VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage hardback edition entitled “The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel
Johnson,” by James Boswell (1740-1795) [biographer of Samuel Johnson], with a double-page map of the tour dated
1773 and decorated endpapers.
It was published
by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., of London, in 1935 and is Number 387 of the
wonderful vintage and highly collectable “Everyman’s Library” series, edited by
Ernest Rhys.
Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), was an English lexicographer, essayist, poet and
moralist, a major literary figure in the second half of the eighteenth century.
He lived from the
time of Queen Anne and into the third decade of the reign of George III. Johnson had once said (1758) of his own time
“the present age - though not likely to shine hereafter among the most splendid
periods of history, has yet given examples of charity, which may be very properly
commended to imitation.”
The years after Johnson
wrote those words saw the year of
The book measures
6.75 inches x 4.5 inches and has 361 pages.
The book is in
good, neat and clean condition for its age, with wear and tears/loss to the ends
of the spine of the original dust-jacket. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates
and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing
pages.
A wonderful vintage
edition.
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For
or 1st Class = £3.90
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