Boswell's Life of Johnson and Johnson's Journey to The Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to The Hebrides
London: Oxford University at The Clarendon Press, 1934. First Edition Thus. Volumes I through IV measure approximately 9" x 6" while the fifth book in the set measures approximately 8.25" x 5.5". These volumes are in very good condition.Gilt lettering on the spines are bright and well preserved. Minor surface wear and staining to the cloth boards.
Tour of Hebrides is dedicated to Robert Adam - who was the son of the famous Johnsonian book collector Robert Borthwick Adam. The book is signed by Robert Adam to his son and is also signed by the editor Robert William Chapman on the half-title page: "to the friend whose help made this edition possible".
Volume I of Boswell's Life of Johnson comes with a signed letter from Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, who was the Samuel Johnson scholar that revised the present work. The letter is signed to R. B. Adam thanking him for his contributions to the four volume collection in the acknowledgment section. Volume IV has a signed letter from Oxford Clarendon Press laid in that is addressed to R. B. Adam.
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