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Boswell (James). The Journal of a Tour to the Outer Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, 1st edition, London: Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785, half-title, final errata leaf (2L7), leaves I5, Q7 and U6 all in second state, Q8 torn in fore margin not affecting text, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, front joint split but holding, 8vo (20.6 x 12.4 cm), together with: Johnson (Samuel), Political Tracts. Containing, The False Alarm. Falkland's Islands. The Patriot; and, Taxation no Tyranny, 1st collected edition, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776, half-title to The False Alarm discarded, slightly spotted, 20th-century bookplate A. S. Cumming MD, near-contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, 8vo (21 x 12.7 cm), and ibid., The Works, together with His Life and Notes on his Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, 14 volumes, 1st editions, London: for J. Buckland [and others], 1787-8, engraved portrait frontispiece (laid down with inscription recto showing through), engraved plate facing volume 14 p. 165, volume 1 half-title discarded and without separate title-page to The Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson (=A6, noted only 'in some copies' [Courtney & Smith]), volume 13 with Stockdale's advertisement leaf discarded, spotting, ownership inscription 'CB 1790' to several title-pages, frequent marginalia in pen and pencil, further annotations to volume 1 binder's blanks, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, spines dry, wear to headcaps, volume 4 label chipped, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8 cm) (Qty: 16) Provenance (Boswell): Sir Charles Frederick Smythe (1819-1897), 7th Baronet, of Eshe Hall, Durham (ownership inscription). Chapman & Hazen pp. 152 (Johnson, Political Tracts), 163-5 (Johnson, Works); Courtney & Smith pp. 127 (Johnson, Political Tracts), 162-3 (Johnson, Works); Rothschild 456-8 (Boswell, Journal); Sabin 36302 (Johnson, Political Tracts). Johnson's Works were originally published in eleven volumes, with Stockdale subsequently publishing the Debates as volumes twelve and thirteen, here with the general title-pages reading 'in XIII volumes', and a fourteenth volume, here with the notice 'in XIV volumes' (often suppressed) on the general title. Courtney & Smith note that the fourteenth volume of Johnson's Works, issued by Stockdale, 'appears to be very rare. Not the least point of interest is that it reprints in part the Proposals for the edition of Shakespeare which were issued with the Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth in 1745, and have recently been rediscovered'. Stockdale later issued a fifteenth volume containing Lobo's Abyssinia.