The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1806

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor)

Grierson Family Books (label)

Grierson, Charlotte D. F. (autograph, 1817)

Phelan, William (inscription, 1808)

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (armorial binding) (bookplate, 1808)

Physical Description:

15 volumes ; 16 cm

Edition:

A new edition, in fifteen volumes with a life of the author.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Printed for Bell & Bradfute, James M'Cleish, and William Blackwood : New York : S. Campbell, 1806.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: v. 2, 5-7, 10-11, 13 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: each vol. bound in full leather; boards tooled in gold with armorial bearings of Trinity College Dublin stamped in gold at center; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine panels; two gold-tooled black leather labels on spine, one stamped with brief title and the other with vol. number; marbled endpapers; green silk marker (remains only in v. 12).

Penn Libraries copy has engraved prize bookplate of Trinity College Dublin (dated Easter 1808) inscribed to William Phelan on front pastedown; autograph of Charlotte D.F. Grierson (dated 20 December 1817) at head of title leaf; bookplate of Archibald Elias and label of Grierson Family Books on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy: spines of v. 1, 3, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15 damaged.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2 has two red wax blobs and 2 holes in p. opp. t.p.; red silk marker laid in.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 4, 8-9 each has a few ms. marginal marks and annotations in pencil in text.

OCLC:

20480018