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1793réf. 53381London: 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 i-xxxvi 2xvii-xxxix 1 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards red leather labels on spines black numbering pieces that on vol. II a little chipped; in all a good sound set or better unrestored; in a recent brown cloth slipcase. 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. Bookplates of Lord Rendelsham in each volume. "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
1827réf. 53380Oxford: William Pickering London; and Talboys and Wheeler 1827. First Pickering edition 4 volumes 8vo engraved portrait of Boswell after Joshua Reynolds Round Robin plate and a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary full blindstamped calf gilt decorated spines a.e.g.; light wear to the spines but on the whole very good and sound. CBEL II 1214; Keynes p. 54; Kelly 1826.2; Pottle 90: "This edition in four volumes large octavo is the most beautiful that has yet appeared. The editor was Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and afterwards 1829-34 Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford who in the previous year had edited the edition of Johnson's works in the Oxford English Classics with which this edition of the Life is uniform . This is the first edition of the Life to include a portrait of Boswell as a frontispiece. William Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler unknown
réf. Z1-C-020-01716General Books LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
1791réf. 53375London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition the so-called second state with "give" reading on p. 135 in vol. I 2 volumes 4to pp. xii 16 516; 2 588; engraved portrait frontispiece by Heath after Joshua Reynolds and with the Round Robin plate and the plate showing facsimile signatures of Johnson; nice copy in contemporary full calf neatly and pleasingly rebacked sometime in the 20th century preserving the old red and black morocco labels on spine; all the standard cancels are present per Pottle. Regarding the "give" versus "gve" reading Pottle notes that the "booksellers have given this rather uninteresting 'point' more attention than it deserves." 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 the heroic poets Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of the orators than Boswell is the first of biographers" Macaulay. Grolier English 100 no. 65; Rothschild 463; Pottle 79. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown
1807réf. 53374Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake 1807. First American edition taken from the fifth Malone edition published in London earlier the same year 8vo 3 volumes frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; title page in volume II partially loose and torn with loss to a word or two; uncut copy in later full muslin manuscript paper labels on spine; very good. Pottle 85. W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown
1826réf. 262284Oxford: published by Talboys and Wheeler ; and William Pickering London 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copies with wear tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; volumes 2 & 3. Subjects; Johnson Samuel 1709-1784. Reynolds Joshua Sir 1723-1792 — artist. Genres; Biographies - England - 1822. Biography. Illustrated. Oxford: published by Talboys and Wheeler ; and William Pickering, London hardcover
1931réf. 74793The Modern Library 1931. hardback. Very good condition in a dust jacket with a few chips and a sunned spine. There is a bookplate a sticker and pen date on the front end page The Modern Library hardcover
1882réf. lsj08London: George Bell & Sons. Worn condition. Covers heavily rubbed. Hinges weak. Content in overall good condition. 1882. Reprint. Black hardback half-leather cover with green boards. 180mm x 120mm 7" x 5". 344pp; 343pp; 342pp; 431pp; 370pp. Engraved b/w frontispiece and title page to each volume 1 - 10 as well as some other full page engravings. Ten volumes bound in five. . George Bell & Sons hardcover
réf. 006300London: National Illustrated Library Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. In 4 Volumes; All vols. show shelf wear to edges and corners else bright and sound; Profusely illustrated throughout; Previous owner's signatures to ff.e.p.s; Blind-staped covers and gilt decoration to spines with top edges gilt; An attractive set; Digital photos available on request; Size: 12mo. National Illustrated Library Hardcover
1891réf. 225467London.: Routledge. 1891. Quarter red cloth over pink cloth boards. Very good spines lightly sunned some volumes slightly cocked. 8vo. Heavy set requires extra postage. Edited by Henry Morley. Portrait frontispieces by sir Joshua Reynolds. Routledge. hardcover
1851réf. 087625Off ice of the National Illustrated Library 1851. Book. Very Good. Program. Volumes I-IV. Bound in contemporary brown half-leather with marbled boards and end papers. Black leather labels on spines with titles. Volumes III and IV state publisher of G.Routledge & Co with a date of 1856. Vol I- 320pp. plus ads; Vol.II- 306pp.; Vol.III- 298pp. and Vol. IV- 300pp. plus ads. Small bookplate to front paste down of each volume. Rubbing to leather on spine and some wear to edges of boards. Still a solid set. Off ice of the National Illustrated Library Paperback
1831réf. 5972London: John Murray 1831. Octavo 23 cm; 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 give or take black-and-white engravings some folding and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits facsimiles scenes and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson during his long life came into contact with virtually everyone in British society who left a footprint and Boswell names them all. John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's great biography-offered here in its initial printing-inspired something of a fashion for collectors to gather up printed portraits of the figures named in the biography and have them bound into their copies of Croker's Boswell opposite the pages where the figure is named or discussed. The majority of the portraits scenes facsimiles and maps in this copy date from the first quarter of the 19th century while a few were printed in the late 1700s and the most recent ones date from the 1840s. Celebrity portraits include those of Johnson Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi Richardson Rousseau Sterne Catherine the Great Leibnitz Byron Swift Joseph Banks Voltaire Madame de Sévigné Captain Cook Thomas Gray John Donne Adam Smith Walter Scott Joseph Addison Thomas Brown Montaigne Drake Milton and many many many others. John Murray hardcover
