Author: James Boswell
Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L. D.
Description: London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1901. Leather. A smartly bound illustrated edition of this well-known biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. Complete in three volumes. The first Railton edition. Volume one is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, six photogravure portrait plates, and many in-text images. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece, five portrait plates, and many in-text images. Volume three is illustrated with a frontispiece, six portrait plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. The life of Samuel Johnson, or Dr Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Written by his friend James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known for this work. Edited by Arnold Glover, a British book editor. With an introduction by Henry Austin Dobson, an English poet and essayist. Illustrated by Herbert Railton, an English artist and leading black and white illustrator in his day. Bound in half red calf with red cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Some of the text block remains unopened. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Herbert Railton. Very Good Indeed .

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