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1884réf. 247738London: George Bell & Sons 1884. Napier's Edition. Number 87 of 104 copies each signed by the Printer "Charles Whittingham & Co. Extensively extra-illustrated with 50 plates of portraits views maps and facsimile autographs including 2 fold-outs and an inserted portrait of Johnson. Also includes an inserted issue of the Herald Tribune Weekly Book review November 19 1944 reviewing Joseph Wood Krutch's Samuel Johnson. 10 vols. 4to. Bound in three quarters green morocoo and marbled boards t.e.g. Very Good with some discoloration to Vol. 1 Part 1 from the inserted newspaper and some minor foxing from plates. Napier's Edition. Number 87 of 104 copies each signed by the Printer "Charles Whittingham & Co". Extensively extra-illustrated with 50 plates of portraits views maps and facsimile autographs including 2 fold-outs and an inserted portrait of Johnson. Also includes an inserted issue of the Herald Tribune Weekly Book review November 19 1944 reviewing Joseph Wood Krutch's Samuel Johnson. 10 vols. 4to. George Bell & Sons took over Charles Whittingham Co. after Whittingham's death in 1876. An attractive copy with many beautiful illustrations. R. B. Adams v.2 p. 41 George Bell & Sons unknown books
1840réf. 54916New York: Alexander V. Blake Publishers 1840. A New Edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. xiii ii 563 566 12pp. Original full leather boards with gilt lettering and ruling on dark brown labels of spine; raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Samuel Johnson in volume one and a frontispiece of Johnson with facsimile note of Boswell in volume two both with tissue guards. New edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker. With appendices at rear of both volumes and an index at rear of volume two. Contains twelve pages of publisher's advertisements at rear of volume two. Bindings with some medium scuffing along edges. Some light staining and faint penciled cross on verso of first volume. Light offsetting on front cover of volume two light staining and indentation on back cover here. Small bookplate on inside cover of volume one. Alexander V. Blake, Publishers hardcover books
1807réf. 37149Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins Printers 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco spine labels. Binding worn internally clean with occasional foxing. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature" 63; Pottle 85; Shaw & Shoemaker 12184. For the 1791 first edition: Courtney-Nichol Smith p. 172; Grolier "English" 63; Pottle 79; Tinker 388 Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown books
1824réf. 74745Bellows Falls VT: Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. Very Good-. 1824. Leather. . NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED: THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED. A New Edition. Copious Notes and Biographical Illustrations By Malone. In Five Volumes; Printed By Blake Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. Bellows Falls VT. 1824. 5 volume set are hard-bound in 1/2 leather with marbled paper covered boards with gilt stamped numbers and gilt stamped red leather labels on the spines - scuffed and soiled with edge-wear and rubbing to the joints corners and spine-ends. Volume I front board barely attached - contents are bright and legible but with scattered foxing and toning throughout. Portrait frontispiece in Volume 1 and a folding plate in volumes 2 & 3. Volume I is a Vermont Imprint Published in Bellows Falls VT. 1824. with the rest of the volumes printed in Bellows Falls VT but have a Boston MA imprint. . Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington hardcover books
1807réf. 31200London: T. Cadell & W. Davis 1807. Third Malone edition 8vo 4 volumes frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary calf red morocco labels; ex-Heriot's Hospital with its name in gilt at the base of each spine and with early an 19th century ex-libris on the title-pp.; a good sound set. "Malone's new advertisement is dated 1 Jan. 1807. He states that some typographical errors have been corrected two more letters of Johnson inserted and several new notes added" Pottle. Pottle 84. T. Cadell & W. Davis unknown books
1835réf. 23423London: John Murray 1835. Full leather. Very Good . C. Stanfield E. Finden Sir Joshua Reynolds J. Smith H. Corbould. The complete set of the first illustrated edition 1835 bound in the late 19th century in a full tan morocco by the formidable Zaehnsdorf Bindery of London for the Gardenside Bookshop of Boston. Intricate gilt-tooling and design within the compartments 3 separate offsetting dark-brown leather labels along each spine. Just the faintest touch of light soiling to several of the panels lavish former owner bookplates The McGinley family of Wilton Connecticut at each front pastedown and facing front free endpaper. Uniform 16mos top-edges gilt wonderful full-page drawings by C. Stanfield Sir Joshua Reynolds H. Corbould and J. Smith engraved by E. Finden. Continuing from the title page: "To Which Are Added Anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c -- And Notes by Various Hands". John Murray unknown books
1983réf. 289726Franklin Center: Franklin 1983. hardcover. fine. 3 volumes. Illustrated. Full ornately gilt blue leather all edges gilt. Franklin Center: Franklin Press 1983. Franklin unknown books
1950réf. 207369New York: Modern Library 1950. Very Good. Very good plus. Book has red marks along top fine edges brown stains inside front cover and cover is wearing along edges. Modern Library unknown books
1963réf. 010033New York: The Heritage Press 1963. First Edition Thus. Cloth. Fine/Slipcase. Threee Volumes 8vo. 466 486 473pp. Beautiful First Heritage Edition. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive Publisher's slipcases have a touch of edge-wear but quite minor. Bookpalte on front paste-down of each volume. A gorgeous collectable set at a great price. The Heritage Press unknown books
1962réf. 627616New York: The Modern Library 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing "The present text follows that of Malone's sixth edition" - from introduction by Herbert Askwith. Complete and unabridged in one volume. Thick octavo. xv 1200pp. Blue Toledano style G5 binding stamped in red and gilt in Toledano style Ge jacket. Gutter cracked before title page faint stains on bottom page edges corners bumped else a very good copy in a very good rubbed dust jacket with some loss on the spine ends and corners. Titles listed inside jacket date this to 1962. The Modern Library hardcover books
