Books

Three volumes, complete. Contemporary 3/4 brown leather binding with marbled boards. Raised bands. Red title labels. Gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/2 " x 8 1/4." Volume I: 603 pages, complete. Volume II: 634 pages, complete. Volume III: 711 pages, complete. Additional thirty-nine pages in back of Volume III for a Table of Contents (index). Also in the back of Volume III are three tipped-in newspaper articles from 1895 that commemorate James Boswell. Black and white frontispiece and folded plates are included. Personal bookplate of Eilif Bang on front pastedown. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. James Boswell's famous biography of his friend and acclaimed man of letters, Samuel Johnson.

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.