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1768rif. 22862London 1768. 8vo. for Edward & Charles Dilly in the Poultry Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold gold-tooled board edges red sprinkled edges. With an engraved coat of arms on the title page and a large engraved folding map of Corsica. 2 parts in 1 volume. XII 2 384 pp. Second edition of a delightful and important travel book by James Boswell 1740-1795 best known as the friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His first major publication it includes a journal of his 1765 visit to the new Republic of Corsica which had declared its independence from the Republic of Genoa in 1755 as well as his memoires of the Republics founding father and president Pasquale Paoli 1725-1807. Boswells work made the new republic and its leader famous and helped give them legitimacy. It proved so popular that three more editions appeared before the end of 1768. It is divided into two parts the first giving a detailed description and history of Corsica and the second containing a journal of Boswell's voyage to and travels on the island. It was especially this latter part that excited the public being a lively account of Boswell's quixotic adventures in Corsica and his association with President Paoli.The large folding map newly made for Boswell's account by his servant Thomas Phinn and dated 1768 is one of the rare maps solely devoted to the island. The work was translated within a few years into Dutch German French and Italian.With the bookplate of John Measure mounted on the front pastedown. The edges and corners of the boards are very slightly scuffed the top outer corner of the front board is bumped. The leaves and plate are somewhat browned. Otherwise in good condition.l Cox I pp. 138-9; ESTC T26158; cf. Lowndes The Bibliogr. Manual of Engl. Lit. I p. 242 first ed. hardcover
1793rif. lsj02London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly. G : in good condition without dust jackets as issued. Minor rubbing and wear to boards - volume 2 with sm. area of loss to leather on front board. Previous owner's inscriptions to feps. Corner tear to pp17-18 vol 1 with no loss to text. Ink dedication laid-in to volume 1. 1793. Second Edition revised and augmented. Full leather covers. 200mm x 150mm 8" x 6". xxxvi 603pp 34pp 711pp. Engraved frontis plate of Samuel Johnson after Joshua Reynolds volume 1; folding plates volume 2 and to rear of volume 3. First octavo edition of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'. Published April 3rd 1793. Second Edition second state: v.1 p.135 line 10 states 'give' as in corrected version. Front endpaper of volume 1 with pasted copperplate inscription relating to Francis Barber Dr. Johnson's manservant and heir: 'Francis Barber the faithful valued black son of Dr Samuel Johnson who died in the infirmary of Stafford February 13th 1801'. Previous owner's name John Darlington and date of 1853 to feps. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Henry Baldwin [for] Charles Dilly hardcover
1793rif. 66491London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii xvii-xxxix 1 i-xxxvi 2 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; original blue paper-covered boards roan shelfbacks titles printed in black on spines mostly rubbed away on volumes I and II; spines rubbed and worn with chips out at the tops and bottoms joints cracked; good copy at best but uncommon in original boards uncut. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. "The text of the second edition . deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone." Pottle 81. Rothschild 468. printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown
1799rif. 23381London: printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly 1799. First Malone edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxxi 1 452; 2 490; 2 475; 2 514; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; labels gone on all but the last volume but generally a very good sound copy in contemporary full calf. The second edition was something of a botched effort by Boswell and the result was a book "painfully at variance with his own standards of ordered arrangement" although much new important material was added. It was left to Malone to "shake together" Boswell's second and the third "is now generally regarded as the definitive edition" Pottle. Pottle 82. printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly unknown
1793rif. 66491London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii xvii-xxxix 1 i-xxxvi 2 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; original blue paper-covered boards roan shelfbacks titles printed in black on spines mostly rubbed away on volumes I and II; spines rubbed and worn with chips out at the tops and bottoms joints cracked; good copy at best but uncommon in original boards uncut. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. "The text of the second edition . deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone." Pottle 81. Rothschild 468. printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown books
1799rif. 23381London: printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly 1799. First Malone edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxxi 1 452; 2 490; 2 475; 2 514; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; labels gone on all but the last volume but generally a very good sound copy in contemporary full calf. The second edition was something of a botched effort by Boswell and the result was a book "painfully at variance with his own standards of ordered arrangement" although much new important material was added. It was left to Malone to "shake together" Boswell's second and the third "is now generally regarded as the definitive edition" Pottle. Pottle 82. printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly unknown books
1887rif. 806F33Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. James Boswell's complete six volume biography of Samuel Johnson beautifully bound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work to be edited by George Birkbeck Hill. In beautiful signed half calf bindings from Frost & Co. of Bath this is an excellent and complete six volume set of James Boswell's biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The first edition thus being the first edition edited by George Birkbeck Hill and including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales'.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to four volumes two further engraved plates and six folding plates. Collated complete.A landmark work in the development of the modern biography in English many have claimed it as the greatest biography ever written. Nevertheless this biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life with Boswell making various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censoring his comments. In signed half calf bindings with gilt detailing to back strips and cloth covered boards. Light fading to back strips otherwise externally lovely. Binder's stamps to verso of front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
1786rif. 23288London: Printed for Alex Hogg n.d but 1786. hardcover. Rebacked as noted covers show some scuffing corners reinforced sometime in the distant past 2 pages with mends to lower margins otherwise text and plates very clean and quite free of foxing with scattered mostly minor offsetting from plates to text. Overall a very nice copy. Folio 40cm original sheep rebacked retaining spine and lettering piece; iv 42 pp. introductory the remaining text an unpaginated 520 pp 247 plates including 51 mostly full-page county and regional maps some with 2 images on the plate plans and including a large folding plate at rear a facsimile of the 1648 document indicting Charles II. 4-page subscriber list and 4-page index to the plates at rear. Plates many with multiple images on the plate include besides castles and various antiquities 3 each of English coins and seals. The work was issued in 100 parts apparently in rather random sequence. Gatherings are unsigned throughout and in this volume part numbering ceases after part 70. However the instructions to the binder at the tail of the last index page makes suggestions for creating order and these have mostly been followed though the Cambridgshire map is found late in the volume opposite the "Description of Cambridge Castle" rather than opposite the descriptive text for the County in part 31. Maps are by Thomas Kitchin and first appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760 except the Yorkshire map which is by T. Conder 1784. See Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection Leeds 1947 p53. According to Lowndes the plates are copied from Francis Grose Printed for Alex Hogg hardcover
1768rif. 010150Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry London 1768. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New modern calf with raised bands and spine label Embossed in gold similar to original spine new parchment end papers. Large fold-out map with early tape mend and slight creasing at for-edge else Fine. Half-title present Occasional browning mostly at initial and ending pages 1/4" dia.marginal brown spot pp.47-60. xxi xxii blank 2 contents 382 pages blanks at end replaced with new parchment. Near Fine overall in a Fine binding. First Edition First State of Boswell's first important book. E2 and Z3 are cancels. A handsome copy of this important work. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, London Hardcover
1768rif. 010150Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry London 1768. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New modern calf with raised bands and spine label Embossed in gold similar to original spine new parchment end papers. Large fold-out map with early tape mend and slight creasing at for-edge else Fine. Half-title present Occasional browning mostly at initial and ending pages 1/4" dia.marginal brown spot pp.47-60. xxi xxii blank 2 contents 382 pages blanks at end replaced with new parchment. Near Fine overall in a Fine binding. First Edition First State of Boswell's first important book. E2 and Z3 are cancels. A handsome copy of this important work. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, London Hardcover books
1952rif. 12773Mcgraw-Hill. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - first edition so stated -- with a bonus offer--; 012773 . 1952. Mcgraw-Hill hardcover
1980rif. 14453University of Chicago Press. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - . Some writing and markings to text. -- with a bonus offer--; 014453; HOMOSEXUALITY RELIGIOUS ASPECTS CHRISTIANITY SOCIAL . 1980. 0226067106 . University of Chicago Press hardcover
1952rif. 10714Chicago IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- with no writing or markings to the text. Slight fading and discoloration to cover boards. -- with a bonus offer--; 010714 . 1952. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. hardcover
1843rif. 28767New York: Alexander V. Blake. As New. Two 2 Volume Set. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer--; T-Boswe . 1843. Alexander V. Blake hardcover
1925rif. 38857International Studio. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Articles include: "China and the Color Print"; "The Romance of Amir Hamzah"; "Costigan American Pastoralist"; and "Etchings as Works of Art" . -- with a bonus offer--; T-Instu625; Boswell Peyton Editor; et Al International Studio - 6 Issues Bound - January - June 1925 . 1925. International Studio hardcover
1995rif. 75659Museum; Et Al. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 48 pp. With 25 ills. 8 col. . 30 x 20 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1995. 0935640487 . Museum; Et Al paperback
2007rif. 77102Whale and Star. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 128 pp. With 59 ills. 57 col. . 24 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer--; Nomad Enrique Martínez Celaya’s exhibition at the Miami Art Museum consists of five large-scale paintings commissioned by the museum. This companion volume combines images of the finished paintings with Martínez Celaya’s notes sketches and photographs of the work in process to reveal the evolution and concept behind this body of work. An accompanying essay by Peter Boswell senior curator of the Miami Art Museum reflects on previous work by Martínez Celaya in relation to this new project cycle. The book also includes the artist’s exhibition history and a bibliography. . 2007. 0967360897 . Whale and Star hardcover
1924rif. 33619Boston: Allyn & Bacon. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Good condition except some underlining marginal notes most in pencil tear to illus between pages 40 and 41 though no losses some discoloration. -- From The Academy Classics. -- Illus. With black and white photos. -- "Edited with a Life of Macaulay Notes Glossary and Aids to Study by Samuel Thurber and Louise Wetherbee"; also includes notes to the teacher selections from The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Esq. -- with a bonus offer--; HP520-macaubos; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; MacAulay Thomas Babington Samuel Thurber and Louise Wetherbee Eds. James Boswell . 1924. Allyn & Bacon, hardcover
1793rif. 4478London: Printed by Henry Baldwin 1793. First Edition Thus Second Revised and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition Thus Second Revised and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Engraved portrait frontispiece after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds by J. Baker. Includes the fold-out 'Round Robin' plate Vol. II and a fold-out plate containing facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's handwriting Vol. III. The last edition published in Boswell's lifetime it contains additional material including "Additions to Dr. Johnson's Life Recollected and Received after the Second Edition was Printed" pp. i-xxii; "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" noted as the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii-xxxi; and "Corrections" pp. xxxiii-xxxvi but not the leaf of Additional Corrections c3 in Volume I which has been tipped into some copies. It is worth noting that this tipped in leave may constitute a later issue of the edition. "The text of the second edition. deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone" Pottle 81; see also Rothschild 468. Overall a very handsome set seldom found in as close to original state as is found here. Light shelf/edge wear even toning to spines and text block edges professionally rebacked circa mid-19th cent. minor sporadic foxing at preliminaries discrete owner notations at endpages else tight bright and unmarred. Full brown leather boards original sheep boards carefully matched to a calf spines burgundy leather labels gilt lettering and decorative elements frontispiece. 8vo. xviii xxxvii 603pp; 634pp; 711pp. Illus. b/w plates. Printed by Henry Baldwin hardcover
