MISCELLANY, 18th & 19th CENTURY - Samuel JOHNSON (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language. [etc.]

MISCELLANY, 18th and 19th CENTURY - Samuel JOHNSON (1709-84).  A Dictionary of the English Language … The Seventh Edition. London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington (and many others), 1785. Folio (433 x 270mm). Printed largely in triple column (lacks portrait, corner torn away from one leaf of the preface with slight loss of letters, occasional light spotting and staining). Later half vellum and marbled boards (lower joints splitting, stains to spine). Provenance: old inscriptions on front free endpaper. The last folio edition. With 22 other miscellaneous 18^th- and early 19^th-century works in 24 volumes, namely Erasmus’s Colloquiorum … Familiarium opus aureum … Editio triplici (London, 1717, engraved frontispiece, heavily stained and browned throughout, contemporary calf, very worn), Isaac Watts’s Horae Lyricae … The Fourth Edition (London, 1722, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, rather worn), John Gay’s Fables … The Second Edition (London, 1728, engraved illustrations, title repaired and laid down, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), An Act to repeal the Statute made in the first Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits ([London, 1736],  pp. 425-428, modern wrappers), Philip Bearcroft’s An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq; and of His Foundation in Charter-House (London, 1737, 2 engraved plates, one folding, lacks portrait, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), The Foreigner’s Guide: Or, a Necessary and Instructive Companion Both for the Foreigner and Native, in their Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster … The Fourth Edition (London, 1763, text in English and French, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked), Isaac Watts’ Logick … The Fifteenth Edition (London, 1772, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), An Act for Lighting and Watching the Hamlet of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex (London, 1775, pp. [1285]-1306, modern wrappers), A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects; Disclosed from the Secrets of Nature and Art (London, 1785, section excised from one leaf, contemporary calf), Thomas Gray’s The Poetical Works … A New Edition (London, 1785, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf), Harry Carey’s Chrononhotonthologos [a satirical play] ([London, c. 1787]), 4-pages, modern boards), The Life of Frederick, Baron Trenck (London, 1788, vol. II only (of 2), contemporary calf, crudely rebacked), Philip Luckombe’s The Tablet of Memory, Shewing every Memorable Event in History … The Eighth Edition (London, 1791, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked), Isaac Watts’ The Improvement of the Mind (Edinburgh, 1801, contemporary calf), G. H. Wilson’s The Eccentric Mirror (London, 1806, [?]vols. I-II only (of 4), contemporary calf), First Exercises on the Principal Rules of Grammar, to be Translated into Latin … Second Edition (Reading, Smart and Cowslade, 1807, contemporary boards), [John Anstey’s] The Pleader’s Guide, A Didactic poem, in Two Parts: containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor Bother’um and Counsellor Bore’um … The Fifth Edition (London, 1808, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached), Lessons for Children. In Four Parts. Part II. Being the First for Children of Three Years Old (London, 1818, part II only (of 4), printed in an over-sized font, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), [R. Lee’s] Taxidermy: or, the Art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Objects of Natural History … The Third Edition (London, 1823, 5 engraved plates, contemporary cloth-backed paper boards), The Traveller’s Oracle; or, Maxims for Locomotion (London, 1827, part I only (of 2), engraved music, contemporary paper boards, crudely rebacked) and Regina Maria Roche’s The Children of the Abbey. A Tale (London, 1835, [early reprint], 3 vols., original cloth-backed paper boards). Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (25)