The Birmingham Counterfeit; or, Invisible Spectator. A Sentimental Romance.

NOVEL. [JOHNSON (Richard)]

Published by London: Printed by W. Strahan for S. Bladon, 1772

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First edition, 2 vols., 12mo (164 x 99 mm), [14], 268; [6], 280pp., without half-titles, title page and prelims to vol. I with faint waterstain, title page to vol. I mounted on a stub, rebound in nineteenth-century quarter red roan, marbled boards, spines lettered direct. A scarce novel, attributable to Richard Johnson, a jobbing writer and press corrector. "Richard Johnson's only excursion into adult or semi-adult fiction, in which the principal agent of the story, a Birmingham Shilling, is endowed with the faculties of hearing, seeing, and admonishing." Weedon. Johnson's Day Book records "1771 Nov. 27. Mr. Strahan began printing the Birmingham Counterfeit, for which he is responsible in Eight or Ten Guineas, according as he shall dispose of it when printed". ESTC records just one copy in the UK (British Library) and 6 copies in North America; Garside, Raven & Sch�werling, 1772: 2; Block, p. 22; Weedon, Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery, 1949. 12.

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The Birmingham Counterfeit; or, Invisible Spectator. A Sentimental Romance.

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London: Printed by W. Strahan for S. Bladon

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1772

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1st Edition

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