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Lot 111
Sale 5180 - Books and Manuscripts
Jul 25, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Johnson, Samuel A Dictionary of the English Language…
London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Payne and Son, et al., 1785. The Sixth Edition. 4to. Half-title wanting in second volume. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson by T. Cook after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Period-style three-quarter mottled brown calf over brown buckram-covered boards, stamped in blind, red morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; dampstaining in bottom of frontispiece; title-pages moderately creased and slightly worn; scattered wear in leaves at front and at rear. Courtney & Smith, p. 57