175x100mm contemporary calf on 5 raised bands gilt ruled with red spine label (tips rubbed) xxxix +[1] +185pp +[3]pp publisher's catalogue. *Amusing satire on Samuel Johnson. Boswell says: "This year [1768] was published a ridicule of his style, under the title of Lexiphanes. Sir John Hawkins ascribes it to Dr. Kenrick; but its author was one Campbell, a Scotch purser in the navy. The ridicule consisted of applying Johnson's 'words of large meaning' to insignificant matters, as if one should put the armor of Goliath upon a dwarf .. This malicious drollery .. could do no harm to its illustrious object." A lovely clean crisp copy.