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183523141London: 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
1951926P43London: William Heinemann LTD 1951-60. Vellum. Very Good. 10" by 7". Various. Yale's limited edition set containing the private papers of James Boswell illustrated throughout. Limited edition works.In six volumes. A further six volumes were published by Yale from 1963 to 1989.A collection of this private papers journals and travel works of James Boswell.Boswell was a noted Scottish biographer and diarist of the eighteenth century well beloved for his biography on his contemporary and friend Samuel Johnson.These publications by Yale University helped to transform Boswell's reputation after they recovered his many private papers. 'Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 Together With Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762' published in 1951. Illustrated with a frontispiece two folding maps and twenty-one plates. Collated complete. Limited to 1050 copies of which this is numbered 351.'Boswell in Holland 1763-1764' published in 1952. Illustrated with a frontispiece one folding map and thirteen plates. Collated complete. Limited to 1050 copies of which this is numbered 348.'Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764' published in 1953. Illustrated with one folding map and seventeen plates. Collated complete. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is numbered 284.'Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766' published in 1955. Illustrated with a frontispiece one folding map and nineteen plates. Collated complete. Limited to 400 copies of which this is numbered 77. Bookseller's label to the front paste down.'Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769' published in 1957 in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece one folding map four maps and twenty-one plates. Collated complete. Limited to 400 copies of which this is numbered 101. 'Boswell For the Defence 1769-1774' published in 1960 in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece one double-sided folding map two folding maps and eleven plates. Collated complete. Limited to 350 copies of which this is numbered 64.Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. In the original publisher's quarter vellum binding with cloth to the boards. Externally generally smart with light marks to the boards and spines. Spines are age-toned as is usual with vellum. Spine labels are lifting a little. Spots to the fore edges. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good William Heinemann LTD hardcover
2008SKU1025013Wasteland Press 2008-06-18. Paperback. New. New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp pages w/no markings! You will be pleased. Excellent book! z1s192D Some very minor shelf wear on cover. Fast Shipping Wasteland Press paperback
181652001280048Alnwick printed by and for J. Graham 1816. Leather. Acceptable. Leather covered Hardcovers. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1816 12 VOLUME SET COMPLETE. Text unmarked vol. 6 has very minor marking in margins. Pages with tanning and minor light foxing spots. Light damp stains on some. Covers show heavy edge wear with heavy rubbing/scuffing. Bumped corners. Spine edge wear/chipping. Some covers are separating or separated at hinges but all are present. Previous owners bookplate on inside front covers and name/inscription on front end paper. TITLES: 1: Poems and Philological Tracts 2: The Rambler 3: The Rambler 4: Rambler and Adventurer 5: Idler and Rasselas 6: Lives of the Poets 7: Lives of the Poets 8: Lives of the Poets and Eminent Persons 9: Hebrides Political Essays Miscellanies 10: Miscellanies Dedications Letters Prayers Index 11: Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. with fold-out of Facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's Hand Writing 12: Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. with fold-out of Round Robin addresed to Samuel Johnson L.L.D with Facsimiles of the Signatures. Volumes definitely show their age but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Alnwick (printed by and for J. Graham) hardcover
17931410258London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Second edition revised and augmented. Hardcover. Octavo Three volumes xxxix 603 pages; 634 pages; 711 pages. In Good plus condition. Spines are brown with gold print on black banners. Boards in brown leather; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block of first volume has clipping adhered to front pastedown along with note in ink. Illustrated: engraved frontispiece portrait by Joshua Reynolds two folded plates facsimiles.<br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.<br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-volume Section. 1410258. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover
19351338948London: John Murray 1935. Hardcover. Octavo 10 vols.; VG-; contemporary three-quarter bindings of brown leather boards in marbled paper; bound by Root & Son with their stamp at verso of second free end paper; spines with raised bands gilt lettering and design in spine panels; mild shelf wear and scuffing; wear at joints; wear to spine crowns of vols. 5 and 8; upper edges gilt; marbled end papers; portrait and frontispieces offset; vol. 6 contains fold out facsimile letter; pages clean; shelved above Case 9 3/4. 1338948. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. John Murray hardcover books
