The R.B. Adam Library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and his era

by Samuel Johnson

$650 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London & New York: Oxford Univ. Press, printed for the author at Buffalo, N.Y., 1929. First edition limited to 500 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, spines of dust-jackets partially perished, else a very good set in original blue cloth lettered in gilt, of an important and beautifully printed catalogue, with numerous facsimiles, plates, portraits, etc. A fourth, supplemental volume consisting primarily of mss. material was issued the following year. Item #28465

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