4V James Boswell THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LLD Complete Set Decorative Binding Gilt Illustrated Worlds Famous Literature Biography English Writer

Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell - James Boswell was a Scottish biographer and diarist born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.

Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. For example, In "A Scandal in Bohemia", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes affectionately says of Dr. Watson, who narrates the tales, "I am lost without my Boswell."
Publisher: David McKay
City: Philadelphia
Year: Unknown
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 4 Full Set: Yes
Width: 5.25" Height: 7.75"
Book Details: This decorative four-volume set is bound in blindstamped green cloth with gilt spine lettering and white title to the front board. Each volume is enhanced by engraved in-text illustrations.

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist. Politically, he was a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
Condition / Notes: These uniformly bound volumes show well, with minor indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing to high points. Bindings and text blocks are firm. Text and illustrations are clear and crisp through mild uniform age toning; there is more pronounced age toning to the pastedown endpapers.

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