Johnsonian Gleanings Part IV: The Doctor's Boyhood -- Appendices
London: Arden Press, 1923. Hardcover. v, [1], 247, [3] p., frontispiece portrait of William Baker, vicar of St. Mary's Lichfield; 22 cm. Yellow-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Title page printed in red and black. Privately printed for the author at the Arden Press. Part IV of Aleyn Lyell Reade's multi-volume work on English author Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). This volume consists of 13 appendices, mostly genealogical records, containing material the author used in writing about Johnson's childhood (found in Part III). With one leaf advertising Part III, The Doctor's Boyhood. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; endpapers and a few pages of text are foxed; otherwise, clean and tight. Very Good. Item #011229
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