Samuel Johnson (Meynell & Chesterton)/Chapter 15

A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHNSON'S WORKS

 

COMPLETE EDITIONS.—PROSE AND POETRY

The Works of Samuel Johnson, together with his Life, and notes on his Lives of the Poets, by Sir J. Hawkins. 15 vols. London, 1787-9. 8vo.

—— Another edition, with an Essay on his Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy. 12 vols. London, 1792. 8vo.

—— Another edition. 6 vols. Dublin, 1793. 8vo.

—— Another edition. 12 vols. London, 1796 8vo.

—— Another edition. 12 vols. London, 1801. 8vo.

—— Another edition. 12 vols. London, 1805. 8vo.

The Works of Samuel Johnson. Another edition. (Edited by A. Chalmers.) London, 1810. 8vo.

—— Another edition. (Edited by A. Chalmers.) 12 vols. London, 1816. 12mo.

—— Another edition. l0 vols. London, 1818. 12mo.

—— Another edition, 11 vols. Oxford, 1825. 8vo.

—— Another edition. 6 vols. London, 1825. 8vo.

—— Another edition. 2 vols. 1850. 8vo.

 

POETRY

The Poetical Works of S. J., now first collected, in one vol. London, 1785. 12mo.

The Poetical Works of S. J. Another edition. Dublin, 1785. 12mo.

—— Editions in 1789, 1795, 1797.

The Poetical Works of S. J. Collated with the best editions, by Thomas Park. London, 1805. 16mo.

The Poems of Dr. S. J., to which is prefixed a life of the author, by F. W. Blagdon. London, 1808. 24mo.

The Poems of S. J. (Chalmers' Works of the English Poets, vol. xvi). London, 1810. 8vo.

The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Smollett, Johnson, etc. (Routledge's British Poets.) 1853. 8vo.

The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett. With memoirs, critical dissertations, and explanatory notes, by the Rev. G. Gilfillan. Edinburgh, 1855. 8vo.

The Poetical Works of Johnson, etc. Another edition. London (1878). 8vo.

The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, S. J., etc. With biographical notices and notes. London (1881). 8vo.

SINGLE WORKS

A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo. From the French. (By S. J.) London, 1735. 8vo.

This was the first prose work of Dr. Johnson. It was printed at Birmingham, and published anonymously.

London: a Poem. London, 1738. Fol.

——— Second edition, 1738. Fol.

——— Fourth edition, 1739. Fol.

A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke. By an Impartial Hand (i.e., S. J.). London, 1739. 4to.

Marmor Norfolciense. By Probus Britannicus (i.e., Dr. S. Johnson). London, 1739. 8vo.

——— A new edition. London, 1775. 8vo.

An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, etc. (By S. J.) London, 1744. 8vo.

——— Second edition. London, 1748. 8vo.

Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth. (By S. J.) London, 1745. 12mo.

The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language. London, 1747. 4to.

Irene, a tragedy (in five acts and in verse). London, 1749. 8vo

——— Another edition. London, 1781. 8vo.

The Vanity of Human Wishes. London, 1749. 4to.

The Rambler. (By S. J.) 2 vols. London, 1750-52. Fol.

——— Further editions in 1752, 1767, 1779, 1789, 1793-99, 1796, 1809, 18l7, 1823, 1827, 1856, 1876.

A Dictionary of the English Language. 2 vols. London, 1755. Fol.

——— Second edition. 2 vols. London, 1755. Fol.

——— Further editions in 1755, 1756, 1765, 1773 (2), 1775, 1778, 1785, 1805, 1818, 1855, 1870, etc.

The Prince of Abissinia (i.e., Rasselas). A Tale, in two volumes. (First edition.) London, 1759. 8vo.

This work has been translated into Bengalee, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Modern Greek, and Spanish.

——— Further editions in 1759 (2), 1760, 1783, 1787 (2), 1789, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1801, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1810 (2), 1812 (2), 1815, 1816, 1817, 1819, 1823 (2), 1835, 1838, 1845, 1849, 1852, 1855, 1858, 1860, 1867, 1868, 1869 (2), 1870, 1879, 1880, 1882 (2), 1883 (3), 1884 (2), etc.

