Printed by John Johnson at the Clarendon Press Oxford England 1927 And sold by Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University Five hundred and fifty copies have been printed of which five hundred are for sale Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes 1749 The Vanity of Human Wishes was published in January 1749. The edition may have been a large one (though the pamphlet is now by no means common), or the poem may have been less popular than London; for there was no second edition. London is in the first edition (1748) of Dodsley's Collection of Poems in Three Volumes. The Vanity was not included in the third edition (1751) which, unlike the second (1748), was a mere reprint. It was, however, included in the next edition (1755), called A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. All variations of any moment between the texts of 1749 and of 1755 are recorded in the notes. NOTE This reprint was set up from a copy lent by Sir Charles Firth, and the proofs were read with the British Museum copy. A few 'wrong fount' letters have been corrected. No uncut copy was available; the margins are therefore conjectural. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES THE Tenth Satire of Juvenal, IMITATED By SAMUEL JOHNSON. LONDON: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, and Sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster Row. M.DCC.XLIX. The Vanity of Human Wishes Notes Facsimile Printed from type At the Clarendon Press 1927 This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse