Samuel Johnson; George Birkbeck Hill [ed.] — Select Essays of Dr. Johnson

London, J.M. Dent And Co. 1889 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition illustrated two volume set of collected essays by English writer Samuel Johnson. A lovely two volume set of collected essays by Samuel Johnson.A limited edition set of works, with only 750 copies for England printed.In publisher's original grey cloth binding.Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates, by Herbert Railton. Collated, complete.A collection of essays by Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, an English editor and author who established his reputation as the most learned commentator on the works of Johnson, particularly through his six-volume edition for the Clarendon Press of 'Boswell's Life of Johnson' (1887).With a bookplate of Frederick Whiley Hilles, the Bodman Professor of English Literature at Yale University. He was a noted authority on the literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds and edited the 1929 edition of Reynolds letters that was published by Cambridge University Press. During the Second World War he worked in intelligence for the U.S. Army at Bletchley Park in England. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spines. Fading to spines. Small mark to rear board of volume II. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Some pages remain uncut. Very Good . Ill.: Herbert Railton. Very Good .