NMLP P-041367 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas)

Samuel Johnson · Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Johnston, London · 1759

No book-club editions for a 1759 title; the traps are the 1759 second edition (title-page states 'The Second Edition'), the many later London and Dublin reprints, and post-lifetime editions that place 'The History of Rasselas' on the title-page — the form under which virtually every modern reprint appears. Miniature and gift-book Rasselases are 'first thus' at most. Practical rule: if the title-page says Rasselas, it is not the 1759 first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041367 for "The Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas)" by Samuel Johnson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041367, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).