Male : Lexicographer and man of letters. His father owned a bookshop in Lichfield. Focus of London literary life of his day. Married Elizabeth Porter in 1735. Buried in Westminster Abbey

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Lichfield, Staffordshire

Date of Birth : 1709 Date of Death : 1784 Age : 75

Pseudonyms : Probus Britannicus

Other Work : Schoolmaster

Education : Lichfield GS & Pembroke College, Oxford (failed to take a degree)

A Dictionary of the English Language
Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, Addressed to the Earl of Chesterfield
(1747) for Knanpton, Longman, et al)
(1755 Strahan, Knapton - London : Quarto) - 2 vols
[For this Johnson was paid £1575. The first edition of 2000 copies was sold for £4.10s each]
(1756 London 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
[The second edition was was also released in 165 weekly parts at 6d each]
(1766 for A Millar, W Strahan, London 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
(1770 for Strahan, Rivington, London 4th Ed) - 2 vols
(1773 W Strahan, London 5th Ed) - 2 vols
(1778 for Strahan, Rivington, London 6th Ed) - 2 vols
(1778 Rivington, London 7th Ed) - 1st one volume edition
(1786 for Harrison & Co, London. 8th Ed)
(1805 Longman. 9th Ed)
(1818 Longman) - 4 vols
Offered in 1999 for £260
(1819 James Maxwell, Phila. 1st US Ed from the English 11th Ed)
(1822 Offor, London) - 2 vols

1738-1740
(Trans) Father Jerome Lobo : A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735 Warren, Birmingham)
London : A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal (1738 Dodsley, London : Folio) - Anon
Marmor Norfolciense, or an Essay on an Ancient Prephetical Inscription in Monkish Rhyme
(1739 for J Brett) - Pamphlet by Probus Britannicus
(Trans) Crousaz : A Commentary on Pope's Principles of Morality, or An Essay on Man (1739)
A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage (1739)
The Life of Admiral Blake (1740)

1741-1750
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers (1744 for J Roberts, London)
An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier (1744)
Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth (1745)
Irene : A Tragedy (1749 for R Dodsley, London) (1754 Dodsley. 2nd Ed)
The Vanity of Human Wishes : The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated (1749 Dodsley)
[Johnson sold this to Dodsley for 15 guineas, reserving himself the right of printing one edition]
The Rambler (1750-2 Edward Cave) - 8 vols
[These essays were published twice weekly for which Johnson received 4 guineas a week]

1751-1770
The Adventurer (1753-4) - 2 vols. et al
Rasselas : The Prince of Abissinia - A Tale (1759 Dodsley) (1759 Dodsley. 2nd Ed - 2 vols)
The Idler (1761) - 2 vols
Preface to His Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1765)
(Ed) The Works of Shakesapeare (1765) - 8 vols
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia : An Asian Tale (1768 Strahan, London)
The False Alarm (1770 Cadell, London 2nd Ed)

1771-1774
Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands (1771 Cadell)
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (1773 Tom Davies) - 2 vols. [A pirate copy]
The Patriot, Addressed to the Electors of Great Britain (1774)
The Moral Miscellany, or a Collection of Select Pieces in Prose & Verse
(1774 J Williams, Dublin. 4th Ed) - et al

1775-1785
Taxation No Tyranny : An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress (1775)
(Ed) The Works of Richard Savage, with an Account of the Author (1775)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775 for Strahan & Cadell, London)
Offered in 1999 for £455
(1775 Dublin)
(1775 Strahan & Cadell. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1998 for £250
(1798 for Mundell, Edinburgh)
(1800 Alnwick)
(1810 Nicklin, Baltimore) - 1st US Edition
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
(1779-81 London : Octavo) - 10 vols
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781 for C Bathurst, London) - 4 vols
Offered in 1999 for £455
The Beauties of Johnson (1782 for G Kearsley, London. 5th Ed)
The Rambler (1784 for W Strahan, London. 10th Ed) - 4 vols
The Poetical Works : Complete in One Volume (1785 W Osborne & T Griffin, London) - New Ed
Prayers and Meditations .. published from his Manuscripts (1785 Strahan)
READING
Allen Reddick : The Making of Dr Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773 (1990 Cambridge)

1786-1790
Debates in Parliament (1787) - 2 vols. Edited by George Chalmers
Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, by Hester Lynch Piozzo
(1788 Strahan & Cadell, London) - 2 vols
The Celebrated Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield (1790) - Edited by James Boswell
The Rambler (1794 Dodsley, Owen) - 4 vols
Dr Johnson's Table Talk .. (1798 for C Dilly, London)
The Rambler (1800 C Cook, London) - 3 vols

