PIOZZI

PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH & JOHNSON, SAMUELLETTERS TO AND FROM THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON TO WHICH ARE ADDED SOME POEMS NEVER BEFORE PRINTEDLondon, A Strahan and T Cadell, 1788. First edition, 2 vols, 8vo, bound without the errata slip (as often), very occasional light spotting, but a handsome copy, bound in half green morocco, gilt devices and lettering to spines, marbled boards. From the library of the Reverend Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893), clergyman, author and naturalist, who was forced to change his surname to Blomefield in 1871 as a condition of an inheritance. Jenyns was the original choice of the naturalist to accompany Captain Fitzroy on the second voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, but he declined the offer due to ill-health and parish commitments - thus giving Charles Darwin the opportunity. Together with: PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH - ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON. London, T Cadell, 1786. First edition, later issue, bound without the half-title but with the postscript leaf present at the end. Contemporary half calf, joints cracked but firm. Together with: COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR - SPECIMENS OF THE TABLE TALK. London, John Murray, 1835. Two volumes, 12mo, imprint of 1835 as per the first edition, but later issue (advert leaves dated September 1 1835), half-title and frontispiece to both volumes, index to vol 2, vol 2 lacking the prelims following title. Original publisher's drab boards with paper labels (5)