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Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding].
Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding].
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding].
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 2.
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  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 5.
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 6.
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 7.
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 8.
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 9.
  • Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] — photograph 10.

Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding]

Morris, Mowbray · London, New York

Author
Morris, Mowbray
Date
1903
Place
London, New York
Publisher
Macmillan and Co. Limited
Language
English
Binding
12mo.(4.5" x 7.25") Prize Binding of Hawthorne(?) School. Full black polished calf with fancy gilt rule framing boards, upper board with a centered large gilt school armorial crest. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to red leather in second compartment, gilt author to tan leather to fourth, all other compartments with fancy gilt frames with centered gilt floral device. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, spine lacking some gilt to decoration (see pic). Covers lightly scuffed in places. Prize certificate to front pastedown, the recipients name blocked out in blue ink. A pretty book with great shelf appeal.
Category
History & Americana
Record
S.I.8556

Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Globe Edition [Prize Binding] 1903. London, New York: Macmillan and Co. Limited.

12mo.(4.5" x 7.25") Prize Binding of Hawthorne(?) School. Full black polished calf with fancy gilt rule framing boards, upper board with a centered large gilt school armorial crest. Spine with five gilt-decorated raised bands, gilt title to red leather in the second compartment, gilt author to tan leather in the fourth, all other compartments with fancy gilt frames featuring a centered gilt floral device. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed; spine lacks some gilt decoration (see picture). Covers are lightly scuffed in places. Prize certificate to front pastedown, the recipient's name blocked out in blue ink. A pretty book with great shelf appeal.

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck ( 29 October 1740– 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.

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