Author: James Boswell; George Birkbeck Hill [editor]
Title: Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson
Description: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1887. Leather. James Boswell's complete six volume biography of Samuel Johnson, bound in half calf. Complete in six volumes. The first edition of this work to be edited by George Birkbeck Hill. 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 from the beginning a universal critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. Including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides', and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales&apos. With a portrait frontispiece to volumes one, two, three, five, and six, as well as nine additional plates, six of which are folding. Collated complete. Written by James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer. Edited by George Birkbeck Norman Hill, an English editor and author. Bound in half calf with brown cloth boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Cracks to the joints with the odd small mark to the boards. The front board of volume one, front board of volume three, front board of volume four, and the rear board of volume six are detached but present. Front hinges of volumes two and five are tender with the front board of volume six held by cords only. The rear hinges of volumes two and five starting but firm with the rear hinges of volumes three and four tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor tide marks to the foredge and minor age toning to the endpapers. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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