A Critical Examination of Dr G. Birkbeck Hill's Johnsonian Editions

Percy Fitzgerald

• Publisher: Mallock Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473351035
• Print ISBN:
  9781408659694

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Preface
• Contents
• The Preface and Dedication
• Arrangement and Laying Out of the Work
• The Editor’s “Editing”
• Dr B. Hill’s “Discoveries”
• Examination of the Editor’s Notes, Comments, Speculations, etc.
• Johnson’s Stay at Oxford
• Johnson’s Letters and Dr Birkbeck Hill’s Notes
• The Editor and Mrs Piozzi
• Johnsonian Miscellanies