BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791.

First edition. The present copy is the second state with “give” (not “gve”) on p. 135 in volume 1. It also has some gatherings in both volumes printed on very pale blue-tinted paper. Grolier English 65; Rothschild 463.

Two volumes, quarto (275 x 210mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 engraved plates of facsimiles by H. Shepherd, and cancels present (frontispiece relaid, few spots at ends). 19th-century mottled calf gilt-ruled (a little scuffing, rebacked with modern endpapers). Custom slipcase.

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