Author: BOSWELL, JAMES (1740-1795). HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Bowwell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales TOGETHER WITH the uniformly bound, 2-volume Letters of Samuel Johnson - [Complete in 8 volumes]
Description: Oxford : Clarendon Press 1887. 1st Edition in this form. Provenance; from the library of John Williams Clay with his bookplate. Finely bound all in contemporary aniline calf over matching cloth boards. Minor. generalized wear to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains an uncommonly good set - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; Physical description 8 v : facsim. map. port ; 23 cm. Note; with reproductions of original title pages. Originally published under title: The life of Samuel Johnson. Bibliography: v. 6. p. [vii]-xix. Contents v. 1-4. Life (v.l. 1709-1765; v. 2 1765-1776; v. 3. 1776-1780; v. 4. 1780-1784)--v. 5. Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)--v. 6 Addenda. index. dicta philosophi. &c. Subjects; Johnson. Samuel. 1709-1784 - Biography. Hebrides (Scotland) - Description and travel. Scotland - Description and travel - To 1800. Wales. North - Description and travel.Weight in Kg appr.:

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