Author: R. W. Chapman
Title: The Letters of Samuel Johnson
Description: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1952. Cloth. Three volumes of the letters of writer and critic Samuel Johnson, with illustrations. A new edition copy, complete in three volumes. These volumes were planned as a supplement to Boswell's great Life of Johnson with the letters of Samuel Johnson collected and edited by R. W. Chapman. Samuel Johnson was an important English writer of poetry, plays, essays and critical work. Volume one covers from 1719-1774, volume two covers 1775-1782 and volume three covers 1783-1784. With a frontispiece to each volume, the frontispiece to volume one is folding and with one plate to volume one.Collated, complete. Each are in the original clipped dust wrappers.With a newspaper clipping of a review of The Letters of Samuel Johnson from the Times 22 Feb '92. All are in the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light marks to the front board of volume two, the front hinge starting to volume one but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Each are in the original clipped dust wrappers which are smart with creasing to the extremities and light marks to the wraps and spines. Spine is fading to volume one with a small tear to the tail of the spine. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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