ID 813729
Lot 95 | The Vanity of Human Wishes, the Isham-Grant-Foote-Martin copy
Valeur estimée
$ 3 000 – 5 000
Samuel Johnson, 1749
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated. London: printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper, 1749.
The Isham-Grant-Foote-Martin copy of the first edition of Johnson's poem. Completed while he was hard at work on his Dictionary, it was the first work by Johnson to bear his name. The present copy has been in several storied libraries, including that of New York collector Ralph Heyward Isham, who discovered the long-lost manuscript to Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Courtney & Smith 22.
Slim quarto (257 x 198mm). (Small tear to title page not touching text, small marginal tear to C1, small marginal repair to C3, small loss to upper corner of last leaf.) 19th-century calf by B.M. Pickering (rear joint starting. Custom red morrocco clamshell (cover detached). Provenance: Ralph Heyward Isham, 1890-1955 (bookplate) – Lt. Col. F.R.C. Grant, noted Johnson collector (bookplate) – Sterling T. Foote (bookplate) – H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2954).
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