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183543407London: John Murray 1835. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 17cm various paginations plates and illustrations half mid--century polished calf over marlbed boards with spines in six compartments extra gilt decorations in the panels crimson and brown morocco labels top edges gilt marbled endpapers bookseller ticket of D.P. Elder and Morgan Shephard of San Francisco on each volume's rear endpaper Pottle 92. Croker's second edition which reprints the original 100 letters from Johnson that Croker brought to light in 1831 with his first Boswell's Johnson. Pottle refers to this set as the first illustrated edition. A very charming example of the seminal biography one of the high spots of western literature. John Murray unknown
183500009011London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 10 vol. Small 8vo. 5 vi-xxiv 2 3-325 3; 5 vi-viii 1 2-344 2; 5 vi-ix 2 2-323 3; 5 vi-xii 1 2-343 1; 5 vi-viii 1 2-341 3; 5 vi-viii 1 2-342 2; 5 vi-viii 1 2-381 3; 5 vi-xi 2 2-431 3; 5 vi-xv 2 2-335 3; 5 vi-xii 1 2-376 2 pp. Late nineteenth-century half polished sheep over pink cloth spines in six compartments spines unpolished lettered and tooled in gold; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and vignette engraved title page volume three with a fold-out map of Scotland and the Hebrides. Volume six contains the fold-out Round Robin facsimile of Johnson's hand-writing to which there is a tiny hairline split not affecting the legibility of the fold-out plate. Oxford DNB Pat Rogers "Johnson Samuel 1709–1784". Pottle 92. The second Croker edition with little change to the text except for "the notes and Johnsoniana" Pottle 182. Pottle notes that the last two volumes in the set are extremely useful with some material never having been before published. Pottle also calls this "the first illustrated edition" Pottle 183. A stunning set of Boswell's magnum opus a monumental and early English biography. Samuel Johnson most famous for compiling the English dictionary that would replace the Bailey dictionary and would later become the dictionary that Noah Webster would consult is a legendary author and man of letters. Here his biographer and diarist James Boswell relates his life work and correspondences in the ten volumes. The final two volumes include the anecdotes about Johnson from his contemporaries. A principal work in English biographical literature housed in a lovely binding. A Near Fine set with a few hints of wear to the extremities overall bright and beautiful. John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover
1835SET9-C-1London: John Murray 1835. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Various. A decoratively bound set of Boswell's famous The Life of Samuel Johnson including the rarer two volumes of Johnsoniana. Complete in Ten Volumes. Volume X contains additional title pages for Volumes I - VIII to the rear. With an armorial nameplate for Robert Montgomery Convoy on the front pastedowns. This set contains the eight volumes complete of The Life of Samuel Johnson with both volumes of the 'Johnsoniana' that was added during publication. In original publishers cloth binding. bindings are generally tight and firm. Externally smart. There is some wear to the extremities including some bumping with some discolouration and marks to the boards. The inner rear hinge is strained in volumes I and V and has failed in volume VI and needs repair allowed for in price. Internally the pages are generally bright with some occasional slight browning. There is the occasional spot becoming prominent to the first and last few pages. There is an ink signature on the title pages of volumes V to IX and on the half-title of volumes III and IV. Very Good John Murray hardcover
1846648816Henry G. Bohn 1846. First Thus. Leather Binding. Near Fine. 10 volumes complete as issued. Attractively bound in 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son spines with raised bands gilt floral devices and gilt-bordered compartments covers sectioned with a single gilt fillet top edges gilt marbled endpapers covers a trifle faded slight wear. A nice set with great shelf presence. PROVENANCE: Engraved armorial bookplates of Charles B. Barnes Jr. of Boston dated 1893. Henry G. Bohn unknown
1835639079John Murray 1835. First Thus. Leather Binding. Near Fine. An attractive set in period 3/4 dark red morocco over marbled boards spines with raised bands and elaborate gilt floral tooling within gilt ruled compartments covers sectioned with a single gilt fillet top edges gilt marbled edges slight wear bookplate in each volume. A nice set of this landmark work long considered one of the finest biographies in the English language chronicling the life and wit of the pioneering etymologist. 10 volumes complete. John Murray unknown
183153394London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 5 volumes 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards maroon and brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; light wear to extremities upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed but firm lower corner of vol. 3 bumped a near fine copy. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited and much famously condemned by Macaulay. Seeing the problem Murray hastily engaged Wright to do a make-over and republished it in 1835. Pottle 91: The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book." <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
183153394London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 5 volumes 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards maroon and brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; light wear to extremities upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed but firm lower corner of vol. 3 bumped a near fine copy. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited and much famously condemned by Macaulay. Seeing the problem Murray hastily engaged Wright to do a make-over and republished it in 1835. Pottle 91: The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book. John Murray unknown
