Advanced search

PIOZZI LETTERS

Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To which are added some Poems never before printed. Published from the original MSS. in her Possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. In two Volumes

… London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell … 1788.

2 vols., 8vo., with the preliminary blank in volume I, but wanting the rare errata slip; a very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, morocco labels.

£650

Approximately:
US $811  €758

Make an enquiry

Added to your basket:
Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To which are added some Poems never before printed. Published from the original MSS. in her Possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. In two Volumes

Checkout now

First edition. Mrs Piozzi, when she was Mrs Thrale, was Johnson’s principal correspondent for a decade; her edition of Johnson’s letters is the ‘first publication and canonization of a large body of his correspondence’ (Oxford DNB). The Letters sold well, notwithstanding some complaints of manipulative editing by Boswell. Arthur Murphy admiringly declared that they show Johnson ‘in the undress of his mind’.

Fleeman 88.3L/1; Courtney & Nichol Smith, p. 168; Chapman & Hazen, p. 165; Rothschild 1270; Liebert 120.

You may also be interested in...

MYERS, Robin, Andrew BURNETT, and Renae SATTERLEY.

‘I do not eat the bread of idleness’: Dr Andrew Coltée Ducarel 1713–1785, Huguenot, Lawyer, Librarian, Antiquary, and Numismatist.

This volume brings together revised versions of four of Robin Myers’s papers on aspects of Ducarel’s life and work published between 1994 and 2002, and ‘The Life and Times of the Ducarel Brothers’, her recent introductory essay to Two Huguenot Brothers: Letters of Andrew and James Coltée Ducarel, 1732–1773 (The Garendon Press, 2019), which has been updated with a section by Adam Pollock on the life of the Ducarel children among other Huguenot families in Greenwich. It also contains new essays by Robin Myers on the collaboration and developing friendship between Ducarel and Philip Morant (1700–1770), historian of Essex, and on Doctors’ Commons, an institution whose name most know but few understand. To complement these Renae Satterley, Librarian of the Middle Temple, contributes an essay on Doctors’ Commons Library, and Andrew Burnett, former Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, on Ducarel as numismatist. The appendix comprises a family tree from Ducarel to the present day, an annotated list of works of Andrew Ducarel, a timeline of Ducarel’s life, and bibliography. Penelope Bulloch, Christine Ferdinand, and Lorren Boniface helped to edit the work.

Read more

[BALDELLI, Giovanni Battista].

Elogio di Niccolò Machiavelli.

Uncommon first edition of this speech in praise of Machiavelli, given to the Reale Accademia Fiorentina on 7 August 1794 by the Florentine soldier, politician, and historian Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni (1766–1831).

Read more