Buy this book on-line JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784) : RasselasLondon; John Sharpe, Piccadilly. 1817.
12mo. With engravings by Richard Westhall. Sumptuously bound in full purple straight-grained English morocco, gilt, with gilt edges, silk doublures, bookplate of Herbert and Sarita Ward engraved by Doves Press founder Emery Walker, signed by Mrs. Ward, Paris, 1906. A fine copy in fine binding The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, often abbreviated to 'Rasselas', is a novella by Samuel Johnson, thematically similar to Voltaire's Candide. Johnson was influenced by the vogue for exotic locations. He had translated A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo in 1735 and used it as the basis for what was described as a "philosophical romance". Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784) : Rasselas. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, rare books, incunabula, first editions and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |