Forster's Goldsmith, i. 204.
If this account is correctly printed, the sale must have been slow. The first edition (2 vols. 5s.) was published in Oct. 1761, (Gent. Mag. xxxi. 479). Johnson is called Dr. in the account; but he was not made an LL.D. till July 1765. Prior, in his Life of Goldsmith (i. 459), publishes an account between Goldsmith and Newbery in which the first entry is:—
'1761. Oct. 14, 1 set of
The Idler. . . . . £0 50 0.'
Johnson, as Newbery's papers show, a year later bought a copy of
Goldsmith's Life of Nash; ib. p. 405.
[1004] See ante, p. 306.
[1005] This paper may be found in Stockdale's supplemental volume of Johnson's Miscellaneous Pieces. BOSWELL. Stockdale's supplemental volumes—for there are two—are vols. xii. and xiii. of what is known as 'Hawkins's edition.' In this paper (Works, iv. 450) he represents in a fable two vultures speculating on that mischievous being, man, 'who is the only beast who kills that which he does not devour,' who at times is seen to move in herds, while 'there is in every herd one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage.'
[1006] 'Receipts for Shakespeare.' WARTON.—BOSWELL.
[1007] 'Then of Lincoln College. Now Sir Robert Chambers, one of the Judges in India.' WARTON.—BOSWELL.
[1008] Old Mr. Langton's niece. See post, July 14, 1763.
[1009] 'Mr. Langton.' WARTON.—BOSWELL.