Johnsoniana
JOHNSON, Samuel
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Published: Henry G. Bohn, 1845
Stock code: 26804
Price: £112.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, twentieth century brown cloth, original backstrip gilt laid down, primrose endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy.
Printed separately from Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. The illustrated title carries a view of Streatham Place engraved by Finden after Stansfield. The fine engraved portrait of Mrs. Piozzi appears here for the first time. NCBEL II; 1158.