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Troy: Pafraets Book Company, 1903. 16 volumes First edition, First issue of the Edition. One of 774 sets printed from type on Special Water Marked Paper. This is Copy 440. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson to Volume One after Sir Joshua Reynolds and profusely illustrated with frontispieces and gravures throughout the volumes by Reynolds and others. Large 8vo, in very handsome handsome bindings of three quarter tan morocco over blue marbled paper covered boards, the spines decorated with raised bands separating the compartments which are decorated with double fillet ruled panels incorporating central floral devices gilt, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves to match, top edges gilt. A unusually fine set, beautifully presented and as clean, fresh and solid as could be expected. Internally very fine and the very handsome bindings, the last volume with evidence of a bit of damp to the lower edge of the binding, not affecting the text block and…