The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides; New Edition, With Numerous Additions and Notes; To Which are Added Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana 10 Vols

London, UK: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Hardcover. Near Fine. L 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Henry G. Bohn, London, UK 1851. 10 volumes complete. Blindstamped bluish turquoise cloth, gold lettering on spine. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 2 frontispieces on each volume. Fifty engraved illustrations. Size: L 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. The Editor, after preparing this volume for the press, feels more than ever satisfied as to the arrangement ultimately adopted with respect to the scattered JOHNSONIANA of Boswell's friends and rivals. In the notes to the preceding volumes, he has presented all those short passages of other writers, which seemed to bear decidedly on the statements in Boswell's text: in the 9th and 10th volume, the reader has presented to him a mass of miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings, gathered from nearly a hundred different publications; which could not have been produced as notes to Boswell, without overloading and perplexing his pages, but which are essential to the completion of the intellectual portrait of Johnson. Johnsoniana by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and others. Biography History::Britain 6323 6323