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 (6 Volumes, Complete)
Published by Clarendon Press in Oxford 1887
SKU: 60484
£120.00
FIRST EDITION Edited by Birkbeck Hill. 6 Volumes, Complete. 8vo. brown cloth hardbacks, gilt. t.e.g. Illustrated with 6 portraits, 6 folding facsimiles of handwriting and letters, a Map of the Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides and a Chart of Johnson's Contemporaries. Some tanning to endpapers and occasional light foxing, mainly to prelims. Small modern bookplate to foot of front pastedown of each volume. No other markings or inscriptions. Slight fading and spotting to board edges and slight rubbing to spines of Vols. Iv, V and VI. Overall a VERY GOOD SET.
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