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1946A biography of the "Great Biographer" full of details of his life in 18th England and Scotland (and of his travels] 281p. plates maps on endpapers. some sun fading on spine.else fine Book
19468vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1999réf. Q-0373483783Silhouette 1999-02-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Silhouette paperback
1928réf. 063972Stanford 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. lsts of edition edited by Margaret Bailey. Stanford hardcover
1928réf. 93232Stanford Calif: Stanford University Press 1928. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. An about near fine; tight and clean; partially unopened leaves. Please refer to photos. No slipcase. Two quartos in black polished cloth and silver gilt titles and ornaments; frontispieces plates portraits 25 cm. Essays. English Literarue 18th Century. Set weighs 3 lbs 11 ounces before packing. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire. Stanford University Press hardcover
1928réf. BBS-2011491Stanford University Press 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1928. First edition. Two volumes in slipcase. Black cloth with silver titles and decoration very good with light shelf-wear slight sunning to spines. In grey-brown papered slipcase sturdy scuffed rubbed to edges. Spines square. Bindings sound. No jackets as issued. Pages clean and bright unmarked. With occasional uncut pages throughout. Stanford University Press hardcover
1928réf. 162552CA: Stanford 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Two volumes. Spines faded and some scuffing to the boards. Volume I missing headband. Lacking the slipcase. Included two page folded promotion for this title from Stanford University Press. Stanford hardcover
1928réf. 162552CA: Stanford 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Spines faded and some scuffing to the boards. Volume I missing headband. Lacking the slipcase. Included two page folded promotion for this title from Stanford University Press. Stanford hardcover
1928réf. 977H24California: Stanford University Press 1928 . Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None. The first edition two-volume set of The Hypochondriack collecting Boswell"s seventy essays from The London Magazine reprinted in book form for the first time housed in the original slipcase. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding house in the original slipcase.These volumes are first editions. Both volumes are illustrated with four monochrome plates including a frontispiece. The frontispiece to volume II is fully disbound but present. Collated complete. These volumes collect seventy essays originally published in The London Magazine from November 1777 to August 1783 in which Boswell used "The Hypochondriack" persona to write on themes ranging from personal reflection to social commentary. This is the first time these essays were gathered and reprinted in book form.James Boswell 17401795 was a Scottish lawyer diarist and author best known for his monumental biography The Life of Samuel Johnson 1791 often considered the greatest biography in English literature. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally very smart. The odd slight handling mark to boards. Spines slightly faded. slight rubbing to extremities and boards. Slipcase smart. Boards and extremities rubbed resulting in slight loss to paper. Internally firmly bound with the exception of the frontispiece to volume II which is fully disbound but present. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Stanford University Press hardcover
1928réf. mon0004026370Stanford University Press 1/1/1928 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Good. 2.6000 9.8000 6.6000. First edition both volume one and two. Ex-library book with stickers and/or stamps throughout. Stanford University Press hardcover
1928réf. 162552CA: Stanford 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Two volumes. Spines faded and some scuffing to the boards. Volume I missing headband. Lacking the slipcase. Included two page folded promotion for this title from Stanford University Press. Stanford hardcover books
1973Roy. 8vo. First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly scuffed at rear panel.
1996réf. Q-0385479360Main Street Books 1996-12-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Main Street Books paperback
2006réf. Q-0595407331iUniverse 2006-08-29. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! iUniverse paperback
1975réf. 2090202118107892JMDENT & SONS LTDLONDONEveryman's Library No.387 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. JMDENT & SONS LTD(LONDON)Everyman's Library No.387 paperback
1785réf. 006222London:: Charles Dilly 1785. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG 1st ed 2nd state 1785. In modern calf to style over tree calf boards tips repaired. Spine gilt tooling original gilt titles to red calf label. Internally half title 4 v-vii 1 1 2-254 pp 1 errata/advert some light spotting to eps & half title very faint edge browning short margin tears to p509-514 text block edges yellowed. Folio 124210 mm ESTC T53594. Pottle 114. Boswell was and remains a divisive personality even for modern readers who find the fluent precise demotic prose of the journals compelling: an unstable amalgam of vibrant self-advertising vanity and self-tortured insecurity; an able but reluctant Edinburgh lawyer who marred his chances for judicial promotion with over-zealous and occasionally frenetic defences of poor criminal clients with whom he felt a particular sympathy; a loving but erratic husband; a lenient beloved but overburdened father; a kind and improvement-oriented lowland laird who longed for life in London; a sentimental Jacobite who developed an extraordinary veneration for George III. Charles Dilly hardcover
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
1785réf. C98051London: Printed By Henry Baldwin For Charles Dilly 1785. Second Edition. Hardback. Revised And Corrected. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. Hardback. Revised And Corrected 8vo. 20 cms by 13 pp xx 2 534 2. With half title at front and publishers advertisement at end for Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Bound in full brown leather lettered gilt at the spine on a red leather label with five gilt bands and gilt lining on spine and covers. An early binding at some point recased at spine with neat leather repair at foot. Some minor wear and rubbing else very good sound copy with very clean text. Neat name on first blank - 'Romaine Trinity' very likely to be William Govett Romaine CB 1815 -1893 an English barrister civil servant and colonial administrator. He became a deputy judge-advocate in the army during the Crimean War. He was educated at Trinity College CambridgeSee DNB Printed By Henry Baldwin, For Charles Dilly, hardcover
1785réf. 8438London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785. 8vo pp. iv xv i 442 2 ads. Twentieth-century plain brown paper boards. First and last leaves toned from endpapers some minor spotting elsewhere. Pencilled ownership inscription of W.L. Lorimer to flyleaf earlier inscription of Cameron Grant of Forres to half-title. The third edition of Boswell’s ‘teaser’ for his magisterial Life of Johnson a record of the pair’s journey through the Highlands to the Hebrides and a companion to Johnson’s own ‘Journey to the Western Islands’. Among the notable contents are Johnson’s sceptical remarks on the authenticity of the Ossian poems then at the height of their popularity. This is from the original issue; it was reissed several years later with a map added. ESTC T53587. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly hardcover
1812réf. 80603London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies Strand 1812. Hardcover. Very good. The fifth edition revised and correction. Boswell's record is perceptive highly entertaining and full of sardonic wit: the perfect appetizer for Boswell's Life of Johnson 1791. Printed by C. Baldwin: London. 12mo: xiv 2 454 1 ads 1 blank pp. with the portrait frontispiece a mezzotint by R. Cooper after a painting by Joshua Reynolds. In the publisher's boards binding: blue diaper-grain cloth spine over gray-brown paper-covered thin boards with a printed buff paper spine label. A remarkably fresh example with some general toning and minor edgewear. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, Strand hardcover
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
1813réf. 53233London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1813. Sixth edition 8vo ii xv i 460 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Boswell Robert Skidelsky's copy with his notes to the fly leaf. Uncut in the original boards rebacked retaining the original spine label. Lord Robert Skidelsky 1939-2026 economic historian and author. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown
réf. 1025757645.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1025759338.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 45334831-nnew. unknown
