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Sale catalogue of Dr. Johnson's library / with an essay by A. Edward Newton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 N4816 A925sb
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Library--Catalogs.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Early printed books--England--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Early printed books.
- England.
- Rare books--England--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Rare books.
- Private libraries--England--Catalogs.
- Private libraries.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940 (donor) (RBC 824 J63.vJ)
- Newton A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copies AC9 N4816 A925s and AC9 N4816 A925sb)
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy AC9 N4816 A925sb)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 11 pages, 1 unnumbered page 28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : facsimile ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Johnson catalogue
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Penna. : A. Edward Newton, [1925]
- Notes:
- "This edition of the Sale catalogue of Dr. Johnson's library is limited to two hundred and fifty numbered copies, published by A. Edward Newton and printed on hand-made paper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., by Edward Stern & company, inc., in the month of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-five. The price in America is twelve and a half dollars; in Great Britain, two and a half guineas."
- "Offered for sale in New York by Edmund Byrne Hackett, Brick Row Bookshop ... ; [and in] London [by] Elkin Mathews, Ltd. ... ."
- Facsimile reprint has title: A catalogue of the valuable library of books, of the late learned Samuel Johnson, esq., LL. D., deceased, which will be sold by auction ... by Mr. Christie ... on Wednesday, February 16, 1785,and three following days.
- Light blue cloth boards with white paper labels ruled and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Blue endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- RBC 824 J63.vJ is copy 159.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 N4816 A925s) is housed in slipcase.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 N4816 A925s) inscribed "This paper was written in the attic room of the Johnson House in Gough Square. Given to R. L. T. by A. E. N.".
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 N4816 A925s) is no. 245.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 N4816 A925sb) inscribed "Dr. Horace Howard Furness with the compliments of A. Edward Newton. July 10, 1925".
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 N4816 A925sb) is no. 228.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 N4816 A925sb) has typed letter to Dr. Horace Howard Furness signed A. Edward Newton laid in.
- OCLC:
- 2274736
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