THE IDLER. By the author of the Rambler. With additional essays. The fourth edition.

[JOHNSON, Samuel.]

Published by London: printed for J. Rivington and sons St. Paul's Church Yard; T. Carnan St. Paul's Church Yard; T. Payne and son Mews Gate; T. Cadell Strand; J. Nichols Red Lion Passage Fleet Street; T. Evans Strand; and S. Hayes Oxford Street, 1783

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Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], 294; [iv], 331; a very nice copy in contemporary calf, spines with red morocco labels (label on vol II replaced), very slightly rubbed. Fourth London edition. This edition exists with two different forms of imprint on the title pages, of which Fleeman says this is the second however, the different versions are sometimes found mixed in otherwise uniform sets: 'This suggests that they were not widely separated either by time or place'. The additonal essays were first added in the third edition of 1767. Fleeman 58.4Id/5b (pp. 746-7); Courtney & Nichol Smith p. 84. Provenance. 19th century armorial bookplate of Daniel Jones Long.

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• Title: THE IDLER. By the author of the Rambler. With additional essays. The fourth edition.
• Publisher: London: printed for J. Rivington and sons St. Paul's Church Yard; T. Carnan St. Paul's Church Yard; T. Payne and son Mews Gate; T. Cadell Strand; J. Nichols Red Lion Passage Fleet Street; T. Evans Strand; and S. Hayes Oxford Street
• Publication Date: 1783
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