The Idler. (By S. J. and others.) 2 vols. London, 1761. 8vo.

The Idler. Further editions in 1795, (2) 1799, 1807, 1810, 1817, 1823, (2) 1824, 1827, 1856, (at Boston, U.S.A.) 1781, etc.

The Life of Mr. R. Savage. The third edition, to which are added the Lives of Sir Francis Drake and Admiral Blake, etc. (By S. J.) London, 1769. 8vo.

——— Fourth edition. London, 1777. I2mo.

The False Alarm. (By S. J.) London, 1770. 8vo.

——— Second edition. London, 1770. 8vo.

Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands. (By S. J.) London, 1771. 8vo.

The Patriot. London, 1774. 8vo.

——— Third edition. London, 1775. 8vo.

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. (By S. J.) London, 1775. 8vo.

——— Further editions in 1775, 1791, 1792, 1798, 1800, 1811, 1816, 1819, 1876.

Taxation No Tyranny. London, 1775. 8vo.

The Works of R. Savage, with an account of the life and writings of the author. By S. J. 2 vols. London, 1775. 8vo.

——— Another edition. 2 vols. Dublin, 1777. I2mo.

Political Tracts. (By S. J.) London, 1776. 8vo. THE CONVICT'S ADDRESS, etc. (Written by Dr. J.) London, 1777. 8vo.

——— Second edition. London, 1777. 8vo.

——— Another edition. Salisbury, 1777. I2mo.

Thoughts in Prison, to which are added The Convict's Address, etc. Third edition. London, 1779. 12mo.

The Works of the English Poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. J. 68 vols. London, 1779-81. 8vo.

——— Another edition. 75 vols. London, 1790-80. 8vo.

The Works of the English Poets. Prefaces, biographical and critical, to The Works of the English Poets. 10 vols. London, 1779-81. 12mo.

Prayers and Meditations, composed by S. J. London, 1785. 8vo.

——— Further editions, 1785, 1806, 1813, 1817, 1823, 1826, 1836, 1860.

Memoirs of Charles Frederick, King of Prussia. London, 1786. 8vo.

Debates in Parliament, by S. J. 2 vols. London, 1787. 8vo.

Sermons on different subjects (attributed to S. Johnson), left for publication by John Taylor, LL.D. Published by S. Hayes. To which is added a sermon written by S. J. for the funeral of his wife. 2 vols. London, 1788-89. 8vo.

——— Further editions in 1790-92, 1793, 1800, 1806, 1812.

A Voyage to Abyssinia. London, 1789. 8vo.

A Conversation Between His Most Sacred Majesty George Iii and S. J. Illustrated with observations, by James Boswell. London, 1790. Fol.

The Celebrated Letter from S. J. to P. D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Now first published, with notes, by J. Boswell. London, 1 790. 410.

An Account of the Life of S. J. from his birth to his eleventh year, written by himself. London, 1805. 8vo.

The Works of the English Poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Dr. S. J. 21 vols. London, 1810. 8vo.

——— Further editions in 1797, 1819, 1822, 1826, 1840, 1847, 1854(2), 1858, 1864-65, 1868, 1878, 1886, etc.

Irene (Modern British Drama, vol. 2). London, 1811. 8vo.

A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales in 1774, edited, with illustrative notes, by R. Duppa. London, 1816. 8vo.

Juvenal Translated by C. Baham, with an Appendix containing imitations of the Third and Tenth Satires of Juvenal, by S. J. London, 1831. 16mo.

SELECTIONS AND MODERN REPRINTS.

Letters of Dr. Johnson, collected by G. B. Hill. Oxford. 1845. 2 vols. 8vo.

Lives of Dryden and Pope. Clarendon Press series. 1866, etc. 8vo.

Six Chief Lives of the Poets, edited by Matthew Arnold. 1878. 8vo.

