BOSWELL, James. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales.
Boswell's Life of Johnson; finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1887.
$1,500.00
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Finely bound set of the most celebrated biography in the English language. Octavo, six volumes bound in three quarter morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Johnson after the portrait in the National Gallery by Sir Joshua Reynolds, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
“Boswell excelled in insight into human nature and in ability to dramatize a situation… It was a crucial part of Boswell’s magic to give significance and vitality to the apparently trivial; it is this trait, together with his notable accuracy and unparalleled completeness of portraiture, that made him… ‘the Shakespeare of biographers” (Baugh et al., 1065-66). "One of Western literature's most germinal achievements: unprecedented in its time in its depth of research and its extensive use of private correspondence and recorded conversation..." (Gordon Turnbull, Oxford DNB).
Boswell's Life of Johnson Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales.
$1,500.00
Out of Stock