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1887SET45-I-1Oxford : At The Clarendon Press 1887. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6";. None. A complete set of James Boswell's biography of the illustrious man of letters Dr Samuel Johnson. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Also containing Boswell's Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Illustrated throughout with fourteen plates collated complete including a folding coloured map. Volume I: The Life 1709-1765 Volume II: The Life 1766-1776 Volume III: The Life 1776-1780 Volume IV: The Life 1780-1784 Volume V: The Tour to the Hebrides and The Journey into North Wales and Volume VI: Addenda Index Dicta Philosophi etc. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 1791 is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763 when Johnson was 54 years old Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics. Complete in six volumes. In green cloth bindings. Externally sound though with some light bumping and wear to the extremities. Erased library markings to spine. 1 hinge tender with endpapers and frontispiece working loose with all other hinges strained. Internally binding strained in places. Institutional label to endpapers and ink stamps throughout. Pages are slightly browned. Good Only At The Clarendon Press hardcover
1898johnsonlichfieldNew York: Croscup and Sterling 1898. Lichfield Edition. Hardcover. Clean pages tight binding as ra. Boswell's Life of Johnson complete 6 volume set Lichfield Edition limited number 73 of 500 printed.Clean pages tight binding as rarely opened gray cloth boards clean paste down titles all present with some fade and light foxing Croscup and Sterling hardcover
1859202625<p>3 volume set. Blue boards with black and golden ink. Heads and tails of spines are chipped or torn. Tight bindings clean pages. </p> George Routledge & Sons hardcover
182439477Bellows Falls Vt.: Printed by Blake Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. 1824. Hardcover. Very Good-. Five Volume Set; 8vo; 5 vols pages; FIve volumes in full sheepskin covers in a decorative "tree" pattern flat spines paneled with pairs of gilt rules red and black leather labels lettered in gilt with the titles and volume numbers respectively in the second and fourth panels. Some wear and rubbing all covers soundly attached small pieces missing from the spines of volumes II and IV other volumes with just trifling losses at the head of the spines. Ink signatures in each volume by John H. Edmonds a leading Utica NY lawyer dated March 1849 -- on the front paste-down endpapers. An interesting early American edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson printed in Bellows Falls Vermont -- the site of the first bridge over the Connecticut River in 1785. A paper mill was one of the first commercial enterprises in the town. The firm of printers who produced these volumes was "Blake Cutler and Co." Blake was Bill Blake proprietor of the first newspaper to be published in the town of Rockingham -- 'The Vermont Intelligencer and Bellows Falls Advertiser' founded January 1 1817. This newspaper was established owned and published by Bill Blake & Company who occupied a building upon the corner of Westminster and Mill streets. They carried on an extensive printing and publishing business; also a book bindery and a wholesale and retail book store. In addition to these they owned a paper-mill where they manufactured both writing and printing paper. Blake's company became Blake Cutler & Company in which form the firm appears on these volumes and later James I. Cutler & Company. Sadly their paper-mill was burned on July 11 1846 and the printing office building on March 14 1860. Their handsome Boswell's Life of Johnson is the second Boston edition of this greatest of all biographies. The first had the imprint: "Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins printers. 1807." That 1807 edition appeared in three volumes and the title page stated: "First American from the fifth London edition." This Bellows Falls edition can be counted as the second Boston edition for while the imprint of the first volume reads: "Bellows Falls Vt. : Printed by Blake Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. 1824" -- the imprint varies on the title pages of the rest of the set. Volumes 2-5 have title pages reading: "Boston: Published by Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. 1824. Each of these final four volumes have the printer's slug of "Blake Cutler & Co. printers Bellows Falls Vt." on the versos of title pages. Assuming that Blake and Cutler used their own paper for these volumes the present condition speaks well for the quality of their product. The text sheets are clean crisp and almost entirely free from foxing. There are no vertical chain lines although there are faint closely-spaced horizontal lines from the screen on which the paper was made it is essentially "wove" paper rather than laid. The endpapers and binder's blanks are foxed. Half titles present in each volume. Volume I has an engraved portrait of Dr. Johnson as frontispiece -- signed: "Bowen prt." The frontispiece plate in volume II is a folding engraved "Fac Similies of Dr. Johnson"s Hand Writing." The frontispiece plate in volume III is a folding engraved "Round Robin Addressed to Samuel Johnson L.L.D." Gathered in sixes. Pagination: Vol. 1: xxxiii 1 302 p. 1 leaf of plates; v. 2: 4 318 p. 1 folded leaf of plates; v. 3: 4 316 p. 1 folded leaf of plates; v. 4: 4 348 p.; v. 5: 4 332 p.Errors in paging: v. 1 p. 221 misnumbered 218; v. 3 p. 69-71 misnumbered 79-81."Chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson LL.D."