[Rarebooks] FS: Boswell's Life of Johnson, Navarre Society edition

[Bob Petrilla]

Boswell, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. The First Edition, 1791,
reprinted verbatim with the appendix, "the principal corrections and
additions," 1793, and illustrated with twenty photogravure etchings, fifty
half-tone plates, and a facsimile autograph letter. Preface by Clement K.
Shorter. London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1924. First
edition thus. Three (3) volumes. pp: xxxii, errata slip, 433, (1); 479,
(1); vii, 577, (1); 20 photogravure etchings, 50 half-tone plates,
facsimile ALS.  Bound by Morrell in polished, sprinkled calf,
gilt-decorative spines with leather labels, floral cover borders, inner and
outer dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Two joints starting.
9" x 5.75"  Very Good.
Limited to 2,000 copies, printed by the Riverside Press, Edinburgh.
$185.00


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