Various — A Collection on Dr Johnson and Boswell

London; New York, William Heinemann Ltd; Thames and Hudson; Chatto & Windus; MacDonald & Co.; Edinburgh University Press; Patheon Books, 1963-1993. First edition. Cloth. Six smart volumes on Doctor Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Six volumes. A collection of works on the lives and studies of Dr Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions to Western literature, and James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known as the biographer of his friend Dr. Johnson. This set includes: Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-1776, 1963. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates. Edited by Charles Ryskamp, an American art director, and Frederick A. Pottle, an American professor of English Emeritus and writer. Doctor Johnson and His World, 1968. First edition. Illustrated with photographs and sketches throughout. Written by Frank Ernest Halliday, and English academic, author, and painter. The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Thrale, 1973. First edition. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Written by Mary Hyde, an American writer and co-founder of the Hyde Collection of Johnson's works in Four Oaks Farm, New Jersey. A Journey to the Western Isles: Johnson's Journey Retraced, 1983. First illustrated edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs, sketches, and maps. Written by Finlay J. MacDonald, a Scottish journalist, writer, and radio and television producer. Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography, 1991. Third edition. With portrait frontispiece. Written by Anthony E. Brown, a British scholar and historian. Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, 1993. First American edition. With in-text illustration. Written by Richard Holmes, a British author and academic known for his biographical studies. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities only. Original unclipped dustwrapper is very smart with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear to volume one. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of volume one. Ink inscription to the front endpaper of volume three. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.