BOSWELL, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, London: by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. 8° (lacking half title, Ll2-3 stuck together at margins, occasional staining), contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). FIRST EDITION, second issue. Pottle p. 112; Rothschild 456.

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BOSWELL, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, London: by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. 8° (lacking half title, Ll2-3 stuck together at margins, occasional staining), contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). FIRST EDITION, second issue. Pottle p. 112; Rothschild 456.

JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the most eminent English Poets; with critical observations on their works, London: for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan [and 32 others], 1781. 4 volumes, 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson, advertisment leaf misbound in volume I (lacking the leaf of labels, a few leaves browned or soiled), contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with morocco labels (extremities rubbed). FIRST SEPARATE LONDON EDITION. Courtney & Smith p. 141; Rothschild 1266. (5)

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