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rif. 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
rif. 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
1785rif. 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
1884rif. 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
1831rif. 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
1835rif. 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
1960rif. 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
1835rif. 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
1887rif. 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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1769rif. 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
rif. 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
1785rif. 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
1810rif. 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
1848rif. 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
1810rif. 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 books
1785rif. 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 books
1848rif. 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 books
rif. 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 books
1836rif. 183615London: John Murray 1836. First edition first printing. Bookplate faint wear still fine and bright in custom mylar cover. One-half tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe over patterned boards spine panels simply gilt with double surrounds. John Murray unknown
1822rif. 953Y43London: T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington et al 1822. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A complete ninth edition set of James Boswell's authoritative biography of Samuel Johnson bound in half calf. The ninth edition revised and augmented. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards.This work is commonly regarded as the greatest biography written in the English language recounting the life of eminent English writer Samuel Johnson. Johnson made lasting contributions as a poet essayist literary critic biographer and lexicographer often noted for his monumental 'Dictionary of the English Language' which he completed after nine years. This biography among his diaries and correspondence is the best known work of James Boswell whose mass of letters and private papers published by Yale University transformed his reputation.With an engraved frontispiece and folding facsimile to Vol I. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards. Externally with rubbing to the extremitis and slight scuffing to the paper covered boards. Darkening to the spines' leather. Internally pages 103-106 detached but present to Vol I otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with occasional scattered spotting heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington et al hardcover
1823rif. 17513London: J.Richardson and Co. G.Offor et al 1823 An account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain for nearly half a century during which he flourished. An extra illustrated version in four volumes bound by Baytun of Bath. Dark green goatskin with spines uniformly faded never-the-less still a fine set and scarce in this form. J.Richardson and Co. G.Offor et al unknown
rif. 166498Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. 5th edn revised and augmented. 4 vols. 8vo 8½ x 5½ ins. Contemporary full speckled calf spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels boards gilt tooled at edges 2 ins tear at bottom lower edge of spine of vol IV and some light scratching on boards - otherwise a VG set. Pp. iv xxxv 478 2 blank & iv 496 2 blank & iv 480 2 blank & iv 522 2 blank illus with engraved frontispiece in vol I and folding facsimiles 2 in vols I and III previous owner's engraved card on front paste-downs and rear endpapers of vol VI a little toned and creased; no inscriptions. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 unknown
rif. 65705London: Printed for Baynes and Son et al. 1826. 4 vols. 8vo. 21.25 x 13 cm. Contemporary navy half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments two red morocco labels to each spine marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece and one folding Round Robin plate and a double-page facsimile of Johnson's handwriting. Some light rubbing to boards contents with some occasional light toning and light spotting to endpapers overall a very good set. "This edition in four volumes large octavo is the most beautiful that has yet appeared. The editor was Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and afterwards 1829-34 Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford who in the previous year had edited the edition of Johnson's works in the Oxford English Classics with which this edition of the Life is uniform This is the first edition of the Life to include a portrait of Boswell as a frontispiece" Pottle. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. first published in 1791 by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject began in 1763 when Johnson was 54 years old and Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The work was from the beginning a critical and popular success and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography and many have called it the greatest biography written in English. Keynes p. 54; Pottle 90 London: Printed for Baynes and Son [et al.], 1826. hardcover