Lot 58
Johnson, Samuel
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£1,563
Description
The works of the English poets. London: for C. Bathurst, [&c.], 1779-81. 68 volumes, 12mo, 28 engraved frontispiece portraits, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., some offsetting from frontispieces to title-pages, volume 1 of the Prefaces without the Directions to the Binder and Errata leaves, volume 5 of the Prefaces without the portrait of Samuel Johnson, no half-titles bound in, volume 56 lacking title page, spines slightly faded, a few volumes slightly rubbed at head