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The Idler / by the author of the Rambler...with additional essays.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR1365 .I4 1803 (no. 1-52 Ap 15 1758-Ap 14 1759) (no. 53-103 Ap 21 1759-Ap 5 1760)
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- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Standardized Title:
- The Idler (London, England : 1758)
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : frontispieces, plates ; 18 cm
- no. 1 (Apr. 15, 1758)-no. 103 (Apr. 5, 1760).
- Other Title:
- Select British classics, v. 9-10
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Tesson and Lee, for Samuel F. Bradford...and John Conrad & co., 1803.
- Summary:
- The "additional essays" consist of: An essay on epitaphs; A dissertation on the epitaphs written by Pope; The bravery of the English common soldiers.
- Notes:
- By Samuel Johnson, with the exception of 12 papers contributed by his friends, of which no. 33, 93, 96 are by Thomas Warton, no. 67 by Bennet Langton, and no. 76, 79, 82 by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
- OCLC:
- 185065739
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