Lives of the Poets. Cassell's National Library. 1886. 8vo.

Rasselas. Introduction by Henry Morley. Cassell's National Library. 1886. 8vo.

Milton. Tutorial series. 1887. 8vo.

Milton. Macmillan's English Classics. 1892. 8vo.

Life of Addison. Bell's English Classics. 1893. 8vo.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Blackie's English Classics. 1893. 8vo.

Milton. Bell's series. 1894. 8vo.

Swift. Bell's series. 1894. 8vo.

Dryden. Bell's series. 1895. 8vo.

Lives of the Poets. 6 vols. Kegan Paul & Co. 1896. 8vo.

Milton. Berry's P. I. series. 1896. 8vo.

Prior and Congreve. Bell's series. 1897. 8vo.

Dryden. Macmillan's English Classics. 1899. 8vo.

Pope. Macmillan's English Classics. 1899. 8vo.

Lives of the Poets. Blackie's English Classics. 1900. 8vo.

Rasselas. Greening Masterpieces. 1900. 8vo.

Lives of the Poets. World's Classics. 2 vols. 1901. 8vo.

""Long's Carlton Classics. 1905. 8vo.

"York Library. 1906. 8vo.

Rasselas. Cassell's National Library (new series). 1903. 8vo.

"In "New Universal Library." 1905. 8vo.

Boswell's Life. Temple Classics. 1904. 8vo.

""Red Letter series. 1904. 8vo.

""Arnold Prose Books. 1905. 8vo.

"""Everyman" series. 1906. 8vo.

""Edited by Roger Ingpen. 1906. 8vo.

Life. By John Dennis. Bell's Miniature series. 1905. 8vo.

Wit and Sagacity of Johnson. Elzevir Library. 1909. 16mo.

BIOGRAPHY, CRITICISM, AND PERSONALIA

may be found in John C. Adelung's Three Philological Essays, 1798; Robert Anderson's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1795; Augustine Birrell's Obiter Dicta, 1884; The Biographical Magazine, 1853, vol. 4, pp. 1-12; James Boswell's Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides, 1785 and later editions; James Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, 1791 and later editions; Lord Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters and Science, 1846, vol. 2, pp. 1-85; Anna Buckland's Story of English Literature, 1882; Frances Burney (afterwards Madame D'Arblay), Diary and Letters, 1832-46; Carlyle's Biographical Essays, 1853, and Critical Essays, 1885; Cowper's Letters (T. Wright's edition, 1904 numerous references); Dr. Courthope's History of English Poetry, 1895-1910; Cunningham's English Nation, 1863, vol. 4, pp. 208-220; George Dawson's Biographical Lectures, 1886; Nathan Drake's Essays, 1810, vol. I, pp. iii-199; Percy Fitzgerald's Croker's Boswell, 1880; George Gilfillan's Literary Portraits, 1857, vol. 2, pp. 217-226; Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales, Sketches, and other Papers, 1883; Hazlitt's completed edition of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," 1854; G. B. Hill's Dr. Johnson, 1878; Thomas Hobhouse's Elegy to the memory of Dr. Johnson, 1785; Laurence Hutton's Literary Landmarks, 1885; Macaulay's article in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1860, pp. 75-135, and Critical Essays, 1852; Mezières' Histoire critique de la littérature anglaise, 1841, tom. 2, pp. 28-131; R. Monckton Milnes' Boswelliana, 1885; Miss Mitford's Recollections, 1852, pp. 200-225; Newman's Essays, 1872; Walter Raleigh's Six Essays on Johnson, 1910; Thomas Seccombe's Bookman History of English Literature, 1905-1906; Leslie Stephen's Samuel Johnson ("English Men of Letters" series), 1878; Taine's History of English Literature, 1864, tom. 3, pp. 336-345; Mrs. Thrale's Autobiography and Letters, 1861; T. H. Ward's The English Poets, 1884; Charles Duke Yonge's Three Centuries of English Literature, 1873, etc.