Author: James Boswell; Roger Ingpen [ed.]
Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson
Description: Bath, George Bayntun, 1925. Cloth. A two-volume illustrated edition of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson, edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. A new two-volume edition of this work uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards. Top edge gilt.Written by Scottish biographer James Boswell (1740-1795), this biography is often described as being the greatest biography ever written in English. This is a new edition, with notes by Roger Ingpen.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English poet, essayist, biographer and literary critic. He published 'A Dictionary of the English Language' in 1755, considered the foremost dictionary of the time until the Oxford English Dictionary was published 173 years later. He was a devout Anglican and firmly opposed slavery; his religious writings emphasize the goodness of charity, repentance, marriage and pride.Profusely illustrated with five hundred and seventy six illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including thirteen plates in photogravure. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with light shelf wear to the joints and extremities. Gilt remains bright. Faint marks to the head of the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Mark to the fore edge of volume II, affecting the edge of several pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Samuel Belin; George Dance; et al. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Samuel Johnson James Boswell Biography Roger Ingpen James Boswell Sir Joshua Reynolds; Samuel Belin; George Dance; et al.


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