Boswell's Life of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. [Six Volumes]
Language: English
Published by Oxford At The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1887
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United KingdomKerr & Sons Booksellers ABA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 450.00
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1887, 1st edition thus - being the first edition edited by George Birkbeck Hill, and including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides', and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales'. Six Volumes. Octavo's. xxvii, [1 errata], 522; 480; [vi], 464; [vi], 446; [viii], 460; lxxiv[ii], 324pp. With fourteen engraved illustrations including, a number of portraits of Johnson from Sir Joshua Reynolds' paintings, and many facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting, the Round Robin plate, a map of Johnson and Boswell's tour through the Hebrides and a chart of Johnson's contemporaries. Uniformly bound in a modern quarter crimson morocco, over maroon cloth sides, spines in gilt. Bindings square and tight. A couple of boards with minor markings. Top edge gilt (a little dulled/dust-soiled). New end papers. A little light spotting to text-blocks. Generally clean within. A 'Near Fine' set.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Boswell's Life of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. [Six Volumes]
- Author
- Hill, George Birkbeck [Ed.]
- Publisher
- Oxford At The Clarendon Press, Oxford
- Publication year
- 1887
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA
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