Note 1189 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 7)
Reading edition
The name of Vicesimus Knox is now scarcely known. Yet so late as 1824 his collected Works were published in seven octavo volumes. The editor says of his Essays (i. iii):—'In no department of the Belles Lettres has any publication, excepting the Spectator, been so extensively circulated. It has been translated into most of the European languages.' See ante, i. 222, note 1; iii. 13, note 3; and iv. 330.