Beschreibung:

An Account of the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, from his birth to his eleventh year, written by himself. To which are added, Original Letters to Dr. Samuel Johnson, by Miss Hill Boothby
London: Richard Phillips 1805. 8vo (160 x 95 mm). Contemporary half sheep over grey boards. Condition: very small worm track in bottom margin of signatures C and D, not touching text; corners slightly rubbed, chipped at head. Provenance: 19th-century circulating library label to pastedown. first edition. "This fragment of Johnson's autobiography was taken by Francis Barber, his black servant, from the mass of papers which Johnson ordered to be burned a few days before his death." (Courtney, p.173). Maggs 1038/203; Rothschild 1272.