[8], 86, [2] pages ; 23 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript inscription on piece of paper glued to front endleaf 3 verso: "presented to me, in an affectionate manner, by the great & good. Sam:l Johnson. 29th Dec. 177[2]".
Provenance
J.W. Ford, of Winchmore Hall, his sale, Sotheby's, 12 May 1902, lot 337; anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 27 March 1906, lot 387 for £7.7.0.; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Binding
Green morocco, by F. Bedford.
Classification
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Department