Recommended Books
Boswell’s Life of Johnson. 1896.
£50.00[BOSWELL, James]; Augustine Birrell (Editor). Boswell’s Life of Johnson. 6 volumes. Frontispiece to each volume. ROVENANCE: Sporadic marginalia in pencil throughout. [London], Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1896.
The Life of Samuel Johnson… 1823.
£90.00BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, In Chronological Order. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson to volume 1. 2 folding tables. Interior: No half titles, occasional spotting, endpapers detaching/detached. Some pages mis-numbered- but present. Occasional tearing with loss to blank margins- not to text. Exterior: Full contemporary calf (boards and spines worn, one board hanging by a thread, boards loose/ detaching on other volumes). 8vo. London: J. Richardson & Co, 1823.
£100.00