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Birmingham Central Library
Birmingham, B3 3HQ
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The Johnson Collection was formed to celebrate the association of Dr Samuel Johnson with Birmingham and now numbers about 2,000 volumes of works by Johnson and books and periodicals about him. It includes almost all the first editions, such as the dictionary, 1755, as well as a good range of later editions and critical works from the 18th Century to the present date. The Central Library has an almost complete collection of first editions of Johnsons works, including a copy of ‘Irene’, the tragedy with which he first attempted to make his name in London in 1737.
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