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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First Edition

Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, during Which He Flourished
Author: Boswell, James
Description: 2 volumes. xii, [16], 516; [2], 588 [i.e. 586] pp. With stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds; 2 engraved plates of facsimiles. (4to) 11x8¼, bound in three-quarter green morocco and cloth, spines ruled and lettered in gilt. First Edition.First edition of perhaps the most famous literary biography, cementing the fame of both Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. This is the issue with the "gve" reading on p.135 of Vol. I. Leather book label of Julius Wangenheim in each volume. Rothschild 463; Pottle 79.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Printed by Henry Baldwin
Date Published: 1791