Boswell's life of Johnson: . including their tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LLD. F.R.S.
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Category
Books
Date
1851
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3040361
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv,874p, plates . 8vo.. Provenance: Nineteenth-century manuscript inscription: "Hervey from his sincere friend Francis Savile Barton on his leaving Eton Election 1852" [probably Frederick William John Hervey (1834-1907), later 3nd Marquess of Bristol]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full grained leather binding; gilt tooled border; Twentieth-century rebacked spine gilt decorated and lettered: "Boswell's Life of Johnson 1851".
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
James Boswell (1740-1795) The Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)