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183523423London: 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
18338643Louisiana: William Boswell Notary 1833. A bill of sale for 'Three Slaves' - in fact three enslaved children of 15 14 and 13 - who were sold by Roswell Beebe future benefactor of Little Rock in Arkansas to John Gusman owner of huge tracts of land on the west side of the Louisiana river Bayou Bonfouca. Prepared for and signed by the New Orleans notary William Boswell the document records the result of the auction sale and the sums involved as well as detailing the age abilities and characters of the three youths at the centre of the transaction. A particularly complete example of its kind this document also includes the buyer's promissory note to pay for the three young men. Horrific as such documents are they are frequently the only documentary evidence left by lives lived before emancipation and central to the task of reconstructing the existence of their subjects. We acquired this manuscript in Glasgow itself a city with longstanding connections with slavery and the slave trade. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Eight page booklet written on foolscap sized paper 34x21cm with old folds and secured by a red silk legal tie. The paper is browned and flaky damaged along the foreedge of all four sheets and with a detached triangle of paper at the upper outer corner of the first sheet. Blind stamp of the notary William Boswell as well as his signature. The condition is extremely delicate with closed tears along several of the folds. Written in a secretarial hand the first sheet is headed by printed particulars of the sale which took place on 6th December 1833 the document being made in the 'State of Louisiana Ciry of New Orleans' and issued by William Boswell in the presence of 'Boswell Beebe of this City' following an auction by 'Hewlett and Bright auctioneers' transferring ownership to John Gusman. The three enslaved people were: 'Jourdan' a 15 year old of 'mild disposition' who was sold for $910 having been previously acquired from Abner Robinson. Second was '"Elias" a negro aged fourteen years. smart active and intelligent. and his brother "Scye"' a boy of thirteen together for $1610. The two brothers had been acquired from Clement Townsend. Attached is the promissory note made in payment and endorsed by J W Zacharie the bill of sale having been witnessed by Edward Barnett and Emile Wiltz. William Boswell has signed off the document as a true copy at the bottom of the fourth page with the promissory note attached opposite. On the verso of this third leaf is a docket title recording this as 'Copy of Sale from Boswell Beebe to Henry Spearing 5th December 1833' with several additional annotations which confirm completion of the contact and payment. HISTORY: The seller of the enslaved boys was Roswell Beebe 1795-1856 the first benefactor of the city of Little Rock; their buyer John Gusman owned a large tract of land on the west side of the Bayou Bonfouca which included a brick works no doubt the intended workplace of the young men. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1833 William Boswell, Notary unknown
1887806F33Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. James Boswell's complete six volume biography of Samuel Johnson beautifully bound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work to be edited by George Birkbeck Hill. In beautiful signed half calf bindings from Frost & Co. of Bath this is an excellent and complete six volume set of James Boswell's biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The first edition thus being the first edition edited by George Birkbeck Hill and including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales'.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to four volumes two further engraved plates and six folding plates. Collated complete.A landmark work in the development of the modern biography in English many have claimed it as the greatest biography ever written. Nevertheless this biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life with Boswell making various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censoring his comments. In signed half calf bindings with gilt detailing to back strips and cloth covered boards. Light fading to back strips otherwise externally lovely. Binder's stamps to verso of front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
18311051London: John Murray 1831. Fine Leather Bound by Bayntun. VG. Extra Illustrated. A complete five volume set in VG/Near Fine condition beautifully bound by Bayntun in full crushed Morocco with double rule blind stamp details to boards six compartments and five raised bands to spines with bright gilt details and title. Small amount of wear to leather extremities. Leather to spines darkened. Binding and hinge are excellent silk end papers and paste downs AEG. Pages are bright and clean without marks some light sporadic foxing. Extra illustrated with 227 extra plates 50 of which are in color. Books measure 8.5"x5.75". 195 years old. An attractive set in scarce Bayntun binding. John Murray unknown
