Boswell

1873 · Best.-Nr. 009331 — London: William P. Nimmo 1873. New edition revised from the most authentic sources &c. &c. Edited with notes etc by William Wallace. Bound in half calf with raised bands on the spine red leather gilt lettered label with title and author. Gilt decorated compartments. Marbled papered boards with gilt edging to leather edges. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Johnson from a picture by Joshua Reynolds with tissue guard. Engraved and printed title pages. xvi 560 pages. Text arranged in double columns.6.5 X 9.5 inches approx. Externally the book is rubbed with a bit of wear to the leather corners.However all is very sound and solid. Inside again very sound and solid with firm hinges and no splitting or opening to the endpapers at the hinge. There is some small amount of spotting to the final blank pages pages otherwise all pretty clean throughout all unmarked with no annotaions marks or signs of previous ownership etc. Overall a very good nicely bound ninteenth century edition of Boswell's famous biography of Samual Johnson. New Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. William P. Nimmo Hardcover