[Rarebooks] FS: Boswell's LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, First Edition with Hester Thrale Piozzi's annotations

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BOSWELL, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. London: Limited 
Editions Club, 1938. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full 
Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in 
gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this 
classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia 
by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies, one belonging to Colonel 
Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell, each 
annotated by Thrale, were used to create this edition. Copy #263 of 1500 
copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned. Spines 
mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen 
bindings, with some faint stains to the covers of one volume. Near Fine 
in a Very Good slipcase. (#009529)        $150.00

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