1887973F41DLondon: Clarendon Press 1887 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. James Boswell's complete six volume biography of Samuel Johnson beautifully bound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work to be edited by George Birkbeck Hill. In beautiful signed half calf bindings from Roger de Coverly & Sons this is an excellent and complete six volume set of James Boswell's biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The first edition thus being the first edition edited by George Birkbeck Hill and including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales'.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to four volumes two further engraved plates and six folding plates. Collated complete.A landmark work in the development of the modern biography in English many have claimed it as the greatest biography ever written. Nevertheless this biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life with Boswell making various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censoring his comments.Although his true passion was music the bookbinder Roger de Coverly trained with Zaehnsdorf and assisted at a stationer"s before opening his own bindery. In half morocco signed bindings with marbled paper covered boards and gilt detailing to back strips. A touch of rubbing to front joints otherwise externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
184328767New York: Alexander V. Blake. As New. 1843. Two 2 Volume Set. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer-- . Alexander V. Blake hardcover
1884247738London: 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
1859880F25London: Henry G. Bohn 1859 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A lovely ten volume edition of Boswell's life of Johnson in half morocco bindings and illustrated throughout. An attractively bound ten volume edition of this work by James Boswell featuring additions from J. Wilson Croker and John Wright.Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece to all volumes aside from volume IX which has a frontispiece only and with five plates to volume I two of which are folding; four to volume II two of which are folding; two to volume III one of which is folding; two to volume IV; two to volume V; two to volume VI one of which is folding; four to volume VII two of which are folding; three to volume VIII one of which is folding; two plates to volume IX one of which is folding and two folding plates to volume X.Collated lacking only an engraved title page to volume IX.Whilst Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject began in 1763 when Johnson was fifty four years old Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The most admired and best remembered portions of the book are Boswell's first-hand accounts of Johnson from the last twenty-one years of the subject's life. A landmark work in the development of the modern biography in English many have claimed this to be the greatest biography ever written. Nevertheless this biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life with Boswell making various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censoring his comments.With the inscription of G. Bell to the front free endpaper of each volume. In half calf bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt detailing to back strip. Externally very smart with rubbing to centre of front board of volume X. Inscription to head of front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with only the odd spot. Very Good Indeed Henry G. Bohn hardcover
1833373861New York: James Dearborn 1833. Plates. 566pp. 8vo. Contemporary straight grained burgundy morocco by Desilver Jr. Herse & Lindsay with their ticket on the inside upper morocco hinge covers elaborately panelled in gilt an blind with a central sunken panel spine gilt in five compartments with the first third and fifth compartments sunken full morocco gilt doublures silk endpapers gilt edges small split along the upper front joint minor wear at extremities. Plates. 566pp. 8vo. A very unusual and elaborate American ticketed binding with full morocco doublures. Spawn 275 James Dearborn unknown
183565838London: John Murray 1835. JOHNSON Samuel; MORRELLWRIGHT JohnSTEEVENS GeorgePIOZZI Hester LynchREYNOLDS Sir JoshuaTYERS ThomasMURPHY ArthurHAWKINS Sir John. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides.To which are added anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c. And notes by various hands. London: John Murray 1835.<br> <br> Croker's second edition revised by John Wright. Ten small octavo volumes including two volumes of Johnsoniana. Each volume with engraved frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with over 100 engraved plates.<br> <br> Bound by Morrell of London in full tan polished calf. Gilt double-rule border on covers spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with maroon and green morocco gilt lettering labels gilt board edges and turn-ins top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. An about fine set.<br> <br> Pottle 92.<br> <br> HBS 65838.<br> <br> $2500. John Murray unknown
