Boswell, James - The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. A New Edition, Elucidated by Copious Notes, and Illustrated with Numerous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, Engraved from Authentic Sources. Four Volume Set [with] Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson; a New Edition, Illustrated, with Introduction and Notes by Robert Carruthers. Five Volumes in All

London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, [, 1851. Hardcover. Original decorated and blind-stamped cloth. Backstrips sun-darkened; cover edges sun-faded; extremities bumped and worn; 5 volumes lack front free endpaper; front hinge of vol. 1 shaken; previous owner's name inside front cover of vols. 1-3; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition. Hebrides Journal in similar condition, but has front free endpaper; pages slightly toned, some with chipped margins. ]. 5 volumes, separately paged. Illus. Preface dated 1851 in four-volume set. .

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