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COCHRANE (James Aikman):

DR. JOHNSON'S PRINTER: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM STRAHAN.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1964). First edition. A scholarly life of the Edinburgh-born William Strahan (1715-1785), the most important London printer of the period. With much on Samuel Johnson - but also on James Boswell, Thomas Cadell, Benjamin Franklin, David Hall, David Hume, Andrew Millar, William Robertson, Adam Smith, etc. Demy 8vo. (xiv),(226)pp. Plates. Genealogical chart. Very good in a creased dust-jacket, now neatly reinforced.

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