BOSWELL JamesABAA
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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
1951243081London: Heinemann 1951. hardcover. fine. Prepared for the Press with Introduction and Notes by Frederick A. Pottle. Illustrated. xii 448pp. 8vo vellum-backed blue cloth leather spine label t.e.g slipcase; uncut and unopened. London: William Heinemann 1951. A fine copy in a very good slipcase.<br/><br/> One of 1050 numbered copies.<br/><br/> Heinemann unknown books
193453385Mount Vernon New York: William Edwin Rudge 1934. Edition limited to 570 copies designed by Bruce Rogers this 290 complete set in 18 volumes plus the separately published but uniformly bound Boswell's tour of the Hebrides1936 by the Viking Press and Oxford University Press's Index limited to 1250 copies; 20 volumes in all; folio quarto and octavo extensively illustrated throughout with facsimiles of the manuscripts; a fine bright unopened set in original red cloth-backed red paper-covered boards printed paper labels on spines publisher's slipcases also with printed paper labels; index volume with original but tattered glassine cover small splits to that volume's slipcase. The Work of Bruce Rogers 370; Stark Books Designed by Bruce Rogers p. 10; Rogers Paragraphs on Printing p. 72: "If the style of typographic treatment was ever unmistakably indicated by the content it was in this instance. Boswell and Baskerville were contemporaries and had these papers been published during Boswell's lifetime they might well have appeared in something like their present form though perhaps not so luxuriously printed. The modern Baskerville type seemed by all odds the logical one to use." Laid in are: the prospectus in original red wrappers with paper label on upper cover; announcement of Scott's passing and Pottle's taking up the mantel in original red wrappers with gilt title on upper wrapper; two letters to the writer and critic Harry Hansen from J. B. Orrick and Frederick Pottle along with Hansen's typescript review of the second wave of papers discovered at Malahide; a signed typescript letter from Isham to accompany the announcement of Pottle's entry into the project; and an order form. <br/><br/> William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
1937301136New York: William Edwin Rudge; The Viking Press 1937. One of 570 numbered copies this being no. 252 designed by Bruce Rogers. Numerous aquatone facsimiles of original manuscripts by Boswell. 20 vols. 4to and Folio. Red boards printed spine labels. very good plus set in original boxes some sunning to box spines box to vol. 4 with a few splits. One of 570 numbered copies this being no. 252 designed by Bruce Rogers. Numerous aquatone facsimiles of original manuscripts by Boswell. 20 vols. 4to and Folio. [William Edwin Rudge; The Viking Press] unknown books
196921717London: Allison & Busby 1969. Small 8vo pp. 316; fine copy in very good jacket. <br/><br/> Allison & Busby unknown books
194916316London: John Lehmann 1949. Small 8vo pp. 316; fine copy in the jacket. Issued as no. 33 in the publisher's Chiltern Library series. <br/><br/> John Lehmann unknown books
1966WRCLIT42392New York: McGraw-Hill 1966. Cloth. First edition U.S. issue of the first volume of the Correspondence element of the"Research Edition" of the Yale Edition edited by Ralph S. Walker. Fine in close to fine price-clipped dust jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1966WRCLIT42394New York: McGraw-Hill 1966. Cloth. First edition U.S. issue of the first volume of the Correspondence element of the"Research Edition" of the Yale Edition edited by Ralph S. Walker. Near fine in very good somewhat hand-darkened and smudged jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1986WRCLIT42378New York: McGraw-Hill 1986. Cloth and boards. First edition. Edited by I. S. Lustig and F. A. Pottle. About fine in dust jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1981117585New York: McGraw-Hill 1981. hardcover. very good/very good-. Edited by Mark Harris. 408pp 8vo cloth-backed boards. N.Y.: McGraw- Hill 1981. Very good in rubbed dust jacket.<br/><br/> McGraw-Hill unknown books
1928WRCLIT42375Stanford: Stanford University Press 1928. Two volumes. Large octavo. Cloth. Portraits. First edition edited by Margery Bailey. One false headband torn away else a very good tight bright set without slipcase. POTTLE P25. Stanford University Press hardcover books
19282222330<p>First edition so stated. Octavo. Edited by Margery Bailey. 8 illustrations. Original black cloth stamped in silver uncut. No dust jackets. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. 2 volumes.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Publisher's silver slipcase.</b></p> Stanford University Press hardcover books
19289001401Stanford: Standord University Press 1928. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine. Edited by Margery Bailey. First edition. Near fine condition. <br/><br/> Standord University Press 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
1929296609Cambridge: University Press 1929. hardcover. very good. Edited with an Introduction by S. C. Roberts. 110 pages 12mo cloth-backed boards paper spine label; foredges lightly foxed. Cambridge: At the University Press 1929. A very good copy.<br/><br/> University Press unknown books
1929037682Cambridge: University Press 1929. Edited with an introduction by S. C. Roberts. xvii 110p. b/w port. front.deckles edges half-cloth with marbled boards. University Press unknown 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
1974WB17184Bloomfield CT: The Limited Editions Club 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 2000. Using illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. Excellent copy in slipcase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1974290033Avon: Limited Editions Club 1974. Limited. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson. 10 color plates. 327pp. Tall thick 8vo 1/2 crushed levant gilt spine raised bands t.e.g. board slipcase. Avon Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1974.Spine is very slightly scuffed still near fine.<br/><br/> One of 2000 numbered copies.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
197453423Avon CT: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Sign of the Stone Book 1974. Edition limited to 2000 this no. 1723 8vo pp. xxviii 327 3; 10 color folding plates; red quarter morroco over marbled boards with gilt title on spine t.e.g. fine in original slipcase and chipped glassine wrapper. <br/><br/> Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Sign of the Stone Book hardcover books
197420482Connecticut: Sign of the Stone Book; Limited Editions Club 1974. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. xxviii3273pp. Red leather spine gilt. Marbled paper sides illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson. With marginal comments and markings from a copy annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase and with the LEC newsletter laid-in. One of 2000 numbered copies of which this is number 130. Sign of the Stone Book; Limited Editions Club 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
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
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
1974WRCLIT64780New York: Limited Editions Club 1974. Quarto. Publisher's half morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Small tasteful collector's bookplate else fine in slipcase. One of two thousand numbered copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings by Rowlandson and reproducing Mrs. Thrale's annotations from her copy of the 2nd edition. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