19351338948London: John Murray 1935. Hardcover. Octavo 10 vols.; VG-; contemporary three-quarter bindings of brown leather boards in marbled paper; bound by Root & Son with their stamp at verso of second free end paper; spines with raised bands gilt lettering and design in spine panels; mild shelf wear and scuffing; wear at joints; wear to spine crowns of vols. 5 and 8; upper edges gilt; marbled end papers; portrait and frontispieces offset; vol. 6 contains fold out facsimile letter; pages clean; shelved above Case 9 3/4. 1338948. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. John Murray hardcover
19032658Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co 1903. Fine Binding. Leather bound. Very Good . 4 1/2 X 6 7/8 Inches. The six volume "Boswell's Life of Johnson" was published in 1903. The two volume "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson" was published in 1898. ALL EIGHT VOLUMES finely bound in Quarter leather with matching tips. TEG. Five raised hubs to each spine. Gilt title stamping and decoration to spines. Hint of toning to interiors. A very clean set with beautiful marbled endpapers. There is no binder's ticket but the binding looks to be period and is absolutely spectacular. Archibald Constable & Co unknown
19346468Clarendon 1934. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xlv 3 556; 6 543; 6 541; 6 557; xxvii 3 596; xii 2 496 pp. 8vo burgundy cloth gilt spine titles and ruled head and tail. Frontispiece portraits to all vols. Vols 1-4 are 1934 first printings of the Powell revised edition. Vols. 5 & 6 are 1964 Second Edition with errata slips. Vols 1-4 show some light rubbing to extremities vols 1& 2 fore edges dampstained. Volumes 5 & 6 are inscribed by the preeminent Johnson/Boswell collector Mary Hyde: “For the Courage Library in rememberance of our unforgetable visit - Mary Hyde and Lila Tyng 19 September 1974.†Hyde's collection begun with her husband Donald Hyde and continually expanded until her death in 2003 has been described as "just one of the world's great archives of eighteenth-century English literature with more than 4000 books and 5500 letters and manuscripts. Still more important it is the world's best collection of documents relating to the life and work of Samuel Johnson" - Adam Kirsch. The collection was placed in Harvard's Houghton Library in 2004. <br /> <br /> In the preface to vol. VI Lawrence F. Powell writes "My friends in America have been generous in their aid. I mention in particular Dr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde whose library at Four Oaks Farm Somerville New Jersey is the Mecca of All Johnsonians. Clarendon hardcover
180733660London: Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington ; Longman Hurst Rees etc. 1807. 4 volumes. The Fifth Edition Revised and Augmented. Engraved portrait Reynolds as frontispiece to Vol. I folding plate with facsimiles of Johnson’s handwriting in the second volume the Round Robin plate in Vol. III all complete as called for. 8vo in handsome contemporary bindings of full mottled calf the covers with gilt roll tooling to the borders the spines richly gilt with multi-ruled and decorated gilt bands separating the compartments the compartments with central gilt ornaments lettered in gilt in one compartment original marbled endleaves. xxxv 3 478; 496; 480; 522 2 pp. A handsome set generally quite well preserved with some inevitable rubbing to the extremities and some light wear to the hinges though the bindings are strong and tight and the text-blocks all in good order crisp clean and unpressed some light mellowing on occasion. EARLY PRINTING OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BIOGRAPHIES IN THE LANGUAGE. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared." He said too that: “A sanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal. Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness that by recording so considerable a portion of the wit and wisdom of the brightest ornament of the eigteenth century I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.†If Boswell does indulge in a little harmless flattery to himself the concluding words of his preface are literally true for Boswell’s Johnson as much as any other book “has largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.â€<br> A valuable reference to the life and times of the era. The object of the work is to depict the life of the period in English history which may legitimately be described as the Age of Johnson. Johnson lived from 1709 to 1784 from the time of Queen Anne and into the third decade of the reign of George III. The book is a descriptive tour de force extremely well written and highly illuminating.<br> Johnson had once said of his own time--’The present age’ he wrote in 1758 <br>though not likely to shine hereafter among the most splendid periods of history has yet given examples of charity which may be very properly commended to imitation.’ The years after Johnson wrote those words saw the year of Minden of Quiberon Bay Lgos and the taKing of Quebec a series of victories to which there are few parallels. It was the age of Chatham too and of Clive Cook Wolfe Burke Fox Gibbon Fielding Reynolds Gainsborough the Adams Garrick Cavendish Priestley Watt and many many others. It can be reckoned among the splendid periods of history. Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington ; Longman, Hurst Rees, etc. unknown
