THE R.B. ADAM LIBRARY RELATING TO SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS ERA by [Johnson, Samuel]: Adam, R.B - 1929

Buffalo: Printed for the Author, and New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1929. Three volumes. Quarto. Gilt navy blue cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portraits, plates and facsimiles. Spines very slightly darkened, very light wear at edges, short crack to one inner hinge, otherwise a very good set of a work most often seen worn and shaken. First edition. One of five hundred sets printed at the Volksfreund Press. A fourth, supplemental, volume was published in 1930 in an edition of only 225 copies. The monumental catalogue of Adams's collection, consisting of: Volume I: Letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick; Volume II: Catalogue of Books; and Volume III: Miscellaneous Autograph Letters.