1801-1900
An Account of the Life of Johnson to His Eleventh Year, Written by Himself (1805)
- Edited by Richard Wright
A Diary of a Journey into North Wales in the Year 1774
(1816 for Robert Jennings, London) - Edited by R Duppa
The History of Rasselas : Prince of Abyssinia (1818 Sharpe, London)
Sermons : Left for Publication by John Taylor (1819 London) - 2 vols in 1
Johnsoniana, or Supplement to Boswell (1836 Murray)
The Lives of the English Poets (1840 C Tilt)
The Letters of Samuel Johnson (1892 Oxford) - 2 vols. Edited by G Birkbeck Hill
Johnsonian Miscellanies (edited by George Birkbeck Hill) (1897 Oxford) - 2 vols

20thC
Some Unpublished Letters (1915 PP by Clement Shorter) - 20. 8pp
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1926 Dent) - Douglas Percy Bliss
The Critical Opinions of Samuel Johnson (1926 Princeton UP) - 2 vols. 25 de luxe
The Fountains : A Fairy Tale (1927 Elkin Mathews) - 510 numbered
Some Unpublished Letters to and from Dr Johnson (1932 Manchester UP)
The Poems (1941 Clarendon Press) (1974 2nd Ed)
Dr Johnson's Critical Remarks on the Metaphysical Poets (1945 NY)
The New London Letter Writer (1948 Golden Cockerel Press)
- 500 signed by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve
The Letters (Edited by R W Chapman) (1952 OUP) - 3 vols
Johnson : His Life in Letters (1965) - Edited by David Littlejohn
Literary Criticism (1974) - Edited by R D Stock
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1984 Rampant Lions Press) - Denis Tegetmeier
The Letters of Samuel Johnson (1992 Clarendon Press) - 5 vols. Edited by Bruce Redford

WORKS
The Poetical Works (1785 Osborne, Griffin. 3rd Ed)
The Works (1793 Luke White, Dublin) - 6 vols
The Works (1810 New Edition) - 12 vols
The Works (1836-40 Blake & Dearborn, NY) - 2 vols
The Works (1903) - 16 vols

READING
18thC
William Tindal : Remarks on Dr Johnson's Life, & Critical Observations on the Works of
Mr Gray (1782 for Author, London) - Anon
William Cooke : The Life of Samuel Johnson (1785 R Montcrieffe, Dublin)
William Shaw : Memoirs of the Life & Writings of the late Dr Samuel Johnson
(1785 J Walker, London) - Anon
Sir John Hawkins : The Life of Samuel Johnson (1786) (1787 for J Buckland, London 2nd Ed)
(Ed) James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791 Dilly) (1793 Dilly. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols

19thC
(Ed) R W Chapman : Samuel Johnson - Correspondence
Alexander Main : Life & Conversations of Dr Samuel Johnson (1874 Chapman & Hall)

1901-1950
Percy H Houston : Doctor Johnson - A Study in 18thC Humanism (1923 Harvard UP)
(Ed) J K Spittal : Contemporary Criticisms of Dr Samuel Johnson, His Works
& His Biographers (1923 Murray)
W P Courtney & D N Smith : A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson (1925) (1968 OUP)
E S Roscoe : Aspects of Dr Johnson (1928 CUP)
Joseph Wood Krutch : The Life of Samuel Johnson LID (1945)
Aleyn Lyell Reade : Johnson's Early Life : The Final Narrative (1946 PP for Author, London)
Robert Lynd : Dr Johnson and Company (1946 London)

After 1951
Aleyn Lyell Reade : Johnsonian Gleanings 1909-1952 (1968 Octagon Books, NY) - 10 vols
James L Clifford : Samuel Johnson - A Survey & Bibliography of Critical Studies
(1970 Minnesota UP) - with Donald J Green
Christopher Hibbert : The Personal History of Samuel Johnson (1971 Longman £3.75)
Virginia Maclean : Much Entertainment, a Visual and Culinary Record of Johnson & Boswell's
Tour of Scotland in 1773 (1973 Liveright, NY)
Helen Harrold Naugle & Peter B Sherry : A Concordance to the Poems of Samuel Johnson
(1973 Cornell UP)
John Wain : Samuel Johnson (1974)
Margaret Lane : Samuel Johnson and His World (1975 Hamish Hamilton)
(Eds) Frank Brady & W K Wimsatt : Samuel Johnson - Selected Poetry & Prose (1977 California UP)
Walter Jackson Bate : Samuel Johnson (1977 Harcourt Brace) (1978)
(Ed) Donald Greene : Samuel Johnson - A Critical Edition of the Major Works (1984 Oxford)
Thomas Kaminski : The Early Career of Samuel Johnson (1987 OUP)
(Ed) Bruce Redford : The Letters of Samuel Johnson (1992 Princeton)
J C D Clark : Samuel Johnson - Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics
from the Restoration to Romanticism (1994 Cambridge UP)
Norma Clarke : Dr Johnson's Women (2000 Hambledon £19.95)
Henry Hitchings : Dr Johnson's Dictionary - The Extraordinary Story of the Book
that Defined the World (2005 Murray £14.99)

[Samuel Johnson's House is at 17 Gough Square, London EC4 and conatins
artefacts associated with the writer]