1774 LEXIPHANES, A DIALOGUE - HUMOR, SATIRE, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, SAMUEL JOHNSON 1st EDITION / SIGNED / RARE Dark purple textured cloth-bound hardcover

Dark purple textured cloth-bound hardcover

small folio (9 1/2" x 12 1/2")

On the back board

corners and spine ends gently bruised

1774 LEXIPHANES, A DIALOGUE - HUMOR, SATIRE, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, SAMUEL JOHNSON 1st EDITION / SIGNED / RARE Dark purple textured cloth-bound hardcoverLEXIPHANES, A DIALOGUE Book Details + Condition: J. Williams (Dublin). Fourth Edition, 1774. 185 pages. Hardcover measuring 6 3 4" x 4. 5", with full leather boards. Scottish satirist Archibald Campbell's ridicule of English writer Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries. Subtitle reads "Imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present times. Being an attempt to restore the English Tongue to its ancient Purity, and to correct, as well as expose, the