Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To which are added, Some Poems never before printed. Published from the Original MSS. in Her Possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. Errata slip in first volume. [4], xv, [1], 397, [1]; xi, [1], 424, [16] pages, including initial blank in first volume and bookseller's 16-page catalogue at end of the second. 2 volumes. 8vo, 233x144 mm, original boards, expertly rebacked; first gathering loose in Volume 1 with clean tear in a6, Volume 2 title foxed, later owner's inscription on last page in each volume, contents otherwise clean; uncut; cloth slipcase. London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788

Additional Details

first edition. Courtney & Nichol Smith, page 168; Rothschild 1270.