Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
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

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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.