Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. to which are added some poems never before printed. Published from the original MSS. in her possession,

by Hester Lynch Piozzi by Hester Lynch Piozzi

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First edition

London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 2 , xv, 1 , 397 i.e. 399 ; xi, 1 , 424; nice copy in full contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; extremities a little rubbed else a very good, sound set. Contains the uncommon errata slip bound in at the back of volume II, but lacks the preliminary blank leaf in volume I. Fleeman 88.3L/1; Courtney & Smith, p. 168: The poems

• Binding: Leather

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