The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia
Subtitle: a tale
By: by Samuel Johnson
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick
Published: 1818
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Fore-edge painting; Specimens
Other titles: Rasselas
Work titles: Rasselas
Notes: Added engraved t.p. dated 1817.

Illustrations engraved after Richard Westall.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H¹² I⁸.

Includes manuscript material; readers must complete an Application for the Examination of Manuscripts.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Fleeman, J.D. ^Johnson, 59.4R/84

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ352.

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ351.

Gift; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.; 3 December 1987; 78-1550.

From the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Gift to the Hydes from John Hayward; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Hester Lynch Piozzi's copy, with her extensive ms. marginalia throughout, and with her clipped signature tipped in at front; bookplate of R.H. Isham; gilt leather booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.

Bound in publisher's gray boards with fragmentary printed spine label, uncut; front cover detached.

Bound in publisher's blue boards with fragmentary printed spine label, uncut; covers detached, text block broken.

Bound in contemporary brown calf, gilt (rebacked); in brown morocco case, 19 cm.