103213R. Cross W. Wilson et al. Dublin. 1792. R. Cross et al. 1792. Irish first edition and the second edition after the first London edition of 1791. In three volumes. Bound in contemporary tree calf edges rubbed spines worn rubbed and creased and lacking three labels with other three labels lack portions. Head and tail of spine of vol. I chipped. Pagination: xxxiv 536; 605; 573 pages. 2 folding plates to rear of volume III - Round Robin and a facsimile of Dr. Johnson's handwriting. Armorial bookplates of Robert Wilmot to each volume. Contemporary gift inscription to each volume and a few neat notes to endpapers. Front inner hinge of vol. I slightly visible but holding. Pages browned otherwise a clean and sound set. unknown
17931249C005London: Charles Dilly 1793. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. VOL I: Frontis Title vi Dedication vii-xii Advertisement to 1st Ed. xiii-xviii Advertisement to 2nd Ed.; 1-xxii Additions recollected & received after the 2nd edition was printed xxiii-xxxi Chronological Catalouge of the prose works 1 blank xxvii-xxxix Table of Contents 1 xxxiii-xxxvi Corrections xxxviii Additional Corrections 1 blank 603. VOL II: Title 634 Fold-out plate facing p.450. VOL III: Title 711 Fold-out plate facing p.711 1 blank. Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Complete three volume set. Half calf leather bindings with marbled boards. Spines with gilt ruled compartments and red morocco title labels. Spines heavily worn and rubbed with loss to ends and chipping to edges. Joints cracked front board of Volume II is loose but held by the cords. Volume I has an old leather repair to rear joint. Good solid page blocks. Foxing to text and occasional pencilled margin markings. Owner's name to all title pages dated 1809 a later owner's name and address to front free endpaper in Volume I. The second London edition and first English octavo edition following the 1791 London quarto edition and the 1792 Dublin octavo edition. Complete with the portrait frontis in Volume I fold-out 'Round Robin' plate in Volume II and fold-out handwriting facsimile in Volume III. Volume I also includes the additional corrections leaf c3 p. xxxviii. Overall condition is Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Charles Dilly hardcover
1839865N21London: John Murray 1839. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Various. An illustrated set of James Boswell's acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's renowned biography of eighteenth century poet playwright critic moralist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Frequently regarded as the foremost literary critic of the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson is perhaps best known for his influential 'A Dictionary of the English Language' which had a far-reaching effect on the Modern English language and remained the standard for one-hundred and fifty years after its publication. James Boswell the author of the present biography met Johnson in 1763 when Johnson was fifty-four years old and the formed a friendship that lasted until Johnson's death in 1784. Although there are now many biographies of Samuel Johnson Boswell's account is often considered the best due to its inclusion of more personal details. With six plates to volume I including two folding plates collated and complete. With five plates to volume II including two folding plates collated and complete. With two plates to volume III including a folding plate collated and complete. With two plates to volume IV collated and complete. With two plates to volume V collated and complete. With two plates to volume VI including a folding plate collated and complete. With three plates to volume VII collated and complete. With two plates to volume VIII collated and complete. With two plates to volume IX including a folding plate collated and complete. With two plates to volume X collated and complete. In a maroon cloth binding. Externally generally smart. There are some light marks to the front board of volumes III and IV but otherwise volumes lightly rubbed to the boards and the spines which is are little discoloured. A little bumped to the the head and tail of all volumes with a small closed tear to the head of the spine of volume I. There is a tiny chip in the cloth to the head of volume IV and a larger chip to the spine of volume IX. The front hinge is starting but firm to volumes I and III and both hinges are starting to volumes VI and IX. Internally generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good John Murray hardcover
1831867A22London: Charles Tilt 1831. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 4". None. A bright copy of this uncommon edition of James Boswell's famous biography of Dr Johnson in striking signed binding. A new edition of Scottish biographer James Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson often described as one of the greatest English biographies of all time. Edited by John Wilson Croker.In charming full crushed morocco binding signed 'WPE'.Vignette illustration to title page. Complete with half title. Decorations to tissue guard to face title page.With copious notes and biographical illustrations by Edmond Malone. 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. In full morocco binding with five raised bands gilt lettering to spine gilt to edges. Externally very smart with light fading to spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally very clean throughout. Very Good Indeed Charles Tilt hardcover
193461978Asnières, Les Imp. Mary, (1934). In Braun u. Schwarz gedrucktes illustr. Orig.-Plakat (99,5 x 32 cm).