1940réf. 210015New York: Modern Library 1940. Good. Later. Good Spine severely browned with fraying at top of spine and corners light fading to covers. Modern Library unknown books
1835réf. 23141London: John Murray 1835. 8vo 10 volumes engraved frontispiece and title-p. in each volume all by Stanfield after Finden original blindstamped brown cloth gilt lettering direct and within blindstamped labels; vol. 1 2 and 10 neatly rebacked; the binding was a dainty one from the start and needs care in handling but the overall appearance is generally very good. This set with the 1835 ownership signature of Charles Kelsall who has penned 14 lines of commentary in vol. 1 and 69 lines in vol. 2 on endpapers and flyleaf all in praise of the good Dr. Johnson. Croker's second edition which was anonymously edited by John Wright. The original Croker edition 1831 in 5 vols. 8vo still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited much and famously condemned by Macaulay. Seeing the problem Murray hastily engaged Wright to do a make-over and republished it in 1835. These 1835 plates were later stereotyped and many editions followed those after 1853 under the Bohn imprint to whom Murray had sold the plates. "No matter what the title-pages may say all Crokers in ten volumes small octavo often described as duodecimo are so far as the text is concerned one and the same thing. The number of illustrations varies" Pottle. Pottle 92. John Murray unknown books
1875réf. 2330845New York: Harper & Brothers 1875. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Front joint of first volume splitting edges rubbed with minor loss from spine ends of each corners exposed. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1875 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. xiii 563; 505 pp. Additions and notes by John Wilson Croker. 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 Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1793réf. 6215London: Henry Baldwin 1793. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with "gve" for "give" in the uncorrected state line 10 on p. 135 in Volume I and all of the errata uncorrected. Two quarto volumes 10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 274 x 216 mm. vii 1 blank ix-xii 16 "Table of Contents" and "Corrections and Additions" 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. Engraved frontispiece by James Heath from a portrait of Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II. "Round Robin." facing p. 92 and "Fac Similes of Dr. Johnson's hand writing" facing p. 588. Together with at the end of volume II: BOSWELL James. The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Title verso blank 42 pp. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1910 in full mottled calf covers with triple gilt rules. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments red and brown morocco labels lettered in gilt gilt ruled board edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled end-papers all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked and corners strengthened over fifty years ago with original spines laid down. Occasional light foxing or staining to a few leaves otherwise a fine copy of the first issue with the exceptionally rare Principal Corrections and Additions bound in at the end of volume two. "Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them" Macauley. Indeed drawing on his close and longstanding collaboration with Johnson as well as Johnson's own diary James Boswell released a book that was a popular success and helped to establish the modern genre of biography. Still considered an important resource on the life and times of the famed memoirist and dictionary compiler Boswell's Life of Johnson breathes vivid life into one of the most important British figures of the century. "We know of him not as he was known to men of his generation but as he was known to men whose fathers he might have been.and long after his works may be forgotten he will be remembered through Boswell's Life" Macauley. This was Boswell's last publication before his death in 1795. "The work The Principal Corrections and Additions is now difficult to obtain; when it turns up it is almost invariably bound in with a copy of the first edition of the Life" Pottle. Regarding the "gve" or "give" question: "gve" is the earlier state. "The first proof shows the word correctly spelled but the lines are punctuated as follows: "Short O short! then be thy reign And give us to the world again." Boswell passed this in the proof but in the revise both proof and revise are in the possession of Mr. Adam he directed the printer to remove the exclamation point in the first line and substitute it for the first period at the end of the second which is in fact the punctuation of the printed text. When the changes were made the "I" dropped out and the printer not noticing what had happened filled up the line by inserting a space between "gve" and "us". After a considerable part of the edition had been printed the error was discovered and corrected in the press" Pottle. The correct first issue as here reads: "Short O short then be thy reign And gve us to the world again!" Near Fine. Courtney & Nichol Smith pp. 172-3. Grolier 100 English 65. Pottle 79 & 113. Rothschild 464 & 466. Sterling 71. Tinker 338. Near Fine. Henry Baldwin unknown books
18044 vols., 8vo., Fourth Edition, on laid paper, with engraved portrait frontispiece (by Baker after Reynolds) and 2 large folding facsimiles, frontispiece and facsimiles lightly age-soiled, some mild offsetting to title, neat signatures (one contemporary) on front endpapers; attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked in calf to style, backs with flat bands ruled in gilt, second and fifth comparrtments with red leather labels lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. 'With this edition began the practice…of enlarging the text with unpublished letters which had not been available to Boswell…A considerable number of new notes were also added, including some by Dr. Kearney' (Pottle, pp.171-2). The frontispiece is from the same plate as that used in the second and third editions, but the two facsimiles are dated 1 May 1804. An attractive set in sympathetically restored period binding. Pottle, 83.
