The Life of Samuel JohnsonLL.D. in Five Volumes, 1831,

Pricing & History
including A Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides London: John Murray, 1831, small 8vo. Five volumes, uniformly bound in full brown calf, raised gilt bands, gilt compartments, two maroon morocco leather spine labels with gilt title, decorative embossed dentils. Vol. I: 532 pp; Vol. II: 571 pp; Vol. III: 565 pp; Vol. IV: 559 pp; Vol. V: 551 pp. First Crocker edition, each volume with engraved frontispiece, plus the fold-out map of Scotland and the Hebrides and the fold-out facsimile of the Round Robin addressed to Samuel Johnson; Condition: Vol. I front board and spine separated from binding; Vols I, IV and V have marred areas on spine; Vol. V front board detached but present, part of end paper missing; few corners slightly bumped; some foxing and toning. No further condition report is available on this lot. It is sold "as is.