1851125781London UK: Henry G. Bohn 1851. Hardcover. Near Fine. L 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Henry G. Bohn London UK 1851. 10 volumes complete. Blindstamped bluish turquoise cloth gold lettering on spine. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 2 frontispieces on each volume. Fifty engraved illustrations. Size: L 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. The Editor after preparing this volume for the press feels more than ever satisfied as to the arrangement ultimately adopted with respect to the scattered JOHNSONIANA of Boswell's friends and rivals. In the notes to the preceding volumes he has presented all those short passages of other writers which seemed to bear decidedly on the statements in Boswell's text: in the 9th and 10th volume the reader has presented to him a mass of miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings gathered from nearly a hundred different publications; which could not have been produced as notes to Boswell without overloading and perplexing his pages but which are essential to the completion of the intellectual portrait of Johnson. Johnsoniana by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Malone Nichols Steevens Cumberland and others. Biography History::Britain 6323 6323 Henry G. Bohn hardcover
1822BOS-164 volumes. Includes the facsimile handwriting and Round Robin folding plates. Neat ink name and reference number on front paste-downs; notes on verso of rear end papers in 2 volumes. <br /><br />Considered by some to be the greatest biography in the English language<br /><br />Contains " a few notes and corrections; . as well as some additional particulars that may be found useful in illustrating those passages which in the lapse of time are becoming obscure." cf. Advertisement to the Ninth Edition by Alex. Chalmers Editor. T. Cadell, et al hardcover
188753372Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887. First Hill edition and one of the finest of all editions of this classic work; 6 volumes large 8vo 14 plates including frontispieces facsimiles some folding and a map; generally a fine set in original green cloth gilt-lettered spines. Pottle 98: "This has so long held the field as the one edition for scholarly use that it is most unlikely it will ever be superseded." <br/><br/> Clarendon Press hardcover books
182666492Oxford: published by William Pickering London and Talboys and Wheeler Oxford 1826. First Pickering edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxi 1 394; 4 416; 4 395 1; ix 1 428; publisher's device on title pages 4 pages of Pickering ads for the Oxford English Classics tipped into the front of volume IV engraved portrait of Boswell after Joshua Reynolds folding Round Robin plate and a double-page facsimile of Johnson's handwriting all spotted; original red cloth paper labels on spines quite rubbed with some loss spine ends chipped but generally good and sound in the original binding. Early ownership signature of "R. Dixon" on the front pastedown of volumes II-IV. Issued on the publisher's Oxford English Classics series. Keynes p. 54; 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." Books bound in full cloth date from the 1760s onwards. These early cloth bindings were generally of coarsely woven hessian cloth or canvas and used most frequently on school textbooks. Publishers' full cloth bindings date from the early to mid-1820s William Pickering being one of the early innovators. published by William Pickering, London, and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford unknown
1925913T39Bath: George Bayntun 1925. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7.5". Not Stated. A new edition complete in two volumes of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson illustrated throughout. Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with five hundred and seventy six illustrations facsimiles and maps including thirteen plates in photogravure. Collated complete. Exploring the life of Samuel Johnson an English poet essayist biographer and literary critic. He published 'A Dictionary of the English Language' in 1755 considered the foremost dictionary of the time until the Oxford English Dictionary was published 173 years later. He was a devout Anglican and firmly opposed slavery; his religious writings emphasize the goodness of charity repentance marriage and pride. Written by Scottish biographer James Boswell this work is often described as being the greatest biography ever written in English. Here edited with notes by Robert Roger Ingpen an Australian graphic designer illustrator and writer. In the original red cloth binding. Externally very smart with light rubbing and minor fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor loss to the tail of the spine to volume two. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine George Bayntun hardcover
