By James Boswell

Published: London Richard Bentley

Size: 9" by 6" Pagination: xlviii, 407pp.

A smart first edition of this collection of letters written by James Boswell to the Reverend William Johnson Temple.

By James Boswell

1857 Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple

Name: 1857 Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple
SKU: 890T69
Price: 150 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: London Richard Bentley

Size: 9" by 6" Pagination: xlviii, 407pp.

A smart first edition of this collection of letters written by James Boswell to the Reverend William Johnson Temple.

£150.00

weight: 1kgs / stock code: 890T69

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Description

First Edition, Leather Binding

First edition. Published from the original manuscripts. A collection of letters from James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, written to William Johnson Temple, an English cleric and essayist. Both figures are now remembered as correspondents of one another. With letters from 1758 to Boswell's death in 1795.

Condition

Bound in half brown calf with marbled boards. Externally, very smart with light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark.

Overall: Near Fine

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