printed, published from the original MSS. by Hester Lynch Piozzi, first ed., 2 vol. (some 11. a little foxed), orig. bds., wholly uncut, in cl. slip-cases, 1788 (58), July 12, Hodgson Kent, £48 [See also Mar. 21, £6 5s.; July 12, £5; July 18, £7 7s. and 2 25.; Aug. 1, 8 and £5 5s.; Oct. 19, £4 15s.; Oct. 26, £7 5s.; Sotheby, Mar. 19, £5; July 23, £1 185.; July 31, L11.] [Johnson (S.)] London, a Poem in imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, first ed., inner margins of title and 3 last 11. very slightly repaired (size of title, 13 by 8 in.; size of leaves, 131 by 8 in.), hf. roan, Printed for R. Doddesley, at Tully's Head in Pall Mall, 1738 (99), July 30, Sotheby Sawyer, £260 [See also April 2, £260, and second ed., £16; Hodgson, July 12, second ed., II 10s.] [Johnson (S.)] Marmor Norfolciense, or An Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discover'd near Lynn in Norfolk [being a disguised denunciation of the House of Brunswick], first ed., with the half-title, a few ll. a little foxed, panelled cf. extra, t.e.g., clean copy, London, J. Brett, 1739, 8vo. (36), July 12, Hodgson Quaritch, £80 [See also Sotheby, April 2, £71.] [Johnson (S.)] Political Tracts, first collected ed., title written on, hf. mor. gt., 1776 (386), July 18, Hodgson Tregaskis, £2 10s. [See also Sotheby, April 2, £2 10s. and £2.] Johnson (S.) Prayers and Meditations... published . . . by George Strahan, first ed., cf. gt., 1785, 8vo. (76), April 2, Sotheby Maggs, £10 IOS. [Johnson (S.)] Lobo (Father Jerome). A Voyage to Abyssinia, with a Continuation of the History of Abyssinia. by Mr. Legrand, from the French [by Samuel Johnson], first ed., rubricated title, hf. maroon russia, marbled board sides, coloured edges, London, 1735, 8vo. (529), Dec. 12, Amer. Art Assoc. $27.50 [Dr. Johnson's first published work, for the translation of which he received five guineas. With the first and last signatures water-stained and the title mounted. Scarce in any condition.] [Johnson (S.)] The Prince of Abissinia, a Tale, first ed., 2 vol., wants M 4 (blank) at the end of Vol. ii., mottled cf. gt., inside borders, g.e., by Rivière, in a slip-case, London, printed for R. & J. Dodsley, 1759, 8vo. (57), April 2, Sotheby Rosenbach, £335 [Inserted is a manuscript form of receipt for £25, Johnson's payment for the second edition of Rasselas, in three instalments of £10, £6 6s., and £8 14s. Johnson has signed for the receipt of the first two sums (on May 21 and June 22, 1759), but no date is filled in for the final payment, which is left unsigned. See also July 30, re paired, £95; Hodgson, July 12, £70; Dec. 14, def., £3 IOS.; Puttick, Nov. 2, 30; Ed. 1785-Hodgson, July 18, £7 10s.; Ed. 1790-July 12, £10 and £6.] Johnson (S.) The Rambler, to be continued on Tuesdays and Saturdays [conducted by Dr. Johnson], from the commencement on Tuesday, March 20th, 1749-50 to Saturday, March 2nd, 1751, being the original first 100 numbers, entirely uncut, sewed in gatherings of 10 numbers each, and enclosed in a stiff buckram folder (2 11. browned and a small hole in a few margins), sm. folio (851), Mar. 21, Hodgson Dobell, £24 [See also July 18, Nos. 1 to 104, £5; Sotheby, July 23, Nos. 105-208, £14; Foster, Jan. 23, Nos. I to 208, 2 vol., £58.] Johnson (S.) The