1793rif. 4478London: Printed by Henry Baldwin 1793. First Edition Thus Second Revised and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition Thus Second Revised and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Engraved portrait frontispiece after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds by J. Baker. Includes the fold-out 'Round Robin' plate Vol. II and a fold-out plate containing facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's handwriting Vol. III. The last edition published in Boswell's lifetime it contains additional material including "Additions to Dr. Johnson's Life Recollected and Received after the Second Edition was Printed" pp. i-xxii; "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" noted as the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii-xxxi; and "Corrections" pp. xxxiii-xxxvi but not the leaf of Additional Corrections c3 in Volume I which has been tipped into some copies. It is worth noting that this tipped in leave may constitute a later issue of the edition. "The text of the second edition. deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone" Pottle 81; see also Rothschild 468. Overall a very handsome set seldom found in as close to original state as is found here. Light shelf/edge wear even toning to spines and text block edges professionally rebacked circa mid-19th cent. minor sporadic foxing at preliminaries discrete owner notations at endpages else tight bright and unmarred. Full brown leather boards original sheep boards carefully matched to a calf spines burgundy leather labels gilt lettering and decorative elements frontispiece. 8vo. xviii xxxvii 603pp; 634pp; 711pp. Illus. b/w plates. Printed by Henry Baldwin hardcover books
1831rif. 1051London: John Murray 1831. Fine Leather Bound by Bayntun. VG. Extra Illustrated. A complete five volume set in VG/Near Fine condition beautifully bound by Bayntun in full crushed Morocco with double rule blind stamp details to boards six compartments and five raised bands to spines with bright gilt details and title. Small amount of wear to leather extremities. Hinges to volume one discreetly reinforced with Japanese tissue. Leather to spines darkened. Binding and hinge are excellent silk end papers and paste downs AEG. Pages are bright and clean without marks some light sporadic foxing. Extra illustrated with 227 extra plates 50 of which are in color. Books measure 8.5"x5.75". 195 years old. An attractive set in scarce Bayntun binding. John Murray unknown
1859rif. BCOOOO6York Street Covent Garden: Henry C. Bohn 1859. Leather Binding. Fine. COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES 3/4 LEATHER BINDINGS. FROM THE LIBRARY OF A. EDWARD NEWTON 1864-1949 AMERICAN AUTHOR PUBLISHER AND AVID BOOK COLLECTOR WHO'S BOOKPLATE APPEARS IN ALL TEN VOLUMES. A Very Nice Set. No bumped corners to book. No cracked hinges. Top edge text block gold gilt. Extra illustrated bound by Wood. A Fine ten volume set showing very minimal wear. Henry C. Bohn unknown
1785rif. 21203221785. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly. 1785. 8vo. Contemporary calf spine decorated in gilt and with red morocco lettering-piece; pp. vii 524 2 errata and advertisement for the Life a little wear to binding marginal offsetting from endpapers to initial and final two leaves; a very good copy with mid-century bookplate of William Binns Cowper physician and collector.First edition an early state with uncorrected mis-spelling on p. 121 however with the indication of second state with leaves E3 and E4 as cancels M4 not cancelled. Complete with half-title and errata.'Though the Life is a vaster and richer piece of work no one will maintain that it displays Boswell's unique gift for biography better than the Tour. Indeed most lovers of Boswell will agree that the Tour as a whole is more consistently good than the Life; that is that nowhere in the Life could one find so many consecutive first-class pages as those that compose this book' Pottle. The printed book is almost identical with the actual journal that was kept in 1773. When Johnson's death made it possible for Boswell to publish the manuscript he only added an introduction and a conclusion before handing it over to the printer. ESTC T53594; Pottle 57; Rothchild 456. unknown
rif. 109001London John Murray 1839. . 10 vols; small 8vo 17 x 11.5 cm; extra-illustrated with over 100 engraved plates prints and facsimile letters including title vignettes and frontispieces and folding plates; later full tan calf by Morrell ruled in gilt gilt spine contrasting morocco lettering-pieces top edge gilt others uncut internally very clean minor wear to panels rear joint in vols. II and III cracked internally but holding near fine. A handsomely bound extra-illustrated set of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. This revised edition by the Anglo-Irish MP and writer John Wilson Croker 1780-1857 was bitterly attacked in the Edinburgh Review by the Whig historian Thomas Macaulay 1800-1859 possibly in an act of revenge following a hostile exchange in the House of Commons between Croker and Macauley on the subject of reform. 'This version contains both the original texts augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition' Pottle. London, John Murray, 1839. unknown
1793rif. 23224London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii xvii-xxxix 1 i-xxxvi 2 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary tree calf elaborately gilt-decorated spines red and black morocco labels; rear joints on volumes I and II cracked front joint on volume III starting; the bindings remain firm and all in all this is a handsome unrestored set. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. "The text of the second edition . deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone" Pottle 81. Rothschild 468. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown
