Author: Boswell, James,
Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Description: NY, Doubleday, 1946. G. Among monumental biographies, this ranks high None has been written more in friendship and admiration. But this never. prevented Boswell from seeing Johnson as a complete personality, a three dimensional figure. Here is the spitting image, here is the man strutting into your life and sinking heavily into your biggest chair to regale and revile you. With the same 16 color illustrations by sensitive Anglo-Saxon Gordon Ross who uses pastels like an angel. He manages to recapture the soft colors of the English scene and the bright rich colors of its costumes. Also 24 b/w drswings. Bright blue binding, gilt lettering, first blank page removed, owner notes on top of back endpaper, DJ flaps loose, some tanning to endpapers.

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