Rambler [conducted by Dr. Johnson], from March 20, 1749-50, to March 17, 1752, being Nos. 1-208, with a general title, contents and mottoes of the first (and second) vol., inscription on title "The gift of Dr. Chas. Burney, junr. to A. & F. d'Arblay" (crossed through), No. 1 is a reprint, title slightly repaired and mounted, a leaf of Mottoes torn and carelessly repaired, one leaf only of the last number (208), and that slightly defective, a few slight stains, hf. cf., Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1751, sm. folio (102), July 30, Sotheby Hackett, £205 [On the fly-leaf a pencil note by Sir Edmund Gosse. This volume is stated by family tradition to have been given by Dr. Johnson to Dr. Chas. Burney, and by him to his sister Fanny, author of "Evelina."] Johnson (S.) Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk, first ed., cf. (label on back missing), C. Dilly, 1798, 8vo. (452), June 27, Hodgson Edwards, £2 [See also July 12, £3 38.; Ed. 1818-Sotheby, April 30, £5 108.1 [Johnson (S.)] Taxation No Tyranny: an Answer to the Resolutions and Addresses of the American Congress, first ed., with the half-title, tree cf. ex., g.e., by Sangorski, T. Cadell, 1775 (46), July 12, Hodgson Quaritch, £25 [See also Oct. 26, 43; Sotheby, April 2, £23.] Johnson (S.) The Vanity of Human Wishes: the Tenth Satire of Juvenal, imitated by Samuel Johnson, first ed., a very faint stain on title, the lower margin of last leaf a little discoloured, unbound, a sound, clean, and good copy, London, printed for R. Dodsley, 1749, 4to. (10% by 78 in.), (192), July 9, Sotheby Pickering, £215 [See also April 2, 155; July 30, £220.] Johnson (S.) Poetical Works . . . now first collected, wrappers (defective), uncut, in a pull-off case of brown mor., by Zaehnsdorf, London, printed for the Editor and sold by G. Keersley, 1785, 8vo. (73), April 2, Sotheby Edwards, £33 [See also April 2, 21 10s.; June 18, 21; Hodgson, Jan. 26, £4; Oct. 19, £3 3s.; July 12, £4 7s. 6d.] Johnson (S.) Works, with Life and Notes by Sir J. Hawkins, first collected ed., portrait, II vol., cf. (rubbed), 1787, 8vo. (392), Feb. 22, Hodgson Oakley, £1 5s. [See also Amer. Art Assoc., May 7, $17.50; Ed. 1796Sotheby, Mar. 26, £1 10s.; Dec. 12, 6; Anderson Gall., Mar. 26, $1; Ed. 1801-Sotheby, April 2, 12 vol., £1 5S.; Ed. 1811-Dowell, Feb. 27, 15 vol., £1 11s.; Ed. 1816Sotheby, Mar. 5, 8 vol., £2 15s.; Ed. 1823-Dowell, Dec. 19, 12 vol., 1 2s.; Amer. Art Assoc., April 23, $75; Ed. 1825-Feb. 14, 11 vol., $17.50; May 7, $31; Puttick, April 3, 9 vol., 1 15s.; Sotheby, April 16, £1 148.; July 23, £3 15s.; Hodgson, June 27, I IS.; July 12, 1; Dowell, Oct. 24, £1 18s.] Johnson (S.) Works, with Life by A. Murphy, portrait after [See also Feb. 8, 1 IS.; Puttick, Jan. 18, 17s. 6d.; Ed. 1816-Hodgson, April 26, 1; July 12, £2 10s. ; Nov. 9, £4 7s. 6d.; Sotheby, April 16, £3 10s.; Dec. 19, £3; Ed. 1823-Hodgson, Mar. 21, 1 14S.; May 16, I 2s.; Ed. 1824-Mar. 7, £2 4s.; Christie, Aug. 1, £3 15s.; Puttick, Oct. 5, £1 17s. 6d.] " " Johnsoniana. The World Displayed, plates, 10 vol., contemporary cf., 1760, 8vo. (406), July 4, Sotheby Myers, £58 [The fly-leaf of Vol. I is inscribed "Miss Palmer, 1773" in Dr. Johnson's best hand, and the titles all bear the words M. Palmer, the gift of