Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations. [Facsimile notebooks.]
by Johnson, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Oxford:]: [Pembroke College], 1974. ONE OF 500 COPIES, 14 facsimile pamphlets in buff or marbled paper wrappers housed as issued in individual plastic bags and a leatherette slipcase. With ‘A Note on the Facsimiles’ loosely inserted. As new. A special production to commemorate 350 years since the founding of Pembroke College, Oxford. The original manuscripts of Johnson’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ had been given to the Rev. George Strahan, son of Johnson’s main publisher, shortly before the author’s death; the resulting edition of 1785 was significantly edited, but the manuscripts passed to Strahan’s daughter and were given by her to Pembroke in the 1820s, enabling this fully faithful and unexpurgated reproduction at last some 150 years later.
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- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4513
- Title
- Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations. [Facsimile notebooks.]
- Author
- Johnson, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Pembroke College]
- Place of Publication
- [Oxford:]
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Religion English Facsimile Limited Edition
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...