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180753374Boston: 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; title page in volume II partially loose and torn with loss to a word or two; uncut copy in later full muslin manuscript paper labels on spine; very good. Pottle 85. <br/><br/> W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown books
WRCLIT74048London: Printed for Henry Baldwin 1791. xii16516;588i.e.5861pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf rebacked and recornered at a later date to a semblance of style gilt labels. Portrait. Facsimile and plate. 19th century ink name "Walter Fletcher" on endsheets and effaced from margin of titles edges rubbed endsheets creased some soiling to verso of portrait clean tear in R4 vol. I with no loss some occasional pencil annotations. but a sound set. First edition uncorrected state of I:135:10 'gve' with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle as usual. In volume two pages 78 92 275 and 352 are in their first uncorrected states. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the English language. Each volume bears the bookplate of Jonathan Boucher 1737-1804 Anglican clergyman and for a period beginning in 1759 a prominent figure in the colonies and intimate of George Washington. However his staunch loyalist sympathies caused him to return to England in 1775 where he occupied himself with various matters including for fourteen years an unfinished "Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words" intended to supplement Johnson's Dictionary. After his death a preliminary section was published but the remainder of his work was turned over to the proprietors of Webster's English Dictionary. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. Printed for Henry Baldwin unknown books
1791WRCLIT71587London: Printed for Henry Baldwin 1791. xii16516;2588i.e.5862pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Handsomely bound in full speckled calf elaborately gilt extra a.e.g. for Brentano's. Portrait. Facsimile and plate. Isolated minor foxing a couple of thin scratches to one upper board S2-3 in first volume exhibit odd discoloration otherwise a bright set very good or slightly better. First edition but with the corrected state of I:135:10 'give' and with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle as usual. In volume two pages 78 92 275 and 352 are in their first uncorrected states. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the English language. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. Printed for Henry Baldwin unknown books
WRCLIT66919London: Printed for Henry Baldwin 1791. xii16516;588i.e.5861pp. Two volumes. Quarto 29 x 23 cm. Portrait in first volume and two engraved plates in second. Full olive brown morocco raised bands gilt t.e.g. others largely untrimmed. Occasional light foxing and some dusting to a few edges early small marginal restoration around upper blank forecorners of frontis and first five leaves a few small nicks and rubs at binding extremities with two narrow surface scratches to boards but a very good set. First edition uncorrected state of I:135:10 'gve' with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle as usual. In volume two pages 78 92 275 and 352 are in their first uncorrected states. Uncommon in untrimmed condition: the vertical dimension of this set matches that of the Rothschild set untrimmed in original boards. One of 1750 copies printed. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the English language. With the gilt morocco bookplate in each volume "Omnia Pro Bono H.M." identified by some as an uncharacteristic bookplate for Harold Murdock. Laid in is a copy of A. Edward Newton's quarto leaflet reproducing the uncorrected II:302 inscribed with initials in 1933 to another collector a bit ragged at fore-edge and folded. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. Printed for Henry Baldwin hardcover books
1824000689London: J.F. Dove Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford Etc. 1824. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1; folding facsimile plate in Volume 2. Period diced full calf modern calf rebacking morocco spine labels. Some light wear to board edges; very good handsomely rebacked. <br /><br /> J.F. Dove, Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford, Etc. books
182229787London: T. Cadell F.C. & J. Rivington et al. 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes 8vo pp. 2 xxxv 1 444; 2 462; 2 446; 2 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; later quarter polished black calf over marbled boards by R. Carswell Belfast with his ticket on front pastedown; red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; minor rubbing and cracking; generally very good sound set. "This edition was edited by Boswell's friend Alexander Chambers. In his Advertisement Chalmers says that at Malone's request he contributed a few notes and corrections to the sixth edition 'and has now added many more as well as some additional particulars.' . His additional notes to this edition are not extensive but are solid and useful" Pottle. Pottle 89. <br/><br/> T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.] hardcover books
182226274London: T. Cadell F.C. & J. Rivington et al. 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes 8vo pp. 2 xxxv 1 444; 2 462; 2 446; 2 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; contemporary brown cloth with printed paper labels on spines; short crack in cloth at the top of the front joint on vol. I; leaf 2F1 in vol. 1 torn in the gutter no loss of text almost detached and bound out of order; otherwise a good sound set. It would be tempting to call this binding original and perhaps it is although certainly a remainder binding if true. "This edition was edited by Boswell's friend Alexander Chambers. In his Advertisement Chalmers says that at Malone's request he contributed a few notes and corrections to the sixth edition 'and has now added many more as well as some additional particulars.' . His additional notes to this edition are not extensive but are solid and useful" Pottle. Pottle 89. <br/><br/> T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.] hardcover books
