Catalog of Samuel Johnson portrait engravings : [England], [18--?].

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Catalog of Samuel Johnson portrait engravings : [England], [18--?].

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Holograph manuscript catalog of portrait engravings of Samuel Johnson owned by Murray. Consists of a numbered list of items with column headings: subject, engraver, artist, method, size of engraver's surface and plate, description, and remarks regarding history, publication, etc. Accompanied by one small sheet of notes presumably in Murray's hand regarding one item.

1 item (3 sheets) ; 33 x 41 cm. folded to 33 x 21 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Murray, Alexander Henry Hallam (English painter and architect, 1854-1934)

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Graduate of Eton and Cambridge; partner in the publishing firm of John Murray, London; a published illustrator whose works were exhibited in the Royal Academy. From the description of Catalog of Samuel Johnson portrait engravings : [England], [18--?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122597196 From the description of Catalog of Samuel Johnson portrait engravings : [England], [18--?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702146288 ...

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...