OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

COMPREHENDING

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES,

AND NUMEROUS WORKS,

In Chronological Order;

A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE;
CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS;

AND

VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION,

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED:

THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF

Literature and Literary Men

IN GREAT BRITAIN

FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTUry, during WHICH HE FLOURISHED.

PRINTED BY AND FOR J. DAVIS, MILITARY CHRONICLE AND MILITARY CLASSICS,
OFFICE, 14, CHARLOTTE-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, AND MAY BE HAD OF

ALL THE BOOKSELLERS,

ELAN

BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THOSE EMINENT AND ESTEEMED WORKS IN BIOGRAPHY, MODERN HISTORY, AND BELLES LETTRES, WHICH ARE NECESSARY TO FORM THE MIND, THE TASTE, AND THE MANNERS OF GENTLEMEN, AND THUS TO RENDER THEM WORTHY OF A COUNTRY AND AN AGE NOW THE FIRST IN ARTS AS IN ARMS.

VOL. I.

London:

PRINTED BY AND FOR J. DAVIS, MILITARY CHRONICLE AND MILITARY
CLASSIC'S OFFICE, 14, CHARLOTTE STREET, BLOOMSBURY, AND

TO BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS.-1817.