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xii, [16] contents & errata, 516pp; [2], 588 [i.e. 586]pp, engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds, two engraved plates, one with facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting, the other a 'Round Robin' plate also with facsimile signatures. 4to. A nice clean copy. BOUND WITH: The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. [ii], 42pp. 4to. 1793. All bound in a single volume of recent handsome half speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, marbled paper boards. ESTC T64481 (The Life of.), FIRST EDITION, mixed states, with the correct spelling 'give' in Vol. I, page 135. All the other points are in first issue state. ['delete out' in errata page; 'upon' repeated, p.48, line 8 from the foot; 'recollection' p.115, line 8 from foot; 'exhibited' p.117, line 2 from foot; 'condescend' p.275, line 2 from foot; 'Harvey' p.291, line 9 from foot.] In Vol. II all the misnumbered pages are uncorrected. The following typographical errors in the text as noted by Pottle are uncorrected: Vol. I, 'painted' vs. 'printed' p.78, line 23; 'MDCCLXXXIV' vs. 'MDCCLXXIV' p.92, line 6; 'us' omitted before 'enquire' p.352, line 11; Vol. II, 'composition' wrongly noted as 'Imposition' in the errata; 'mother tongue (i.e. not hyphenated) p.562, line 3 from foot. The error 'William' p.275, line 12, has been corrected. ESTC (Principal Corrections.) T9706, FIRST EDITION.

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.