I have here for sale a collection of eleven volumes of THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , A NEW EDITION IN TWELVE VOLUMES, with an Essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy. Published in 1806 by Johnson , Nichols, Baldwin, Rivington et al.

Vol I - portrait of Samuel Johnson by Reynolds as frontispiece, 407 pages

Vol II - Plan of a Dictionary, Preface to a Dictionary et al, 471 pages

Vol III - Adventurer, Rasselas, 474 pages

Vol IV - Rambler, 446 pages

Vol V - Rambler, 443 pages

Vol VI - Rambler, 396 pages

Vol VII - Idler, 415 pages

Vol IX - English Poets from Cowley to Dryden, 460 pages

Vol X - English Poets from Smith to Savage, 404 pages

Vol XI - English Poets from Swift to Lyttelton, 389 pages

Vol XII - Lives of Eminent Persons, Letters from Piozzi, 450 pages, plus Index

Fully bound in brown leather, but worn and rubbed. 22cm by 13 cm.

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