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Lot 285
Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019
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[Literature] [Johnson, Samuel] Boswell, James The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent P...
... ersons; and Various Original Pieces of his Compositions, Never Before Published… London: Harry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. Second Edition, “revised and augmented.” 8vo. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson and two engraved folding plates. With the inserted leaf of Additional Corrections and the “Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson” in the first volume. Contemporary brown calf; black morocco spine labels; restored. Some dampstaining and paper losses to edges of endpapers; manuscript date at bottom of title-page in the first volume; one leaf repaired; pp. 235 with mounted leaf in the first volume. ESTC T64482, [ Pottle 81], [ Rothschild 468].