THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON | Rare and modern books | Boswell
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON | Rare and modern books | Boswell
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1791
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Boswell
- Publishers
- Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry
- Edition
- IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE IN PLEASING CONDITION.
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
2 volumes. First Edition, First Issue, with 'gve' on p.135 of the first volume; Mm4 and Nn1 in Volume I and E3, Qq3, and Eee2 in Volume II are cancels as called for. With round robin plate, signatures page, portrait frontispiece. 4to (275 x 210 mm.), full contemporary mottled calf, the spines with raised bands separating the compartments, the bands ruled in gilt, two compartments with terra-cotta-red morocco lettering labels gilt, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders, gilt tooled edges, original endleaves. xii, (16), 516; 588 pp. A handsome and fine set with the bindings in excellent condition, sometime expertly and very sympathetically renewed at the spines to style. A very pleasing set quite clean and crisp throughout.
