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Notes
Donald J. Greene, Samuel Johnson's Library. An annotated Guide (E.L.S. no. 1; Victoria, B.C., 1975), and J. D. Fleeman, The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library (E.L.S. no. 2; Victoria, B.C., 1975).
'The Progress of a Subscription' in Writers, Books, and Trade. An Eighteenth-Century English Miscellany for William B. Todd, ed. O M Brack (New York: AMS Press, 1992).
I. A. Williams, 'The Elusive Dr Johnson', Book Collector's Quarterly, 7 (1932), 53-59; and further idem 14 (1934), 73-75.
Derrick's Proposals for printing his poems by subscription are dated 'London, July 1, 1754'; a copy is L: 11633 f.35/1.
SJ's name is not included in this list, published in Bristol in 1774, but it carries an apology for the omission of many subscribers' names.
Dorothy H. Eshleman, Eliza Griffiths. A Biographical and Critical Study (Philadelphia, 1949), and J. E. Norton, 'Elizabeth Griffiths, 1727-1793' (Uncollected Authors, 22), Book Collector, 8 (1959), 418-424.
William C. Smith (assisted by Charles Humphries), Handel: A Descriptive Catalogue of Early Editions, 2nd ed. with Supplement (New York, 1970), nos. 1-8, pp. 124-127. The Goldberg copy of the 6th ed. (1773) also lists 'Mr. Samuel Johnson' among the subscribers, but we have not recorded here a list of the holdings of all the early reprints.
D. D. Eddy, Samuel Johnson Book Reviewer in the Literary Magazine . . . 1756-1758 (New York, 1979).
This volume went to a second edition in 1774 (NSyU, TxU). A second volume was published in 1779, a third in 1786, and a fourth and fifth in 1798 (ESTC).
Hazen 138; cf. W. R. Keast, 'Samuel Johnson and Thomas Maurice', Eighteenth Century Studies, ed. W. H. Bond (New York, 1970), 63-79.
Although apparently five different editions of this work were published between 1789 and 1805 (Alston 9.331-333, and n.), there were also various subscription lists issued with the first edition of 1789. Of these the first ran to 40 numbered pages (NIC); to it was added 'Subscribers' Names Continued', numbered pp. 41 42-44 (MH); and, with some intermediate stages, this list grew to 75 pp. (Alston 9.331; R. W. Lowe, J. F. Arnott, and J. W. Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900: A Bibliography [London, 1970], no. 3399).
'This volume was intended as only the first of three, but it was poorly received and it was not until 1790 that Tasker published it in a revised second edition (with Johnson's name still in the subscription list, six years after his death), vols. ii and iii following in 1792 and 1793' (Lonsdale 411).
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