BOSWELL, Samuel / Preface by Clement K. SHORTER

The Life of Samuel Johnson

London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society [by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh), 1924. 3 volumes, octavo. Printed in red and black. Frontispieces and plates. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated blue cloth, original purple silk page-markers preserved (slightest wear at extremities, generally clean and bright). Provenance: Walter Chrysler (morocco booklabel). Item #400232

A FINE SET OF THE NAVARRE EDITION. This reprints the text of the 1791 first edition, as well as the Appendix and "Principle Corrections and Additions" of 1793.

Price: $90.00