Boswell's life of johnson.
London.
Office of the National Illustrated Library, [s.d., c.1851]
Tenth thousand.
8vo.
Four volumes bound in two. xxxii, 291, [1], viii, 298; viii, 298pp, viii, 298pp, [2]. With an engraved title page and engraved frontispiece to each volume, with an additional title page to vol. i., numerous in-text illustrations, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to vol. iv. Later gilt-tooled, blind-stamped calf, contrasting green lettering-pieces to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges, Lightly rubbed. Bookplates of Francis Henderson to FEPs. Light spotting to endpapers and initial leaves.
A new edition, finely bound and richly illustrated, of James Boswell's famous Life of Samuel Johnson, sometimes called the greatest biography in English.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 29050
