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Oxford: Talboys and Wheeler; W. Pickering, London,, 1825. Handsome armorial binding A handsomely bound set of Samuel Johnson's works, part of Pickering's Oxford English Classics series. The edition was superintended by Francis Pearson Walesby (1798-1858), professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. The work was initially intended as a nine volume series; a supplementary two volumes of Johnson's debates brought the total to eleven. Eleven vols, octavo (214 x 133 mm). Contemporary tan calf, light brown and dark brown labels to spines, spines and front covers stamped with arms of Trinity College Cambridge in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, brown silk place markers. Bookplate of Joseph Henry Straker to pastedown of most vols. Without the portrait frontispiece present in some issues of vols. I or III. Very light marking to covers and spines, vol. X with slight wear to front cover, small sticker to front pastedowns, occasional very slight blemishes and foxing to contents. An…