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    By James Boswell
    London   Printed for the Proprietors
    7" by 4.5" [3] [xix] [3], 340 pp; [2] 371 pp; [2] 360 pp; [2] 367 pp.
    The new edition complete in four volumes of James Boswell's acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson, in half green calf with a monochrome portrait frontispiece of Johnson and folding facsimiles of his handwriting.
    By James Boswell

    1819 The Life of Samuel Johnson

    London   Printed for the Proprietors
    7" by 4.5" [3] [xix] [3], 340 pp; [2] 371 pp; [2] 360 pp; [2] 367 pp.
    The new edition complete in four volumes of James Boswell's acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson, in half green calf with a monochrome portrait frontispiece of Johnson and folding facsimiles of his handwriting.
    £190.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 981R4
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    An Important Work, Decorative Binding, Fine Binding, Folding Plates

    The new edition complete in four volumes of James Boswell's acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson, in half green calf.


    With a monochrome portrait frontispiece of Johnson and folding facsimiles of his handwriting (volume one), this is a detailed and beautifully bound set of what is still considered one of the greatest English biographies.


    In half green calf with marbled boards, and gilt decoration and titling along the spines.


    The Life of Samuel Johnson is a biography of English writer and literary critic Samuel Johnson. It represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography, and many have called it the greatest biography ever written.


    Condition

    In half green calf with marbled boards and decorative gilt. Externally, generally smart, with noticeable bumping to extremities. Some areas of loss to joints, and heads and tails of spines in particular. Age toning to cloth boards. Fading to spines and extremities. Some loss to gilt on spines. Internally, firmly bound. Marginal age toning to pages and spotting throughout, heavier to first and last pages. Lightly faded marbled fore edges.

    Good

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