12mo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved frontispiece by J. Miller, contemporary calf, spine gilt with lettering piece, housed in a blue morocco collector's folding box, binding lightly worn

Rev. Robert McKinlay, collector of Boswelliana (bookplate), with a typescript note probably by McKinlay noting the book's acquisition from John Grant [Booksellers], Edinburgh; Hugh Walpole, 1884-1941 (Brackenburn bookplate)

Pottle 45; Rothschild 448

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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RARE. Hugh Walpole's copy of a collection of essays compiled by Boswell in support of the cause of Corsican independence, published at a time when the Corsicans were fighting a doomed guerrilla campaign against the French, to whom the Genoese had sold the island in 1768. The volume mostly comprises letters originally written to newspapers, written by Boswell and others. Pottle attributes numbers 1, 6, and 12 to Boswell.