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1807réf. 37149Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins Printers 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco spine labels. Binding worn internally clean with occasional foxing. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature" 63; Pottle 85; Shaw & Shoemaker 12184. For the 1791 first edition: Courtney-Nichol Smith p. 172; Grolier "English" 63; Pottle 79; Tinker 388 Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown
1807réf. 37149Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins Printers 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco spine labels. Binding worn internally clean with occasional foxing. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature" 63; Pottle 85; Shaw & Shoemaker 12184. For the 1791 first edition: Courtney-Nichol Smith p. 172; Grolier "English" 63; Pottle 79; Tinker 388 Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown books
1768réf. y0241Glasgow: Robert And Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. First edition of Boswell's first book an account of the island of Corsica then under threat by the French after a few years as an independent Republic under Paoli's leadership fighting to be free of Genoese control; the book made Paoli and his revolution causes célèbres in England. This first edition published in Glasgow was rapidly followed by a London printing. Hardcover as pictured. Recently rebound in full Barrett paper paper spine label new endsheets. Pages tanned foxed stained ink name on half-title "Alnwick Library" on title page a few pages once dog-eared short black mark on bottom edge. Half-title leaf title leaf with engraving v-xxi blank contents blank folding map with publisher's name no scale of distance short tear 1 to 239 blank appendix: 241 to 258; title page of the Journal 259 blank 261 to 382 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Small Octavo. Robert And Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly Hardcover
1785réf. 72421London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785. Second edition "revised and corrected." Published just a few months after the first edition. Boswell's account of his tour with Samuel Johnson through the highlands and western islands of Scotland. Published following Johnson's death in 1784 and 10 years after Johnson's own account of their trip JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND 1775. Considered a teaser of sorts for Boswell's LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON which is advertised at rear as "Preparing for the Press." Rebound retaining the half-title and ad leaf in modern light brown leatherette with gilt-stamped black spine label reading simply "Boswell Journal." Near fine with light marks to rear board and contemporaneous ownership signature of "Sarah & Maria Payne" over an obvious erasure of a previous owner's name. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly unknown
1807réf. 310411London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1807. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary calf recently rebacked with gilt spines red and green title labels. 4 vols. 8vo. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand unknown
1960réf. 62873London: William Heinemann 1960. First British editions as edited for this series of six first seven volumes of the journals each a limited edition see below for limitations. 8vo. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 428 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour German and Switzerland 1764 1953 353 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 1/400 copies 383 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1957 1/400 copies 425 pp.; 6 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1960 1/350 copies 396 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans. Pottle edited these volumes the first three by himself the following two with Frederick Brady and the final one with William K. Wimsatt. Small book label on the front pastedown of each volume otherwise all very good to fine. All quarter vellum gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth leather spine labels London Journal chipped at lower corner t.e.g. others untrimmed publisher's slipcases lacking for "Holland" and "Wife" the others with rubbed or bumped corners. 9735. William Heinemann unknown
1807réf. 310411London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1807. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary calf recently rebacked with gilt spines red and green title labels. 4 vols. 8vo. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand unknown books
1960réf. 62873London: William Heinemann 1960. First British editions as edited for this series of six first seven volumes of the journals each a limited edition see below for limitations. 8vo. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 428 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour German and Switzerland 1764 1953 353 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 1/400 copies 383 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1957 1/400 copies 425 pp.; 6 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1960 1/350 copies 396 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans. Pottle edited these volumes the first three by himself the following two with Frederick Brady and the final one with William K. Wimsatt. Small book label on the front pastedown of each volume otherwise all very good to fine. All quarter vellum gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth leather spine labels London Journal chipped at lower corner t.e.g. others untrimmed publisher's slipcases lacking for "Holland" and "Wife" the others with rubbed or bumped corners. 9735. William Heinemann unknown books
1835réf. 019457London: John Murray 1835. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. First printing of this edition.Ten volume set in three-quarter green leather with green cloth top edge gilt gilt titles on ribbed spine with gilt bordered compartments gilt ruled corners and front cover marbled endpapers. Each volume has two engraved frontispieces and they are different in each volume. Includes the Croker notes and anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c. This edition has extra illustrations. Folding map in vol. four Round Robin fold-out in vol. six. Matching set clean and unmarked very nice solid bindings rubbed at the edges. Photos on request. John Murray hardcover
réf. 63006Printed for Alex Hogg. Cloth. Very Good. First section only no date but C. 1786 49pp 42pp 42pp with all relevant illustrations 76 sheets of plates frontis and 3 maps odd mark in text occasional repair smartly rebound in recent two tone cloth; Folio - . Printed for Alex Hogg hardcover
réf. 38239LONDON' HENRY BOHN 1846. NEW EDITION COMPLETE IN 10 VOLUMES. FULL POLISHED CALF RED AND GREEN LABELS ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINES MARBLED PAGES EDGES UPWARDS OF FIFTY FINE ENGRAVINGS. WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS AND NOTES BYJOHN WILSON CROKER TO WHICH ARE ADDED TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES OF JOHNSONIANA. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. A FINE AND HANDSOME SET. LONDON' HENRY BOHN, 1846 unknown
1785réf. C71099London: Printed By Henry Baldwin For Charles Dilly 1785. First Edition. Hardback. Hardback Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 22cm by 14cm pp vii 1 524 2viii 524 2pp. Bound with half-title page and inccluding errata-leaf at end of text and publishers advertisement for Boswell's Life of Johnson 'Preparing for the Press in one volume quarto.' This ad according to Pottle makes the book a second state of the first edition. Contemporary light brown full leather lettered gilt at the spine with gilt decoration. Repair at top and tail of spine with slightly lighter brown leather. Handsome very good copy with very clean text. Printed By Henry Baldwin, For Charles Dilly, hardcover
1884réf. 45112London: George Bell and Sons 1884. Limited edition no. 48 of 104 sets signed by the printer Charles Whittingham five volumes - with the Life in four volumes large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles plus 44 plates contemporary signature to paste downs mid-20th century catalogue slip for this set tipped in to the fly leaf in volume I. Original cloth spines dull with wear to the paper labels volume I recently recased. London: George Bell and Sons unknown
1831réf. SET6-F-2London: John Murray 1831. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Various. James Boswell's famous biography of one of the most influential literary figures in history Samuel Johnson. With engraved frontispieces to each volume including a folding map to volume III. New edition with numerous additions and noted by John Wilson Croker. John Wilson Croker 1780-1857 was a politician and writer. In 1831 Croker published a new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides which was vindictively attacked by Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review but which remained the best edition until superseded by the work of George Birkbeck Hill -DNB Complete in five volumes. In full calf bindings. Externally smart though with some rubbing to the extremities and a few marks. Loss to the spine labels. Three joints are starting with three hinges strained. Ink signatures to front pastedowns and front free-endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with just some offsetting from the frontispieces and the occasional instance of foxing. Good John Murray hardcover
1835réf. 272611London: John Murray 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn set bound in half aniline calf over marble boards. Spine bands worn with an overall clean impression. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 10 volumes. Subject; Johnson Samuel 1709-1784. Genre; Biography. London: John Murray hardcover
1960réf. 59005731London: William Heinemann 1960. All bound in matching velour over cloth with leather title label to spine. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp. with slipcase; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 428 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour German and Switzerland 1764 1953 353 pp.; with slipcase; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 1/400 copies 383 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1957 1/400 copies 425 pp.; 6 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1960 1/350 copies 396 pp. A most impressive set. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket - As Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. William Heinemann Hardcover
1835réf. 43407London: John Murray 1835. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 17cm various paginations plates and illustrations half mid--century polished calf over marlbed boards with spines in six compartments extra gilt decorations in the panels crimson and brown morocco labels top edges gilt marbled endpapers bookseller ticket of D.P. Elder and Morgan Shephard of San Francisco on each volume's rear endpaper Pottle 92. Croker's second edition which reprints the original 100 letters from Johnson that Croker brought to light in 1831 with his first Boswell's Johnson. Pottle refers to this set as the first illustrated edition. A very charming example of the seminal biography one of the high spots of western literature. John Murray unknown
