Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays

by Samuel Johnson

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First separate edition. Woodcut ornament to title-page. iii -lxxii pp., lacking half-title. 8vo. Mottled calf, black morocco spine label, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, by Riviere & Son. Light rubbing to joints, washed, with faint trace of early inscription at head of title. Fleeman 65.10SP/2b; Courtney & Smith, p. 107; Chapman & Hazen, p. 148; Tinker 1347; Rothschild 1249; ESTC T006431. Item #313399 The

• Binding: Leather

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