William Prideaux Courtney; David Nichol Smith; R. W. Chapman; Allen T. Hazen — A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson

Delaware, Oak Knoll Books and Gerald M. Goldberg, 1984. Cloth. A very pleasing facsimile reprint of this bibliographical reference to the works of Samuel Johnson, with the original supplement. Facsimile of the 1925 edition, with the preface of the 1915 edition and the supplement of 1939. A bibliography of the work of Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". Compiled by William Prideaux Courtney, a British biographer and civil servant, and David Nichol Smith, a Scottish literary scholar and Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. With the Johnsonian Bibliography: A Supplement to Courtney by Robert William Chapman, a British scholar, book collector and editor of the works of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen, with assistance from Allen T. Hazen, a British scholar. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .