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Life of Johnson

"ASSUREDLY A GREAT, A VERY GREAT WORK"

(JOHNSON, Samuel) BOSWELL, James. Life of Johnson. Oxford: 1887. Six volumes bound in eleven.

First George Birkbeck Hill edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson and Johnson's travels, extra-illustrated with 1153 finely engraved portraits, views, maps and facsimiles (including many proofs on India paper), and facsimile of handwritten note by Hill tipped in. Handsomely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son. $11,000.

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Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

"BOSWELL'S INDISCRETIONS… AND THE EXTREMITY OF DRUNKENNESS… CREATED A LITERARY SENSATION"

BOSWELL, James. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. London, 1785.

First edition, second issue, of "perhaps the sprightliest book of travels in the language," with "poetical pieces by Johnson relative to the tour and never before published" (Tinker, 212). $1600.

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