The Life of Samuel Johnson
Baldwin, for Dilly, 1791. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #1704207
First edition, first issue (with "gve" for "give" on page 135, line 10), in what may be the incredibly scarce original boards. Two volumes, quarto. Very good. Some soiling to pages of the second volume. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. This copy has an extra full page frontispiece portrait of Boswell in the second volume, not called for in the bibliographies.
Price: $15,000.00
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