(GEN) With engraved frontispieces in each volume, including an engraved portrait of Johnson from Joshua Reynold's famous painting.||(CON) Vol I: [A]2, B-O12, P6, Contents. Engraved portrait frontispiece; [A]1r Title, verso blank; [A]2rv Contents; B1r-P5v Text; P6r Publisherís Advertisements, verso blank.Vol II: [A]2, B-N12, O8, Contents. Engraved frontispiece; [A]1r Title, verso blank; [A]2rv Contents; B1r-O8v Text.Vol III: [A]2, B-O12, P4, Contents. Engraved frontispiece; [A]1r Title, verso blank; [A]2rv Contents; B1r-P4r Text, P4v blank.Vol IV: [A]2, B-N12, O4, Contents. Engraved frontispiece; [A]1r Title, verso blank; [A]2rv Contents; B1r-M12v Text; N1r-O4v Index.||(REF) Lowndes, 1218; Allibone I:974; This edition not in ESTC, but there are plenty of other editions and copies||(PRV) Accession no. 989: with a contemporary bookplate in Vols. II to IV, 'Sophia Gough, Perry-Hall, 1786'||(PHY) Accession no. 989: bound in full contemporary calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and green labels.