WRCLIT45377Dublin: Printed by John Chambers & John Exshaw & Robert Rhames for second and third volumes respectively for R. Cross et al. 1792. Three volumes. xxxiv536;2605;573pp. plus two folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf spines gilt extra gilt green morocco lettering pieces. Occasional minor soiling narrow crack at toe of lower joint of 2nd volume narrow short worm track largely marginal but touching a few letters in 2Q of 2nd volume but a very good crisp set in a handsome contemporary binding. First Dublin edition set up from the first London edition and incorporating corrections to some of the errata but introducing other errors. Though undertaken for the same group of booksellers the task of printing was doled out to three separate printers with consequent variations in the imprint. An unusually nice set of this edition noted by Pottle as "cheaply and rather poorly printed evidently to undersell the genuine edition which must however have been nearly if not quite exhausted when it appeared. It is now listed by the booksellers as 'very rare' which is perhaps justified as there is no copy in the British Museum the Bodleian or the National Library of Scotland" - Pottle. As this edition predated the second London edition by almost a year its appearance had no doubt a considerably greater effect on the sales of that edition than it had on the first. Pottle's collation places the "Round Robin" plate as a frontis to the first volume; in this set it appears in company with the manuscript facsimile at the end of the third perchance as issued. POTTLE 80. ESTC T64484. Printed by John Chambers [& John Exshaw, & Robert Rhames for second and third volumes respectively] for R. Cross, et al. unknown books
48495Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London: Routledge Warne & Routledge 1865. Two volumes complete. A sound ex-library set with clean contents usual markings from the library and tight repaired bindings. Best suited for reading. . Other hardcover books
1901302759London: J.M. Dent 1901. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarter brown morocco and gilt spine t.e.g. by McDonald. Some rubbing. VG. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. J.M. Dent unknown 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
183153394London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 5 volumes 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards maroon and brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; light wear to extremities upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed but firm lower corner of vol. 3 bumped a near fine copy. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited and much famously condemned by Macaulay. Seeing the problem Murray hastily engaged Wright to do a make-over and republished it in 1835. Pottle 91: The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book." <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1848307450London: Henry G. Bohn 1848. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume 25 engraved plates and facsimiles. 10 vols. 12mo. Near contemporary half calf maroon morocco spine labels. Slight rubbing to extremities an attractive set. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume 25 engraved plates and facsimiles. 10 vols. 12mo. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
18397Good condition with light wear and rubbing. 3/4 leather with marbled covered boards. 10 volumes. John Murray hardcover books
1844150502013London: John Murray 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. Croker edition complete in ten volumes. 12mo. Later marbled paper covered boards with leather spines and corners raised bands. Very Good overall. Marbled end papers. Contents are generally quite neat. From the personal collection of American author Osmond Tiffany with his bookplate on all front paste downs perforation to title pages small red stamps to verso; no other marks/wear as such. Leather worn at edges with some flaking especially at heads. All boards attached; some hinges are a bit tender. A solid mid-19th century set of Boswell's classic biography of Samuel Johnson with two volumes of Johnsoniana and "upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. John Murray hardcover books
18318638London. John Murray. 1831. Very handsomely bound by Riviere and Sons in 3/4 gilt ruled crushed morocco and linen covered boards. Gilt ruled spine compartments with elaborate gilt tooled motifs. Gilt tooled raised bands. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 8vo. 5.5" x 8.5". A New Edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croaker. Illustrated with an engraved Frontis to each volume. This is the last Library Edition of Croaker's Boswell. Spines evenly attractively sunned. A Very Fine pristine set in a stupendous binding. John Murray. hardcover books
183125405London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 8vo each volume with engraved frontispiece plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards maroon morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; vol. 1 rebacked with old spine laid down; joints cracked on vols. 2-5 cords holding and in the case of vol. 5 barely holding top of vol. 4 slightly chipped. This edition 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. Pottle 91: The publication of this remarkable edition opens an entirely new era in the history of Boswell's book." <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
225677London John Murray 1835. 8vo. Engraved frontispieces and pictorial title page plus 28 plates. 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards; spines with raised bands with elaborate gilt ruling and green leather spine label stamped in gilt; marbled edges; marbled endpapers. Very good fresh set. Bookplates of Robert Brown and John Bridie Mavor on the front free pastedown and front free endpaper. 10 volumes complete. Hardcover. Very Good. London, John Murray, 1835. hardcover books
