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JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, imitated by Samuel Johnson. 28 pages. 4to, Jansenist-style brown levant by Riviere & Son, front cover detached; contents washed with light residual toning. Geoffrey Ecroyd bookplate. London: R. Dodsley & M. Cooper, 1749
first edition. This was the first of Johnson's publications to bear his name. Courtney & Nichol Smith, page 22; Foxon J87; Hayward 163; Rothschild 1233.
