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Johnsonian Gleanings: Complete in 11 parts (10 volumes) Octagon Books

Johnsonian Gleanings: Complete in 11 parts (10 volumes) Octagon Books

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Johnsonian Gleanings: Complete in 11 volumes (10 books)

Allen Lyell Reade

Octagon Books, New York
1968

Octagon Books reprint edition of the complete 11 parts in 10 volumes. A detailed study of Samuel Johnson's family background and early life researched by A.L. Reade (1876-1953). Originally published by the author over a period of 40 years.

    Includes:
  1. Notes on Dr. Johnson's ancestors and connexions and illustrative of his early life
  2. Francis Barber - The doctor's negro servant
  3. The doctor's boyhood
  4. The doctor's Boyhood - appendices
  5. The doctor's life 1728 - 1735
  6. The doctor's life 1735 - 1740
  7. The Jervis, Porter, and other allied families
  8. A miscellany
  9. A further miscellany
  10. Johnson's early life: The final narrative
  11. Consolidate index of persons
Hardcover, Octavo, red cloth, includes foldout map and family pedigree chart in part VII, well reproduced illustrations from the original editions.

This is an ex-library copy, from a large university non-circulating reference room collection. The only external markings are stamps on the page edges, the boards and spine are unmarked. Each volume has a sticker on the front fixed end-paper, else the interiors are unmarked in any way. Bindings are uniformly square and tight. Notwithstanding the library markings described, this is a very nice set with few signs of handling.

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." - Samuel Johnson

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