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A GIFT FROM BISHOP BERKELEY
CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM. The Works... Ninth Edition. [26], 304; 94; 52, [6] pages. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary panelled calf with early 19th-century morocco lettering piece, joints cracked, cords intact; front free endpaper loose, dampstaining toward end with traces of mold. London: Benj. Motte, 1727
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Notes: inscribed on the front free endpaper by Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), Anglican minister in colonial Connecticut and first president of King's College in New York: "Samuelis Johnsoni Liber ex Don. Revdi. D. G. Berkeley... An. D. 1730."
exceptional association copy, linking the Anglo-Irish idealist philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753) with Johnson, his leading American disciple. The two became acquainted during Berkeley's 1728-31 stay in Newport, Rhode Island.
With signature dated 1753 and Chippendale-style armorial bookplate of Johnson's son William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), jurist, first president of Columbia (after being renamed from King's) College, and signer of the Constitution. Allen, American Book-Plates 434.
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