The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including a journal of his tour to the Hebrides … A new edition. With numerous additions and notes,

by John Wilson Croker, Ll.D. F.R.S. by James Boswell

$600 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: John Murray, 1831. First Crocker edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, each volume with engraved frontispiece, plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, maroon and brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; light wear to extremities, upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed but firm, lower corner of vol. 3 bumped, a near fine copy. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly

• Binding: Leather

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