--v. 1 p. xxv-xxxiii.Includes index. OCLC: 3227954. There are two other OCLC Numbers: including 191251289 citing a single location only: the American Antiquarian Society Worcester Massachusetts whose copy lacks a lower cover for volume I. There is also a separate number for the National Library of Scotland set. Shoemaker 15528 . Printed by Blake, Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington hardcover
18102018Philadelphia: John F. Watson 1810. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good -. Octavo 413pp. A good copy at best in contemporary full brown calf with red morocco spine label. A smoker's copy with the front board partly detached but holding by the binder's cords. Old sticker on the front board removable with enough patience. Spine ends worn and some soiling to the boards. Moderate foxing internally and some dampstains to the first and last few leaves. Contemporary ownership signature on a front blank. An unrestored copy. Despite defects still overall a clean though not bright copy internally. This first American edition published a few dacedes after the first English edition is uncommon in the marketplace. John F. Watson hardcover
181061250Philadelphia:: Published by John F. Watson 1810. First American edition; "From the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author.". old mottled sheep. . Corner torn away from pp. 143-44 without loss of text; endsheets lightly foxed with age-toning to text block; front cover nearly detached and rear cover starting; light wear at corners. 8vo. Published by John F. Watson, unknown
18912335142London: 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
181654679London: 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
184054916New 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
1804110965London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1804 Book. Fair. Leather. Fourth Edition. Complete four volume biography "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 boards and front endpapers of Volume I are detached; each volume has significant wear and age-toning. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand hardcover
185110433London: The National Illustrated Library 1851-1852. New Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. CARRUTHERS Robert Illus. New Edition. DESCRIPTION: A set of four volumes of Boswell's Life of Johnson along with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with illustrations. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to bruised corners edges and spine ends. Rubbed cloth with faded spines. All volumes are tightly bound with lightly dusted intact endpapers and firm hinges. Previous owners names and minor annotations to endpapers. Toned pages with a few folded page corners to some volumes. Soiled text block edges. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 320 306 298 300 360. Size: 19.5cm by 13cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. The National Illustrated Library hardcover
187423427London: Bickers and Son 1874. Leather. Very Good . 1874 edition with some of the Author's notes from the third edition. 3 volume set complete. A Very Good set. 8vo. Vol.1 xx m 538; Vol.2 527; Vol.3 525 pp. illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece folding plates folding maps. Uniformly bound in half calf and marbled paper over boards; title and volume on red and black morocco labels on the spine. All edges marbled; marbled end papers. Spines slightly sunned/dulled. A handsome set Very Good . This work originally published in 1791 represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. Many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. Bickers and Son unknown
1890000561London: George Routledge and Sons n.d. ca. 1890. Hardcover. Very Good . 5 Volumes in 3 12mo 5 x 7 xxxii 292 viii 298 viii 298 viii 300 xxvi 360 pages profusely illustrated. Practically unused. The covers exhibit minor staining from handling or storage minor shelf wear most evident at the extremes of the back strips. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
18681607250131Henry G. Bohn 1868-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4 volume set. Contemporary moroccan leather over marbled baords. Gilt stamped. Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Handsome set. Contemporary book plate. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Henry G. Bohn hardcover
18781012220067Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1878. Hardcover. Acceptable. 4 volume set. Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1878. Full leather. From the library of the noted American philosopher and psychologist James Mark Baldwin 1861-1934. Internally good. Hinges have been reinforced with binding parchment. Some chipping/loss of spine leather. Baldwin's signature inside cover Princeton 1883. Set conservatively graded at fair because of chipping to spine leather but probably some would classify it as good as it is readable and a solid set. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger hardcover
