The Idler - By the Author of The Rambler, in Two Volumes - With Additional Essays (Two Volumes in One Book) [Parsons's Select British Classics, a well chosen collection of Classical Essays - Vol. XIII]

The Idler - By the Author of The Rambler, in Two Volumes - With Additional Essays. TWO VOLUMES in the ONE BOOK (two volumes complete). Parsons's Select British Classics, a well chosen collection of Classical Essays - Vol. XIII. With a total of 103 essays, plus 3 additional essays, as issued. Contains two engravings - being extra title page & plate at p.128 in volume two (plus title page vignette). Each volume with separate title page (volume 1 with the additional extra illustrated title page). Volume one contains half-title page, extra illustrated title page, title page, contents (2pp), advertisements, pp1-148. Volume two contains title page, contents (2pp), pp1-171. "The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, first published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760. It is likely that the Chronicle was published for the sole purpose of including The Idler, since it had produced only one issue before the series began, and ceased publication when it finished. The authors besides Johnson were Thomas Warton, Bennet Langton, and Joshua Reynolds." Small volume. Printed in England. Bound in full leather (calf), gilt-lettered maroon leather label to spine, gilt-stamped design to spine. NOTE: Front board entirely detached (but present), slight handling wear, some mild marginal ink marks, light foxing, small tear with slight loss (1 x 1.5cm) to top inner corner of half-title page, otherwise a nice clean tight solid leatherbound copy. Internally Very Good. 148pp + iv, 171pp. Uncommon eighteenth-century edition. SB-87.…