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Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness. [Swift & the Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia; Vindication to Littleness; Criticism of Pettiness; Competition; Community; Malignity; Superior Observers; Greatness & Heroism; Greatness & Ourselves]
by Grundy, Isobel. [book design, Douglas Martin; jacket sculpture, Joseph Nollekens]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, 1986., 1986. Very Good. Tan cloth with silver lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; remainder mark on bottom of textblock ; 278 pp. ; foxed ; dustjacket spine sunned ; VG/VG
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- Bookseller
- Joseph Valles - Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1904
- Title
- Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness. [Swift & the Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia; Vindication to Littleness; Criticism of Pettiness; Competition; Community; Malignity; Superior Observers; Greatness & Heroism; Greatness & Ourselves]
- Author
- Grundy, Isobel. [book design, Douglas Martin; jacket sculpture, Joseph Nollekens]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- samuel johnson jonathan swift joseph addison james boswell frances burney thomas carlyle charles sweeden cowley john dryden henry fielding gray hawkins homer hebrides locke london milton pope alexander thrale isaac watts shakespeare
- Bookseller catalogs
- Catalog 60 - General;
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Books graded conservatively with prominent defects mentioned.
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Joseph Valles - Books
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Stockbridge, Georgia
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
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- VG/VG
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