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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. With Murphy's Essay
Verlag: Printed for George Cowie and Co, London, 1825
Cloth. Zustand: Fair. None (illustrator). A five volume set of works by the famous writer Samuel Johnson, with examples of his vast literary works. Five volumes of a six volume set. Lacking volume I. Samuel Johnson was an important writer and lexicographer. His dictionary was first published in 1755 and was hugely successful. For over 100 years his dictionary was the leading reference work in the field, until the publication of the Oxford English Dictionary. This volume contains: Philological Tracts, Political Tracts, Miscellaneous Tracts, Reviews and Criticism, The Lives of The English Poets, Lives of Eminent Persons Poems, and The Rambler. Only half of the Rambler is included in this set, with half features in volume I which is lacking from this set. 'The Rambler' was a periodical by Samuel Johnson. This publication primarily featured essays and works of non-fiction, with a total of 208 articles published across the set. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, literary critic and lexicographer. Born in 1709, Johnson was a committed Tory, and a devout Anglican. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally worn. Heavily bumped to the head and tail of the spine with loss to the backstrips. Loss to each of the spine labels, heaviest to volume IV. Large cracks to the spine of volume II, and volume IV, with the text block to volume I split in half. Patches of heavy rubbing to the front and rear boards Light offsetting and the odd mark to the front and rear endpapers. Internally binding is strained and failing in places. Binding failed to pages 184-185, 424-425 to volume II. Large tear to page 425. Binding has failed to 304-305, with one gathering detached. Light cockling to numerous pages throughout. Pages are generally bright and clean. Fair. book.