1791réf. BOSWELLJ002721Charles Dilly London. 1791. First edition; second state with ''give'' at line 10 page 135. Quarto. Two volumes: pp xii xv table of contents i corrections and additions 516; ii 588. Frontispiece portrait engraving after Reynolds two engraved facsimile plates at end of second volume. Fine nineteenth century bindings by Zaehnsdorf of full dark brown morocco with raised bands gilt decoration inner dentelles gilt silk endpapers all edges gilt. Highly professional almost invisible repairs to spines with backstrips relaid retaining the endpapers.Spines and front cover of second volume faintly faded. Some spotting to frontispiece. Faded ownership signature dated 1846 on title-page. Near fine set. Charles Dilly, London. hardcover
réf. 51493Philadelphia PA: J.B. Lippincott and Co. 1865. Biography FINELY BOUND a New Edition with notes etc. In four volumes. Octavo 19 x 14 x 12cm pp.xxxvi; 25-468 2; pp.2 479 3; pp.2 452 6; pp.2 452 6. With an engraved frontispiece to volumes I and II. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black labels on spines. Marbled paper over boards. Spotting to preliminaries. Light black ink ownership notes to free endpapers dated 1866. Wear to board edges; corners bumped. Light speckling of white paint over spine of volume I. Good. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1865 unknown
1826réf. 105798London: William Pickering. 1826. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. four volume setloriginal red cloth hardcover with paper spine labelsvolume 1. 8 catalogue pagesxxi 1 1-394ppvolume 2. 8 catalogue pagesportrait frontispiece1-416pp volume 3. folding frontispiece1-395pp volume 4. 4 catalogue pagesfolding frontispiecexii1-428ppinner hinge of volume four splittingspine labels rubbed and fadedsome internal foxing otherwise a good only complete working set.Shelf 201. William Pickering. hardcover
1816réf. 26794Cadell & Davies 1816. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Four volume set in contemporary marbled paper boards recentish rebacks to style in good quality light tan calf gilt lettered and decorated. Clean tight and sound copy - inner joints are cracked but the rebacking makes these very firm copies. Bookplate of T.J.W. Cushing to each pastedown. xxxvii 481 496 483 530 pages Frontispiece plate and two folding facsimiles index. Approx. size 9" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26794. . Cadell & Davies hardcover
1807réf. 446453aLondon: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. Hardcovers in good condition. No jackets. Fifth edition revised and augmented in four volumes. Boards and spines are worn faded and scored. Abrasions on spines and rear board of volume three. Title plates on spines are partially detached and torn. Halves of volume three and two title plates are detached and laid in the volumes. Abrasions on worn and bumped leading corners and edges. Spine ends are chipped and nicked. Three centimetre portion of cover on volume four spine head is chipped away. Spine sides and hinges on early and closing pages are split but bindings remain intact. Page blocks and pages are tanned stained and foxed. Book plates on front pastedowns. Some pages are nicked and chipped. Creases throughout pages. Text remains legible throughout. HCW. hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. T. Cadell and W. Davies Hardcover
1793réf. 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
1889réf. 6846430London: George Bell and Son 1889. Volumes 2 to 6. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Half leather binding; marble covers and inside covers; torn spines; spines splitting; internally clean; raised bands; worn spines; detached covers; front cover of volume three missing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2800grams ISBN: George Bell and Son hardcover
1807réf. 310411London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1807. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary calf recently rebacked with gilt spines red and green title labels. 4 vols. 8vo. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand unknown
1848réf. 307450London: Henry G. Bohn 1848. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume 25 engraved plates and facsimiles. 10 vols. 12mo. Near contemporary half calf maroon morocco spine labels. Slight rubbing to extremities an attractive set. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume 25 engraved plates and facsimiles. 10 vols. 12mo. Henry G. Bohn unknown
1906réf. 36543London: Robert Riviere & Son 1906. Unstated Edition. Hardcover. iconic biography of the renowned British writer two volumes in 3/4 blue leather over blue boards with gilt top edge; front board of volume one is completely detached both volumes have fairly heavy rubbing to the edges and joints volume one has owner inscription on frontispiece verso else they are both tight square unmarked copies; publishing date estimated not stated; photos on request Robert Riviere & Son hardcover
1822réf. 004510London: T. Cadell et.al. 1822. This is a Very Good Plus copy of Boswell's famous Life of Samuel Johnson. The Ninth Edition Revised and Augmented" First Edition Thus. This is Volume One ONLY of the original four. Full leather binding with decorative gilt ruling on both covers. Five raised bands can be discerned under a later spine repair that has covered them. The spine has a date of "1822" inked in white near the bottom. Clean text; xxxv fold-out samples of Johnson's handwriting and 444 pages. All edges are marbled. Published without a tissue guard the frontis portrait has mildly offset to the Title Page. The text is exceptionally bright and free of any foxing; mild rubbing around the margins. The front gutter has been reinforced with a linen tape. A very solid copy that is great for reading. . First Edition Thus. Full-Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. Cadell, et.al. Hardcover
1853réf. 43257London Henry G. Bohn 1853. Small 8vo. Bound in 10 uniform fine contemp. hcalf with richly gilt spines. !0 engraved portraits as frontispiece and 10 engraved titlepages dated 1835. With many engraved plates views portraits a.facsimiles. Fine and clean. unknown
1896réf. 275727Westminster: Constable 1896. hardcover. fine. 6 volumes. Frontispiece protected with tissue guard in each volume. Titles in red and black. 12mos 3/4 black leather over marbled boards raised spine bands gilt stamped text and subtle decorations marbled endpapers. Westminster: Constable 1896. A fine set. Constable unknown
