Boswell's LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON ; in one volume [two volumes bound in one] ; volume I: 1709 - 1776; Volume II--1776-1784 by James Boswell - 1953

New York, New York: Oxford University Press/Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1953. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good. A terrific reading copy. Originally published in 1904. Duodecimo, 7 1/4" tall, gilt top fore-edge; xxiii + 1491 pages with gilt tiltes on blue cloth. A very good, clean sturdy hard cover edition over all, but with moderate shelf wear, all corners rubbed, slight fraying started at top and bottom of spine, spine cloth lightly fcolor faded, hinges and binding solid, and interior clean, paper white (this is the thin paper often used by Oxford University press on thicker volumes but not 'india paper'); light foxing to the endpapers. Without dust jacket