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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawk..

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Sale 227: Fine and Rare Books (#227) 09/13/2001 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/13/2001 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #20 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. and Notes by Various Hands.

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$625

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Title:

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. and Notes by Various Hands.

Author:

Boswell, James

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

John Murray

Date Published:

1835

Description:

10 vols. Each volume with a steel-engraved frontispiece and added pictorial title by E. Finden after C. Stanfield and others, plus 1 double-page steel-engraved by Finden in Vol. I, & a folding facsimile in Vol. VI. 6¾x4, later half morocco & marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g.; bound by Zaehnsdorf.

Attractive 10-volume set of Boswell's famed Life of the great lexicographer and man of letters Samuel Johnson, one of the classic examples of biography. Each volume with the bookplate of C.M. Linton.

Condition:

Spines a little dull with a few minor scuffs, else in very good to nearly fine condition.

Item#:

100310
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