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192247043New York: printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page & Co 1922. Temple Bar Edition limited to 785 copies 10 volumes 8vo many fine illustrations through; original art vellum-backed brown paper-covered boards paper labels on spine; fine set. Esteemed edition beautifully printed. <br/><br/> printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover books
19226234New York: Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page and Company 1922. Temple Bar Edition. Limited to 785 copies of which this is number 360. Engraved frontispieces. Engraved vignette of Temple Bar on each title-page. 10 vols. 8vo. Original two toned boards paper labels dust jackets. Some chipping to dust jackets one dust jacket missing several missing portions; else a fine set. Temple Bar Edition. Limited to 785 copies of which this is number 360. Engraved frontispieces. Engraved vignette of Temple Bar on each title-page. 10 vols. 8vo. Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
18397Good condition with light wear and rubbing. 3/4 leather with marbled covered boards. 10 volumes. John Murray hardcover books
1995179705London: Eccles; Viscountess 1995. Hardcover. VG. xii 225 pp 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations facsimiles map portraits 1995 Published in a small edition for Roxburghe Club members with a small overrun. Quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards gilt spine. Folio. With sixty-eight pages of manuscript facsimiles plus seventeen additional illustrations. Facsimile of the Book of company with transcription on facing pages: p. 25-157./ Index of persons names in the Book of company p. 171-215 annotated with biographical notes. Contents as follows: James Boswell's Book of company at Auchinleck 1782-1795 -- Liquors at Auchinleck / David Buchanan -- Index of persons named in the Book of company -- Boswell's sons members of the Roxburghe Club -- Boswells of Auchinleck : a table of dates. Eccles,; Viscountess hardcover books
1831264126Edinburgh: Maclachan and Stewart 1831. Second edition. Text plates. xliii 555 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary purple cloth and blue boards uncut. VG. Second edition. Text plates. xliii 555 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maclachan and Stewart unknown books
178597London: Charles Dilly 1785. 424 1 pp. A lovely copy. Minor cracking of the hear of both spines. A former owner has indicated that this was bound by Zaensdorf. Full brown speckled calf. A near fine copy. Charles Dilly, hardcover books
1824000689London: 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. <br /><br /> J.F. Dove, Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford, Etc. books
182753380Oxford: William Pickering London; and Talboys and Wheeler 1827. First Pickering edition 4 volumes 8vo engraved portrait of Boswell and 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." <br/><br/> William Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler unknown books
182630851Oxford: Published by William Pickering London 1826. Oxford English Classics. Printed by Talboys and Wheeler Oxford. Engraved frontispieces after Joshua Reynolds. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in half green contemporary pebbled morocco and green cloth single gilt border on flat spine t.e.g. Very good set. Oxford English Classics. Printed by Talboys and Wheeler Oxford. Engraved frontispieces after Joshua Reynolds. 4 vols. 8vo. Published by William Pickering, London unknown books
1822WRCLIT17785London: Printed for T. Cadell et al 1822. Four volumes. Octavo. Original paper boards printed spine labels. Portrait frontis in first volume. Facsimiles. Paper covering the spines of first and fourth volumes imperfect small chip at crown of second spine internally crisp and generally quite nice. The ninth edition edited by Alexander Chalmers with additional notes which Pottle describes as "not extensive but.solid and useful." This was the last edition printed by Baldwin who had also printed the first eight editions. POTTLE 89. Printed for T. Cadell [et al] hardcover books
18071338142Boston MA: Andrews & Blake 1807. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo three volumes; G; full bindings of contemporary tree calf; spines burgundy labels and gilt lettering; mild shelf wear; joints starting; back joint of vol. 3 split; crowns of spines missing; all edges with decorative blue speckling; previous owner's name at front of all vols.; moderate even foxing throughout; pages else clean; shelved above Atheism. 1338142. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Andrews & Blake hardcover books
188425411London: George Bell and Sons 1884. 5 vols. 8vo engraved frontispieces and half-titles in each volume 42 plates throughout some folding map and a plate of facsimile signatures; titles printed in red and black orig. pale blue cloth cream shelfbacks soiled lettered in gilt; a good sound set or better. The final volume constitutes Johnsoniana: anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson LL.D. by Mrs. Piozzi Richard Cumberland Bishop Percy and others together with the Diary of Dr. Campbell and extracts from that of Madame D'Arbley newly collected and edited by Robina Napier. Pottle 96: "The best edition of the Life before Hill's is essentially a revised Crocker . Mrs. Napier's Johnsoniana is not a reprint of Croker's though it contains much of the same material but a separate and highly useful compilation." <br/><br/> George Bell and Sons hardcover books
