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First edition thus: newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. Quarto. Two volumes: pp xl, 1-576; xvi, 577-1172. 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including thirteen photogravures. In addition, tipped in from other sources, are a number of colour portrait plates, most of them being handprinted mezzotints. Period binding, presumably by the publishers, of three quarter brown crushed morocco with raised bands, gilt decorations and rules, marbled endpapers, cloth sides, top edges gilt.Armorial bookplate on each pastedown. Some minimal rubbing to edges of covers. A fine set.

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.