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1791ST20798London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. FIRST EDITION First State with "gve" reading on p. 135. 267 x 210 mm. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4". Two volumes expanded to eight. <br/> ORNATE AND SUBSTANTIAL 19TH CENTURY FOREST GREEN STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO covers with a gilt French fillet raised bands spines and some corners renewed with considerable skill their compartments with urn centerpieces flanked by scrolling foliage turn-ins gilt tooled marbled endpapers all edges gilt. First volume with an engraved frontispiece EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A TOTAL OF 919 PLATES 96 of them hand colored. Each volume with an added facsimile title page. Pottle 79; Day "History of English Literature 1660-1837" pp. 164-65. Boards with a few dark spots mostly where chafing has been covered with dye the hinge at the front of seven volumes with paper covering gone two other hinges partly affected but everything still very tight; some never serious offsetting from plates intermittent minor foxing a handful of leaves in Vol I. Part IV with a repaired open tear to upper margin other trivial defects but still a set with very considerable appeal--full of visual interest internally and looking quite grand in a substantial row.<br/> <br/> Although there are no signs of ownership this is the elegantly bound Jacques Levy copy of what is often considered to be the greatest biography in any language--extra-illustrated here with an enormous number of plates. James Boswell 1740-95 was a personal friend of his subject the main reason that this work proved to be the architect of his enduring reputation. It is a tribute to Boswell's skill as a biographer that the bulk of the text is made up of accounts by the author of situations that he himself created so that his subject would be prompted to behave in a revealing and memorable way. Day tells us that Boswell "was a consummate impresario stage-managing the setting and 'dramatis personae' amidst which Johnson would glitter and then providing topics and opinions to elicit the magnificent rejoinders of Johnson." The result is that we see an unforgettable portrait of a man who was flawed as well as brilliant--in Day's words "the most fully realized figure the most three-dimensional character in literature." Our previous owner New York bibliophile Jacques Levy d. 1980 first began buying on a whim while in Paris for business. He spent the next 40 years building an impressive and eclectic library which included travel literature illustrated books and fine bindings. A dedicated auction of his collection took place at Sotheby's New York on April 20 2012 realizing more than $6 million. The present copy contains more than 900 added plates which illustrate the settings and figures populating the biography as well as expanding the two volumes into an imposing set that is quite attractive on the shelf. The first printing of Boswell's Johnson is easy to obtain but extra-illustrated sets seem to be quite rare: except for the present item which went for $11250 at the Levy sale the last such copy we could trace at auction was a four-volume set sold in 1988. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown
179275950London: Printed for J. Debrett 1792. Square 4to. Third edition. xvi 134 pp. 6 plans on 5 copper-engraved folding plates. Sections in 4s so given the size probably half-sheets. Half calf over marbled boards rebacked to style with raised bands and red gilt-lettered leather label. Wear to binding including an abrasion to lower board and rubbing to spine extremities. Foxing to prelims becoming much scarcer. George Boswell of Puddletown was a progressive farmer and the author of this the first detailed and practical guide to the creation lay-out and management of water meadows. His advice was sought by Arthur Young and Robert Bakewell from a biographical essay by Joseph Bettey. Good to VG. 20.5cms tall 14cms wide. . Very Good. Half Calf. Third Edition. 1792. Printed for J. Debrett 1792 unknown
177975London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon in Piccadilly ; Printed For J. Johnson No. 72 St. Paul's Church-yard 1779. 1st Edition ; 2nd Edition. 1/2 Calf. Good. 8º 20cm.; ii 108pp errata; i 100pp. appendix and plates.; 4 pls.; 3 pls.; gilt title to spine compartment in red leather label; all foldout plates accounted for and complete; marbled paper-covered boards toned and rubbed hinges starting but all cords holding.; contemporary title in ms. on fr. flyleaf;. The first book on water-meadows. Fussell. Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly ; Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard unknown
1798D18609London: C. Dilly 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary calf front board detached. 8vo. iv 446 2. An interesting copy with bookplate of Presidential speechwriter William Safire. <br/><br/> C. Dilly hardcover
17685195London, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. In-8 de XXI-(3)-384 pp., demi-veau bleu glacé à coins, dos à nerfs (reliure du XIXe siècle).
176854703Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. Contemp. full calf. 4 raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Wear to spine ends. Light wear along edges. (14),346 pp., 1 large folded engraved map. Internally clean.
1770264CGN.d. (about 1770). Copper engraving by J. Miller after S. Wale. Picture size: 16 x 10 cm. Leaf size: 19,5 x 12 cm.
