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Forty four letters from Samuel Johnson / annotated by L. D'O. Walters.
LIBRA - Special PR3533 .A3 1931
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PR3533 .A3 1931
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections. 1931
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Walters, Michael Heriot Huth, 1891-1934 (memorial bookplate)
- Boas, Tommy (autograph)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 99 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- 44 letters from Samuel Johnson
- Letters from Samuel Johnson
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Published at the Swan Press, Chelsea, 1931.
- Notes:
- Letters on rectos, annotations on most preceding versos.
- Title vignette.
- "Printed at the Swan Press Chelsea in Baskerville Type on Hand-made paper. The Type was set by L.D'O. Walters and M.H.H. Walters and the Press work done by H. Gage-Cole The Edition is limited to 100 copies of which this is number ..."--Colophon.
- "Letters ... chosen to show ... the affectionate, generous and tender-minded man who hid these gifts under a rough exterior." Addressed to his wife, his mother, S. Richardson, T. Warton, E. Hector, Miss Boothby, Lucy Porter, W. Strahan, T. Percy, D. Garrick, the Thrales, the Boswells, Macleod of Macleod, R. Levett, Sir J. Reynolds, Frances Burney, Jane Langton, the Rev. Mr. Bagshaw, and Mr. Green, apothecary.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.
- RBC has copy 48.
- Bdg.: 1/4 white cloth with decorative brown swans on white paper boards, white paper spine label.
- Bookplate, In memory of Michael Heriot Huth Walters for his Friend Tommy Boas.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is no. 1.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "In Memory of Michal Heriot Huth Walters B.A. F.R.A.S. 1909-1934 Scholar of Eton & King's College Cambridge Procter Fellow Princeton University U.S.A." on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, 88.3L/18
- OCLC:
- 6979498
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