THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. : COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES, AND NUMEROUS WORKS, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS; AND ... DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED [Three volumes]
Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake, 1807. First American from the fifth London edition. Octavo, Three volumes (22, 500 pages; 512 pages; 543 pages). In Good condition. Spines are brown with gold print on black banners. Boards in brown leather. Light wear to spine caps and corners, slight scuffing. Text blocks have red marbled edges, blue marbled endpapers. Name in pencil and ink on front endpapers, occasional light foxing. Illustrated: frontispiece portrait in first volume, folded facsimile of Johnson’s handwriting in third volume. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area. More