Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. . . . Second Edition. revised and augmented. Engraved frontispiece portrait (dampstained, lightly offsetting onto Volume 1 title) and 2 plates. 3 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/2 speckled calf with red morocco lettering pieces; occasional light marginal dampstaining, old signatures on titles; uncut. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793

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Pages xxiii-xxxvi in Volume 1 contain A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography. This copy has the scarce inserted leaf of Additional Corrections at end of Volume 1 preliminaries. Rothschild 468.