BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. Engraved portrait and 2 plates. 2 volumes, large 4to, contemporary tree calf, spines chipped and worn, some early repairs to joints and corners, covers detached (along with some endpages [including frontispiece and title-page] in first volume); some scattered light foxing; cloth slipcases. FIRST EDITION, First state of S4r in Vol. 1, with "gve" on line 10. Rothschild 463.

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BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. Engraved portrait and 2 plates. 2 volumes, large 4to, contemporary tree calf, spines chipped and worn, some early repairs to joints and corners, covers detached (along with some endpages [including frontispiece and title-page] in first volume); some scattered light foxing; cloth slipcases. FIRST EDITION, First state of S4r in Vol. 1, with "gve" on line 10. Rothschild 463.

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