188789226London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1887. Fine. Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington London 1887 15 x 23 cm Reliure de l'éditeur Rare first edition illustrated with 9 plates including a large folding map.Publishers binding in full havana cloth smooth spine decorated in black vignette of a ship within a double black circle on the upper cover black endpapers and pastedowns joints split corners slightly rubbed.The author was a former officer of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment and wrote several works on various military subjects.Manuscript ex-libris of R. B. Knight on the half-title blue ink stains on the edges at the beginning of the volume. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington hardcover
178513147London Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785
166498Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. 5th edn revised and augmented. 4 vols. 8vo 8½ x 5½ ins. Contemporary full speckled calf spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels boards gilt tooled at edges 2 ins tear at bottom lower edge of spine of vol IV and some light scratching on boards - otherwise a VG set. Pp. iv xxxv 478 2 blank & iv 496 2 blank & iv 480 2 blank & iv 522 2 blank illus with engraved frontispiece in vol I and folding facsimiles 2 in vols I and III previous owner's engraved card on front paste-downs and rear endpapers of vol VI a little toned and creased; no inscriptions. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 unknown
65705London: Printed for Baynes and Son et al. 1826. 4 vols. 8vo. 21.25 x 13 cm. Contemporary navy half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments two red morocco labels to each spine marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece and one folding Round Robin plate and a double-page facsimile of Johnson's handwriting. Some light rubbing to boards contents with some occasional light toning and light spotting to endpapers overall a very good set. "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" Pottle. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. first published in 1791 by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject began in 1763 when Johnson was 54 years old and Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The work was from the beginning a critical and popular success and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography and many have called it the greatest biography written in English. Keynes p. 54; Pottle 90 London: Printed for Baynes and Son [et al.], 1826. hardcover
19257686Bath: George Bayntun 1925. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. 26 x 19 cms pp. xl 576; xvi 577-1172. Contemporary half morocco gilt over patterned paper boards trivial wear to extremities. A handsome set. The text of this comprehensively illustrated edition follows the sixth edition 1811 revised by Boswells son accompanied by the notes of various commentators including Boswells friends and contemporaries Edmond Malone and Charles Burney. Book George Bayntun hardcover
1822953Y43London: T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington et al 1822. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A complete ninth edition set of James Boswell's authoritative biography of Samuel Johnson bound in half calf. The ninth edition revised and augmented. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards.This work is commonly regarded as the greatest biography written in the English language recounting the life of eminent English writer Samuel Johnson. Johnson made lasting contributions as a poet essayist literary critic biographer and lexicographer often noted for his monumental 'Dictionary of the English Language' which he completed after nine years. This biography among his diaries and correspondence is the best known work of James Boswell whose mass of letters and private papers published by Yale University transformed his reputation.With an engraved frontispiece and folding facsimile to Vol I. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards. Externally with rubbing to the extremitis and slight scuffing to the paper covered boards. Darkening to the spines' leather. Internally pages 103-106 detached but present to Vol I otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with occasional scattered spotting heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington et al hardcover
182317513London: J.Richardson and Co. G.Offor et al 1823 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 nearly half a century during which he flourished. An extra illustrated version in four volumes bound by Baytun of Bath. Dark green goatskin with spines uniformly faded never-the-less still a fine set and scarce in this form. J.Richardson and Co. G.Offor et al unknown
183125405London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards maroon morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; vol. 1 rebacked with old spine laid down; joints cracked on vols. 2-5 cords holding and in the case of vol. 5 barely holding top of vol. 4 slightly chipped. This edition 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. Pottle 91: The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book." <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1810311221New York & Boston: Inskeep and Bradford . and William M'Ilhenny printed by R. & W. Carr 1810. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf flat spine divided by gilt rolls and fillets into six compartments lettered in one the rest stamped in gilt with shield and bow and arrow tool. Light rubbing to covers small stain to lower corner of title some toning and spotting to text. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. The first American edition appeared in two issues in 1810 one with a Philadelphia imprint and as here with a cancel New York and Boston imprint. Both issues were printed in Philadelphia by R. & W. Carr and are otherwise identical. The Philadelphia publisher John F. Watson has inserted an "Advertisement" at the front making excuses for Boswell: "In republishing a work which . has so long subjected its author to the sarcasms of foes or to the plaudits of friends it seems but the bounden duty of the American editor to suffer the author in this place to offer those vindications which he afterwards saw fit to annex to his 'Life of Johnson.'"<br/>An attractive copy in a contemporary American binding. Pottle 63; Shaw and Shoemaker 19607 Inskeep and Bradford ... and William M'Ilhenny [printed by R. & W. Carr] unknown books
1785250763London: Henry Baldwin 1785. Second. hardcover. very good. xx 534 pages. 8vo 3/4 tan morocco over marbled boards hinges repaired worn. London: Henry Baldwin 1785. Second Edition revised and corrected. Internally clean.<br/><br/> Henry Baldwin unknown books
