Boswell, JamesABAA
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1793réf. 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
1807réf. 64362Boston: published by W. Andrews and L. Blake Greenough and Stebbins printers 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; contemporary full sheep black and red labels; joints reinforced on first and third volumes joints rubbed on the second volume paper flaw on pages 265-6 in the second volume affecting a few letters; generally a good sound set in a tan cloth clamshell box. Ownership signature of Anna Guest on all title pages. This is the first edition of The Life to contain an index. American Imprints 12184; Pottle 85. published by W. Andrews and L. Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, printers unknown books
1791réf. 007319London: Charles Dilly. Printer: Henry Baldwin 1791. Half Morocco. Paper pastedown on boards. Custom cloth slipcase custom cloth dust jacket. Near Fine. 4to. 28.5 by 23 cm. Frontis portrait of Johnson after Reynolds painting engraved by J. Heath. Title Dedication to Reynolds -- vii Table of Contents unpaginated with Corrections and Additions 16 1-516 second title Advertisement -- pagination to xii 1-588 pp. followed by Facsimles of Johnson's hand writing plate. Round Robin plate also present -- Vol. 2 by p. 92. First issue -- "gve in second indented quote line p. 135. Condition: morocco of bindings with some wear -- typical rubbing along joints some along raised bands. Interior: scattered mostly light foxing generally by upper and lower margins or early and final leaves and here and there elsewhere but overall a clean-ish copy and few would find such soiling disconcerting we believe. A very handsome copy of this classic seminal and really sui generis biogaphy of the great Dr. Johnson that more than simply a recounting of his life captures his personality and originality. And a work in which Dr. Johnson can entertain us more than two centuries later almost as if we were present as he was holding forth. Charles Dilly. Printer: Henry Baldwin unknown books
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 books
réf. 16293Dublin: Printed by John Chambers For R. Cross W. Wilson P. Byrne A. Grueber J. Moore J. Jones W. McKenzie W. Jones R. McAllister R. White J. Rice and G. Draper; Volume II Printed by John Ershaw; Volume III Printed by Robert Rhames 1792 First Dublin edition. The first English edition was published in 1791. Contemporary calf with red and green morocco spine labels lettered and ruled in gilt. . Three volumes octavo. . Two folding plates in volume three one of which is a facsimile "Round Robin" with signatures and the second being a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting. Binding extremities lightly rubbed back joint of Vol. I cracked but sound. Light foxing toning chips and creasing to some pages in all volumes in addition to occasional minor stains. Faded contemporary ink annotations on front flyleaf of Volume I. Faded contemporary ink signature on title pages of Volumes I II and III. A very good copy in a handsome binding. Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography in any language one of Western literature's most germinal achievements: unprecedented in its time in its depth of research and its extensive use of private correspondence and recorded conversation it sought to dramatize its subject in his authorial greatness.to the task of life writing Boswell brought his forensic and evidence-sifting habits from his Edinburgh legal training.But though Boswell's work has delighted many.it remains.as controversial as it is famous. It has been attacked by. some Johnsonian scholars.Nonetheless later scholarship has properly supplemented but never supplanted Life's basic vision and has drawn upon Boswell's work as a central source even in those challenges to aspects of its representation" Oxford DNB. Printed by John Chambers, For R. Cross, W. Wilson, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. McKenzie, W. Jones, R. McAlliste books
1824réf. 000689London: J.F. Dove Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford Etc. 1824. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1; folding facsimile plate in Volume 2. Period diced full calf modern calf rebacking morocco spine labels. Some light wear to board edges; very good handsomely rebacked. J.F. Dove, Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford, Etc. unknown books
1822réf. 29787London: T. Cadell F.C. & J. Rivington et al. 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes 8vo pp. 2 xxxv 1 444; 2 462; 2 446; 2 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; later quarter polished black calf over marbled boards by R. Carswell Belfast with his ticket on front pastedown; red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; minor rubbing and cracking; generally very good sound set. "This edition was edited by Boswell's friend Alexander Chambers. In his Advertisement Chalmers says that at Malone's request he contributed a few notes and corrections to the sixth edition 'and has now added many more as well as some additional particulars.' . His additional notes to this edition are not extensive but are solid and useful" Pottle. Pottle 89. T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.] unknown books
1822réf. 26274London: T. Cadell F.C. & J. Rivington et al. 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes 8vo pp. 2 xxxv 1 444; 2 462; 2 446; 2 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; contemporary brown cloth with printed paper labels on spines; short crack in cloth at the top of the front joint on vol. I; leaf 2F1 in vol. 1 torn in the gutter no loss of text almost detached and bound out of order; otherwise a good sound set. It would be tempting to call this binding original and perhaps it is although certainly a remainder binding if true. "This edition was edited by Boswell's friend Alexander Chambers. In his Advertisement Chalmers says that at Malone's request he contributed a few notes and corrections to the sixth edition 'and has now added many more as well as some additional particulars.' . His additional notes to this edition are not extensive but are solid and useful" Pottle. Pottle 89. T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.] unknown books
réf. 48495Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London: Routledge Warne & Routledge 1865. Two volumes complete. A sound ex-library set with clean contents usual markings from the library and tight repaired bindings. Best suited for reading. . Other hardcover books
1891réf. 2335142London: George Routledge and Sons Limited 1891. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Reynolds Joshua. The Library Edition.' 1 inch split to cloth along front joint of first volume endpapers foxed front hinge of first and third volumes just beginning to weaken front and rear hinges of second and fifth volumes weakening some pages unopened. 1891 Hard Cover. Complete in five volumes. lxii 381; 398; 400 4; 390 4; 424 4 pp. Navy blue cloth gilt titles frontispiece portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds edited by Henry Morley includes advertisements and prefaces from several editions including John Wilson Croker's. Samuel Johnson byname Dr. Johnson born September 18 1709 Lichfield Staffordshire England - died December 13 1784 London English critic biographer essayist poet and lexicographer regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson once characterized literary biographies as "mournful narratives" and he believed that he lived "a life radically wretched." Yet his career can be seen as a literary success story of the sickly boy from the Midlands who by talent tenacity and intelligence became the foremost literary figure and the most formidable conversationalist of his time. For future generations Johnson was synonymous with the later 18th century in England. The disparity between his circumstances and achievement gives his life its especial interest. - Britannica George Routledge and Sons, Limited hardcover books
1807réf. 1374511Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake 1807. First American from the fifth London edition. Hardcover. Octavo Three volumes 22 500 pages; 512 pages; 543 pages. In Good condition. Spines are brown with gold print on black banners. Boards in brown leather. Light wear to spine caps and corners slight scuffing. Text blocks have red marbled edges blue marbled endpapers. Name in pencil and ink on front endpapers occasional light foxing. Illustrated: frontispiece portrait in first volume folded facsimile of Johnson's handwriting in third volume. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area. 1374511. FP New Rockville Stock. W. Andrews and L. Blake hardcover books
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 books
1793réf. 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 books
1816réf. 54679London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1816. Octavo 22cm in four volumes. In contemporary brown calf with blind roll and double gilt frame to boards; gilt tooling to board edges rebacked in brown leather titled in gilt on spines all edges marbled; brown endpapers; vol I: ii i-xxxviii 1-481pp; vol II: ii 1 496pp; vol III: ii 1-483pp; vol IV: ii 1-530pp; with frontispiece portrait by W. T. Fry and folding plate with handwriting facsimiles in vol. I and folding plate with "Round Robin" facsimile in vol. II. Vols II-IV with ownership inscriptions of "J. M. Beatty 1869" and "W. E. Hall / Bridge of Allan." Clean upright copies in sturdy bindings board edges rubbed damage to vol. I f.f.e.p. where bookplate was removed and one-cm tear to "Round Robin" plate at hinge: Good. POTTLE 88. T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
1826réf. 66492Oxford: published by William Pickering London and Talboys and Wheeler Oxford 1826. First Pickering edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxi 1 394; 4 416; 4 395 1; ix 1 428; publisher's device on title pages 4 pages of Pickering ads for the Oxford English Classics tipped into the front of volume IV engraved portrait of Boswell after Joshua Reynolds folding Round Robin plate and a double-page facsimile of Johnson's handwriting all spotted; original red cloth paper labels on spines quite rubbed with some loss spine ends chipped but generally good and sound in the original binding. Early ownership signature of "R. Dixon" on the front pastedown of volumes II-IV. Issued on the publisher's Oxford English Classics series. Keynes p. 54; 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." Books bound in full cloth date from the 1760s onwards. These early cloth bindings were generally of coarsely woven hessian cloth or canvas and used most frequently on school textbooks. Publishers' full cloth bindings date from the early to mid-1820s William Pickering being one of the early innovators. published by William Pickering, London, and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford unknown books
