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Johnson Portrait and First Book

Johnson portrait and 1st book Portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Johnson's first publication (1731)

The portrait serves as frontispiece to volume 1 of the first edition of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (London, 1791). Call Number: RBC J.-B. 379 1791.

A Miscellany of Poems may be found under the call number RBC J.-B. 1, superv'd.

 
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