Six Essays on Johnson
by Raleigh, Sir Walter
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- Hardcover
- first
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910. First edition. Hardback. Untrimmed. No DW. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Some wear to covers and spine. Not foxed. Bookplate inside front cover is fine pictorial presentation of Mill Hill School Library with Ex Libris heading. Some marks on borders of this bookplate (e.g. library number) but otherwise no inscriptions or annotations. 184 pages (including index) followed by lists of other Clarendon publications. Contents: Samuel Johnson: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, February 22, 1907. On the Two-Hundreth Anniversary of Johnson's Birth. Johnson Without Boswell. Johnson on Shakespeare. Early Lives of the Poets. Johnson's Lives of the Poets. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1687
- Title
- Six Essays on Johnson
- Author
- Raleigh, Sir Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910
- Keywords
- Johnson Boswell Shakespeare Stage Acting Poets Biography Thrale Savage Garrick QSE
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David Edward Hellawell
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About the Seller
David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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