Boswell's Life of Johnson: . including their tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F.R.S.
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065625
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 874 p., [1] leaf of plates . 25cm.. MS. notes, including on additional title page in the hand of George Otto Trevelyan: 'N.B. The marginal notes in this book were written while I was at Harrow, which accounts for their absurdity.'. Provenance: MS. on flyleaf: 'George Otto Trevelyan July 20th (1855 [in pencil]) from his mother'. Underneath, in pencil:'I took it to read on our Swiss tour that year, - and could not take my eyes off it to look at the scenery'. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's embossed cloth.
Makers and roles
James Boswell (1740-1795) The Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)