JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Irene: a Tragedy, 1749. 8vo, mottled calf gilt, g.e., by Riviere, front cover detached. With the half-title and advertisement leaf at end -- [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia, 1759. 2 volumes, 12mo, mottled calf gilt, g.e., by Riviere, covers detached, final blank in volume 2 lacking -- A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland, 1775. 8vo, modern calf gilt. 12-line errata leaf at end, D8 and U4 cancels as usual, p.296 correctly numbered -- The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1781. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt spines, worn, front cover of volume 1 detached. First London Edition, engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in vol. 1 (foxed) with imprint, advertisement leaf at end of volume 4, with "The Principal Additions and Corrections in the Third Edition..." bound in at end of volume 4. Contemporary ownership inscription in each volume: "Pendoch Heale Jes: Coll: Cam: 1784" -- BOSWELL, JAMES. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, 1785. 8vo, old marbled boards, rebacked in tan calf, sides wornish. 12-line errata leaf at end, first state of p. 121, second state of pp. 237 and 299, pp. 53-6 and 167-8 are cancels, half-title. Circular stamp on title of a Scottish circulating library. All London. Together 9 volumes, 12mo-8vo. FIRST EDITION, except as noted. (9)

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JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Irene: a Tragedy, 1749. 8vo, mottled calf gilt, g.e., by Riviere, front cover detached. With the half-title and advertisement leaf at end -- [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia, 1759. 2 volumes, 12mo, mottled calf gilt, g.e., by Riviere, covers detached, final blank in volume 2 lacking -- A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland, 1775. 8vo, modern calf gilt. 12-line errata leaf at end, D8 and U4 cancels as usual, p.296 correctly numbered -- The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1781. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt spines, worn, front cover of volume 1 detached. First London Edition, engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in vol. 1 (foxed) with imprint, advertisement leaf at end of volume 4, with "The Principal Additions and Corrections in the Third Edition..." bound in at end of volume 4. Contemporary ownership inscription in each volume: "Pendoch Heale Jes: Coll: Cam: 1784" -- BOSWELL, JAMES. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, 1785. 8vo, old marbled boards, rebacked in tan calf, sides wornish. 12-line errata leaf at end, first state of p. 121, second state of pp. 237 and 299, pp. 53-6 and 167-8 are cancels, half-title. Circular stamp on title of a Scottish circulating library. All London. Together 9 volumes, 12mo-8vo. FIRST EDITION, except as noted. (9)