178513147London Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785
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
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
17683571Glasgow: : Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry London 1768. First edition. With all issue points called for by Rothschild. Contemporary sheep. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. Expertly rebacked with the original spine laid-down. Front pastedown with early ink signature partially erased pencil signature of D. Cecil Gibbs armorial bookplate of Thomas Havers with his name crossed out in pencil penciled note: "J. Joseph's copy" and penciled bookseller's note. Penciled annotations at foot of pages 71 -72. Octavo 205 x 125 mm. Collating xxi 1 blank 1 table of contents 1 blank 382: bound without the final blank leaf Aa8 but else complete including the large folding engraved frontispiece map of Corsica here in its second state by Thomas Phinn. A very good copy.<br/><br/>"The first edition was sold out within six weeks and a new edition also of 3500 copies was advertised for 1 April 1768.This second edition supplied the public demand for a year. The third edition was advertised for 1 May 1769 with the announcement that ‘Mr. Boswell's Account of Corsica has been so well received by the Public that two numerous Editions of 3500 Copies have been sold within the Space of a few Months; and the Book is so highly esteemed abroad that it has been translated into the French and Dutch languages and printed at Amsterdam and Lausanne'.As Boswell proudly recorded later.it was ‘translated into Dutch German Italian and twice into French'—all within a year of its publication. Besides this there were as listed above at least three editions printed in Ireland. The Account of Corsica was a book of the hour. Many more copies of it were sold in Boswell's lifetime than of either of his great works in the biography of Johnson and it achieved abroad a much more remarkable success" Pottle.<br/><br/>Cox I pp. 138-139. Gaskell 473. Lowndes I p. 242. Pottle 24. Rothschild 442-445. : Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London 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
1768303206London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly 1768. The Second edition with half title. Variant that has Appendix listed in Contents at p. 141 instead of correctly at p. 241. Engraved title-page large fold-out map of Corsica. xxii ii 384 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8-7/8 x 6-7/8 inches. Boards uncut. Spine quite worn. The Second edition with half title. Variant that has Appendix listed in Contents at p. 141 instead of correctly at p. 241. Engraved title-page large fold-out map of Corsica. xxii ii 384 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8-7/8 x 6-7/8 inches. ESTC T26158 ; Pottle 24; Tinker 322 Printed for E. and C. Dilly unknown books
1768WRCLIT71586Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. xxiv382pp. plus folding map bound before A1. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down. Bound with the half-title and the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves a bit of ink spatter at the fore- edge of the verso of the folded map and offset then to blank margins of adjacent leaves with a modicum of scattered foxing and marginal discolorations elsewhere still an about very good copy. First edition first form of the map as appropriate to the first edition without scale or marginal divisions E2 is a cancel as usual and is in the 'Istria' form; however Z3 is present in the original uncorrected state with the 'Mariana' reading in the penultimate line. D2r is also in the uncorrected state. All but one of the misprints noted by Pottle are present. One of 3500 copies printed. The Tinker copy and one of the Rothschild copies are among those examples with Z3 uncorrected. POTTLE 24. ROTHSCHILD 442 & 443. GASKELL FOULIS PRESS 473. ESTC T26157. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly unknown books
1768244330London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly 1768. First edition with cancels at E2 & Z3. Engraved title-page large fold-out map Rothschild state 2. Half-title present. Pp. xxi xxii blank 2 contents 382 2 blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf red title label Minor wear at joints else fine. First edition with cancels at E2 & Z3. Engraved title-page large fold-out map Rothschild state 2. Half-title present. Pp. xxi xxii blank 2 contents 382 2 blank. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work - an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports of the gallant islanders and a Plutarchan depiction of Paoli paralleled with several classical heroes An Account of Corsica was an immediate success. The work was widely read and translated stimulated great interest in Paoli and the Corsican cause brought its author wide fame in Britain and Europe and found an interested readership among the Americans. It attracted the notice of the French government which had a translation made and though Boswell's ambition for British intervention was not to be fulfilled he probably influenced Britain's decision to send secret supplies of arms to the Corsicans" ODNB. Pottle 24; Rothschild 442; Gaskell Foulis 473 Foulis for E. and C. Dilly unknown books
1768WRCLIT65297London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1768. xxii2384pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked and recornered to style in brown morocco gilt label. Bound with the half-title. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves map a bit foxed and offset to A1 and blank recto of B8 slight tear to map at tab but a very good copy. Small early ink name on free endsheet and engraved bookplate of Sir George Shiffner on pastedown. Second edition but first with the London imprint and with some minor authorial tinkerings with the text. The map is in the proper form for this edition with the added scale and division of degrees to the border. POTTLE 25. ESTC T26158. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry unknown books
1768WRCLIT65296Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. xxiv382pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked to style raised bands gilt label. Bound with the half- title but without the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves map a bit offset to title leaf five leaves show an old tea spatter toward the marginswith some scattered foxing elsewhere still a good copy. First edition first form of the map as appropriate to the first edition without scale or marginal divisions E2 and Z3 cancels as usual with the former in the 'Istria' form; D2r is in the uncorrected state. One of 3500 copies printed. POTTLE 24. ROTHSCHILD 442. GASKELL FOULIS PRESS 473. ESTC T26157. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly hardcover books
1768WRCLIT65295Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. xxiv382pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked to style raised bands gilt label. Bound with the half- title but without the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves map a bit offset to A1 with minor scattered foxing elsewhere forecorners worn small ink name on pastedown but a good copy. First edition first form of the map as appropriate to the first edition without scale or marginal divisions E2 and Z3 cancels as usual with the former in the 'Istria' form; D2r is in the uncorrected state. One of 3500 copies printed. With the bookplates of Thomas Arnold MD 1742 - 1816 and a descendant. "At the height of his power Thomas Arnold held a monopoly not only on the lunacy trade in Leicestershire but also together with his sons of the post of physician at Leicester Infirmary. A supporter of radical causes Arnold's career in Leicester was marked by his involvement in struggles for social status and political influence . Arnold's principal medical work is the two-volume OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE KINDS CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF INSANITY LUNACY OR MADNESS 1782 1786 which ran to two editions and a German translation. In it he abandoned the traditional humoral theories basing his classification on the ideas of Locke and separating disordered sensations from disordered reasoning. He helped to pioneer a new approach to insanity based on observed symptoms but his classification was too detailed to be practical and it never became popular. Arnold is representative of a shift towards the 'moral' treatment of the insane" - DNB. POTTLE 24. ROTHSCHILD 442. GASKELL FOULIS PRESS 473. ESTC T26157. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly hardcover books
1768WRCLIT36458Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. xxiv382pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. Bound with the half-title but without the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves some small surface scrapes to spine and extremities but a very nice copy internally fine. First edition first form of the map as appropriate to the first edition E2 and Z3 cancels as usual with the former in the 'Is- /tria' form; D2r is in the uncorrected state. One of 3500 copies printed. POTTLE 24. ROTHSCHILD 442. GASKELL FOULIS PRESS 473. ESTC T26157. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly unknown 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
178368272First Edition of Boswell's First Foray into Politics BOSWELL James. A Letter to the People of Scotland On the Present State of the Nation. Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by all the Booksellers 1783. First Edition. 43 1 blank pp. Some minor foxing mainly to title-page. This pamphlet is bound at the end of the volume. This pamphlet representing Boswell's first foray into politics is rare at auction. There have been no copies of this first at auction since 1968. According to Pottle "The pamphlet seems to be rare; at least it appears in the catalogues of few large libraries. There are two copies in the British Museum one in the Harvard College Library and one in the New York Public Library." "This is the first of Boswell's " characteristical pamphlets" to bear his name on the title-page and it makes a new and important stage in Boswell's career his real reason for penning the pamphlet undoubtedly being that he saw a general election imminent and proposed to stand as parliamentary candidate for Ayrshire." Maggs 603-1953. ESTC T17200. Pottle 105/106. Bound together with DE LOLME John Lewis. Observations upon the National Embarrassment and the Proceedings in Parliament Relative to the Same. London Printed for J. Debrett 1789. 2 81 1 publisher's advertisement pp. Old ink note on title-page. "First published in 1789 as ÃThe present national embarrassment consideredÃ". ESTC T185623 And DUTENS M.L. Histoire De Se Qui S'est Passe Pour L'Establissement D'une Regence En Angleterre En 1788 et 1789. London Chez J. Walter 1791. Third Edition. iv 155 1 blank pp. And ANONYMOUS Serious Enquiries into the Motives and Consequences of Our Present Armament against Russia. London. J. Debrett 1791. 4 60 8 publisher's advertisements pp. With half-title and a folding chart. And ANONYMOUS Considerations on the Approach of War and the Conduct of His Majesty's Ministries. London. For J. Debrett 1791. 2 40 2 publisher's advertisements pp. And ANONYMOUS A Short Seasonable Hint addressed to the Landowers and Merchants of Great Britain on the Alarm of a War with Russia. London. For J. Debrett 1791. 38 2 publisher's advertisements pp. And Lettre D'un Habitant De Paris Au Baron d'E a L en Suisse Sur La Journee du 19 Juin 1790. 99 1 blank pp. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 inches; 210 x 128 mm. All pamphlets bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some occasional foxing but otherwise very clean. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. A very good copy. HBS 68272. $5000 Printed and Sold by all the Booksellers hardcover books
179168052"An Uncut Copy" BOSWELL James. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Comprehending 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 near half a century during which he flourished. In two volumes. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition first issue with ìgiveî spelled ìgveî in line 10 on p. 135 of Volume I and with all of the peculiarities cited by Pottle for the first issue including the several uncorrected errors listed for Volume II and the various cancels. Two quarto volumes 11 3/4 x 9 1/16 inches; 297 x 230 mm.; the same dimensions Pottle gives for 'an entirely uncut copy' . xii 16 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II. Bound without the front blank in Volume II. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Neatly rebacked to style preserving the original gilt spine and burgundy and black morocco gilt lettering labels. A few minor marginal paper flaws not affecting text. Some rubbing to boards and light tip wear. Overall a fine set in the original binding and entirely uncut Courtney & Nichol Smith pp. 172-173. Grolier 100 English 65. Pottle 79. Rothschild 463-465. Sterling 71. Tinker 338. HBS 68052. $17500 Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly hardcover 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
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
178534031London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1785. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 524 1; E3 E4 and M4 are cancels as usual; leaves I5 Q7 and U6 are in Pottle's second state; beneath the list of errata at the end is a notice for Boswell's Life of Johnson "preparing for the press" which did not appear for another 6 years; contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked in tan calf gilt-paneled spine red morocco label; a very good sound copy. "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 57; Rothschild 456. <br/><br/> printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