1793045403London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in modern calf backed marbled boards - volume 1 similar but not identical to the other two bindings. Scattered foxing and staining signature to title but a clean bright ample margined copy overall. The first issue without the added corrections in volume 1. 2xxxix1xxxvi6031; 2634; 27111pp An appealing copy of the second edition of this greatest of biographies. With the frontis portrait two folding plates and 22 pages of new material including the first appearance of the 'A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works. Size: Octavo 8vo. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045403. <br/><br/> Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover books
06656London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1907. The Classic Life - Boswell's Johnson in an Elegant Bayntun-Rivière Binding<br /> The Life of Samuel Johnson<br /> <br /> BOSWELL James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1907.<br /> <br /> Two quarto volumes 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches; 235 x 181 mm. xxxii 576; xvi 577-1172 pp. Twelve inserted photogravure plates. Profusely illustrated throughout with portraits views and maps.<br /> <br /> Handsomely bound ca. 1940 by Bayntun-Rivière in three-quarter brown morocco over tan cloth boards covers ruled in gilt spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Spines lightly and attractively mellowed. A fine well-preserved set.<br /> <br /> First published in 1791 Boswell's Life of Johnson remains one of the greatest biographies in the English language - remarkable for its immediacy anecdotal richness and the vivid reconstruction of the personality of Samuel Johnson. Boswell's method - built on diaries conversations and firsthand observation - effectively created the modern art of literary biography.<br /> <br /> The 1907 Ingpen edition is among the more desirable early 20th-century scholarly printings offering a carefully edited text enriched with notes and a generous illustrative program including photogravures that lend the work a distinctly Edwardian bibliophilic appeal.<br /> <br /> The present set is elevated considerably by its later binding by Bayntun-Rivière of Bath one of the most respected English binderies of the 20th century known for combining traditional craftsmanship with restrained elegance - an ideal treatment for a canonical literary text. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1907 unknown
1810311221New York & Boston: Inskeep and Bradford . and William M'Ilhenny printed by R. & W. Carr 1810. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf flat spine divided by gilt rolls and fillets into six compartments lettered in one the rest stamped in gilt with shield and bow and arrow tool. Light rubbing to covers small stain to lower corner of title some toning and spotting to text. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. The first American edition appeared in two issues in 1810 one with a Philadelphia imprint and as here with a cancel New York and Boston imprint. Both issues were printed in Philadelphia by R. & W. Carr and are otherwise identical. The Philadelphia publisher John F. Watson has inserted an "Advertisement" at the front making excuses for Boswell: "In republishing a work which . has so long subjected its author to the sarcasms of foes or to the plaudits of friends it seems but the bounden duty of the American editor to suffer the author in this place to offer those vindications which he afterwards saw fit to annex to his 'Life of Johnson.'"<br /> An attractive copy in a contemporary American binding. Pottle 63; Shaw and Shoemaker 19607 Inskeep and Bradford ... and William M'Ilhenny [printed by R. & W. Carr] unknown
1848546417London: Henry G. Bohn 1848. Hardcover. Near Fine. Ten volumes. Engraved illustrations. 12mos. Half green morocco with marbles paper over boards marbled endpapers topedge gilt and gilt spine with raised spine bands. Near fine with a touch of rubbing to some of the edges and neat contemporary pencil notes and name "H.G. Lippincott" in the first volume only. A nice set of this classic literary biography. Henry G. Bohn hardcover
1836Embry 183615John Murray London: 1836. First edition first printing. Bookplate faint wear still fine and bright in custom mylar cover. One-half tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe over patterned boards spine panels simply gilt with double surrounds John Murray, London: 1836. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1836183615London: John Murray 1836. First edition first printing. Bookplate faint wear still fine and bright in custom mylar cover. One-half tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe over patterned boards spine panels simply gilt with double surrounds. John Murray unknown
1930193203London: G. Bell and Sons 1930. First edition signed limited issue number 12 of 350 copies signed by the artist and printed on large paper. Filled with exceptional period-sensitive illustrations from Shepard Everybody's Boswell was the second in a series of three popular abridgements of historical works preceded by the successful Everybody's Pepys 1926 and followed by Everybody's Lamb 1933. Octavo. Illustrated title page 54 plates. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt gilt device of Boswell and Johnson on front cover top edge gilt others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Jacket spine toned spine ends nicked and chipped hole to spine touching one letter a few closed tears to edges one measuring 3.5 cm: a fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
196059005731London: William Heinemann 1960. All bound in matching velour over cloth with leather title label to spine. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp. with slipcase; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 428 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour German and Switzerland 1764 1953 353 pp.; with slipcase; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 1/400 copies 383 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1957 1/400 copies 425 pp.; 6 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1960 1/350 copies 396 pp. A most impressive set. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket - As Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. William Heinemann Hardcover
