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. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. Pembroke College, Oxford

At the Clarendon Press, 1887

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Year of publication

1887

Place of printing

Oxford

Author

Boswell

Publishers

At the Clarendon Press

Edition

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE CLARENDON PRESS EDITION OF BOSWELL'S

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

6 volumes. First of the Edition. With fourteen engraved illustrations including, a number of portraits of Johnson from Sir Joshua Reynolds' paintings, from Opie's portrait, 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. 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves to match, top edges gilt. xxvii, [1 errata], 522; 480; [vi], 464; [vi], 446; [viii], 460; lxxiv[ii], 324 pp. A very well preserved and handsome set, the bindings are tight and show only minor age or evidence of use with a little rubbing and evidence of shelving, Volume I has been rehinged, the text-blocks and plates are all in excellent condition, the spine panels, as usual with green morocco or calf bindings have mellowed a bit to a honey-brown.