A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING BIOGRAPHY; Containing, I. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- Abridged, principally from Boswell’s celebrated Memoirs of the Doctor; II. The Life of Mr. Elwes, -- (Abridged) -- by Captain Topham; III. The Life of Captain Cook, -- (Abridged )-- by Dr. Kippis. The whole revised and abridged by Sir Andrew Anecdote
Dublin: Printed for P. Wogan [and many others], 1792. First Dublin edition (first issued London, 1791). 12mo. (4), 183, 52, 72 pp. Three plates, portraits. Contemporary flame calf (front joint cracked, head of spine chipped, old tideline through first few leaves, old pencil notes on rear endpapers), leather spine label..... More