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BOSWELL, JAMES; and ERSKINE, ANDREW. Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine and James Boswell, Esq. [4], 156 pages. 8vo, 173x106 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt, rebacked, endpapers renewed; marginal browning on preliminaries and occasionally elsewhere, clean paper crack in C2. 19th-century bookplate of H. Scofield. London: Samuel Chandler, 1763
first edition of the first book to appear under Boswell's name, "the first considerable example of Boswell's life-long willingness to be indiscreet provided thereby he could be interesting" (Pottle). Pottle 8; Rothschild 430.
