WIT AND WISDOM OF SAMUEL JOHNSON

HILL, George Birkbeck (Selected and Arranged by)
Published by Clarendon Press in Oxford 1888
SKU: 59847
£45.00
FIRST EDITION 8vo. hardback in full tan calf prize binding with raised bands, red title label, decorative gilt to spine and gilt crest to upper board. All edges and endpapers marbled. 323pp. Inscribed Prize bookplate (dated 1890) to front pastedown. Foxing to prelims otherwise clean and bright internally. Light wear and rubbing to top of spine and board edges, else a VERY GOOD, HANDSOME COPY.