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in p. 41, contemporary cf. gt., 1770, 8vo. (41), Feb. 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 [In the margins throughout are about 90 notes in the handwriting of J. Horne Tooke.] [Johnson (Dr. S.)] The Idler, first ed., 2 1761, 12mo. (905), Nov. 11, Hodgson Johnson (Dr. S.) Irene, a Tragedy, first

vol., orig. hf. cf., Tregaskis, £3 38. ed., with leaf of

advt. at end, wants half-title, hf. red mor. gt., g.e., 1749, 8vo. (40), Feb. 15, Sotheby Johnson (Dr. S.) Journey to the Western first ed., with leaf of Errata, old cf. (553), Dec. 17, Hodgson

Hollings, £3 15s. Islands of Scotland, (rubbed), 1775, 8vo. Last, £3 5s.

Dowell, Nov. 23, £2

[See also Nov. 11, orig. bds., £14; IOS.; Dec. 21, £2 15s.; Anderson Gall., Nov. 23, $24: Sotheby, Dec. 7, £4; Mar. 8, £3 5s.; Mar. 29, £3 5s.; May 17, £5 June 21, £2 18s.; July 29, £2 108.] Johnson (Dr. S.) Lives of the most Eminent English Poets, portrait, 4 vol., advt. leaf at end of Vol. iv., name on title of Vol. i., sprinkled cf., backs gt., 1781, 8vo. (157), July 26, Sotheby Sawyer, £7

[See also Dec. 7, £2 15s.; Mar. 1, £3 38.; May 17, £5 10s.; Hodgson, Oct. 14, 1; Nov. 11, 4; Dec. 2, £4 15s.; Mar. 10, £5 10s.; Mar. 24, £5 15s.; May 5, £3 IOS.; Dowell, Jan. 25, £4 4s.; Ed. 1783-Sotheby, Feb. 1, £2 15s.; Ed. 1854-Dowell, May 31, 1 28.; Ed. 1896Hodgson, Nov. 4, £1 2s.]

Johnson (Dr. S.) The Works of the English Poets, with Prefaces, biographical and critical, by Samuel Johnson, portraits, 75 vol., cf. gt., 1790, 12mo. (9), Mar. 1, Sotheby

Joseph, £8

[See also Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 2, $180; Mar. 3, $120; Ed. 1810-Hodgson, Nov. 4, £6 10s.; Sotheby, Dec. 7. £6 10s.] [Johnson (Dr. S.)] The Patriot, addressed to the Electors of Great Britain, first ed., hf. roan, T. Cadell, 1774, 8vo. (225), May 5, Hodgson Tregaskis, £8 Johnson (Dr. S.) Prayers and Meditations, published by George Strahan, first ed., small wormhole in some lower margins, old hf. cf. (binding defective), T. Cadell, 1785, 8vo. (374), Mar. 1, Sotheby Mathews, £5 5s. [Johnson (Dr. S.)] The Prince of Abissinia, a Tale [Rasselas], first ed., 2 vol. in 1, the last printed leaf and the blank slightly stained, old cf. (slightly broken), Printed for R. & J. Dodsley, 1759, 12mo. (136), May 17, Sotheby

Quaritch, £37

[See also Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 18, $125; Feb. 17. $125; Ed. 1775-April 28, $26.] Johnson (Dr. S.) The Rambler, Nos. 1-208, 2 vol., contem. porary cf. (sides rubbed), 1751, sm. folio (261), Jan. 13, Hodgson Edwards, £15 10s. [See also Ed. 1753-May 27, Vol. ii. only, £16; Anderson Gall., Nos. 1-183, Oct. 13, $15.]

