EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND & JOHNSONIANA. Group of eight titles in 13 volumes. London: 1766-1836.Including first editions by Samuel Johnson, Hester Piozzi, Gilbert White, and Tobias Smollett and a handsome manuscript commonplace book of the period. [Comprises :] SMOLLETT, Tobias. Travels through France and Italy . London: R. Baldwin, 1766. First edition. 2 volumes, octavo. Half titles. Contemporary calf. * [JOHNSON, Samuel.] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland . London: Strahan & Cadell, 1775. First edition , later issue. Calf. Custom slipcase. * WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . London: T. Bensley, 1789. First edition, this copy with early ornithological marginalia. Quarto. 2 part titles with engraved vignettes; 7 engraved plates including the large folding frontispiece and one other folding plate. Later half calf. * PIOZZI, Hester Lynch. British Synonymy; or, an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation . London: for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First edition in original boards. 2 volumes, octavo. Half-titles. Custom slipcase. * A New Commonplace Book . London: J. Walker, n.d. With over 100 pages of manuscript quotations added. Quarto. Plain green vellum. * JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the most Eminent English Poets . Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1811. Three volumes, octavo. Original boards, uncut. * EVELYN, John. Memoirs, illustrative of the Life and Writings. London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition in fine original boards. Two volumes, quarto. Engraved frontispiece portraits (spotted). Original boards, untrimmed, paper spine labels. * Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell . London: John Murray, 1836. Large-paper copy. Folio. Illustrated with engravings, including portraits and facsimiles. Contemporary quarter calf.