The Works of Samuel Johnson Vol 2
by Johnson, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Jones & Company. 1825. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Good Condition. Half-leather binding with marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Leather is rubbed as are the boards. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages and to some pages throughout with a light damp stain to lower edge. Interior is very clean. Small pale square sticker to flyleaf and Bookseller label to uper corner of front pastedown. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 688 pages. Contents include: Rasselas A Tale; Poems; Lives of Eminent Persons; Letters by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. selected from thr Collection of Mrs. Piozzi, and Others; Prayers and Meditations, composed by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. and published from his MSS by George Strahan, D.D.; Philogical and Miscellaneous Tracts, Dedications, Prefaces etc etc. This last section includesThe Plan of an English Dictionary; Tales of Imagination; Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; as well as Reviews and Criticisms and Political Tracts. . Reprint. Hardback.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB308018
- Title
- The Works of Samuel Johnson Vol 2
- Author
- Johnson, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jones & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1825
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Literature; Travel; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Adelaide Booksellers
Returns - all books can be returned within 7 days of receipt IF NOT AS DESCRIBED. Shipping is based on a 1kg parcel. International parcels are shipped by airmail (7 to 10 working days delivery).
About the Seller
Adelaide Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.