183511588London: John Murray 1835. Croker's Second Edition revised by John Wright. Hardcover. Near Fine in Slipcase. Croker's Second Edition revised by John Wright. Hardcover. Croker's second edition revised by John Wright. Ten small volumes including two volumes of Johnsoniana. Volume X is from a "new edition" dated 1884. Each volume includes a hand-colored frontispiece and vignette title. Extra illustrated with the 50 engraved plates and facsimiles some double-page some foldout from the 1839 all hand colored. <br /> Bound by Bayntun of Bath in full mottled calf. A very handsome set indeed.<br /> From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minor shelf/edge wear one volume shows careful repair at the head else tight bright and unmarred; Slipcase shows light shelf/edge wear closed partial split at rear bottom else bright and clean. Full brown morocco with red morocco labels gilt lettering and decorative elements marbled endpapers aeg; brown cloth slipcase. Small 8vo. var pag. Illus. colored and b/w plates. John Murray hardcover
1859208973New York: Derby & Jackson 1859. New Edition. Hardcover. All 4 volumes Very Good in boards. Rubbing along panel edges. Foxing throughout beginning and ends of each volumes' texts. Derby & Jackson hardcover
1819273419London: 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.<br/> <br/> Printed for the Proprietors unknown
182221333London: Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington; Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown; Baldwin Cradock and Joy; et al 1822. Book. Near Fine. Full Leather in Box. Ninth Edition Revised and Augmented. Octavo. 4 Volumes. Pp. 36 441; 462; 446; 495. Unique edition extra illustrated with relevant engravings from various sources tissue-uarded frontispiece in each volume 200 illustrations in all includes 18 mostly hand-coloured plates and 2 folding facsimiles all inserted at appropriate spots. Full russet coloured smooth calf gilt stamped illustration of Johnson in the upper corners of both front and rear covers with gilt facsimile signature in the bottom corners triple ruled 5 raised bands ornate gilt to spine panels leather spine labels top edge gilt others deckled gilt dentelles marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe London. Volume 1 has a bit of staining to the leather of the rear panel otherwise all volumes are in near fine condition all individually housed in very good linen clamshell boxes with gilt-stamped leather spines. A near fine unique set. Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; et al Hardcover
1887303657Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887. Superbly extra-illustrated with more than 500 mounted portraits. Added title pages for each volume printed in red and black. Numerous folding plates. 11 vols. 8vo. Full red morocco gilt doublures gilt t.e.g. Bookplate of Nicholas Frederic Brady 1878-1930 by J. & E.B. Spines a bit toned; top of upper joint of Index volume with small repair a near fine and very handsome set. Superbly extra-illustrated with more than 500 mounted portraits. Added title pages for each volume printed in red and black. Numerous folding plates. 11 vols. 8vo. An abundantly extra-illustrated set of Boswell's classic biography of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press unknown
1835ST17226London: John Murray 1835. First Illustrated Edition Croker's Second Edition. 170 x 105 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4". 10 volumes. <br/> VERY PRETTY PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY BAYNTUN OF BATH stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with gilt rule border central panel diapered in gilt with knots at line intersection central compartment filled with floral tools raised bands spine compartments with large fleuron gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins with trefoil at corners marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With a total of 51 ILLUSTRATIONS consisting of: engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title page with vignette in each volume a folding map a folding facsimile plate and one double-page plate as called for all by Edward Francis Finden and all hand-colored AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 28 PLATES 10 portraits nine views nine folding facsimile plates four with vignette views ALL COLORED BY HAND all with tissue guards. Pottle 92. Spines just slightly and evenly sunned to a very pleasing burgundy one front hinge exposed with no hint of looseness offsetting from and onto the folding facsimiles other trivial imperfections but A LOVELY SET clean and fresh internally with attractively colored plates in a luscious and lustrous binding with virtually no signs of use.<br/> <br/> This is the first illustrated edition of the work generally considered to be the greatest biography in any language here embellished with additional portraits of Johnson's associates and views of important places in his life. First published in 1791 Boswell's account of Dr. Johnson reveals the most fully realized figure in literature and it prefigures modern biography in emphasizing the character of the subject rather than his deeds. It is also a tribute to Boswell's genius in that the bulk of the text is made up of accounts by the author of situations that he himself created so that his subject would be prompted to behave in a revealing and memorable way. Boswell "was a consummate impresario stage-managing the setting and 'dramatis personae' amidst which Johnson would glitter and then providing topics and opinions to elicit the magnificent rejoinders of Johnson." The result is that we see an unforgettable portrait of a man brilliant and profound and at the same time dogmatic overbearing prejudiced and irascible. Day This edition also includes Johnson's journal of his visit to the Hebrides Islands and "anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c. and notes by various hands" in the two final volumes which have the running title "Johnsoniana." Our handsome set is a good example of the early 20th century decorative work typical of the Bayntun firm founded in Bath in 1894 and now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. It is not terribly uncommon to encounter extra-illustrated examples of this and similar sets of major literary works but it is unusual to find such a set with all the illustrations hand colored. John Murray unknown
