Johnsoniana, or supplement to Boswell : scrapbook, ca.1750-1836.

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Johnsoniana, or supplement to Boswell : scrapbook, ca.1750-1836.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77584551

Scrapbook volumes include: newspaper clippings, printer's bills and receipts, and letters concerning Dr. Samuel Johnson. With bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser.

2v. (.33 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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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...

Upcott, William, 1779-1845

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Epithet: of Collumpton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x000155 Upcott was a British antiquarian and collector. From the description of Johnsoniana, or supplement to Boswell : scrapbook, ca.1750-1836. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77584551 From the guide to the William Upcott scrapbook of Johnsoniana, or supplement to Boswell, ca.1750-1836., (Houghton Library, Harvard Col...

Fraser, William, Sir, 1826-1898

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