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Add this copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the to cart. $41.92, good condition, Sold by Bookcase rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Carlisle, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1876 by John Murray.
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Good. No Jacket. 4to. Looks like it has been rebacked at some point with original spine relaid, which is heavily tanned and chipped. Board corners bumped. Front hinge cracked. Dedication letter pasted to verso of ffep indicating that this was Rev. Derwent Coleridge's copy. Pages clean and tidy.
Add this copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the to cart. $75.36, good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1848 by John Murray.
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None. Good Only. James Boswell's seminal biography of Samuel Johnson, edited by John Wilson Croker. In 1831 Croker published a new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, which was vindictively attacked by Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review, but which remained the best edition until superseded by the work of George Birkbeck Hill. (DNB) Featuring a frontispiece with numerous portraits of Johnson. A new edition, thoroughly revised, with much additional matter. In a brown cloth binding. Externally worn, with marks and wear to the cloth on the head of the spine. Spine is sunned and cocked. Hinges are strained. Internally, binding strained. Bookplate of the Yelden Rectory to the front pastedown. Pages are generally clean with just the occasional spot. Good Only.