1901021499London: J.M. Dent and Col 1901. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to only 350 copies In three volumes large paper edition. The present copy is number 156. Edited by Arnold Glover with an introduction by Austin Dobson illustrated with 100 illustrations by Herbert Railton with color portraits and black and white textual illustrations. Tissue guards present. A very handsome set bound in 3/4 brown crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated and lettered in gilt top edge gilt. J.M. Dent and Col unknown books
1901263606London: 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.<br/><br/> One of 350 numbered copies.<br/><br/> Dent unknown books
18681311574London: Bell & Daldy 1868. Hardcover. 12mo; Fair/no-DJ; dark green 3/4 leather bindings with gilt text to spine; gilt borders and raised bands to spines; 10 volumes; boards show heavy wear to edges and joints; rubbing wear to exteriors of boards; minimal wear to edges; marbled text block shows light sunning to exterior edges; marbled endpapers; frontispieces with tissue guards; previous owner's bookplates to ffeps; slight cracking to gutters; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1311574. FP New Rockville Stock. Bell & Daldy hardcover books
1901302759London: J.M. Dent 1901. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarter brown morocco and gilt spine t.e.g. by McDonald. Some rubbing. VG. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. J.M. Dent unknown books
183524973London: John Murray 1835. First edition thus. Three quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands six gilt decorated compartmentswith red morocco title label and black morocco volume label top edge gilt marbled endpapers sewn-in red silk bookmark. Spines a bit darkened extremities rubbed some scuffing to spines volume labels chipped one nearly gone one title label heavily chipped bindings tight leaves crisp and clean overall still a very good set but for the chipped labels. Illus. with engraved 12 frontispieces and 12 extra title page vignettes drawn by C. Stanfield and engraved by E. Finden. 12mo. Originally to be 8 volumes changed to 10 with addition of new material and thus new title pages were issued. John Murray hardcover books
1824246342Bellows Falls Vt. Volume I and Boston: Charles Ewer: Printed for the Proprietors and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor 1824. A New Edition. Frontispiece Vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Original boards uncut one joint off spines rubbed with loss else Good. A New Edition. Frontispiece Vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor unknown books
1857WRCAM35838Hartford: F.C. Brownell 1857. 1629-6411pp. with rear wrapper printed on both sides. Original printed wrappers. Early dampstain in upper margin not affecting text. Number ink- stamped in upper outer corner of front wrapper. Overall very good. First edition thus a separate offprint; originally published in BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION for December 1856. Reid was a noted Scottish-born chemist educator and ventilation engineer. This very early proposal for a graduate institution in architecture in the United States seems little known; it is not mentioned by Mary Woods in her recent book FROM CRAFT TO PROFESSION THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA. A scarce work with OCLC locating only one copy; Hitchcock notes two. HITCHCOCK 987. DAB XV pp.475-76. F.C. Brownell unknown books
180753374Boston: 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. <br/><br/> W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown books
19008612London. 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
188825409London: Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co 1888. 3 vols. 8vo frontispiece portrait facsimile of the 1791 title-p.; very good bright set in orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines t.e.g. See Pottle 95: "This edition represents the first scholarly reaction against the tradition of the 'edited' Boswell . Fitzgerald maintained that . Boswell's work should not be regarded as miscellaneous encyclopaedia of Johnsoniana but as an artistic whole." <br/><br/> Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co hardcover books
19019023265London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1901. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in half leather and cloth covered boards gilt ruled covers. Four raised bands on the spines. Spines are sunned stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. Frontispieces and illustrations throughout. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover books
1857258470London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street 1857. First edition. Inserted Frontispiece by Reynolds and another of Boaswell in Corsican garb at p. 136. xlviii 407 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary diapered calf gilt spine a.e.g. Bookplate of Solomon R. Guggenheim 1869-1949. Nice copy. First edition. Inserted Frontispiece by Reynolds and another of Boaswell in Corsican garb at p. 136. xlviii 407 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street unknown books
181954077London: Printed for the Proprietors and sold by R. Edwards . and J. Offor 1819. Engraved frontispieces after Joshua Reynolds. 4 vols. 8vo. Half black polished calf and marbled paper boards gilt-lettered spine with red leather lettering pieces. Small chip from one label slight rubbing otherwise very good. Engraved frontispieces after Joshua Reynolds. 4 vols. 8vo. Printed for the Proprietors and sold by R. Edwards ... and J. Offor unknown books
