Item 10448The Life of Samuel Johnson
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Ten volumes. Contemporary three-quarter polished tax calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised boards, red and black morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Later edition of the most celebrated of literary biographies with engraved frontispiece, vignette title pages and 28 portraits, views and facsimiles (12.....
