Book Description

This is a handsome book, expensively produced & published in its day, giving a detailed and comprehensive account of Dr Johnson's life and travels in Scotland in the latter half of the 18th century.
Author G Birkbeck Hill
Date 1890
Binding Quarter brown leather & corners with green cloth & gilt titles.
Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
Illustrator 24 full page engraved illustrations + illustrations in text, all by Lancelot Speed + frontispiece of Dr Johnson. Map present at the end.
Condition G. Internally VG with some rubbing to the leather on spine & corners. 'Hampstead Public Libraries' label on inside cover + stamps
Pages 320

Price: £36.00

Offered by Geoff Cox Books

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