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Additional authors

1. Tegetmeier, Denis
2. Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell
3. Juvenal
4. Atelier Georges Leblanc, printer of plates

Description

1. 34, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : 8 ill.; 33 cm.

Subject

1. Juvenal > Parodies, imitations, etc

Call number

1. *KP+ (Rampant) 90-381

Note

1. Text based on the ed. rev. by Johnson for inclusion in Dodsley's Collection of poems (1755).
2. 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).
3. 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).

Author

1. Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Title

1. 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

1. Cambridge, England : Rampant Lions Press, c1984.

Local note

1. 200 copies printed on gray paper. No. 34 of 188 numbered in arabic.

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1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Tegetmeier, Denis.
2. Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell.
3. Juvenal. Satura 10.
4. Atelier Georges Leblanc, printer of plates.

LCCN

1. 85227044

Research call number

1. *KP+ (Rampant) 90-381