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Boswell's Life of Johnson (Six Volumes); Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales

Boswell's Life of Johnson (Six Volumes); Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales

Boswell's Life of Johnson (Six Volumes); Including Boswell's Journal
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Boswell's Life of Johnson (Six Volumes); Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales

by Boswell, James, George Birkbeck Hill, ed

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891. First Thus. Cloth. Good +. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. All volumes have some age spotting, especially on spines. Foxing to preliminary pages in all volumes.
Volume 1: 12 illustrations. Binding loose. 604 pp.
Volume 2: 8 illustrations. Spine starting to separate. 551 pp.
Volume 3: 5 illustrations. 525 pp, last 2 pages are untrimmed.
Volume 4: Water damage to bottoms of pages. 4 illustrations. Hinge starting to separate. 514 pp.
Volume 5: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774). 3 illustrations. Water damage to bottoms of pages. Foldout of a facsimile note handwritten by Boswell. 524 pp.
Volume 6: Water damage to bottoms of pages. Foldout chart of Dr. Johnson's contemporaries with their dates of birth and death. Addenda, index, dicta (quotes listed by topic), philosophi, &c. 523 pp. Last 2 pages untrimmed.

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Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB US (US)
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Title
Boswell's Life of Johnson (Six Volumes); Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales
Author
Boswell, James, George Birkbeck Hill, ed
Format/Binding
Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Good +
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Edition
First Thus
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Harper and Brothers
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1891
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Samuel Johnson
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