5 Volumes Complete Set
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD. and the Journal of His Tour To the Hebrides
by James Boswell
Illustrated with Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Edited by Henry Morely
In Five Volumes
Published by George Routledge and Sons, 1891
 
A well read set that will make you look intellectual even if you don't read it. 
Hardcovers in blue cloth that expresses it is really from 1891. Bindings are fair and a some pages are loose- but if they fall out, that's less for you to read.
 
Enjoy!
 
About
The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero's humbler friends in a picture which is, before all things, humane.

As a young man about London, James Boswell was obsessed by literature, and, on a fateful day in 1763, he attached himself with unswerving tenacity to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly rotund, articulate, and humane Dr Samuel Johnson. What followed was the most famous of friendships between writers and the bais for the remarkable documentation contained in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, the greatest and most compelling of all biographies.