Samuel Johnson : preliminary sketch of life, [1884?].

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Samuel Johnson : preliminary sketch of life, [1884?].

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Manuscript notebook containing a brief life of Samuel Johnson, in two hands; printed text of and notes to Johnson's poem "London" bound in.

1 v. (ca. 75 p.) ; 20 x 13 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Buffery, R. S.

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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...