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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
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
17683638London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. Second edition. xii2384pp. with the half-title and a large engraved folding map. Engraved title-page vignette. Cont. calf rebacked some time ago brown morocco spine label. Map & title a bit browned. Old pencil notations on the half-title inked notes on front pastedown and 2 old ownership signatures on title. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly unknown books
1807310411London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1807. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary calf recently rebacked with gilt spines red and green title labels. 4 vols. 8vo. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand unknown books
196062873London: William Heinemann 1960. First British editions as edited for this series of six first seven volumes of the journals each a limited edition see below for limitations. 8vo. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp.; 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.; 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. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans. Pottle edited these volumes the first three by himself the following two with Frederick Brady and the final one with William K. Wimsatt. Small book label on the front pastedown of each volume otherwise all very good to fine. All quarter vellum gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth leather spine labels London Journal chipped at lower corner t.e.g. others untrimmed publisher's slipcases lacking for "Holland" and "Wife" the others with rubbed or bumped corners. 9735. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
180737149Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins Printers 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco spine labels. Binding worn internally clean with occasional foxing. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. First American Edition of Boswell. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature" 63; Pottle 85; Shaw & Shoemaker 12184. For the 1791 first edition: Courtney-Nichol Smith p. 172; Grolier "English" 63; Pottle 79; Tinker 388 Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown books
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. <br/><br/> 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 books
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
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
1836D7792London: John Murray 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red morocco boards and spine compartments ornately ruled in gilt gilt-stamped lettering in second compartment inside gilt dentelles a.e.g.; 4to; pp. xxii 2 530 plus 45 plates including frontispiece and additional title-page. Collates complete. Spine a bit darkened and lightly scuffed along raised bands and joints; rear board lightly scuffed; corners lightly bumped. A few small brown spots or dusty finger-smudges scattered throughout text block; some plates faintly off-set onto facing pages. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Overall a bright clean copy handsomely bound. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
180726291London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. 8vo pp. 2 xv 1 460; engraved frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds; recent half tan calf antique over marbled boards red morocco label; occasional spotting especially in the margins of the frontispiece otherwise near fine. This is the first edition to include an index. Boswell's Advertisement to the third edition occupies pp. iv-v. Pottle 62. <br/><br/> printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies hardcover books
177947382London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon in Piccadilly 1779. 1st Edition Goldsmith 11795. Later marbled card-stock covers. Overall Very Good. 4 108 2 pp. Illustrated with 4 inserted fold-out copperplate engravings. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly unknown books
180731200London: T. Cadell & W. Davis 1807. Third Malone edition 8vo 4 volumes frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary calf red morocco labels; ex-Heriot's Hospital with its name in gilt at the base of each spine and with early an 19th century ex-libris on the title-pp.; a good sound set. "Malone's new advertisement is dated 1 Jan. 1807. He states that some typographical errors have been corrected two more letters of Johnson inserted and several new notes added" Pottle. Pottle 84. <br/><br/> T. Cadell & W. Davis unknown 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 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
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
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
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
181024722Philadelphia: John F. Watson 1810. First American edition 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; contemporary marbled boards rebacked and retipped new red morocco label on spine; title a bit browned else a very good sound copy. Another edition was published in Boston later the same year. "Though the Life is a vaster and richer piece of work no one will maintain that it displays Boswell's unique gift for biography better than the Tour. Indeed most lovers of Boswell will agree that the Tour as a whole is more consistently good than the Life; that is that nowhere in the Life could one find so many consecutive first-class pages as those that compose this book" Pottle. The book published is almost the same as the actual journal that was kept in 1773. When Johnson's death made it possible for Boswell to publish the manuscript he only added an introduction and a conclusion before giving it to the printer. Pottle 63. <br/><br/> John F. Watson hardcover books