BOSWELL, JAMES. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Engraved portrait and 2 plates. 2 volumes. Large 4to, 268x208 mm, nineteenth-century

polished calf gilt, joints starting, spine ends chipped; a 5-inch horizontal tear crossing one line of text discreetly repaired on Hh2 in first volume, second volume lacking first blank, a few margin repairs and faint pencil scrawls in some of the margins in the second volume; gilt edges. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791 FIRST EDITION; first state of S4r in Volume 1, with "gve" on line 10. Rothschild 463. ERRATA LOT 36: Rear cover and last few pages of Volume 1 detached.