Happy birthday Samuel Johnson! The essayist, lexicographer and man of letters is perhaps my favourit
Happy birthday Samuel Johnson! The essayist, lexicographer and man of letters is perhaps my favourite literary character (and I share his birthday). To celebrate, there follow some of the best modern book covers relating to the great cham of literature. [Portrait by Johnson’s friend Joshua Reynolds; Johnson referred to it as ‘blinking Sam’.] -- source link
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