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1807réf. B60465Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake 1807. First American edition. Hardcover. Fair. Three volume complete set! Half leather boards with cloth tape over spines octavos b&w frontispiece in b&w otherwise not illustrated. Books have boards split with most of them loose but present wear to corners and edges title bands on spine are chipped at edges previous owner's signatures to front endpapers texts toned and foxed throughout. Complete but not pretty. W. Andrews and L. Blake hardcover
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réf. 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
1791réf. 163220London: by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. One of Western literature's most germinal achievements First edition of the greatest biography in the English language. It was published in a run of 1750 copies on 16 May 1791 the 28th anniversary of Boswell's first meeting with Johnson. The immense task of compiling the thousands of notes Boswell had recorded on "the great man's talk habits and opinions" was begun after Johnson's death in 1784. Made up of trifling incidents as well as the significant events in Johnson's life the work sold 800 copies in the first two weeks of publication and remains a masterpiece of portraiture. "The Life of Johnson was no single book miraculously produced by an inexperienced author. It was the crowning achievement of an artist who for more than twenty-five years had been deliberately disciplining himself for such a task" Pottle p. xxi. "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" Macaulay. This copy has all the usual cancels and with one exception all the misprints as called for by Pottle; here vol. I p. 135 is in the second corrected state with "give" on line ten. Pottle rightly observes that "the booksellers have given this rather uninteresting 'point' more attention than it deserves. There are probably varying states of some of the other leaves" p. 151. As corrections were made in the press the misprints are variant states for individual sheets and do not indicate priority of issue for any copy. 2 vols quarto 273 x 192 mm. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds and 2 engraved plates by H. Shepherd reproducing manuscripts in facsimile. Vol. II bound without original first blank. Mid 20th-century speckled calf to style for Brentano's smooth spines with two red labels central compartments stamped with gilt urn device within decorative border first and final compartments with gilt cross-hatch pattern triple gilt fillets on covers enclosing wide anthemion roll board edges and turn-ins decorated in gilt green endpapers edges gilt. Couple of scuffs and spots of rubbing to leather scattered light foxing to contents; vol. I p. 48 with neat correction to text by an early reader pp. 131-4 soiled; vol. II with tiny faint splash mark to title page margin. A very good copy attractively bound. Courtney 172; ESTC T64481; Grolier English 100 54; NCBEL II p. 1214; Pottle 79; Rothschild 463; Tinker 338. hardcover
