James Boswell; George Birkbeck Hill (ed.): 'Boswell's Life O...

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James Boswell; George Birkbeck Hill (ed.): 'Boswell's Life Of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides And Johnson's Diary Of A Journey Into North Wales.', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887, 6 volumes, 14 illustrations complete, including portrait plates, folding plates etc, uniform contemporary full crushed tan morocco gilt by Henry Sotheran & Co, London, spines gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, Westminster School gilt coats of arms to front covers. Formerly the copy of Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953), British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant, with Westminster School prize presentation inscription to him on first blank of volume I. "St. Peter's College, Westminster. Election 1889 - The Marshall Memorial Prize awarded to E.H. Marsh", signed by the Scottish scholar and then headmaster, William Gunion Rutherford (1853-1907), with an unrelated autograph letter to Marsh dated 1904 loosely inserted (6)