The Rambler: A Periodical Paper [bound with] The Idler

London: Jones & Company, 1824; 1826.

Price: $200.00

Hardcover. Reprint. Contemporary full calf with spine label gilt. Small name stamp ("John J. Geraty"). edgewear, a nice and tight, very good or better copy. Reprints of *The Rambler* for 1750,1751, and 1752; bound with *The Idler.*.

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Item #287506 The Rambler: A Periodical Paper [bound with] The Idler. Samuel JOHNSON.

Samuel Johnson
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born: 9/18/1709
died: 12/13/1784

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English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, and conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. His A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1755), was the first major English dictionary to use illustrative historical quotations. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore