1774 LEXIPHANES, A DIALOGUE - HUMOR, SATIRE, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, SAMUEL JOHNSON 1st EDITION / SIGNED / RARE corners and spine ends gently

corners and spine ends gently bruised

Edouard Fournier

From the 16th to the 19th Centuries

On the back board

1774 LEXIPHANES, A DIALOGUE - HUMOR, SATIRE, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, SAMUEL JOHNSON 1st EDITION / SIGNED / RARE corners and spine ends gentlyLEXIPHANES, A DIALOGUE Book Details + Condition: J. Williams (Dublin). Fourth Edition, 1774. 185 pages. Hardcover measuring 6 3 4" x 4. 5", with full leather boards. Scottish satirist Archibald Campbell's ridicule of English writer Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries. Subtitle reads "Imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present times. Being an attempt to restore the English Tongue to its ancient Purity, and to correct, as well as expose, the