6V George Birkbeck Hill BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON Complete Set Fancy Deluxe Leather Binding Frontispiece Fold-Out Facsimiles Chart Dr Johnson English Literature Writer Poetry Essayist Scotland Hebrides North Wales

Title: 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
Author: Uncredited
Editor: George Birkbeck Hill - George Birkbeck Norman Hill was an English editor and author.
Publisher: At the Clarendon Press / Macmillan and Co.
City: Oxford/New York
Year: 1887
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 6 Full Set: Yes
Width: 6.25" Height: 9.25"
Book Details: This complete six-volume set is decoratively bound in a fancy deluxe leather binding, with gilt spine lettering and ornamentation. Some volumes are enhanced with a frontispiece portrait and some volumes contain fold-out facsimile pages from handwritten journals, and a fold-out chart of Johnson’s contemporaries.

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 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".

After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755. It had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". This work brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later, Johnson's was the pre-eminent British dictionary. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poet.
Condition / Notes: This handsome decorative set shows nicely, with minor indications of age and wear, including mild shelfwear and rubbing to the spines. The bindings and text blocks are sound. Text and illustrations/charts are clear and legible through mild uniform age toning. These ex-library volumes display minor attachments and call numbers on the spines.

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