A Select collection of poems, from the most approved authors
Subtitle: in two volumes
Contributors: Donaldson, Alexander, -1794, printer; Andrew, Elisa, former owner; Goldberg, Gerald M., former owner; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed by A. Donaldson, and sold at his shop, corner of Arundel-Street, Strand, London; and at Edinburgh
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: English poetry
Other titles: Collection of poems
Notes: Half-title: A collection of poems.

Signatures: v.1: pi⁶ (-pi1) A-Y⁶; v.2: a⁴ A-X⁶ Z⁶ [cross]Z⁴.

Vol. 1: ix, [1], 262, [2] p.; v. 2: viii, 271, [1] p.

In v.2, Y has been skipped in the signature alphabet. Pagination is continuous.

Vol. 1, p. [1]-[2] at end blank; v.2, p. [1] at end blank.

Includes Johnson's London and The vanity of human wishes, as well as works by Boswell, Garrick, Gray, Goldsmith, and others.

ESTC N21829

Fleeman, J.B. Bib. of Samuel Johnson, 38.5L/13
Table of contents: title: London / by Samuel Johnson (I, 50-61); title: Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick / by the same (I, 62-64); title: The vanity of human wishes / by Samuel Johnson (I, 246-257)