AW
's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse was finally published by subscription through the firm of Thomas Davies
, sixteen years after the first printed proposals for it.
qtd. in
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.