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5 Volumes. 8vo. folding engraved map, 1 folding plate, 5 frontis. portraits. contemporary calf, rebacked with spines mounted (bindings somewhat worn but solid, corners knocked, several labels chipped, offsetting on titles). First Edition Edited by John Wilson Croker. "The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell s book�The new materials which Croker collected far exceed in bulk and intrinsic importance the contributions to the exegesis of Boswell made by any other editor. In the first place, he unearthed and printed for the first time about one hundred new letters of Johnson; a larger number than had previously been published by any other one except Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell, or than has been published by any one since, not excepting Dr. Hill�". (Pottle) NCBEL II 1214. Pottle 91. cfGrolier, One Hundred Books Famous In English Literature, 65.

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.