LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON

by Extra-Illustrated Books, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson

$22,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791 . 267 x 210 mm. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 . Two volumes expanded to eight. FIRST EDITION, First State with gve reading on p. 135 . ORNATE AND SUBSTANTIAL 19TH CENTURY FOREST GREEN STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, covers with a gilt French fillet, raised bands, spines and some corners renewed with considerable skill, their

• Printing: first
• Binding: Leather

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