Everybody's Boswell Being the Life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text and from the "Tour of the Hebrides" by James Boswell
1930. No Edition Stated. 609 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt decorations to front and gilt titles to spine. Illustrated by Ernest H Shepard. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Quite mottled and dusty overall. Spine heavily sunned and foxed. Slight split to front joint. Gilt is bright.