The sale of authors, a dialogue : in imitation of Lucian's Sale of philosophers
Print Book, English, 1767
Printed and sold by the booksellers in London and Westminster, London, 1767
Parodies, imitations, etc
xvi, 250 [i.e. 242], [2] pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
1001812676
A satire on Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Garrick, and others. cf. Courtney, Bibliography of Samuel Johnson. p. 27
Signatures: A⁴ b⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A-2H⁴ 2I²
Issued anonymously. By Archibald Campbell
Campbell's attack on the prose style of Johnson, Garrick, Gray and other authors of the period in an imitation of Lucian's "Biōn prasis" known in Latin as Vitarum auctio (Sale of creeds)
Full page publisher's advertisement for the author's "Lexiphanes" on page [1] at end
Pages 201-208 omitted in the pagination
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