183524973London: John Murray 1835. First edition thus. Three quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands six gilt decorated compartmentswith red morocco title label and black morocco volume label top edge gilt marbled endpapers sewn-in red silk bookmark. Spines a bit darkened extremities rubbed some scuffing to spines volume labels chipped one nearly gone one title label heavily chipped bindings tight leaves crisp and clean overall still a very good set but for the chipped labels. Illus. with engraved 12 frontispieces and 12 extra title page vignettes drawn by C. Stanfield and engraved by E. Finden. 12mo. Originally to be 8 volumes changed to 10 with addition of new material and thus new title pages were issued. John Murray hardcover books
187325192Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo 1873. 8vo pp. xv 1 560 16 publisher's catalogue; text proper in double column; inserted engraved portrait frontispiece and title-p.; very good bright copy in original terracotta cloth elaborately stamped in gilt and black a.e.g. An edition apparently either unknown to or unrecognized by Pottle. <br/><br/> William P. Nimmo hardcover books
188825409London: Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co 1888. 3 vols. 8vo frontispiece portrait facsimile of the 1791 title-p.; very good bright set in orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines t.e.g. See Pottle 95: "This edition represents the first scholarly reaction against the tradition of the 'edited' Boswell . Fitzgerald maintained that . Boswell's work should not be regarded as miscellaneous encyclopaedia of Johnsoniana but as an artistic whole." <br/><br/> Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co hardcover books
188425411London: George Bell and Sons 1884. 5 vols. 8vo engraved frontispieces and half-titles in each volume 42 plates throughout some folding map and a plate of facsimile signatures; titles printed in red and black orig. pale blue cloth cream shelfbacks soiled lettered in gilt; a good sound set or better. The final volume constitutes Johnsoniana: anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson LL.D. by Mrs. Piozzi Richard Cumberland Bishop Percy and others together with the Diary of Dr. Campbell and extracts from that of Madame D'Arbley newly collected and edited by Robina Napier. Pottle 96: "The best edition of the Life before Hill's is essentially a revised Crocker . Mrs. Napier's Johnsoniana is not a reprint of Croker's though it contains much of the same material but a separate and highly useful compilation." <br/><br/> George Bell and Sons hardcover books
17934478London: Printed by Henry Baldwin 1793. First Edition Thus Second Revised and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf/edge wear even toning to spines and text block edges professionally rebacked circa mid-19th cent. minor sporadic foxing at preliminaries discrete owner notations at endpages else tight bright and unmarred. Full brown leather boards original sheep boards carefully matched to a calf spines burgundy leather labels gilt lettering and decorative elements frontispiece. 8vo. xviii xxxvii 603pp; 634pp; 711pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>Engraved portrait frontispiece after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds by J. Baker. Includes the fold-out 'Round Robin' plate Vol. II and a fold-out plate containing facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's handwriting Vol. III. The last edition published in Boswell's lifetime it contains additional material including "Additions to Dr. Johnson's Life Recollected and Received after the Second Edition was Printed" pp. i-xxii; "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" noted as the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii-xxxi; and "Corrections" pp. xxxiii-xxxvi but not the leaf of Additional Corrections c3 in Volume I which has been tipped into some copies. It is worth noting that this tipped in leave may constitute a later issue of the edition. "The text of the second edition. deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone" Pottle 81; see also Rothschild 468. Overall a very handsome set seldom found in as close to original state as is found here. Printed by Henry Baldwin hardcover books
1791205744London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First Edition. 1869 ownership signatures in each volume; chip to one margin in Vol. I about the size of a thumb-joint not affecting any text; maringal annotation to another page in Vol. I; some pages with creased corners and occasional marks scattered foxing -- not too obtrusive -- and some faint dampstains in lower margins; covers heavily rubbed. Two vols. 4tos; 516 & 588pp; contemporay mottled calf recased with spine label; inner hinges reinforced. First state of the classic work that founded the modern notion of biography with "gve" on p. 135 all cancels the fronispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Vol. I and the "Round Robin" and facsmile plates in Vol. II. A serviceable set. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
1791307361London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First Edition first state of S4r with "gve" for "give. Engraved portrait by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds 2 other engraved plates in Volume II. xii 16 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Bound in contemporary brown mottled calf rebacked with original red and green labels on spine laid down. Bookplate of John Mountenay Lely 1839-1907 and Robert McKinlay. In open-faced blue cloth slipcsae. First Edition first state of S4r with "gve" for "give". Engraved portrait by J. Heath after Joshua Reynolds 2 other engraved plates in Volume II. xii 16 516; 2 588 i.e. 586 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Pottle 79; Rothschild 463; Grolier English 65 Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
