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"THAT DIALOGUE OF MIND, HEART AND VOICE"

BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London, 1791. Two volumes.

First edition, first state of "the most famous biography in any language, one of Western literature's most germinal achievements." The copy of politician, traveler, and writer John Cam Hobhouse, the Baron Broughton, most famous for his long-running and very close friendship with Lord Byron, with his engraved armorial bookplate. $27,000.

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“THAT DIALOGUE OF MIND, HEART AND VOICE”

BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London, 1791. Two volumes.

First edition, first state of "the most famous biography in any language, one of Western literature's most germinal achievements." Handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Zaehnsdorf in 1905. $17,500.

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"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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