The Works of Samuel Johnson. A New Edition, in Twelve Volumes. To which is prefixed, An Essay on his Life and Genius, by Arthur

Pp 400 per volume, (approx). Including - Plan of an English Dictionary, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Lives of the English Poets, the History of English Poets, , Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons, etc. Original full calf gilt, marks and chipping to edges. Later raised spine bands gilt with blind stamped decorated panels, Dr Johnson is the most quoted of English writers after Shakespeare and has been described as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England. For three decades, Johnson wrote biographies, poetry, essays, pamphlets and parliamentary reports. Between 1745 and 1755, Johnson wrote perhaps his best-known work, -A Dictionary of the English Language-. There had been upward of nearly twenty -English- dictionaries before Johnson,his was to rise above all these because of his meticulous research; his depth and breadth of definitions and his careful use of description,