Reade, Aleyn Lyell, 1876-1953 [author] ; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [subject]
New York: Octagon Books, 1968. Reprinted. Octavo, 10 volumes. In Very Good condition. Spines are red with gold print. Boards in red cloth Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portraits, plates (some folded), facsimiles. Reprint of the 1909-52 edition.
Contents: Part 1. Notes on Dr. Johnson's ancestors and connexions and illustrative of his early life ( xiii, 41 pages) [bound with] Part 2. Francis Barber, the doctor's Negro servant (132 pages) — Part 3. The doctor's boyhood (xi, 209 pages) — Part 4. The doctor's boyhood. Appendices (v, 247 pages) — Part 5. The doctor's life, 1728-1735 (xii, 314 pages) — Part 6. The doctor's life, 1735-1740 (xi, 224 pages) — Part 7. The Jervis, Porter, and other allied families (v, 226 pages) — Part 8. A miscellany (v, 216 pages) — Part 9. A further miscellany (v, 282 pages) — Part 10. Johnson's early life : the final narrative (xii, 224 pages) — Part 11. Consolidated index of persons : to parts I to X, as well as to the Johnsonian portions of “The Reades of Blackwood Hill” and “Dr. Johnson’s ancestry” (xii, 518 pages).
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