Johnsonia - Johnson (Samuel, LL.D.), A Dictionary of the Eng...

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£120 - £180

Johnsonia - Johnson (Samuel, LL.D.), A Dictionary of the English Language [...], To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, two-volume set, London: Thomas Tegg, 1832, printed in tripartite columns, volume I with engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary polished calf by J. Duthie, Leeds, stamped, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporaneous ink MS Leeds ownership inscription to title-page of volume I, 4to, (2); The Works of Samuel Johnson [...], eleven volumes (of 12, lacking XII), London: Nichols and Son [...], 1816, 19th century quarter-leather (disbound), 8vo, (11); Boswell's Life of Johnson, Illustrated, three-volume set, London: Privately Printed for The Navarre Society Limited, 1934, grey dustjackets over red cloth, red-stained top-edges, 8vo, (3); Johnson (Samuel) & Bliss (Douglas Percy, illustrator), The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1926, monochrome wooducts, brown cloth, 4to, (1), [17]