1887réf. 89226London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1887. Fine. Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington London 1887 15 x 23 cm Reliure de l'éditeur Rare first edition illustrated with 9 plates including a large folding map.Publishers binding in full havana cloth smooth spine decorated in black vignette of a ship within a double black circle on the upper cover black endpapers and pastedowns joints split corners slightly rubbed.The author was a former officer of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment and wrote several works on various military subjects.Manuscript ex-libris of R. B. Knight on the half-title blue ink stains on the edges at the beginning of the volume. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington hardcover
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1769réf. 20958London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1769. Book. Very Good. Half Leather. The Third Edition Corrected. Octavo. Pp. xxx 2 33-400. Appendix from p. 265-283 in Italian. Part 2: "The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli." p. 285-400. Engraved frontispiece dated 1769 engraved vignette to title-page large folding map of Corsica dated 1768. Later rebind in half speckled calf and marbled boards marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Lightly foxed with some offsetting throughout gently rubbed otherwise a very good tight copy. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry Hardcover
réf. 06656London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1907. The Classic Life - Boswell's Johnson in an Elegant Bayntun-Rivière Binding The Life of Samuel Johnson BOSWELL James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1907. Two quarto volumes 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches; 235 x 181 mm. xxxii 576; xvi 577-1172 pp. Twelve inserted photogravure plates. Profusely illustrated throughout with portraits views and maps. Handsomely bound ca. 1940 by Bayntun-Rivière in three-quarter brown morocco over tan cloth boards covers ruled in gilt spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Spines lightly and attractively mellowed. A fine well-preserved set. First published in 1791 Boswell's Life of Johnson remains one of the greatest biographies in the English language - remarkable for its immediacy anecdotal richness and the vivid reconstruction of the personality of Samuel Johnson. Boswell's method - built on diaries conversations and firsthand observation - effectively created the modern art of literary biography. The 1907 Ingpen edition is among the more desirable early 20th-century scholarly printings offering a carefully edited text enriched with notes and a generous illustrative program including photogravures that lend the work a distinctly Edwardian bibliophilic appeal. The present set is elevated considerably by its later binding by Bayntun-Rivière of Bath one of the most respected English binderies of the 20th century known for combining traditional craftsmanship with restrained elegance - an ideal treatment for a canonical literary text. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1907 unknown
1785réf. 89933London: Printed by Henry baldwin for Cahrles Dilly in The Poultry 1785. Second Edition Revised and Corrected. Octavo. Contemporary brown calf boards respined to style retaining original black and gilt leather title label. xx; 1; 534pp.;1 ads leaf to rear. Strong straight and handsome scuffing and bumping to corners and fore-edge with some pasteboard showing some discoloration and spotting to the boards; internally clean and fresh marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of aristocratic collector Daniel Brent to front pastedown half title present old dampstain to corners of p.1-10 not interfering with text p. 341 and 475 mispaginated as 41 and 47 respectively and a fingernail sized corner of loss to page 497. A very good handsome and robust copy of the revised edition of possibly one of the most celebrated road trips in literary history. Printed by Henry baldwin for Cahrles Dilly, in The Poultry unknown
1810réf. 311221New York & Boston: Inskeep and Bradford . and William M'Ilhenny printed by R. & W. Carr 1810. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf flat spine divided by gilt rolls and fillets into six compartments lettered in one the rest stamped in gilt with shield and bow and arrow tool. Light rubbing to covers small stain to lower corner of title some toning and spotting to text. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. The first American edition appeared in two issues in 1810 one with a Philadelphia imprint and as here with a cancel New York and Boston imprint. Both issues were printed in Philadelphia by R. & W. Carr and are otherwise identical. The Philadelphia publisher John F. Watson has inserted an "Advertisement" at the front making excuses for Boswell: "In republishing a work which . has so long subjected its author to the sarcasms of foes or to the plaudits of friends it seems but the bounden duty of the American editor to suffer the author in this place to offer those vindications which he afterwards saw fit to annex to his 'Life of Johnson.'" An attractive copy in a contemporary American binding. Pottle 63; Shaw and Shoemaker 19607 Inskeep and Bradford ... and William M'Ilhenny [printed by R. & W. Carr] unknown
1848réf. 546417London: Henry G. Bohn 1848. Hardcover. Near Fine. Ten volumes. Engraved illustrations. 12mos. Half green morocco with marbles paper over boards marbled endpapers topedge gilt and gilt spine with raised spine bands. Near fine with a touch of rubbing to some of the edges and neat contemporary pencil notes and name "H.G. Lippincott" in the first volume only. A nice set of this classic literary biography. Henry G. Bohn hardcover
