{"id":304,"date":"2011-06-15T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:28:13","slug":"johnsons-seven-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2011\/06\/15\/johnsons-seven-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson&#8217;s Seven Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Johnson&#8217;s 1596 <em>The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom<\/em>, though far from great literature, held a special place in Samuel Johnson&#8217;s heart. Johnson learned to read from this popular and oft-reprinted tale as a child in his father&#8217;s bookshop, and recommended it for young readers over the moralizing children&#8217;s literature fashionable in the late 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton is very pleased to have acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|004277605\">Johnson&#8217;s copy of <em>The Seven Champions<\/a><\/em>, adding to our substantial collection of books from his library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-tp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-tp-760x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Johnson, The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom, 1687. EC75.J6371.Zz687j\" width=\"475\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-tp-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-tp-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-tp.jpg 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like most of the Johnson books in our collection, this volume does not bear Johnson&#8217;s signature, but rather has a contemporary inscription attesting to its purchase at the 1785 auction of Johnson&#8217;s library. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-inscr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-inscr.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Johnson, The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom, 1687. EC75.J6371.Zz687j\" width=\"475\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-inscr.jpg 969w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2011\/06\/EC75-J6371-Zz687j-inscr-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Johnson&#8217;s 1596 The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom, though far from great literature, held a special place in Samuel Johnson&#8217;s heart. Johnson learned to read from this popular and oft-reprinted tale as a child in his father&#8217;s bookshop, and recommended it for young readers over the moralizing children&#8217;s literature fashionable in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}