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Boswell, James.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- The Life of Samuel Johnson. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791
- Paper
4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson after Reynolds in volume one, two engraved plates in volume two (Round Robin on a monument for Goldsmith addressed to Johnson, and examples of his handwriting), earlier state of "gve" for "give" in line 10 of p.135 in volume 1, modern calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (according to pencil note on the endpapers), top edges gilt, rubbed
Literature
Pottle 79
Catalogue Note
A crisp copy.