Piozzi, Hesther Lynch: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the Last Twenty Years of His Life

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Piozzi, Hesther Lynch : Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the Last Twenty Years of His Life

T.Cadell., London, 1786

Recent ½ calf with marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands., Endpapers renewed, otherwise a very good copy., 8vo, Pp.viii, 306, [2], with half-title and postscript and the rare errata slip.

Important early account of Samuel Johnson from someone who knew him better than his other early biographers. Hesther Trale’s marriage to Piozzi disturbed what was once his finest friendship, but it is important to note that her account went to press before Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides appeared in 1785. If she had published her articles with the enormous correspondence she kept with Johnson, her authority as the biographer who enjoyed his closest friendship would have been better known. “Several of Johnson’s verses were first printed in this volume” (Courtney & Smith p.161)., Courtney & Nichol Smith, p.161; Liebert 116; Rothschild 1549.

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