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    By James Boswell
    London   George Bell and Sons
    7" by 4.5" (xxiv) 325pp; (viii) 344pp; (ix) 323pp; (xii) 343pp; (viii) 341pp; (viii) 342pp; (viii) 381pp; (xi) 431pp; (xv) 335pp; (xii) 376pp
    A ten volume set of James Boswell's renowned biography of Samuel Johnson.
    By James Boswell

    1888 The Life of Samuel Johnson In Ten Volumes

    London   George Bell and Sons
    7" by 4.5" (xxiv) 325pp; (viii) 344pp; (ix) 323pp; (xii) 343pp; (viii) 341pp; (viii) 342pp; (viii) 381pp; (xi) 431pp; (xv) 335pp; (xii) 376pp
    A ten volume set of James Boswell's renowned biography of Samuel Johnson.
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    Illustrated

    Complete in ten volumes. Including his tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. &c. With numerous additions, by John Wilson Croker. Revised and enlarged under his direction, by John Wright. With numerous black and white illustrations and fold-outs. Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 ? 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 ? 19 May 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.

    Condition

    In brown cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines. Externally, worn. There is some evidence of previous damp staining to volumes I, VI, VII, VIII and X. There is also evidence of previous fire damage to volumes II and III, particularly severely to volume III. Spines are also slightly sunned. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing, and fire damage to volumes II and III.

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