312;
early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459;
every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4;
getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385;
high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2;
Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
knowledge of the world through books, i. 105;
talking from them, v. 378;
looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364;
poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454;
prices at which they were sold:
Boswell's edition of _Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield_, 105. 6d.,
i. 261, n. 1;
Churchill's _Rosciad_, 1s., i. 419, n. 5;
Dodsley's _Cleone_, 1s. 6d., i. 325, n. 3;
Goldsmith's _Traveller_, 1s. 6d., i. 415;
Johnson's _London_, 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
_Marmor Norfolciense_, 1s., i. 143, n. 3;
_Observations on Macbeth_, 1s., i. 175, n. 3;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, 1s., i. 193, n. 1;
_Irene_, 1s. 6d., i. 198, n. 2;
_Rambler, 2d_. a number, i. 209, n. 1;
_Rambler_, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 212, n. 3;
_Dictionary_, 2 vols., 4l 10s., i. 290, n. 1;
_Idler_, 2 vols., 5s., i. 335, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, 2 vols. 12mo., 5s., i. 340, n. 3;
_Journey to the Western Islands_, 5s., ii. 310, n. 2;
Macpherson's _Iliad_, two guineas, ii. 298, n. 1;
Percy's _Hermit of Warkworth_, 2s. 6d., ii. 136, n. 4;
Pope's '1738,' 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
Robertson's _Scotland_, two guineas, iii.
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