Boswell's Life of Johnson including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. First Hill edition and one of the finest of all editions of this classic work; 6 volumes, large 8vo, 14 plates including frontispieces, facsimiles (some folding) and a map; generally a fine set in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Pottle 98: "This has so long held the field as the one edition for scholarly use that it is most unlikely it will ever be superseded." (Inventory #: 53372)