Johnson (Dr. S.) A Sermon written by the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., for the Funeral of his Wife, 1788, and another, in 1 vol., wrappers-Another copy, without the Introduction, I leaf, in a folder, 8vo. (32), Mar. 25, Sotheby E. Mathews, £13 10s. Johnson (Dr. S.) The Vanity of Human Wishes, the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated, first ed., London, printed for R. Dodsley, 1749, and 11 others, in 1 vol., cf., mor. back, 4to. (85), June 28, Sotheby Spencer, £43 Johnson (Dr. S.) Letters to and from Samuel Johnson, to which are added some Poems never before printed, published by Hester Lynch Piozzi, first ed., 2 vol., Sir Horace Mann's copy, with his bookplate inserted, and later Dorset Fellowes', A.L.s. from Mrs. Piozzi (2), Georgina Duchess of Devonshire, and others inserted, a few ll. in Vol. ii. a little stained, cf. gt., 1788, 8vo. (586), July 26, Sotheby Pickering, £6 15s.

[See also Mar. 31, £2 148.; June 21, £5; Anderson Gall., Nov. 9, $21.] Johnson (Dr. S.) Some Unpublished Letters [to William Strahan, the printer], [1915], 8vo. (329), April 15, Hodgson Maggs, £6 5s. Johnson (Dr. S.) Poetical Works, first collected ed., old hf. binding (joints cracked), 1785 (571), Mar. 24, Hodgson [See also Sotheby, Mar. 25, £6 10s.] Birrell, £1 18s. Johnson (Dr. S.) Works, library ed., portrait, cf. gt., 11 vol., 1787 (1488), April 27, Hampton £4 12s. [See also Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 4, $70; Ed. 1796— Sotheby, Nov. 23, 12 vol., £1; Ed. 1801-Dec. 7, 12 vol., £1 12s.; Ed. 1806-May 17, 12 vol., £2 15s.; Ed. 1816Hodgson, April 21, 12 vol., £3 15s.]

Johnson (Dr. S.) Works, with an Essay by A. Murphy,
portrait, 12 vol., blue cf., m.e., 1823, 8vo. (357), July 5,
Sotheby
Quaritch, £5 IOS.

[See also Hodgson, Oct. 21, £4 12s. 6d.; Ed. 1825— Sotheby, Feb. 1, £5 10s.; May 31, £5 15s.; Hodgson, Nov. 4, £2 12s.]

Johnson (Dr. S.) Lives of the Poets, 3 vol.-Letters, 2 vol.— Miscellanies, 2 vol.-[and] Life, by Boswell, 6 vol., edited by G. Birkbeck Hill, best ed., portraits and facsimiles, 13 vol., buckram (back of one vol. slightly soiled), 18871905, 8vo. (348), Mar. 24, Hodgson Joseph, £9 5s. Johnson (Thomas). Cornvcopiae, or diuers secrets, wherein is contained the rare secrets in Man, Beast, Foules, Fishes, Trees, Plantes, Stones and such like, most pleasant and profitable, and not before committed to bee printed in English, newlie drawen out of diuers Latine Authors into English by Thomas Iohnson, first ed., black letter, ornament on title-page, maroon mor., blind tooled cartouche on sides, g.e., by Rivière, At London, printed for VVilliam Barley, 1595, sm. 4to. (428), May 20, Anderson Gall. $160

Johnston (Arthur). Poemata Omnia, engraved title with portrait, cf., Middelburg, 1642, 8vo. (687), Nov. 2, Sotheby Arthur, £4 18s. Johnston (John). Inscriptiones Historicae Regvm Scotorvm Ioh. Ionstono Abredonense Scoto, Authore (7 preliminary ll., including one loosely inserted [some copies have 8 preliminaries], A-K 4 including 10 portraits), 4 marginal notes and 2 ornamental borders very slightly shaved, Amsteldami, Cornelius Claessonius Andreae Hartio, bibliopolae Edemburgensi, 1602-Heroes ex omni historia Scotica lectissimi, avctore Johan. Jonstono Abredonense Scoto, Lugd. Bat., 1603, in 1 vol., brown leather, arms of Sir Mark Sykes in blind on sides, Heber copy, 4to. (282), Mar. 22, Sotheby Maggs, £7 10S. Jones (Andrew). [The] Dreadfull Character of a Drunkard, black letter, woodcut on title (title defective, cropped), limp vellum, Miller arms on sides, Eliz. Andrews (date cut away, but 16-], sm. 8vo. (334), Mar. 15, Sotheby

