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1795248555County Fife Scotland 1795. 2 1/2 pp. pen and ink on a folded sheet. 4to 10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold. Unusual fold lines. In custom cloth chemise. 2 1/2 pp. pen and ink on a folded sheet. 4to 10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold. With: <br/><br/>HORSBRUGH Thomas Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter signed "Thos. Horsbrugh" to Claud I Boswell. Cupar Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to 10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold. 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. <br/><br/>Torrential rains in the autumn of 1795 decimated cereal crops in the southwest of Scotland. This letter from then Sheriff of Fife Claud Irvine Boswell is an appeal for assistance sent to first Viscount Melville Henry Dundas 1742-1811. Boswell indicates as an enclosure a letter from Thomas Horsbrugh in which the deputy sheriff clerk assesses the extent of the damages in nearby Cupar. <br/><br/>Written in clear and legible late-eighteenth-century cursive hands these are interesting historical artifacts that document Boswell's extraordinary concern for public welfare: "I presume you will consider the account of the crop in this country as important from the consequences that may result therefrom if some remedy is not provided. It is not the Farmer who suffers the most from the badness of the Crop but the great body of the people the labouring poor.". unknown books
1807243288London: Cadell & Davies 1807. Fourth. hardcover. near fine. Engraved frontispiece portrait. iv xvi 460 pages. 8vo attractively bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies 1807. Fourth edition revised and corrected. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Cadell & Davies unknown books
19221828New York: Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page & Co 1922. Temple Bar Edition. Limited to 785 cc. Faux vellum spine with brown paper-wrapped boards. Printed spine labels. TEG. An overall Fine made-up set in VG jackets some chipping. Vols IX & X have h-t sheets from Vols I & II respectively. 10 volumes text unopened. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page & Co hardcover books
1795248555County Fife Scotland 1795. 2 1/2 pp. pen and ink on a folded sheet. 4to 10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold. Unusual fold lines. In custom cloth chemise. 2 1/2 pp. pen and ink on a folded sheet. 4to 10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold. With: <br /> <br /> HORSBRUGH Thomas Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter signed "Thos. Horsbrugh" to Claud I Boswell. Cupar Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to 10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold. 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> Torrential rains in the autumn of 1795 decimated cereal crops in the southwest of Scotland. This letter from then Sheriff of Fife Claud Irvine Boswell is an appeal for assistance sent to first Viscount Melville Henry Dundas 1742-1811. Boswell indicates as an enclosure a letter from Thomas Horsbrugh in which the deputy sheriff clerk assesses the extent of the damages in nearby Cupar. <br /> <br /> Written in clear and legible late-eighteenth-century cursive hands these are interesting historical artifacts that document Boswell's extraordinary concern for public welfare: "I presume you will consider the account of the crop in this country as important from the consequences that may result therefrom if some remedy is not provided. It is not the Farmer who suffers the most from the badness of the Crop but the great body of the people the labouring poor.". unknown
199515192<p>London: Presented to Members of the Roxburghe Club 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. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg Vermont. A fine copy.</p> Presented to Members of the Roxburghe Club, hardcover
178530017London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly. Fine with no dust jacket. 1785. Second Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 534 pages; Full leather binding with new leather spine with original spine laid down. Light rubbing and wear to covers with armorial bookplate of Archdeacon Pope on inside front cover. Missing the half-title. . Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover
1807243288London: Cadell & Davies 1807. Fourth. hardcover. near fine. Engraved frontispiece portrait. iv xvi 460 pages. 8vo attractively bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies 1807. Fourth edition revised and corrected. A near fine copy.<br/> <br/> Cadell & Davies unknown
1888303921Londpn: Swan 1888. hardcover. near fine. Edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. 3 volumes tall 8vo 3/d black morocco marbled boards. London: Swann. Sonnenschein Lowery. 1888. Near fine.<br/> <br/> Swan unknown
16-1422New York: Gabriel Wells & Doubleday 1922. Ten Volumes. 8vo. Very Good Faux Vellum on Brown Boards Dust Jacket with some chipping rubbing & edge wear; shelf-wear. Illustrated. New York: Gabriel Wells & Doubleday, 1922. hardcover
1889122594Harper 1889. First of This Edition. Hard Bound Volume. Very Good. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. 6 vols. Deluxe edition limited to 300 sets. Beautiful white linen spine and edges grey boards. Harper unknown
18531230760London: Henry C. Bohn 1853. Leather bound. The Croker Edition of Boswell complete in ten volumes. Uniformly bound in 3/4 brown leather and marbled boards. Gilt decorated spines; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt. In addition there is an extra volume added in the same matching binding which is an 1845 edition of Johnsoniana where the two volumes are bound as one. A few touches of shelf wear but the set in overall fine condition. Includes all engraved plates and frontispieces called for. Small octavos measuring 4x7 inches. Includes Boswell's Life of Johnson plus the Tour of the Hebrides in vols. I-VIII plus two volumes of Johnsoniana. Henry C. Bohn unknown
18269364.1Oxford: Published by William Pickering London; and Talboys & Wheeler Oxford 1826. 1st edition thus Kelly 1826.2; Keynes p. 54; NCBEL II 1214. 19th C. tan half-calf with deep maroon spine labels; marbled boards & edges. Overall VG some modest binding wear. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait of Boswell V1 & two facsimile letters. 8vo. <br/><br/>One of the Pickering imprints that Keynes notes as having "special merit". Published by William Pickering, London; and Talboys & Wheeler, Oxford hardcover books
2022x-3030993469Palgrave Macmillan 2022. Hardcover. New. 487 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
2023x-3030993493Palgrave Macmillan 2023. Paperback. New. 516 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.05 inches. Palgrave Macmillan paperback
1934812A38Oxford : At the Clarendon Press 1934-50. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9" by 6" . Not Stated . The acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell complete with six bright volumes in five. A collection complete in three volumes of this work by Scottish biographer James Boswell often described as one of the greatest English biographies of all time. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill a revised and enlarged edition by L. F. Powell first thus. Complete six volumes in five the last volume contains Johnson's The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and volume VI of the Index with its supplement a table of anonymous persons with its own index a bibliography and a list of errata. Together with Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. With seventeen full page plates of which four folding. Lacking 'Bust of Johnson' to volume IV. 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 the third edition revised and augmented of 1799. Original facsimile title pages included. In the original publisher's full cloth uniform bindings. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Library shelf numbers inked to the spine Stoke Newington public library bookplate to the front pastedown discreet library stamp to imprint page. Library gilt blind stamp to front boards. Dust wrappers price-clipped with shelf wear chipped to the head and tail of the spine spine sunned library shelf number inked to spine light soiling to wraps. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. With seventeen full page plates of which four folding. Lacking 'Bust of Johnson' to volume IV. Very Good Indeed At the Clarendon Press hardcover
020983No Binding. Near Fine. Higher Education Press Pub. Date :2010-10-01 2010. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. Language:Chinese. Binding:Soft cover <br/> <br/> unknown
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1952796P37London: William Heinemann LTD 1952-57. Vellum. Near Fine/Very Good. 10.5" by 7". Various. A limited edition set by Yale comprising of the private papers of James Boswell most notably his travel works. Illustrated throughout including with folding maps. In four volumes two additional volumes were also published in 1951 and 1960.In the original slipcases and glassine wraps. Slipcases in a very good indeed condition.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 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 978.'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 379.'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 93. '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 83. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. In the original publisher's quarter vellum binding with cloth to the boards. Externally smart. Some light spots to the vellum as is usual. Spine label of 'Italy' is a little faded. Glassine wraps are a little discoloured with some edge wear and loss heavier to 'Holland' and 'Wife'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Some pages unopened to the fore edge. Slipcases with some light marks. Slipcases in a very good indeed condition. Near Fine William Heinemann LTD hardcover
180720232Boston: 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; corner of 9/3 torn with minor loss to a few letters; mild and occasionally moderate foxing throughout else good and sound in recent 1/2 tan calf over blue linen sides. Pottle 85. <br/><br/> W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown books
180720232Boston: 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; corner of 9/3 torn with minor loss to a few letters; mild and occasionally moderate foxing throughout else good and sound in recent 1/2 tan calf over blue linen sides. Pottle 85. W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown
1768159382 pp. Good with 20th century book plate of a former owner replaced spine interior foxing and light wear. Folding map has a minor tear. Edward and Charles Dilly hardcover books
1824WN34116London: Printed for Thomas Tegg et al. 1824. Full purplish calf with gilt rules and grape leaf and vine decoration. 4 raised bands. New red and blue morocco spine titling and numbering labels. Marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplates on each front pastedown. Silk markers still present in 4 of the volumes. Some foxing throughout. Facsimile fold-out of letter in Dr. Johnson's handwriting in beginning of Vol. 1. Gift inscription dated 1830 on ffep in Vol. 1. A beautiful and rare set. First Thus. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Trade. Printed for Thomas Tegg, et al. Hardcover books
1793263229London England: Henry Baldwin 1793. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin 1793. 3 volumes. 3/4 brown morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Front board of volume 1 detached rear hinge reinforced at inner hinge. Light chipping at head of volumes light rubbing at heels and edges. Text is good with light foxing to frontis and title pages. Else the text is in good condition text block sound and straight. Uncut edges no former owner marks. Booksellers 'mark' "William J. Campbell Booksellr 1009 Walnut Street Philadelphia". Second Revised and Augmented Edition. With the frontis portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds foxed overall folding plate facsimile of Johnson's handwriting at rear of volume 3. The folding plate engraved "Round Robin" at p. 634 appears not to be present. The new material in rear of volume 1 includes: "Additions received after the Second Edition was printed" pp. i-xxii "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" which is the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii- xxxi. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges may apply for international shipping. Not available for priority/expedited shipping. Henry Baldwin hardcover
1934mon0000970937Clarendon Press 1934/1975. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean and bright no markings. Vol 5-6 have dust jacket. Clarendon Press hardcover