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 books
1791réf. 116527London: Henry Baldwin 1791. First. hardcover. near fine. The whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain for near half a century during which he flourished. 2 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Thick 4to handsomely rebound in 3/4 red morocco; gilt-decorated spines with raised bands a.e.g. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First Edition later issue. Fine. Final three pages of vol. II mispaginated. Henry Baldwin unknown books
1938réf. 45295London: Limited Editions Club 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. fair to very good. 1/1500. Quarto. Vol 1: lvix 466pp. Vol 2: 2 486pp. Vol 3: 2 473pp 1. Burgundy colored paper covered cardboard slipcase tan label with red lettering mounted on spine. Bindings with olive green buckram boards maroon labels with gilt lettering mounted on spines. Illustrated frontispiece in all 3 volumes. Limited edition #400/1500 "The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published. the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain for near half a century during which he flourished." The famous biography by Boswell on the English poet essayist critic journalist lexicographer and conversationalist who is regarded as one of the most outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. Slipcase split along the edges of the bottom boards. with some additional rubbing and chipping to extremities. Bindings with sunning to spines some corners bumped shelf wear to covers. Ex-libris labels on interior front cover of all 3 volumes. Foxing to front and end papers and paper edges. Slipcase in fair bindings in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1925réf. 69333Bath UK: George Bayntun 1925. Newly edited edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 1172pp. Quarto 24 cm 3/4 red leather with pale green cloth raised bands and gilt stamping on the spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and subtly sunned. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Presentation bookplates awarding diligent study with the seal of Harvard University in New England on the front pastedowns. The awardee is Roberto Lee Walker- most likely American physicist Robert Lee Walker 1919-2005 who matriculated at Harvard in 1937 and transferred a year later to the University of Chicago. After a brief time there as a graduate student he joined the Manhattan Project. He also worked at Los Alamos. After the war he continued his graduate work at Cornell earning his PhD in 1948. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1949 as assistant professor becoming associate professor in 1953 full professor in 1959 and emeritus professor in 1981. He died in Tesuque New Mexico. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. With 576 illustrations facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure. A handsome edition profusely illustrated of this famous biography. George Bayntun unknown books
1901réf. 8468London: J.M. Dent & Co 1901. 458464466pp. Octavo 23 cm Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Map endsheets and pastedowns. All volumes very good or better. Illustrated with numerous photogravures. Classic work that was from the beginning a critical and popular success and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. J.M. Dent & Co unknown books
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 books
1819réf. 273419London: Printed for the Proprietors 1819. hardcover. near fine. 4 volumes. Extra illustrated with many portraits views and facsimiles some folding done in mezzotints copper engravings and some in sepia. Small 8vo 3/4 burgundy morocco ornately gilt spines top edges gilt cover on one volume faded. London: Printed for the Proprietors 1819. Near Fine. Printed for the Proprietors unknown books
1901réf. 263606London: Dent 1901. Limited. hardcover. very good. Railton Herbert. THREE VOLUMES. Eidited by Arnold Glover with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. 100 Illustrations by Herbert Railton plus many portraits. xl 458pp. viii 464pp. viii 466pp. large thick 8vo cloth with decorative paper spine labels; unopened covers lightly rubbed. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1901. A very good set. One of 350 numbered copies. Dent unknown books
réf. 265170Oxford: Clarendon. hardcover. near fine. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Frontis. port. folding facsimiles and black and white illustrations throughout 6 vols. thick 8vo rebound in cloth brown leather spine labels t.e.g.; light foxing on some margins. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887. Near Fine. Clarendon unknown books
1963réf. 70886New York: Heritage Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Edition in Near Fine condition with light wear and a few marks in the pages in an individual slipcases; Life and times of Samuel Johnson. Prepared for publication with an Introduction by Edward G. Fletcher; Vol. 3; 8vo; 473 pages; 42978; combined three volume set . Heritage Press hardcover books
