Lives of the English Poets
JOHNSON, Samuel
Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. With Brief Memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill by his Nephew Harold Spencer Scott. [Facsimile re-issue].
Published: Georg Olms Hildesheim, 1968
Stock code: 12086
Price: £160.00
3 vols., 8vo., with printed and facsimile titles; cloth gilt, gilt backs, a fine copy.
Much-needed high quality re-issue of the original Clarendon Press edition of 1905. Vol. I: Cowley-Dyden; Vol. II: Smith - Savage; Vol. III: Swift-Lyttleton. Already scarce, especially in this condition. Courtney & Smith, p.147 (recording the original edition of 1905).