Boswell's Life of Johnson (illustrated)
Rare and modern books
Boswell, James
Routledge, Warnes & Routledge,
1865
Boswell's Life of Johnson (illustrated)
Rare and modern books
Boswell, James
Routledge, Warnes & Routledge,
1865
25.00 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1865
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Boswell, James
- Publishers
- Routledge, Warnes & Routledge
- Size
- 7.5 x 5.25 inches
- Keyword
- Politics, Society, Travels, 18th Century, Biography
- Cover description
- No Jacket
- Binding description
- Half-Leather
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
Presentation plate (1865) on front end paper. Foxing to end papers and a few page margins. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, well-rubbed edges and corners and frail top of spine. Raised gilt bands down spine with one portion of gilt surface embossing missing Marbled boards and green leather spine and corners. Marbled end papers. Volumes I & II in one volume. 291 plus 298pp. The classic account of Johnson's work and studies, conversations and letters. Illustrated throughout. Cover page dated 1859 but each volume dated 1865.
