Johnson and His Books

"The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book."

The Idler, No. 102

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Photograph James Christie. A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Books of the Late Learned Samuel Johnson, Esq. LL.D. Deceased. [London: s.n., 1785] Samuel Johnson. Rules for the Shelves. Manuscript.




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Photograph Samuel Johnson. Reading Recommendations for Daniel Astle. Manuscript. Samuel Johnson. Register of Book Loans. Manuscript.

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Photograph Bible, Greek. Tēs theias graphēs, palaias dēladē kai neas diathēkēs, apanta = Divinae Scripturae, nempe veteris ac Novi Testamenti, omnia. Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1651.



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Photograph Petronius Arbiter. Satyricon. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1669.

 John Milton. Paradise Regain'd. London: J. Tonson, 1725. Photograph
       
Photograph Velleius Paterculus. Historiae Romanae. Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans, 1719. Samuel Johnson. Review of The Sugar-Cane by James Grainger. 1764. Manuscript. Photograph
       
Photograph George Zobel. Portrait of Samuel Johnson. London: P & D. Colnaghi, [1854].

Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828). Portrait of Samuel Johnson. [1783?] Oil on canvas. Photograph