[SHEPARD, ERNEST H., illustrator]. BOSWELL, JAMES. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson... London, 1930. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, full light brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner gilt dotted line border incorporating small decorative gilt cornerpieces, upper cover with central onlaid vari-colored morocco design depicting a waving Dr. Johnson, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-decorated panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 139 of 350 large-paper covers signed by Shepard.

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[SHEPARD, ERNEST H., illustrator]. BOSWELL, JAMES. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson... London, 1930. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, full light brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner gilt dotted line border incorporating small decorative gilt cornerpieces, upper cover with central onlaid vari-colored morocco design depicting a waving Dr. Johnson, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-decorated panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 139 of 350 large-paper covers signed by Shepard.

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