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BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Engraved portrait of Johnson after Sir Joshua Reynolds, and 2 plates. 2 volumes. 4to, 270x204 mm, contemporary marbled boards with diced russia spines and sheep corners, spines brittle and crackled, joints cracked, cords intact; faint dampstaining in upper margins in Volume 1; 1/4 morocco folding cases. Bookplates of Henry Lewis Batterman, Jr. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791
first edition; first state of S4r in Volume 1, with "gve" on line 10. Rothschild 463. With the signature of the Rugby School headmaster Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) in Volume 1.
