Journal narrative relative to Doctor Johnson's last illness three weeks before his death 1784. Edited, with a preface

by O. M. Brack, Jr. by John Hoole

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Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1972. Edition limited to 250 copies, tall 8vo, pp. 36 ; title page printed in red and black; frontispiece etching of Johnson's death mask by John Thein; original black cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; fine copy. From the Library of Kim Merker. Published on the 200th anniversary of Johnson's death. Diary entries in black with dates printed in red. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 48: I feel this is one of the more

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