Details
BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. 2 volumes, 4 (269 x 212mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in vol.I, two engraved plates. (Vol. II lacking blank A1, portrait shaved, some light spotting.) Modern half calf incorporating contemporary marbled boards and original red morocco spine labels. FIRST EDITION, second state, with 'give' reading vol I p.135. Rothschild 464.
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784). Rasselas. London: printed by J.Brettell, published by Hector M'Lean, sold by Manners & Miller and Archibald Constable & Co., 1819. 4 (263 x 207mm). 4 engraved plates, engraved headpiece, by A.Raimbach after R.Smirke. (Light spotting to plates.) Contemporary dark green straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins, g.e; and two others on Boswell and Johnson (J.Boswell. An Account of Corsica. Glasgow: 1768. 8; H.L.Piozzi. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson. London: 1786. 8). (5)
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784). Rasselas. London: printed by J.Brettell, published by Hector M'Lean, sold by Manners & Miller and Archibald Constable & Co., 1819. 4 (263 x 207mm). 4 engraved plates, engraved headpiece, by A.Raimbach after R.Smirke. (Light spotting to plates.) Contemporary dark green straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins, g.e; and two others on Boswell and Johnson (J.Boswell. An Account of Corsica. Glasgow: 1768. 8; H.L.Piozzi. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson. London: 1786. 8). (5)