1851985N22London: Office of the National Illustrated Library 1851-1852. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Various. A complete set of illustrated editions of James Boswell's celebrated works on Samuel Johnson. Contains all four volumes of Johnson's Life and his Tour. A charming illustrated edition of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson in 4 volumes and Journal of a Tour to the Herbrides. Published by the Office of the National Illustrated Library in 1851 and 1852 respectively. A complete set.In the publisher's original cloth with blind stamp detail. A frontispiece in each volume. All sixty illustrations in volume 1. All fifty-one illustrations in volume 2. A folding letter as well as fifty-two illustrations in volume 3. All forty-seven illustrations in volume 4 and all forty-six illustrations in Journal. Collated complete.Includes eight additional advertising pages at the end of vol.1 including specimen pages.Boswell first met Johnson at a bookshop as a young man and the two quickly became friends. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides concerned the pair's much-loved tour of the Scottish Highlands and Western islands in 1773. First published in 1785 shortly after Johnson's death with much success.Inspired Boswell compiled his notes and what followed was Boswell's 4 volume The Life of Samuel Johnson often considered to be the greatest biography in the English language. Boswell approached his biography as a compelling narrative which works very well with illustrations as seen in this edition. In the publisher's original cloth with blind stamp detail. Externally smart. Slight fading to spines joints and extremities heavier to volume 1 and Tour spines and to front boards of volumes 1 and 4. Small signs of shelf wear to extremities and minor bumping to heads and tails of spine. Bumping heavier to Tour where cloth has slightly lifted. Cloth has slightly lifted to joint at front board of volume 1. Minimal marks with one small mark to spine of Tour and front board of volume 1. A faint line across boards of volume 1. End papers are generally bright and clean with volumes 1 2 and 3. Very minor spotting to extremities of rear end papers of volume 4. Heavy offsetting to end papers of Tour. Internally volumes 2-4 and Tour are firmly bound. Volume 1 is generally firmly bound with slight signs of wear between leaves pp.192-193 and pp.206-207. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot very rare in volume 1 and only final leaves of volume 2. Spotting heavier to leaves pp.83-93 of volume 4 and pp.33-45 of Journal. Good Office of the National Illustrated Library hardcover
1835344004London: John Murray. Very Good-. 1835. Hardcover. Covers have slight wear to the extremities. Spine have slight wear. Page margins are browned. The frontis and first title page of each volume has varying amounts of foxing. Volume VII: spine a few very small scrapes of surface loss. ; In Ten Volumes complete. ".to which are added anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c. ." Three-quarter leather binding with marbled boards. . John Murray hardcover
185912910Routledge Warnes & Routledge 1859. 4 vols. 8vo. with four engraved frontispieces engraved and printed titles and very numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout neat contemporary signature on printed titles some very light occasional and inoffensive spotting; original patterned cloth elaborately blocked in blind backs gilt extra lightly rubbed at headbands without material loss one or two corners lightly bruised else a very good clean copy. With the contemporary trade ticket of M. Ogle of Glasgow on front paste-down and the binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge on rear paste-down. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of fourth volume. An early reissue of the National Illustrated Library Edition the first illustrated version first published in 1851. It is a reprint of Malone's sixth edition with a few original notes. 'The illustrations are profuse and useful' Pottle. A SPLENDID WHOLLY UNRESTORED AND ENTIRELY TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF A MID-VICTORIAN EDITION COMPLETE WITH PATTERNED CLOTH BINDING PIBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT AND BOOKSELLER'S AND BINDER'S TICKETS. Leighton Son & Hodge were leading trade and remnant binders of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Pottle 94 recording the NLI 1851 edition. Routledge Warnes & Routledge, hardcover
1831002021London England: John Murray 1831. First Thus . Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a New Edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker; spine with raised bands 6 compartments elaborately blind stamped in gold including 2 compartments for title and volume number; exterior front and rear boards with fine rolled tooling; inside of covers with tooled dentelles; front and rear paste downs and first free end papers of hand marbled paper; all volumes with some slight rubbing on raised bands and along edges of spines; 8vo. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1807446453aLondon: 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