Dr. Johnson." Mary Palmer was the first Countess of Inchiquin and, later, Marchioness of Thomond.] Johnsoniana. Euvres d'Horace en Latin et Francais, par M. Dacier, Henry Thrale's copy, with his autograph on fly-leaf, followed by the figures "fl.30, 2 vols, with a Poem in two verses of 7 lines each (pinned to the fly-leaf) in the handwriting of Mrs. Thrale, entitled "Ad Augustum," and apparently addressed to Dr. Johnson, 2 vol. in 1, old cf. (rebacked), Hambourg, 1733, 4to. (58), June 6, Hodgson Lee, £50 Johnsoniana, or a Collection of Bon Mots, etc. by Dr. Johnson and others, first ed., engraved portrait by I. Taylor, old cf., 1776, 12mo. (52), July 12, Hodgson Tregaskis, £7 10s. [See also Sotheby, May 14, £14; Ed. 1793-April 2, £12 10s.] Johnsoniana. More Last Words of Dr. Johnson and a Curious Letter from a Medical Gentleman . . . by Francis, Barber ([A]-K in fours), hf. blue cf., London, printed for the Author, and sold by E. Rich, 1787, 8vo. (128), April 2, Sotheby Tregaskis, £9 Johnsoniana, or Supplement to Boswell, first ed., plates, hf. cf., 1836, 8vo. (477), Nov. 28, Sotheby Rosenbach, £2 5s. [See also April 2, 6; Anderson Gall., Mar. 28, $22.50; Hodgson, Nov. 24, £3 3s.] Johnsoniana. A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters, occasionally written, third ed., corrected, orig. cf. (covers loose), 1699, 8vo. (427), July 16, Sotheby Sawyer, £92 [Used by Dr. Johnson in compiling his famous Dictionary, and with numerous marginal pencillings marking words quoted in it. On the back of title is the following note : 'This book was with several others purchased at the Sale of Dr. Johnson's Library & upon comparing the Pencil Initials in the Margins of the Pages with his Dictionary, it appears that those sentences against which the Initials are struck out with a horizontal line are quoted in the Dictionary. Sam. Newman." Inside the cover is an earlier note of ownership, "John Paterson his Book, Febary ye 1, 1734." Sold as an Association book.] [Johnson (S.), Maittaire (M.) and Oldys (W.)] Catalogue Bibliothecæ Harleianæ, 5 vol., hf. cf., 1743-5, 8vo. (190), July 9, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 [See also Lot 189, £7 5s.; Nov. 28, £7.] Johnston (Sir Henry). Liberia, with an Appendix on the Flora Liberia by Dr. Otto Stapf, 28 col. plates, 22 maps, and of numerous other illustrations, 2 vol., green crushed levant mor., emblematically gt. tooled backs, uncut, New York, 1906, tk. sq. 8vo. (595), Mar. 20, Anderson Gall. $22 Joinville (Jean, Sire de). Histoire de S. Lovys IX. dv nom Roy de France, LARGE PAPER, portrait, panelled red mor. gt., arms of J. B. Colbert on sides, inside borders, g.e., a fine example, the De Noailles-Vernon copy, sold as a binding, Paris, S. M. Cramoisy, 1668, folio (399), Dec. 5, Sotheby P. Davis, £32 Jonas (Justus). Defensio pro Conjugio Sacerdotali, woodcut title, hf. mor., Wittembergæ, 1523, sm. 4to. (697), June 13, Hodgson Grant, £I IOS. Jones (Inigo). Designs for Public and Private Buildings, published by W. Kent, plates, 2 vol. in 1, old mottled cf., g.e., 1770, folio (478), Nov. 28, Sotheby Webb, £6 15s. [See also Puttick, Aug. 1, £3 158.] Jones (I.) