Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 913
  • 913

[Johnson, Samuel]

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Description

  • [Johnson, Samuel]
  • The Harleian Miscellany: or, a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscripts as in Print, found in the late Earl of Oxford's Library... London: Thomas Osborne, 1744 - 1746
  • Ink, paper and cow
Eight volumes, 4to (9 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.; 248 x 192 mm). Nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco with large gilt-roll borders, gilt ornament on spines; spines slightly faded. 

Provenance

Sancti Benedicti Fort Augustus. Bibliotheca Abbatiae (bookplate). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2002

Catalogue Note

First edition.

Important compilation of pamphlets, tracts and curiosities edited by Samuel Johnson and William Oldys, after Thomas Osborne purchased the library of the late Edward Harney, 2nd Earl of Oxford.