1811917P25London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1811. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A smartly rebacked set of the influential biography on Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. Complete in four volumes.The sixth edition of this work.The influential biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson. This biography has been noted as being the best biography written in the English language being an important work of literature.James Boswell the author met Johnson in 1763 when Johnson was fifty-four years old when they quickly became friends a friendship that lasted until Johnson's death in 1784.Johnson has been revered by some as being the only true great critic of English literature of his time. Possibly his best known work was his influential 'A Dictionary of the English Language' which had a far-reaching effect on the Modern English language. That dictionary remained the standard for one-hundred and fifty years when the 'Oxford English Dictionary' was published.Boswell is best known for this work and for his mass of diaries and letters. However it was this work that brought his fame. He was admired for bringing more personal and human details into the biography than was usual in biographies of the time.Collated bound without all plates. In a rebacked calf binding with new endpapers. Externally generally smart. Boards are a little rubbed. Minor bumping to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few scattered spots. Bound without all plates. Good T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1826828J25London: Baynes Cowie Low & Co. et. al. 1826. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The four volume complete set of James Boswell's iconic biography of Samuel Johnson here with notes by Edmund Malone and for the first time anecdotes of Hesther Lynch Piozzi. A fascinating edition of James Boswell's noted biography of Samuel Johnson including Edmund Malone's notes of Johnson and anecdotes of Johnson by Hesther Lynch Piozzi. Complete in four volumes. Pleasing to see in the original publishers' paper boards. Including an engraved frontispiece portrait of Samuel Johnson to Volume I based on a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.This edition contains notes by Edmund Malone and for the first time anecdotes by Hester Lynch Piozzi an eighteenth and nineteenth century Welsh diarist and frequent correspondent of Samuel Johnson.Samuel Johnson was an English author well-known in the literary world for his many lasting contributions to various areas of humanist art including poetry essay-writing biography and more. He is described by the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies' as the most distinguished man of letters in English history. This biography is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation compiled through Boswell's acquaintance of Johnson since 1763. Originally published in 1791. This edition is reprinted from that prepared by Mr Mowbray Morris for the 'Globe' series of 1893.Containing a previous owner's small stamp to the front free-endpaper of each volume and a previous owner's ink inscription to the title pages of Volumes I III and IV dated 1854. Uniformly bound in contemporary quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Externally shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and extremities. Some wear to the spine labels. Containing a previous owner's small stamp to the front free-endpaper of each volume and a previous owner's ink inscription to the title pages of Volumes I III and IV dated 1854. Internally all volumes are firmly bound. A few spots and small instances of offsetting to the pages which are otherwise bright and clean. Good Baynes, Cowie, Low & Co., et. al. hardcover
18261078<p>Four volume set published in 1826. Three-quarter binding covers as shown with this listing are rubbed and scuffed. Marbled endpapers match the bindings head and tail bands gilt tops five raised bands on spines. Bindings are firm. A facsimile of a round-robin addressed to Dr. Johnson tipped in the front matter of Volume Three and a facsimile of a letter from Dr. Johnson dated March 1755 to the Chancellor of the University of Oxford tipped in the front of Volume Five. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi O-N3</p> William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler hardcover
185912847H. G. Bohn London 1857 1859. Opb 10 Bände in good conition AZ8B24 . HC H. G. Bohn, London 1857, hardcover
1851633126Office of the National Illustrated Library 1851. New Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. 5 volumes bound as 3. An attractive set bound in period 3/4 black calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands tooled in gilt and twin red morocco labels edges speckled red light rubbing; minor foxing to text. B/w illustrations. Office of the National Illustrated Library unknown
