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Title

The vanity of human wishes : the tenth satire of Juvenal / imitated by Samuel Johnson ; with eight etchings by Denis Tegetmeier ; edited and with an introduction by Matthew Hodgart.

Author

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Publication

Cambridge, England : Rampant Lions Press, c1984.

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Additional Authors

• Tegetmeier, Denis.
• Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell.
• Juvenal.
• Atelier Georges Leblanc, printer of plates.

Description

34, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : 8 ill.; 33 cm.

Subject

• Juvenal > Parodies, imitations, etc

Note

• Text based on the ed. rev. by Johnson for inclusion in Dodsley's Collection of poems (1755).
• Illustrations: Paris : Atelier Georges Leblanc. 8 prints on white Arches vélin paper : etching ; full-page. Originally engraved and proofed in 1929 for an edition of The vanity of human wishes to be published by Douglas Cleverdon. Cf. p. [5]; prospectus (2 sheets (1 folded) ([6] p.), laid in). Include ports. of the author and of "Swedish Charles" (Charles XII, King of Sweden).
• Binding, publisher's, by Woolnough Fine Bindings, of quarter brown cloth and brown patterned paper boards (design after a linocut by the printer, Will Carter).

Call Number

*KP+ (Rampant) 90-381

LCCN

85227044

OCLC

NYPG84-B54813

Author

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Title

The vanity of human wishes : the tenth satire of Juvenal / imitated by Samuel Johnson ; with eight etchings by Denis Tegetmeier ; edited and with an introduction by Matthew Hodgart.

Imprint

Cambridge, England : Rampant Lions Press, c1984.

Local Note

200 copies printed on gray paper. No. 34 of 188 numbered in arabic.

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Added Author

Tegetmeier, Denis.

Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell.

Juvenal. Satura 10.

Atelier Georges Leblanc, printer of plates.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Rampant) 90-381