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Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 10 volumes. Full leather binding with tooled edges gilt. All edges marbled. Engraved frontis and half title each volume, with additional plates. Spines elaborately tooled in gilt. Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyres, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced." (Pottle 92.). All 10 volumes have the bookplate of William Scurfield Grey (1808 - 1876), BA, St. Johns College, Cambridge.

James Boswell's 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' is regarded as one of the greatest biographies written in the English language. It provides an in-depth and vivid recounting of the life of Samuel Johnson, a writer and critic who was a towering figure in 18th-century British literature.