R.B. ADAM LIBRARY RELATING TO DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS ERA.|THE

London and New York: Oxford University Press for the Author, 1930. blue cloth, slipcase, top edge gilt, others uncut. Fourth volume was issued separately in 1930 without jacket. Johnson, Samuel. thick 4to. blue cloth, slipcase, top edge gilt, others uncut. Fourth volume was issued separately in 1930 without jacket. Four volumes. Three volumes issued in 1929 and limited to 500 copies; the scarce fourth volume was issued in 225 copies in half cloth with a paper spine label. Inscribed by R.A. Adam on the front free endpaper of volume one. Signed by Adams on the frontispiece of volume four. The first three volumes are lacking the dust jackets. Very minor rubbing to spine ends and minor shelfwear, else a near fine set.



Contains a three page preface by A. Edward Newton. Volume one contains letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick; volume two, Catalogue of Books; Volume three, Miscellaneous Autograph Letters; Volume four, miscellaneous additional material and corrections to the first three volumes. Charles Osgood wrote the introduction to this 1929 set (as he did for the earlier 1921 edition) and is one of the three dedicees along with A. Edward Newton and Chauncey B. Tinker.



This was the finest Johnson collection ever assembled by a private collector and was sold to Donald and Mary Hyde in 1948. (Inventory #: 15073)