Pickering, £6 Jones (Inigo). The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain, portrait of Inigo Jones by W. Hollar, and plates, old mor. gt., panelled sides, g.e., 1655, folio (139), June 28, Sotheby Dobell, £6 Jones (I.) and Kent (W.) Designs, engraved title and 53 plates, hf. bound, J. Vardy, 1744 (530), June 10, Hodgson Batsford, 1 IOS.

Jones (Owen). Grammar of Ornament, col. plates, hf. mor., 1856, folio (215), Feb. 4, Puttick Parsons, £6 IOS.

[See also Hodgson, April 21, £2 75.; Sotheby, Mar. 29, £6 15s.; Ed. 1865-Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 12, $16; Ed. 1868-Sotheby, June 21, 18s.; July 29, ₤2 58.; Hodgson, May 20, £3 5s.; June 30, £3.]

verso of

Jonson (Ben). The Alchemist, first ed., each leaf inlaid, with initials and notes of John Philip Kemble on titlepage, with the Roxburghe arms stamped on title-page, hf. maroon mor., London, printed by Thomas Snodham for Walter Burre, 1620, sm. 4to. (439), May 20, Anderson Gall. $163 Jonson (B.) Catiline his Conspiracy, first ed., crimson mor., gt. tooled, g.e., by Leighton, with the Locker-Lampson, Robert Hoe and H. V. Jones bookplates, London, printed for Walter Burre, 1611, sm. 4to. (437), May 20, Anderson Gall. $700

[There are commendatory verses by Beaumont, Fletcher and Field.]

[Jonson (B.)] Chloridia, Rites to Chloris and her Nymphs, personated in a Masque at Court by the Queenes Maiesty and her Ladies, at Shroue-tide, 1630, first ed., with the final leaf c 2 containing "The Names of the Masquers as they sate in the Bowre," brown cf., with the Bridgewater crest on sides, and with the Bridgewater and H. V. Jones

bookplates, London, printed for Thomas Walkley [1630], sm. 4to. (440), May 20, Anderson Gall. $1,000 Jonson (B.) Every Man in his Humor, as it hath beene sundry times publickly acted by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants, first ed., blue mor., inside dentelles, g.e., by Rivière, the Sewall-White copy, Imprinted at London for Walter Burre, 1601, sm. 4to. (431), May 20, Anderson Gall. $900 Jonson (B.) The Comicall Satyre of Every Man ovt of his Hvmor, as it was furst composed by the Author B. I., containing more then hath been publikely spoken or acted, with the seuerall Character of euery person, large ornament on title-page, each leaf inlaid, with initials and notes of John Philip Kemble on title-page, hf. black mor., the Kemble-Devonshire-Huntington copy, London, printed for Nicholas Linge, 1600, sm. 4to. (430), May 20, Anderson Gall. $450

[One of the three editions published this year. According to W. W. Greg's recent researches, this seems to be the latest of the three.]

Jonson (B.) The Fortvnate Isles and their Vnion, celebrated in a Masqve design'd for the Court, on the Twelfth night, 1624, first ed., with the orig. blank leaf at end, dark red mor. (Jansen style), inside dentelles, g.e., by Rivière, fine copy, No imprint or colophon, sm. 4to. (438), May 20, Anderson Gall. $4,900 Jonson (B.) B. Jon. His Part of King James his Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through his Honorable Cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March, 1603, so much as was presented in the first and last of their Triumphall Arch's with other Additions, ornamental band on title-page, Printed at London by V. S. for Edward Blount, 1604 [also] A Particvlar Entertainment of the Queene and Prince their Highnesse to Althrope, - at the Right Honourable the Lord Spencers, on Saterday being the 25. of lune 1603, as they came first into the Kingdome, being written by the same Author, and not before published, ornamental band at top, 2 vol., first ed., with the orig. blank leaf F 2 in the first vol., red mor., gt. backs, gt. fillet borders on sides, inside dentelles, g.e., by Bedford, sm. 4to. (433), May 20, Anderson Gall. $650

