The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order ... in Two Volumes

first edition Full Leather

1791 · London

by BOSWELL, Esq., James
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1791. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. xii, [16], 3-516; [1], 2-588, [2]. Engraved portrait frontis. after Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the first volume. Second volume illustrated with two plates of Dr. Johnson's handwriting in facsimile. Marbled endpapers. Full speckled calf with gilt filigree borders and inner dentelles, rebacked in period style; repaired corners. Two bookplates: "The High Canon's Library" and "Malo Mori Quam Foedari," possibly the plate of Cardinal Henry Edward Manning. Interiors quite nice. First edition, first state with "gve" (in lieu of (truncated)
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