JOHNSON A SUBSCRIBER
MUSGRAVE, Samuel.
Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton’s Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads …
London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.
8vo, pp. [4], xxii, [2], 231, [1]; a very good copy, uncut, in the original marbled boards, tan paper spine (largely perished), upper board coming loose; modern pencilled note ‘Purchased from the descendant of the subscriber “Mr. Radcliffe” [of Trinity College, Cambridge]'.
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Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton’s Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads …
First edition of this work by the classical scholar Samuel Musgrave (1732–1780), published posthumously for the benefit of the author’s widow, with a generous list of subscribers thanks to the efforts of the editor, Thomas Tyrwhitt.
In addition to Dr Johnson other subscribers include Sir Joseph Banks, Edward Gibbon (two copies), David Hartley, Joshua Reynolds, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Steevens, and Samuel Whitbread.
Provenance: the subscriber to whom this copy belonged was likely one William Radcliffe of Maidstone, who matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1780, and was admitted at the Middle Temple in 1783.
ESTC T147724; Babson Newton Collection 220; Fleeman, A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books associated with Dr Samuel Johnson 214.
