The R. B. Adam Library Relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and His Era (1709-1784)
by ADAM, Robert B
Price: $600.00
- Bookseller: Argosy Book Store
- Seller Inventory #: 152555
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: very good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Place: London & New York
- Date published: 1929
Book Description
London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1929. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Profusely illustrated with fine plates and facsimile manuscript pages. Thick 4to, blue cloth lettered in gilt (cloth is slightly rubbed overall; spines have small areas of faint spotting). Uncut edges, t.e.g., housed in black cloth slipcase. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1929. Light and neat pencil notations (erasable) in the margins throughout, otherwise a very nice set of this important reference. Limited edition of only 500 copies printed for the author at Volksfreund Press. Volume I: Letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick. Volume II: Catalogue of Books. Volume III: Miscellaneous Autograph Letters.
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