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain, first ed., portrait by Hollar, and 7 folding plates, old cf. (repaired), 1655, folio (513), Aug. 2, Sotheby Wilkes, £2 5s. Jones (John, Phisition at the Kings Mede nigh Darby). The Benefit of the Auncient Bathes of Buckstones, first ed., black letter, woodcut coat-of-arms on verso of title, most 11. water-stained and last leaf frayed, wrapper, T. East and H. Myddleton, 1572, sm. 4to. (214), May 3, Hodgson Commin, £8 Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, illustrated by examples from various styles of Ornament, LARGE PAPER, 100 plates printed in colours, hf. mor. gt., g.e., 1856, folio (22 by 103 in.), (540), Mar. 26, Sotheby B. F. Stevens, £9 [See also Puttick, Nov. 2, £6 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $12.50; Ed. 1865-Hodgson, Nov. 9, £2; Ed. 1868-Aug. 1, 2; Ed. 1910-Sotheby, Oct. 31, £2; Hodgson, April 18, £1 16s.; Anderson Gall., $15.] Jones (Theophilus). History of Brecknockshire, plates, those of arms coloured, 2 vol., cf., 1805-9, 4to. (547), May 3, Hodgson Edwards, £1 18s. Jones (W., of Paston, Northants, and Nayland, Suffolk). The Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity, Mary Lamb's copy, inscribed on title "Mary Lamb, Decbr. 1812," contemp. tree cf., 1810, sm. 8vo. (472), June 6, Hodgson Maggs, £26 Jonson (Benjamin). Everie Woman in her Humor, first ed., wanting F 2, title and a few ll. stained, a few head-lines cut into, hf. mor., Locker-Lampson copy, with bookplate, London, printed by E. A. for Thomas Archer, 1609, 4to. (80), July 27, Sotheby Pickering, 10 IOS. Jonson (B.) Ben: Ionson's Execration against Vulcan, with divers Epigrams by the same Author to severall Noble Personages in this Kingdome, never published before, first ed., engraved portrait by Vaughan, crimson crushed levant mor., gt. centre ornaments on sides, g.e., by Rivière, in cl. protecting covers, fine copy, with the E. M. Cox bookplate, London, printed by J. O. for John Benson, 1640, sm. 4to. (104), Jan. 10, Anderson Gall. $425 [The portrait of Jonson is Vaughan's well-known engraving, and has done yeoman service, as it was probably first issued as a separate print, and afterwards to ornament this volume and the collected works of the same date. It is generally believed that the volume is complete without the portrait, which was utilized in many instances as an embellishment.] Jonson (B.) Volpone, Japanese vellum ed., limited to 100 copies, front., 5 initial letters, and a cover design, vellum gt., 1898, 4to. (144), Dec. 14, Hodgson Davis & Orioli, £4 15s. [See also Puttick, May 31, I Ios.; Amer. Art Assoc., May 7, $17.50 and $7.] Jonson (B.) Works, first ed., wanting portrait and engraved title, 2 vol., commences ¶ 3, Vol. ii. has Allot's title to Bartholomew Fair, dated 1631, stain in upper portion of all ll. in this vol., and some 11. of Vol. i. damp-stained, old cf. (worn), 1616-40, folio (882), April 16, Sotheby Pollard, £12 IOS. [See also Feb. 13, Vol. 1 only, £11 10s.; Dec. 19, Vol. I only, £9; Foster, Jan. 23, £16 5s. 6d.; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $90; Ed. 1640-April 23, $65; Hodgson, April 18, £4 5s.; May 16, 6; May 23, £9; June 6, £17, and Vol. 1, 1 8s.; Sotheby, Mar. 19, 10 IOS.; May 14, £3 15s. and £1 5s.; July 16, £4 5s.; July 23, £5; Dec. 12, £5; Dec. 19, £9.] Jonson (B.) Works, with Additions never before published, |