Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 720
?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. Without the inserted leaf of Additional Corrections at end of Volume 1 preliminaries. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; contents generally clean. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793

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Pages xxiii-xxxi in Volume 1 contain A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography. Rothschild 468.