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Journals of the Western Isles:
by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 1990. Very Good with light wear. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson, A Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides by James Boswell. The book is tight with solid hinges on green cloth illustrated boards. There is a quarter-inch gap between the headband and the spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Portraits and hand-colored aquatints by William Daniell and black and white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The original slipcase is Near Fine with light wear. 412 pages. 6½ x 10" tall.
The year was 1773, Samuel Johnson was sixty-three and James Boswell was thirty-two years old. The journey was almost too late because the war of 1745 was the beginning of the end of ancient Scotland, and the processes of change in the Highlands were already gathering speed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4132
- Title
- Journals of the Western Isles:
- Author
- Samuel Johnson; James Boswell
- Illustrator
- William Daniell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Folio Society
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Pages
- 412
- Size
- 6.5 x 10
- Weight
- 4.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, folio society, Scotland, western Scotland, Highlands
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collector's Editions; The Folio Society;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Folio
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
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