[Rarebooks] FS: THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON with first appearance of marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi

[Charles Agvent]

BOSWELL, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. London: Limited 
Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. 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 #509 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued 
unsigned. Spines very mildly sunned, much less so than usual. About Fine 
in a Fine slipcase. (#017592)        $200.00

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