SAMUEL JOHNSON'S PREFACES & DEDICATIONS (Copy belonging to Johnson scholar, Dr. R. W. Chapman, with associated, signed letter from Author)

FIRST EDITION 8vo. dark blue cloth hardback, gilt. No dust jacket. 257pp., Indexed. This copy belonged to the Johnson scholar R. W. Chapman (with his bookplate to front pastedown) and comes with a long typed (and signed) letter concerning Chapman's review of the book from the Author, Hazan plus a few more bits of ephemera. Some pencil notes of Chapman's to front endpapers and a few pencil marks in text margins. Slight fading to spine and top 2cm strip of upper board. Light wear to spine edges. A VERY GOOD COPY.