Prayers and meditations
By: composed by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. and published from his manuscripts by George Strahan ...
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand
Published: 1785
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Prayers
Notes: Signatures: A-P⁸ Q².

Publisher's advertisement: p. [228]

Fleeman, J.D. ^Johnson, 85.8PM/1

ESTC T4079

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ682.

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ683.

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ681.

Bookplate on front pastedown: "Relics of Charles Lamb, purchased at Edward Moxon's sale by Francis Jackson"; probable false provenance (cf. William Blake archive online, volume 36, issue 3, winter 2002/2003, page 92).

Bookplate of R.B. Adam; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Editor's presentation inscription to W. Herringham; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Bound in original blue boards, uncut; in a later red morocco case

Bound in original blue boards (rebacked), uncut and partly unopened; in a later green cloth case.

Bound in contemporary full tree calf, spine stamped in gilt.