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London: John Murray. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1831. First Edition. First Printing. Leather. First edition thus. Bound in half brown calf over brown linen boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering and borders in three compartments, gilt borders in remainder and on covers, t.e.g., light brown endpapers. Original cloth spine and covers bound in volume one. Illustrated with engraved portraits on each frontispiece, fold-out map in volume two, fold-out "Round Table" in volume three. John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), was a British statesman and author. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1800. Immediately afterwards he entered Lincoln's Inn, and in 1802 he was called to the Irish bar. His interest in the French Revolution led him to collect a large number of valuable documents on the subject, now in the British Museum. In 1809 Croker was appointed as secretary to the Admiralty. Many of his…

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.