Samuel Johnson Liebert (2 results)

Paperback. First Edition: Limited to 200 copies. 4.5 x 7in. 14pp. Publisher's printed wraps. FINE/AS NEW. Flawless. As pictured.

First Edition. Baretti, Giuseppe; Johnson, Samuel; Liebert, Herman W. A Constellation of Genius: Being a Full Account of the Trial of Joseph Baretti for the Murder of Evan Morgan, Held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on 20 October 1769, in the Ninth Year of His Majesty's Reign, Being the Eighth Session in the Mayorality of the Right Honourable Samuel Turner, Esq., Lord-Mayor of the City of London. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First edition thus, limited to 200 copies. 18, [2] pp.; two facsimile plates. Original printed wrappers, 11 x 8.5 inches; lightly soiled, very good. $75. * A scrupulous reprint of the original trial record, here accompanied by an erudite introduction and notes by H. W. Liebert, commemorating the 249th birthday of Samuel Johnson. Johnson and other prominent literati serve as character witnesses in the prefatory material, providing contemporary insight into the celebrated case. A rare and fascinating study of eighteenth-century jurisprudence and literary culture, preserving both the drama of the Old Bailey proceedings and the intellectual milieu of the period.…