The Letters of Samuel Johnson
JOHNSON, Samuel
With Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to him. Collected and edited by R.W. Chapman. [Second Impression] .
NEAR FINE SET IN THE DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, [1963]
Stock code: 27339
Price: £212.00
3 vols. 8vo. Second Impression on laid paper with three facsimiles (one folding and one double-page) as frontispieces and a full-page map; original red buckram gilt backs sides with double frame border in blind a fine set in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Vol. I: 1719-1774 Letters 1-369; Vol. II: 1775-1782 Letters 370-821.1; Vol. III: 1783-1784 Letters 821.2-1174.This is Chapman taking a break from his definitive editions of Jane Austen. Over thirty years in the making Chapman's magisterial collection was