The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson, sometime Chaplain to the Right Honourable William Lord Russel. The Second Edition.

xx, 476pp, with list of subscribers. Folio. Full contemporary panelled calf, gilt spine in compartments with red morocco label. Some rubbing to covers, v. sl. crack at top of rear joint. Marbled e.ps, armorial bookplate of Thos. Sneyd. ESTC T116323. In 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, 'I do not know where I could put my hand upon a book containing so much sense with sound constitutional doctrine as this thin folio of Johnson's works'. The 'Johnson' to whom Coleridge referred was not the celebrated Doctor Samuel Johnson of the eighteenth century but instead the late seventeenth-century Whig clergyman, the Reverend Samuel Johnson. Reverend Johnson's single volume of complete works impressed Coleridge; he scribbled laudatory remarks throughout the margins of a 1710 edition. Coleridge admired the directness of Johnson's style and his persuasive method of argumentation. Johnson would have appreciated Coleridge's comments. They reflected the way he himself understood his work-as sound constitutional doctrine, plainly put. Early Whig Ideology, Ancient Constitutionalism, and the Reverend Samuel Johnson. Zook, Melinda. 1993.