2005DADAX0849322626CRC Press 2005-08-31. 7. hardcover. New. 8.75x3.50x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CRC Press hardcover
1922003686New York: Printed for Gabriel Wells By Doubleday Page and Company 1922. Temple Bar edition. 10 volumes complete engraved front. t.e.g. deckle edges original half-vegetable vellum and publisher's stiff boards. No. 442 of 785 sets of which thirty-five were not for sale. Splendid set of Boswell's great study of Samuel Johnson. Printed for Gabriel Wells By Doubleday, Page and Company unknown books
183926457London: John Murray 1839. New Edition. Fifty Engraved Illustrations. 10 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary pebbled 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper gilt spines t.e.g. Near fine set with the bookplate of James Stracham. New Edition. Fifty Engraved Illustrations. 10 vols. Small 8vo. John Murray unknown books
198962874New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co 1989. First American edition as edited for this series of all volumes. 8vo. 13 volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 now first published from the original manuscript 1950 370 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 433 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764 1953 357 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 356 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1956 390 pp.; 6 Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LL.D 1773 1961 520 pp.; 7 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1959 396 pp.; 8 Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-1776 1963 427 pp.; 9 Boswell in Extremes 1776-1778 1970 418 pp.; 10 Boswell Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782 1977 570 pp.; 11 Boswell the Applause of the Jury 1782-1785 1981 419 pp.; 12 Boswell: The English Experiment 1785-1789 1986 332 pp.; 13 Boswell the Great Biographer 1789-1795 1989 371 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans endpaper maps. Pottle edited the first 12 volumes the first three by himself the next nine with an associate from the list of editors above; the final volume was edited by Danziger and Frank Brady. Another volume "Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds" ed. by Frederick W. Hiles 1952 was issued as a part of the series but is not present here. Gift inscription on the front endpaper of "Applause" two volumes with bookplates on the front pastedown otherwise all very good to fine. All cloth and boards color pictorial dust jackets a little edgewear to several volumes two price-clipped several with small prices in ink. 9734. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill Book Co hardcover books
181049751Philadelphia: John F. Watson 1810. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvi 414pp. Very good overall. Rebind is pristine and fresh while text block is moderately age toned and foxed sporadically throughout with bit of old dampstain to preliminary leaves. First American edition of this travelogue originally published in London in 1785 -- here "From the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author." Two versions of the first edition were published in 1810 and since both the other being New York/Boston Inskeep and Bradford were printed by R. & W. Carr of Philadelphia and differ only in title page it's arguable that Philly publisher Watson's copies hit the bookshops sooner than those shipped to New York and Boston -- not a certain precedence though so either imprint are considered first editions. Interestingly remounted to the front pastedown is the late 19th century "Library of the Young Men's Christian Association" bookplate of Harrisburg Pennsylvania -- which explains the printed "Bequest of the / Hon. Simon Cameron" label above this for when Lincoln's Secretary of War and Pennsylvania senator died in 1877 he was buried in Harrisburg and apparently his books were bequested to the local YMCA. Though rebound a decent and quite handleable first with an intriguing provenance. SHAW AND SHOEMAKER 19607. John F. Watson hardcover
