Autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson to Robert Dodsley [manuscript], 18th century.

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Autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson to Robert Dodsley [manuscript], 18th century.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463487957

Letter is of an uncertain date and mentions Shakespeare: "If you have a Shakespeare pray send it through in sheets. I will return it in two or three days."

2 leaves ; 23 x 19 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...