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1984WRCLIT47607New York: McGraw-Hill 1984. Large thick octavo. Cloth and boards. Plates. Inscribed presentation copy from Brady signed first name only. Fine in slightly darkened dust jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1971WRCLIT51611New York: Twayne 1971. Gilt cloth. First edition issued as Twayne's English Authors Series 122. Top edge lightly foxed otherwise very good without dust jacket. Twayne hardcover books
1974WRCLIT78529New York: McGraw-Hill 1974. XIX1371PP. Small quarto. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. Faint thumb-tip size discoloration in upper margins of last few leaves otherwise very good or better in good dust jacket with discoloration around perimeter of rear panel and flap. A complement to Pottle's PRIDE & NEGLIGENCE in recording the history of the Boswell papers. OP. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1976WRCLIT51635New York: Scribner 1976. Small quarto. Gilt cloth boards. Portrait and illustrations. First edition U.S. issue bound up from British sheets. Fine in dust jacket. Scribner hardcover books
1946WRCLIT51626London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1946. Gilt cloth. Frontis and plates. First edition. A couple of shallow dents in edges of lower cover edges foxed but a good sound copy in price-clipped dust jacket. Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover books
1947WRCLIT20774New York: Longmans 1947. Cloth. Portrait. First American edition. A good copy in dust jacket. Longmans hardcover books
1937WRCLIT59408New York: Viking 1937. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Endsheets slightly darkened else near fine in darkened slipcase with short cracks at tips. Viking hardcover books
1937WRCLIT28723New York: Viking 1937. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies of which this is an unnumbered "out of series" copy. Fine in very good slipcase with short cracks in lower joints. Viking hardcover books
1937WRCLIT35208New York: Viking 1937. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. In addition to five hundred numbered copies this is one of at least two out-of-series copies denoted as an "Author's Copy" on the colophon. Very fine in slipcase and glassine wrapper. Viking hardcover books
WRCLIT28219Houston: A Reprint from RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY LITERATURE nd. Printed wrappers. First separate issue of this essay as an author's separate. Fine. A Reprint from RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY LITERATURE unknown books
WRCLIT28221Houston: A Reprint from LITERARY VIEWS nd. Printed wrappers. First separate issue as an author's separate. Fine. A Reprint from LITERARY VIEWS unknown books
1966WRCLIT76968New York: McGraw-Hill 1966. Gilt cloth. Portrait and plates. Corner creases to a number of leaves toward end fore-edge soiled otherwise very good in dust jacket. First edition. Warmly and personally inscribed "with love and esteem" by Pottle in 1985 to his co-editor of LAIRD OF AUCHINLECK Joe Reed and his wife Kit Reed. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1966WRCLIT22961New York: McGraw-Hill 1966. Gilt cloth. Portrait and plates. First edition. Bookplate else fine in very good dust jacket with edge tears and laminate peel. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1966WRCLIT45175London: Heinemann 1966. Cloth. Portraits and plates. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears. Heinemann hardcover books
1972WRCLIT19452Berkeley: Univ. of Ca. Press 1972. Cloth. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Univ. of Ca. Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT76729Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1922. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth t.e.g. Portrait and plates. Cloth a bit hand- soiled a couple of faint spots to rear endsheets; a good copy. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1929 with a three line quotation. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT38156Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1922. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition. Signed by the author on the title. Cloth slightly flecked small snag at crown of spine bookplate and residue of once tipped-in items on endsheet else a good copy. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT34725Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1922. Large octavo. Gilt brown cloth t.e.g. Portrait and plates. First edition. With the author's 1955 inscription in response to a letter from an unidentified admirer. A carbon of the letter is laid in. Cloth lightly flecked light wear to corners and spine ends otherwise a very good bright copy. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
19231333690Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press 1923. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 110; G-; 1/4 bound black spine with red text to paper label; no jacket; red panels has modest wear to exterior; worn corners; sturdy panels; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; previous owner's name to ffep; mild offset to endpapers; light foxing to few pages; frontispiece; previous bookshop's sticker to rear pastedown; good binding. 1333690. FP New Rockville Stock. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
19731335477New York: AMS Press Inc 1973. First AMS Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 356340; VG; black spines with gilt text; no jackets; 2 volumes; cloths show light wear to exteriors; strong boards; text blocks have very light wear to exterior edges; lightly toned endpapers; frontispieces; tight bindings; interiors clean. 1335477. FP New Rockville Stock. AMS Press, Inc hardcover books