[The second vol. originally formed the latter portion of the first vol., having been separated by a former owner.] Jonson (B.) Hymenaei, or The Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers, magnificently performed on the eleventh and twelfth Nights, from Christmas, at Court, to the auspicious celebrating of the Marriage-union betweene Robert, Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances, second Daughter to the most noble Earle of Suffolke, first ed., old cf., with the Bridgewater crest impressed on sides in blind, fine copy, with the Bridgewater and the H. V. Jones bookplates, At London, printed by Valentine Sims

for Thomas Thorp, 1606, sm. 4to. (435), May 20, Anderson Gall. $1,100 Jonson (B.) Ionsonvs Virbivs, or The Memorie of Ben. Johnson, revived by the Friends of the Muses, first ed., LI slightly defective, lacks L 2 (a blank), a little wormed affecting a few letters and 3 or 4 border lines, E. P. for Henry Seile, 1638, sm. 4to. (239), Nov. 23, Sotheby

Quaritch, £22

[Contains some interesting references to Shakespeare. The Elegies were written by John Beaumont, John Ford, Edmund Waller, and others. See also Anderson Gall., May 20, $160; Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 3, $325.] Jonson (B.) Loves Trivmph throvgh Callipolis, performed in a Masque at Court, 1630, by his Maiestie, with the Lords and Gentlemen assisting. The Inuentors, Ben Ionson, Inigo Iones. First ed., orange mor. (Jansen style), inside gt. borders, g.e., with the Roxburghe arms, and "Duplicate Bridgwr Liby." stamped on verso of title-page, and the H. V. Jones bookplate, London, printed by I. N. for Thomas Walkley, 1630, sm. 4to. (441), May 20, Anderson Gall. $650

Jonson (B.) The Masqve of Qveenes, celebrated from the House of Fame by the most absolute in all State and Titles, Anne Queene of Great Britaine, &c., with her Honourable Ladies, at White Hall, Febr. 2, 1609, first ed., of which but 6 other copies are known, title-page reinforced on inner margin, hf. cf. antique, the Jolley, Holgate, Christie-Miller copy, with the Thomas Jolley bookplate, London, printed by N. Okes for R. Bonian and H. Wally, 1609, sm. 4to. (436), May 20, Anderson Gall. $1,150 Jonson (B.) The Nevv Inne, or The Light Heart, a Comoedy, as it was neuer acted, but most negligently play'd, by some, the King's Seruants, and more squeamishly beheld and censured by others, the Kings Subjects, 1629, now at last set at liberty to the Readers, his Maties. Seruants, and Subjects, to be jugd'd, 1631, by the Author, B. Ionson, first ed., red mor. (Jansen style), inside dentelles, g.e., by Rivière, fine copy, the Newdigate-Newdegate copy, London, printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Alchorne, 1631, sm. 8vo. (442), May 20, Anderson Gall.

$500 Jonson (B.) Poetaster, or The Arraignment, as it hath beene sundry times priuately acted in the Blacke Friers by the children of her Maiesties Chappell, composed by Ben Ionson, first ed., ornament on title-page, polished brown cf., gt. fillet border on sides, the Corser, Locker-Lampson, Church, Hoe, Huntington copy, with the Robert Hoe bookplate, London, printed for M. L., 1602, sm. 4to. (432), May 20, Anderson Gall. $570 Jonson (B.) Seianvs his Fall, first ed., each leaf inlaid, with initials and notes of John Philip Kemble on title-page, hf. blue mor., the Twysden (name on title-page), Kemble,

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