The Rambler
Subtitle: In four volumes
Contributors: Chapone, Mrs. (Hester), 1727-1801; Garrick, David, 1717-1779; Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806; Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761; Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770; Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768, bookseller; Newbery, John, 1713-1767, bookseller; Baldwin, Richard, 1724-1770, bookseller; Caslon, Thomas, -1783, bookseller; Law, B. (Bedwell), -1798, bookseller; Collins, B., bookseller; S. Crowder and Co; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The fifth edition.
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; J. Rivington; J. Newbery; R. Baldwin; S. Crowder and Co.; T. Caslon; B. Law; and B. Collins
Published: 1761
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Rambler (London, England : 1750)
Notes: Reissue. Originally published semi-weekly, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1749/50-1752. Of the 208 numbers, all were by Johnson except no. 10, by Hester Mulso, afterward Mrs. Chapone; no. 15 (2nd letter)--by David Garrick; no. 30, by Catherine Talbot; no. 97, by Samuel Richardson; no. 44 and 100, by Elizabeth Carter; and no. 107 by Joseph Simpson, "a young lawyer of Lincoln's Inn." Cf. Fleeman.

Signatures: v.1: [A]1 B-N¹² O1; v.2: [A]1 B-M¹² N⁶ O1; v.3: [A]1 B-N¹²; v.4: [A]1 B-M¹² N⁴.

Vol. 1: [2], 290 p.; v.2: [2], 278 p.; v.3: [2], 287, [1] p.; v.4: [2], 239, [33] p.

Cf. Fleeman, J.D. Bib. of the works of Samuel Johnson, 50.3R/1a, p. 196.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T123096

Fleeman, J.D. Bib. of the works of Samuel Johnson, 50.3R/7

Roscoe, S. John Newbery and his successors, 1740-1814, A273 (1)

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. no. 1-53 (Mar. 20-Sept. 18, 1750); title: v. 2. no. 54-105 (Sept. 22, 1750-Mar. 19, 1751); title: v. 3. no. 106-159 (Mar 23- Sept. 24, 1751); title: v. 4. no. 160-208 (Sept. 28, 1751-Mar. 14, 1752). Index.