The Rambler
Subtitle: In four volumes
Contributors: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806; Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761; Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770; Chapone, Mrs. (Hester), 1727-1801; Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, ill; Wilson, William, active 1769-1801, publisher; Graisberry, Daniel, -1785, printer; Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Edition: The eleventh edition.
Publisher: Printed by D. Graisberry, for William Wilson, no. 6, Dame-street
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Subjects: English essays; Periodicals
Other titles: Rambler (London, England : 1750)
Notes: Published semi-weekly from Mar. 20, 1750, to Mar. 14, 1752. Of the 208 numbers all were by Johnson except no. 10, by Hester Mulso, afterward Mrs. Chapone; no. 30, by Catherine Talbot; no. 97, by Richardson; no. 44 and 100, by Elizabeth Carter. Parts of no. 15 and 107 are by unknown correspondents, cf. Courtney, Bibl. of Johnson; etc.

Signatures: v.1: [A]² B-O¹² P⁶; v.2: [A]² B-N¹² O⁸; v.3: [A]² B-O¹² p⁴; v.4: [A]² B-N¹² O⁸.

Vol. 1: [4], 322, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; v.2: [4], 304 p., [1] leaf of plates; v.3: [4], 319. [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v.4: [4], 264, [40] p., [1] leaf of plates.

Vol 1: p. [1]-[2] at end blank; v.3: p. [1] at end blank; v.4: p. [40] at end blank.

Port. of Johnson engraved by P. Halpin after Joshua Reynolds. Other plates engraved by P. Halpin after E. Edwards and by H. Seguin.

Not in Fleeman.

Index: v.4, p. [1]-[39] at end.