[JOHNSON, Richard (1733/4-1793)]
The Lilliputian library; or, Gulliver’s museum... By Lilliputius Gulliver. London: printed [by Henry Baldwin] for W. Domville; and Byfield and Hawkesworth, [not before 1779].
A delightful set of the complete Lilliputian Library, charmingly preserved in uniform contemporary bindings. Extremely rare: we are unable to trace any complete set at auction. Issued in ten distinct parts, this work was intended to form ‘a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses’. ‘The instigator of this remarkable venture was the printer Henry Baldwin, for whom Richard Johnson records making the compilation in 1779 […] The ten volumes make up a large-scale miscellany of stories, poems, jokes, and general didactica, which Johnson pulled together from a variety of sources’ (Alderson and Oyens, 82). ESTC N2780; Roscoe, J218.
10 parts in 3 volumes, 24mo (96 x 78mm). Frontispiece to each part, various woodcut illustrations, tailpieces (a few words very occasionally trimmed by the binder). Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering pieces, spine gilt (slight wear to corners and splitting to joints, vol. III split at upper joint with lower spine compartment almost detached). Provenance: some pencil markings to endpapers of vol. III.
[JOHNSON, Richard (1733/4-1793)]
The Lilliputian library; or, Gulliver’s museum... By Lilliputius Gulliver. London: printed [by Henry Baldwin] for W. Domville; and Byfield and Hawkesworth, [not before 1779].
A delightful set of the complete Lilliputian Library, charmingly preserved in uniform contemporary bindings. Extremely rare: we are unable to trace any complete set at auction. Issued in ten distinct parts, this work was intended to form ‘a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses’. ‘The instigator of this remarkable venture was the printer Henry Baldwin, for whom Richard Johnson records making the compilation in 1779 […] The ten volumes make up a large-scale miscellany of stories, poems, jokes, and general didactica, which Johnson pulled together from a variety of sources’ (Alderson and Oyens, 82). ESTC N2780; Roscoe, J218.
10 parts in 3 volumes, 24mo (96 x 78mm). Frontispiece to each part, various woodcut illustrations, tailpieces (a few words very occasionally trimmed by the binder). Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering pieces, spine gilt (slight wear to corners and splitting to joints, vol. III split at upper joint with lower spine compartment almost detached). Provenance: some pencil markings to endpapers of vol. III.
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