London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition. Two volumes. First issue with "gve" p.135:10 in first volume as well as all the misprints, cancels, and stubs as called for [Pottle 79]. Quarto (4to), early full-leather bindings sympathetically recased with new gilt-stamped spines and early mottled calf..... Item #56179 More

London: C. Bathurst, et al, 1781. First edition thus: collects in 4 volumes all 52 of Johnson's "Prefaces, Biographical and Critical" to THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS (1779 - 81); the first authorized separate edition to do so (preceded by an unauthorized Dublin edition). Often referred to as Johnson's..... Item #72408 More