LEXIPHANES, 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 affected style, hard words, and absurd Phraseology of many late writers, and particularly of our English Lexiphanes, the Rambler." Tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; binding tape to spine; age-toned pages; interior is clean and free of markings save owner's info on first blank pages.
