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Boswell’s Illustrated Life of Johnson

SKU: 7686
£500.00

Title:
Boswell’s Illustrated Life of Johnson

Date of publication:

  • 1925
  • Binding:

  • contemporary half morocco
  • Publisher:

  • George Bayntun
  • Author:

  • James Boswell
  • The text of this comprehensively illustrated edition follows the sixth edition (1811) revised by Boswell’s son.

    It is accompanied by the notes of various commentators including Boswell’s friends and contemporaries Edmond Malone and Charles Burney.
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    Condition & Materials

    Boswell, James: The Life of Samuel Johnson [...] Newly Edited with Notes by Roger Ingpen. [...] With 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. Bath: George Bayntun 1925
    2 vols. Royal 8vo. (26 x 19 cms) pp. xl, 576; xvi, 577-1172. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, over patterned paper boards, trivial wear to extremities. A handsome set. Read less