BOSWELL, James

Boswell on the Grand Tour. Germany and Switzerland, 1764

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1953 (first thus).

Large octavo, xxvi, 353 pages plus 16 plates and a folding colour map.

Quarter vellum and gilt-decorated cloth with a black leather title-label on the spine; top edge gilt, others uncut (and some of them unopened); vellum slightly mottled; cloth very lightly flecked; a near-fine copy with the original clear cellophane dustwrapper (with some loss to the spine) in the slipcase (a little used).

Number 939 of 1000 copies; one of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell series, edited by Frederick A. Pottle.

Item #145631

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