London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, later issue. 4to. With the second state "give" reading at line 10 of page 135 in Volume I, lacking the front blank in Volume II. Leaf size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 29 x 22.7 cm. (i)-xii, [16], (1)-516; [2], (1)-588 [ie 586]pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I and two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II. Original boards restored with brown cloth spine and corners, endpapers, and paper spine labels circa 1840; boards with some light soiling and small abrasions, wear to extremities, backstrips starting; light creasing and minor foxing to portrait, some toning and spotting to Volume II title page, light foxing at front and back but generally clean. With leather book-plate of Estelle Doheny on front paste downs. Housed in brown cloth pull-off case with cloth chemises. Grolier English 65; Pottle79; Rothschild 463; ESTC T64481.