Bibliography, Its Scope and Methods (Classic Reprint): With a View of the Work of a Local Bibliographical Society

Excerpt from Bibliography, Its Scope and MethodsJohnson, as he himself says of Pope, certainly was in his early life a man of great literary curiosity. He thoroughly understood the whims and foibles of the bibliophile and collector. See The Rambler, No. 177, and of. I b. Nos. 82, 83. His letter to Dr., afterwards Sir Frederick Barnard (life by Boswell, ed. Croker, iii. P. 60; cf. Ib. Pp. 19, shows that he was an expert bibliographer.