8vo, FIRST EDITION, ten-leaf list of subscribers, contemporary blind-tooled calf, some running-titles trimmed, rebacked and strengthened at corners

W. J. Humfrys (armorial bookplate)

Courtney & Smith, p.1; Chapman & Hazen, p.123

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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"The Translation of Mr. Pope's Messiah was deliver'd to his Tutor, as a College Exercise, by Mr. Johnson, a Commoner of Pembroke-College in Oxford, and 'tis hoped will be no Discredit to the Excellent Original." - Preface, sig. a3v

This collecti꧃on of poems𝓀, edited and with a lengthy preface by John Husbands (1706-1732), a young fellow at Pembroke College, includes Samuel Johnson's first appearance in print (pp.111-117), as well as about 45 poems by Husbands himself.