Life Of Samuel Johnson, Lld, Including a Journal Of a Tour To the Hebrides

London. John Murray. 1831. Very handsomely bound by Riviere and Sons in 3/4 gilt ruled crushed morocco and linen covered boards. Gilt ruled spine compartments with elaborate gilt tooled motifs. Gilt tooled raised bands. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 8vo. 5.5" x 8.5". A New Edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croaker. Illustrated with an engraved Frontis to… Read more about this item

New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1883 . Leather. Very Good. 8" by 6". Not Stated. A delightfully bound, illustrated edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, with five volumes bound in three, and including hi 'A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides'. With volume I containing volumes I and II; volume II containing volumes III and IV,… Read more about this item

London : John Murray, 1831. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". None. The first edition of Croker's influential edition of Boswell's famous biography in a calf binding. Complete in Five Volumes. A New Edition. With Numerous Additions and Notes, by John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F. R. S. With Mrs Nathaniel Hibbert bookplate… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1831. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A bright set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell, edited by John Wilson Croker. 5 Volumes, complete. With a Hedges & Smith bookseller's label on the front board of volume 1. On Croker"s edition of Boswell"s Life of Johnson,… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1831. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Good. London: John Murray, 1831. 1st Edition . Good. pp532 + 571 + 565 + 559 + 551. Vol I full leather binding. Vols II to V half leather binding with marbled board. The pattern and shade of the Vol I spine is slightly different to the other… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1831. First Edition Edited by John Wilson Croker. “The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell’s book…The new materials which Croker collected far exceed in bulk and intrinsic importance the contributions to the exegesis of Boswell made by any other editor. In the first place, he unearthed and… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1831. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Various. James Boswell's famous biography of one of the most influential literary figures in history, Samuel Johnson. With engraved frontispieces to each volume, including a folding map to volume III. New edition, with numerous additions and noted by John Wilson Croker. John Wilson… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.