JOHNSON (S). HILL (G.B), ed.: Letters of Samuel Johnson. Collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill. [Complete set] , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a large folding facsimile toned in sepia; original burgundy buckram, sides with multiple frame border in blind, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean set. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs, press-marks on front free endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. These attributes notwithstanding, a very good, bright, clean set. Vol. I: Oct. 30 1731 - Dec, 21 1776; Vol. II: Jan. 15 1777 - Dec. 18 1784. Hill does not reproduce the letters already in Boswell; instead each of them is indicated and cross-referred at the appropriate chronological point. Hill's volumes were the subject of an article (pp.142-190) in Bailey's 'Studies in some famous Letters' (1899). Courtney & Smith, p.169; NCBEL II, 1133. (Book ref. 19675)  £78.00

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