Books

Baldwin, for Dilly, 1791. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue (with "gve" for "give" on page 135, line 10), in what may be the incredibly scarce original boards. Two volumes, quarto. Very good. Some soiling to pages of the second volume. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. This copy has an extra full page frontispiece portrait of Boswell in the second volume, not called for in the bibliographies.

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.