Author: James Boswell; George Birkbeck Hill [editor]; L. F. Powell
Title: Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson
Description: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1934. Cloth. The acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, complete in six volumes. Complete in six volumes. A biography of Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work was a critical and popular success from its initial publication and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is valued as both an important source of information on Johnson and his times, as well as an important work of literature. Volume one contains The Life from 1709-1765 and is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates, one of which is folding. Volume two contains The Life from 1766-1776 and is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates, one of which is folding. Volume three contains The Life from 1776-1780 and is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Volume four contains The Life from 1780-1784 and is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Volume five contains The Tour to the Hebrides and The Journey into North Wales, and is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates, two of which are folding. Volume six contains an Index, Tables of Anonymous Persons, Bibliography, and Errata, and is illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated complete. Written by James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer. Edited by George Birkbeck Norman Hill, an English editor and author. Revised and enlarged by Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, an English literary scholar. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the extremities. Original dust wrappers are price-clipped other than volumes V and VI which remain unclipped. Wrappers are sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light loss to the head and tail of the spine of volume one, with a 3" closed tear to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Good.

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