1888réf. 303921Londpn: Swan 1888. hardcover. near fine. Edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. 3 volumes tall 8vo 3/d black morocco marbled boards. London: Swann. Sonnenschein Lowery. 1888. Near fine. Swan unknown books
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 books
1807réf. 20232Boston: 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; corner of 9/3 torn with minor loss to a few letters; mild and occasionally moderate foxing throughout else good and sound in recent 1/2 tan calf over blue linen sides. Pottle 85. W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown books
1839réf. 26457London: John Murray 1839. New Edition. Fifty Engraved Illustrations. 10 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary pebbled 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper gilt spines t.e.g. Near fine set with the bookplate of James Stracham. New Edition. Fifty Engraved Illustrations. 10 vols. Small 8vo. John Murray unknown books
1791réf. 7195London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1791. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. xii 16 3-516; 1 2-588 2. Engraved portrait frontis. after Sir Joshua Reynolds in the first volume. Second volume illustrated with two plates of Dr. Johnson's handwriting in facsimile. Marbled endpapers. Full speckled calf with gilt filigree borders and inner dentelles rebacked in period style; repaired corners. Two bookplates: "The High Canon's Library" and "Malo Mori Quam Foedari" possibly the plate of Cardinal Henry Edward Manning. Interiors quite nice. First edition first state with "gve" in lieu of "give" on p.135 of Vol. I. Boswell's achievement was not to simply capture the brilliance and wit of his subject but to provide through meticulous scholarship the complexities of Johnson amid the literary realm of his era. Provenance: Sold at the 1922 Sotheby's sale of The Valuable Library . of the Late Baroness Burdett Coutts. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown books
1791réf. 303654London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition "gve" uncorrected at line 10 on p. 135 in vol. I and with the usual cancels Mm4 and Nn1 in vol. I E3 Oo4 Qq3 in vol. II. Engraved portrait by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds 2 other engraved plates. xii 16 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Old calf a.e.g. Neatly rebacked with gilt spines in period style. Bookplates of Nicholas Frederic Brady. Near fine occasional light traces of foxing. First edition "gve" uncorrected at line 10 on p. 135 in vol. I and with the usual cancels Mm4 and Nn1 in vol. I E3 Oo4 Qq3 in vol. II. Engraved portrait by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds 2 other engraved plates. xii 16 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Pottle 79; Rothschild 463; Grolier English 131 Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
1938réf. 021132London: Limited Editions Club 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Spines mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen bindings with label on the third volume darkened. Near Fine in a complete but broken slipcase. Three octavo 6-1/4" x 10" volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies one belonging to Colonel Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell each annotated by Thrale were used to create this edition. Copy #65 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1900réf. 8612London. Macmillan and Co. 1900 Bound in 3/4 gilt ruled morocco and marbled boards. Gilt ruled spine compartments with gilt tooled motifs. Gilt titles. Marbled endsheets. Thick 8vo. 5.75" x9.25". Some very light rubbing to spines. A Near Fine elegant set. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1938réf. 009529London: Limited Editions Club 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Spines mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen bindings with some faint stains to the covers of one volume; slight mark and darkening to spine label of third volume. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Three octavo 6-1/4" x 10" volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies one belonging to Colonel Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell each annotated by Thrale were used to create this edition. Copy #834 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1835réf. 29099London: John Murray. Very Good. 1835. 1/4 Cloth. A rather attractive complete set of Croker's Second edition Pottle 92. All volumes in Very Good or better condition except volume five showing beginning separation of spine internally fine though. Bound in attractive red morocco all edges gilt. Raised bands gilt lettering and decoration on the spines. First volume showing bookplate from the libary of Oscar Benjamin Cintas prominent sugar and railroad magnate and book collector who served as Cuba's ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934; Often praised as the greatest biography written in English Boswell's famous work covers Samuel Johnson 1709 -1784 English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer; Small 8vo . John Murray hardcover books