18871249881887. JOHNSON Samuel BOSWELL James. Boswell's Life of Johnson including Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Oxford: Clarendon 1887. Six volumes bound in eleven. Octavo contemporary full navy morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $11000.First George Birkbeck Hill edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson and Johnson's travels extra-illustrated with 1153 finely engraved portraits views maps and facsimiles including many proofs on India paper and facsimile of handwritten note by Hill tipped in. Handsomely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son.Hill was a renowned Johnsonian scholar; when the Clarendon Press brought out this six-volume set in 1887 ""the edition was accepted as a masterpiece of spacious editing. The index forming the sixth volume is a monument of industry and completeness"" DNB. ""The fascination of Boswell and Johnson's dialogue that dialogue of mind heart and voice round which Boswell organized his great Life is that it is not merely between two very different men but between two epochs. In its pages Romantic Europe speaks to Renaissance Europe and is answered"" Wain 229. Due to the profusion of added plates portraits and facsimiles each of the five text volumes were divided into two volumes for a total of 11 volumes the index volume is not extra-illustrated. Interiors and added plates clean and fine. Volume I Part I and Volume III Part I expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down a few other joints slightly tender or with minor reinforcements bindings sound. A very handsome and lavishly extra-illustrated set in excellent condition. hardcover
1805007260London: E. Jackson and G. Kearsley 1805. First Edition. Quarter Calf. Cloth slipcase. Very Good. Scarce hand-colored copy of work two parts bound in one. Oblong 27 by 34.5 cm. 20 hand-colored etched plates. The prints are inspired by Boswell's "Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson" which originally appeared in 1785. Additional plates include an engraved portrait of Johnson by Thomas Trotter two hand-colored Cruikshank plates satirizing life in Scotland and the seven etched plates from "Outlines of the Opposition Collected from the Designs of the Most Capital Jacobin Artists" published by Hannah Humphrey in 1794 -- these plates are not colored. Binding heavily rubbed along edges with some chipping and loss of paper pastedown. Calf abraded. Title written in ink on front cover. The etched plate series with a fair amount of light foxing. E. Jackson and G. Kearsley unknown
1884192130London: George Bell and Sons 1884. With autograph letters signed by Johnson and Boswell The unique "Monograph Copy" extra-illustrated with numerous additional plates and an extensive collection of autograph material including autograph letters signed by both Boswell and Johnson. The remaining items derive from an illustrious group of figures within the Johnsonian milieu many of whom feature in Boswell's narratives. This fine set offers a window onto the world Johnson inhabited. Johnson's letter is dated 29 July 1779. He notifies his physician Dr Lawrence that he has been detained in the country and must postpone their meeting. Boswell's which is undated proposes a day to "eat mutton" with Henry Sampson Woodfall 1739-1805 editor and printer of the Public Advertiser which published Boswell's work. These are tipped into the front of volume I alongside two other autograph items. The remaining volumes likewise contain autograph material from different individuals tipped into their fronts together with illuminated plates noting that the Société des Bibliophiles of New York specially bound and extra-illustrated the set. Correspondence from those with whom Johnson was personally and often closely acquainted includes social and professional letters from figures such as Hannah More 1745-1833 Richard Cumberland 1732-1811 Joseph Warton 1722-1800 and Samuel Parr 1747-1825. There is also a legal document signed by Johnson's defender Lord Thurlow 1731-1806. The collection also includes a receipt signed by John Horne Tooke 1736-1812 for a volume of his Diversions of Purley 1786 a philological work that publicly rivalled Johnson's Dictionary. This copy is number 39 of 104 sets. A full inventory of the autograph material is available on request. 15 vols large octavo 237 x 162 mm. Engraved frontispieces many plates with tissue guards. Contemporary brown-green morocco spines lettered in gilt compartments elaborately decorated with foliate design boards panelled in elaborate gilt light brown morocco onlay roundels gilt inner dentelles red morocco doublures with gilt fillets and green morocco onlay frame with gilt roll cream moiré silk flyleaves edges gilt white bookmarkers. Paper repair to autograph material. Spines uniformly sunned else a fine set. hardcover
