2 volumes, 4to (275 x 215 mm). Frontispiece portrait, 2 engraved plates, text for Corrections printed in two columns. 19th century calf, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained yellow (6th spine compartment to vol. II with small loss along joint, otherwise fine); modern cloth slipcase. 

 

FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "give," cancels as usual and imprint below portrait intact. Boswell's biography, published 16 May 1791, achieved immediate acclaim; it has never been out of print. The Corrections was published concurrently with the second edition of the Life. ESTC T64481; Grolier English 65; Rothschild 463, 466; Pottle 79, 113. A FINE COPY.