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Dr. Johnson by Mrs. Thrale: The 'Anecdotes' In Their Original Form
by Piozzi, Hester Lynch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 070112833X
- ISBN 13
- 9780701128333
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE U* Edition: 1st. thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1984.* Pub: The Hogarth Press (Chatto & Windus.).* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine, none face. No bumps, rubs or other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Mono illustrated dust wrapper with an engraving of Dr. Johnson. Beige ground and green labels with white text to spine and face. Price clipped showing no shelf price. Spine faded. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (yellow). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight age darkening to top edge. VG++* Illustrations: B/w portrait of Mrs. Thrale to frontis and a number of b/w plates within text.* Pages: 127 pp. text. xvi pp. blank pages & notes at rear.* Description: In 1776 Henry Thrale presented his wife Hester with six beautifully blank, quarto volumes, her Thraliana. With the same wit and gaiety that had made her the most successful literary hostess of the day., Mrs Thrale took to recording in her journal those indispensable impressions of her devoted friend Samuel Johnson. From his infamour views on the Scots and French to the state of American Independence, from improvisations at the opera to experiments over a glass retort Mrs Thrale scribbled down all the bon mots, gossip and intimacies of the great moralist, often as he sat beside her.*A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. thus with some age reducing it to VG+.* Ingrams, Richard
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9209
- Title
- Dr. Johnson by Mrs. Thrale: The 'Anecdotes' In Their Original Form
- Author
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp. Thus.
- ISBN 10
- 070112833X
- ISBN 13
- 9780701128333
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 143
- Date Published
- 1984-07-01
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