Boswell's Life of Johnson (6 volume set) 1887

Johnson, Samuel; Boswell, James; Hill, George Birkbeck [editor]. Boswell's Life of Johnson (6 volume set); Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1887. [9466] Six volumes in quarter green checked morocco, olive cloth boards, each 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, bindings tight. Round private initial stamp on recto of frontispiece, vol. i.; occasional pencil markings in the text or end papers. Bindings show very little wear; there is a small repair to the top of the spine of vol. i.; small chip top of backstrip to vol. III.. Fourteen plates (some folding), collated and complete. Top page edges gilt. xxvii., [1], 522 pp.; [iv], 480; [iv], 464; [iv], 446; [vi], 460; [xx], 324 pp. Text generally clean, some occasional light foxing.  Very good. Hardcovers. Boswell's Life of Johnson is considered by many to be the finest biography in the English language.  Every bibliophile would enjoy having a set in thei