1813 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

Name: 1813 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
SKU: 848T24
Price: 65 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: London T. Cadell

Size: 9" by 5.5" Pagination: xv, 460pp.

The sixth revised and corrected edition of this tour of the Hebrides.

£65.00

weight: 1kgs / stock code: 848T24

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Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Sixth edition. Revised and enlarged. With portrait frontispiece. Includes some poetical pieces by Dr. Samuel Johnson never before published; a series of conversations, literary anecdotes, and opinions on men and books; with an authentic account of the distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II in 1746. Written by James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, best known for his biography of his friend Samuel Johnson which has been said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. With notes from Samuel Johnson, an English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. "Arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history" - The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Condition

In the original quarter red cloth with green paper covered boards. Externally, smart with bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Title page is loosely inserted.

Overall: Good

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