Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
[JOHNSON, SAMUEL.] The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield. [2], 34 pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 morocco, spine ends and cover corners worn, front joint cracked; early marginalia on pages 31-32. London: J. and P. Knapton et al., 1747

Additional Details

first edition; issue without the salutation to Lord Chesterfield before "My Lord" on page 1. Courtney & Nichol Smith, page 20; Rothschild 1228. With the bookplate of the bibliographer and literary forger H. Buxton Forman (1842-1917).