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Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle In the Collection of Lt-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. Prepared for the Press by Geoffrey Scott. 18 Volumes

1928rif. 45477Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Various; No. 377 of 570 sets -- 18 volumes designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Illustrated with aquatone facsimile plates reproducing a number of manuscript documents in their original size. Blumenthal refers to these volumes as "magnificent examples of the arts of the printed book. They are surely the most impressive single monument of the Rudge/Rogers association." In 1928 this amazing collection of Boswell's papers long thought destroyed was sold by Boswell's great-granddaughter and her husband Lord Talbot to Lt. Col. Isham. Condition: Contents are clean and essentially Fine condition with exception of staining from taped autograph in Volume 1 see images. Bindings are generally faded at spine; a few volumes have significant loss of sizing/color or spotting at spines. Slipcases are often faded at spines with shallow chipping to paper spine lables; a few volumes have splitting or chipping. Individual volumes as below: Vol 1. Early Papers of James Boswell 1754-1763; has Geoffrey Scott's autograph taped onto the title page with old cello tape which has browned and stained offset to opposite blank page and faint bleed through to following page; otherwise contents quite nice in original red boards in faded slipcase. Small attractive armorial bookplate " Ma Foy Je Maintiendrai / TURNURE " with a dove aloft a crown above a shield. 12" X 9". Vol 2. Zelide; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards faded and foxed at spine; "Turnure" bookplate as described above; slipcase faded at spine shallow chipping to spine label. 12" X 9". Vol 3. Journal of a Tour through the Courts of Germany; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards with "Turnure" bookplate; book and slipcase faded at spine with 2 " split at top edges. 12" X 9". Vol 4. Boswell with Rousseau and Voltaire 1764; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards faded at spine wear along rear edge of spine with "Turnure" bookplate; slipcase widely faded at spine split and chipped at upper and lower edges 16" X 11". Vol 5. Porzia Sansedoni; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards faded at spine with "Turnure" bookplate; slipcase widely faded at spine. 12" X 9". Vol 6. The Making of The Life of Johnson contents clean and secure in original bright red boards with "Turnure" bookplate; book and slipcase faded at spine chipping and some splitting of case edges 14" X 10". -- Vols. 7-18 The Journal of James Boswell 1765-1794. Edited by Geoffrey Scott and Frederick A. Pottle -- Vol 7. 1765-1768 Corsica; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards with "Turnure" bookplate; book faded at spine with three small dark spots old ink smears; slipcase faded at spine 14" X 9.5". Vol 8. 1769 Margaret Montgomerie; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards; book faded at spine w/ loss of sizing in a couple spots; slipcase faded at spine. 12" X 9". Vol 9. 1772-1774 John Reid; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards; book and slipcase faded at spine 12" X 9". Vol 10. 1774-1775 William Miller; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards; book and slipcase faded at spine 12" X 9". Vol 11. 1775-1776 Margaret Caroline Rudd; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards; book and slipcase faded at spine 12" X 9". Vol 12. 1776-1777 David Hume; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards; book and slipcase faded at spine 12.75" X 9". Vol 13. 1777-1779 Ashbourne Journal; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards spine faded; slipcase rubbed at edges 13" X 9". Vol 14. 1779-1781 David Boswell; contents clean & secure in original bright red boards spine faded w/ significant loss of sizing; 13" X 9". Vol 15. 1781-1783 Laird of Auchinleck; contents clean & secure in original bright red boards spine faded; slipcase rubbed at edges; 13" X 9". Vol 16 contents clean & secure in original bright red boards spine faded w/ significant loss of sizing 13" X 9".Vol 17. 1783-1786 Lord MacDonald; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards with "Turnure" bookplate; book faded at spine; slipcase rubbed 12.5" X 9". Vol 18. 1789-1794 The Great Biographer; contents clean and secure in original bright red boards with "Turnure" bookplate; book faded at spine; slipcase rubbed 12.5" X 9". . 1928-36. Press hardcover

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The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.: including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A new edition. With numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker LL.D. F.R.S. Five Volumes Complete

1831rif. 28688London: John Murray. Near Fine No dust jacket as issued. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. First edition thus. Bound in half brown calf over brown linen boards spine in six compartments separated by raised bands gilt lettering and borders in three compartments gilt borders in remainder and on covers t.e.g. light brown endpapers. Original cloth spine and covers bound in volume one. Illustrated with engraved portraits on each frontispiece fold-out map in volume two fold-out "Round Table" in volume three. John Wilson Croker 1780-1857 was a British statesman and author. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin where he graduated in 1800. Immediately afterwards he entered Lincoln's Inn and in 1802 he was called to the Irish bar. His interest in the French Revolution led him to collect a large number of valuable documents on the subject now in the British Museum. In 1809 Croker was appointed as secretary to the Admiralty. Many of his political speeches were published in pamphlet form. He was for many years one of the leading contributors on literary and historical subjects to the Quarterly Review with which he had been associated from its foundation. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography comments that "He had a wide appreciation of all varieties of literature and art which made him a valuable intermediary between the politicians and the public and he was an able writer lucid fluent and always well informed." "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. Pottle 91. Very ligh shelf-wear at head of spine in volume three else fine; unmarked seemingly unread tight hinges strong square and clean. A large heavy set 12 pounds - additional shipping charges may apply. NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 532; 571; 565; 559; 551 pages . 1831. John Murray hardcover

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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LL.D. By James Boswell Esq. Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson relative to the Tour and never before published; A Series of his Conversation Literary Anecdotes and Opinions of Men and Books: With an Authentick Account of the Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. In the Year 1746.

1785rif. 1245821785. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785. 8vo xx ii 1-534 1 advertisement for Life of Johnsonpp. Uncut in original boards; complete with half title and terminal blank. Backstrip sensitively restored boards soiled and worn at edges some dampstaining to front endpapers half title and title some loss to terminal blank bookplate; withal a very pleasing copy in a custom leather box. § Second edition revised and corrected. A lovely copy uncut in the original boards and uncommon thus. Pottle notes that the second edition was issued in boards at 6s. and also bound "All copies I have seen are full-bound in calf." Boswell's account of a three month tour of the Highlands and islands of Scotland which he made in the company of Samuel Johnson in 1773. Johnson's own account A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland had been published in 1775. While Johnson's book sticks to the sober description of topography and history that was expected from travel books of the time Boswell's book "has the chatty informality of a 'rough' guide: its focus is on Johnson as it describes his charged encounters with the native population whether humble cottagers or important personages like Lord Monboddo and Boswell's formidable father Lord Auchinleck" Oxford DNB. "The principal changes made in the second edition besides the correction of some printer's errors are the removal of a few errors of fact and a large number of slight verbal changes in the interest of grammar and elegance; the addition of the Contents two Appendixes and a number of notes explanatory or controversial; and the substitution pp. 165-6 of a softened account of the stay with Sir Alexander Macdonald for the too frank disclosures of the original narrative' Chapman p. xvii. As quoted in Pottle Boswell's Literary Career 59. unknown

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The Life of Samuel Johnson Ll. D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides: by James Bowell Esq. to Which Are Added Anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens & C and Notes by Various Hands

1835rif. 57152E-252: John Murray. Very Good. 1835. Leather. Leather. Small 8vo. John Murray London. 1835. 10 volumes. Xxiv 325 pgs; viii 344 pgs; ix 323 pgs; xii 343 pgs; viii 341 pgs; viii 342 pgs; viii 381 pgs; xi 431 pgs xv 335 pgs; xii 376 pgs. Illustrated with a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and an additional hand-colored vignette title all engraved by Edward Francis Finden 1791-1857. In addition there are nineteen hand-colored plates portraits and views a folding map of "The Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides. In 1773" volume IV a folding facsimile "Round Robin" volume VI and six folding facsimile letters. First Illustrated Edition Croker's Second Edition. Bound in tree calf leather with gilt double-rule border on covers spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with red maroon labels with gilt lettering and gilt board edges and turn-ins all edges gilt with some uncut pages and marbled endpapers unsigned binding; looks like Bayntun. Full purple morocco covers elaborately tooled in gilt in a geometric pattern. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes Johnson emerges as a sociable figure vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick Goldsmith Burney and Burke and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties and obsessions also darkened Johnson's private hours and Boswell's attentiveness to every facet of Johnson's character makes this biography as moving as it is entertaining. EB; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . John Murray hardcover

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