Published at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1887, 1st thus. Six volume set in matching full leather bindings. with marbled boards. Five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering on black leather patches to compartments two and three. Gilt decoration to other compartments. Gilt crest of Westminster School to front board. Gilt inner dentelles. AEG. Binding by Henry Sotheran & Co, London. Each 9ins x 6ins with marbled endpapers. Fourteen plates (8 folding) as required. Volume one: xxviii, 522pp plus 4 plates (2 portraits, a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting and a facsimile letter). Volume two :[vi], 480pp plus portrait and folding facsimile of handwriting. Volume three: [vi], 464pp plus portrait and a folding facsimile of a letter. Volume four: [vi], 446pp plus folding facsimile of handwriting. Volume five: [viii], 460pp plus portrait, folding facsimile of handwriting and coloured folding map. Volume six: lxxiv, 324pp plus folding table of Johnson's contemporaries. The first blank page of volume one is inscribed "St. Peter's College, Westminster. Election 1889 - The Marshal Memorial Prize awarded to E. H. Marsh" signed by the headmaster William Gunion Rutherford. Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG ( 1872-1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as private secretary to a succession of the United Kingdom's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. [Wikipedia]. Slight rubbing to head of spine of volume one and too a couple of the raised bands, otherwise a Very Good attractively bound set.