1884 4 VOLUMES SET SAMUEL JOHNSON BIO BOSWELL SCOTLAND

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1884 4 VOLUMES SET SAMUEL JOHNSON BIO BOSWELL SCOTLAND Description: From 1884, a four volume set, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides (Scotland), by James Boswell, Esq. New Edition, with numerous additions and notes by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker. Published by R. Worthington, New York, 1884.Each volume bound in purple cloth, 8x5 inches, about 1800 pages in all. Gilt titles to the spine.A classic biography, one of the first of any note (excepting Plutarch). No serious library can be without it. Samuel Johnson, among many other accomplishments, compiled the first English language dictionary.Illustrated with frontispiece prints.