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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works etc.

1807réf. 33660London: Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington ; Longman Hurst Rees etc. 1807. 4 volumes. The Fifth Edition Revised and Augmented. Engraved portrait Reynolds as frontispiece to Vol. I folding plate with facsimiles of Johnson’s handwriting in the second volume the Round Robin plate in Vol. III all complete as called for. 8vo in handsome contemporary bindings of full mottled calf the covers with gilt roll tooling to the borders the spines richly gilt with multi-ruled and decorated gilt bands separating the compartments the compartments with central gilt ornaments lettered in gilt in one compartment original marbled endleaves. xxxv 3 478; 496; 480; 522 2 pp. A handsome set generally quite well preserved with some inevitable rubbing to the extremities and some light wear to the hinges though the bindings are strong and tight and the text-blocks all in good order crisp clean and unpressed some light mellowing on occasion. EARLY PRINTING OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BIOGRAPHIES IN THE LANGUAGE. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest. Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared." He said too that: “A sanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal. Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness that by recording so considerable a portion of the wit and wisdom of the brightest ornament of the eigteenth century I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.” If Boswell does indulge in a little harmless flattery to himself the concluding words of his preface are literally true for Boswell’s Johnson as much as any other book “has largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.” A valuable reference to the life and times of the era. The object of the work is to depict the life of the period in English history which may legitimately be described as the Age of Johnson. Johnson lived from 1709 to 1784 from the time of Queen Anne and into the third decade of the reign of George III. The book is a descriptive tour de force extremely well written and highly illuminating. Johnson had once said of his own time--’The present age’ he wrote in 1758 though not likely to shine hereafter among the most splendid periods of history has yet given examples of charity which may be very properly commended to imitation.’ The years after Johnson wrote those words saw the year of Minden of Quiberon Bay Lgos and the taKing of Quebec a series of victories to which there are few parallels. It was the age of Chatham too and of Clive Cook Wolfe Burke Fox Gibbon Fielding Reynolds Gainsborough the Adams Garrick Cavendish Priestley Watt and many many others. It can be reckoned among the splendid periods of history. Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington ; Longman, Hurst Rees, etc. unknown

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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works etc.

1793réf. 33744London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. 3 volumes. First Octavo Edition revised and augmented by Boswell with the corrections cancels and misprints. This copy also with the "Additions received after the Second Edition was printed" pp. i-xxii "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" which is the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii- xxxi and thirteen letters to Bennet Langton and one to the Earl of Bute. Most of this material was issued here for the first time and was not in the first edition quarto. Engraved portrait frontispiece after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Also with the folding ‘Round Robin’ plate and a folding plate of with a facsimile of Dr. Johnson's handwriting. 8vo handsomely bound to style the bindings of three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines gilt decorated and gilt lettered within compartments separated by raised bands. portrait titlexviii ixvii-xxxii xxxix Alphabetical Table of Contents xxxiii-xxxvi 603; 634; 711 pp. A fine and handsome copy well preserved the bindings in very pleasing condition with only very slight mellowing at the spine panels tight and strong with virtually no wear the text-blocks crisp clean and unpressed. IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION IN HANDSOME BINDING. The first 8vo edition of what is perhaps the greatest biography ever written in the English language. The "chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson" appears in this edition for the first time. This set with the alphabetical table of contents before the text rather than at the end of volume 3 as is often the case and with the scarce leaves of corrections and additions following the contents. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest. Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover

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