1855D6427New York: Harper and Brothers 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering in brown and black spine labels details stamped direct in spine compartments 5 raised bands all edges marbled; two volumes large 8vo; pp. xiii 3 blank original title-p. epigraph 563 plus engraved portrait of Johnson pencil portrait of Boswell title-page for this 2-volume edition; 566 plus portrait of Ms. Piozzi and folding plate. Both volumes: Spines a bit scuffed; boards rubbed; some light foxing mostly confined to prelims and terminals. Handsome. <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
19242266262Oxford University Press 1924. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1952-1970 printing. Includes original jacket with 388 titles listed on reverse. A few small jackets tears and minor loss from corners. 1924 Hard Cover. xv 1 559 1 pp. Bergen Evans's abridgment of Boswell's famous biographical work about Samuel Johnson which helped shape the style of biographies published thereafter. Oxford University Press hardcover books
195358226London: Heinemann. Very Good. 1953 & 1955. Hardcover. First Editions of the London Issue of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Yale Editions of the Private papers of James Boswell. Near Fine copies in near fine unclipped dust jackets. . Heinemann hardcover books
18315972London: John Murray 1831. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson during his long life came into contact with virtually everyone in British society who left a footprint and Boswell names them all. John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's great biography-offered here in its initial printing-inspired something of a fashion for collectors to gather up printed portraits of the figures named in the biography and have them bound into their copies of Croker's Boswell opposite the pages where the figure is named or discussed. The majority of the portraits scenes facsimiles and maps in this copy date from the first quarter of the 19th century while a few were printed in the late 1700s and the most recent ones date from the 1840s. Celebrity portraits include those of Johnson Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi Richardson Rousseau Sterne Catherine the Great Leibnitz Byron Swift Joseph Banks Voltaire Madame de Sévigné Captain Cook Thomas Gray John Donne Adam Smith Walter Scott Joseph Addison Thomas Brown Montaigne Drake Milton and many many many others. Octavo 23 cm; 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 give or take black-and-white engravings some folding and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits facsimiles scenes and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. John Murray hardcover books
04385London: John Murray 1835. The Greatest Biography Written in English"<br/>With all Twenty of the Engraved Plates Colored by Hand<br/>Extra-Illustrated with an Additional Nineteen Hand-Colored Engraved Plates<br/>Superbly Bound ca. 1920 by Bayntun of Bath<br/><br/>BOSWELL James. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are added Anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c. And notes by various hands. London: John Murray 1835.<br/><br/>First Illustrated Edition Croker's Second Edition. <br/><br/>Ten small octavo volumes 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 163 x 101 mm. including two volumes of Johnsoniana. xxiv 325 1 imprint; viii 344; ix 1 blank 323 1 imprint; xii 343 1 imprint 1 title-page 1 blank; viii 341 1 imprint; viii 342 1 title-page 1 blank; viii 381 1 imprint; xi 1 blank 431 1 imprint 1 title-page 1 blank; xv 1 blank 335 1 imprint; xii 376 pp.<br/><br/>Each volume with a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and an additional hand-colored vignette title all engraved by Edward Francis Finden 1791-1857. In addition there are nineteen hand-colored plates portraits and views a folding map of "The Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides. in 1773" volume IV a folding facsimile "Round Robin" volume VI and six folding facsimile letters. <br/><br/>Bound ca. 1920 by Bayntun of Bath stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins. Full purple morocco covers elaborately tooled in gilt in a geometric pattern. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. A superb set. <br/><br/>"This was the first illustrated edition. Each volume has at the beginning two excellent steel engravings a frontispiece and an extra vignette title-page. The first volume also has another double-page hand-colored engraving Remarkable Characters who were at Tunbridge Wells. at p.218." Pottle.<br/><br/>The additional hand-colored portraits include: Edward Cave; Henry Thrale; James Oglethorpe; Samuel Johnson; Flora McDonald; Michael Johnson; Revd. Owen Cambridge; Thomas Warton; Warren Hastings; Topham Beauclerk.<br/><br/>The additional hand-colored views include: Lichfield; Grammar School Litchfield; Edial Hall Near Litchfield; Residence of the Rev. Francis Wise at Ellsfield near Oxford; Residence of Thomas Davies Covent Garden; Residence of George Steevens Hampstead Heath; Dr. S. Johnson's House Bolt Court Fleet Street; Kettel Hall Oxford; Residence of Catherine Clive Twickenham; <br/><br/>The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. first published in 1791 is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. The work was a popular and critical success when first published. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English but some modern critics object that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763 when Johnson was 54 years old Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Nonetheless modern biographers have found Boswell's biography an important source of information on Johnson and his times.<br/><br/>Pottle 92. London: John Murray, 1835 unknown books
