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Page viii
... knowledge we have concern- ing the preparation of the 1815 edition of his Life . The first two editions were quickly exhausted and , as Anderson tells us in his 1815 " Advertisement , " after several years a new edition was called for ...
... knowledge we have concern- ing the preparation of the 1815 edition of his Life . The first two editions were quickly exhausted and , as Anderson tells us in his 1815 " Advertisement , " after several years a new edition was called for ...
Page xii
... en bloc for Belfast for £ 90,000 , the largest price ever paid for a single lot at Sotheby's until that time . Another group of about 120 volumes from Percy's knowledge , there has never been a sale of Anderson's XII *
... en bloc for Belfast for £ 90,000 , the largest price ever paid for a single lot at Sotheby's until that time . Another group of about 120 volumes from Percy's knowledge , there has never been a sale of Anderson's XII *
Page xiii
Robert Anderson. knowledge , there has never been a sale of Anderson's books ; certainly no catalogue of an auction sale is known to exist . Anderson probably never intended to return the interleaved copy to Percy , since it is evident ...
Robert Anderson. knowledge , there has never been a sale of Anderson's books ; certainly no catalogue of an auction sale is known to exist . Anderson probably never intended to return the interleaved copy to Percy , since it is evident ...
Page xxviii
... knowledge from Percy , of making conjectural reassessments of assertions by either Hawkins or Bos- well . His interpretation of the Johnson - Chesterfield rela- tionship is one of his best critical - historical analyses . In his 1795 ...
... knowledge from Percy , of making conjectural reassessments of assertions by either Hawkins or Bos- well . His interpretation of the Johnson - Chesterfield rela- tionship is one of his best critical - historical analyses . In his 1795 ...
Page xxix
... knowledge of personality and psychology : " As no two characters could be more opposed , little union or friendship could be looked for between them " ( p . 214 ) . Anderson's treatment of the Chesterfield episode is representative of ...
... knowledge of personality and psychology : " As no two characters could be more opposed , little union or friendship could be looked for between them " ( p . 214 ) . Anderson's treatment of the Chesterfield episode is representative of ...
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