The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : including a journal of a tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, Esq.; to which are added, anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. and notes by various hands. In ten volumes. ...
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Category
Books
Date
1835
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3248896
Summary
Bibliographic description
10v., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: v.9 only. Provenance: t.p. inscribed "H. Leycester 5 Nov. 1835" [perhaps Hugh Leycester (d.1836)] ; also inscribed "Mrs. Vaughan Llandaff" [i.e. Catherine Maria Vaughan, née Stanley (d.1899)]; on pastedown above "Stamford, Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]. Binding: publisher's blind embossed purple cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
James Boswell (1740-1795)