BOSWELL JamesBiblio.com
3 842 résultats
196027827Heinemann 1960. 8vo. Uncorrected Proof Copy; original printed wrappers printed in black covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy. Seventh volume of The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Brown 103. Heinemann, unknown
132197William Heinemann 1952. Limited numbered de luxe edn 408 of 1050. Tall 8vo. Original gilt decorated quarter bound cream vellum/black cloth top edge gilt bright VG slipcase some damage at spine - otherwise VG. Pp. xix 428 illus with sepia frontispiece sepia plates and folding coloured map no inscriptions. William Heinemann, 1952 unknown
31481LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1952. YALE EDITION THE DE LUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 1050 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 624. OCTAVO QUARTER VELLUM OVER BLUE BOARDS GILT COAT OF ARMS TO FRONT BOARD RED LABEL TO THE SPINE RED SILK MARKER T.E.G. 428 PAGES A NEAR FINE COPY IN A GOOD SLIPCASE. LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1952 hardcover
1952102362London: William Heinemann 1952. Limited Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Large 8vooriginal quarter vellum with gilt decorated blue boards hardcoverblack leather spine label lettered in giltillustrated428 pagestop page edges giltlimited edition this being number 23 of 1050 copiespage edges lightly spotted otherwise a near fine copy in very good original slipcase. <br/> <br/> William Heinemann hardcover
17244LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1952. VERY GOOD HARDBACK COPY - NO DUSTWRAP. CLOTH BOUND WITH VELLUM SPINE. GOLD LEAF ARMORIAL DESIGN ON FRONT. LIMITED EDITION OF 1050 COPIES. THIS COPY 977. SOME FOXING TO UNCUT PAGE EDGES. 14 ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1952 hardcover
195727607Heinemann 1957. 8vo. Uncorrected Proof Copy; printed wrappers backstrip lightly browned else a very good clean copy. Proof copies of any titles in this sought-after series are scarce. Heinemann, unknown
31479LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1953. YALE EDITION THE DE LUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 636. OCTAVO QUARTER VELLUM OVER BLUE BOARDS GILT COAT OF ARMS TO FRONT BOARD RED LABEL TO THE SPINE RED SILK MARKER T.E.G. 351 PAGES A NEAR FINE COPY IN A DAMAGED SLIPCASE. LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1953 hardcover
195527608Heinemann 1955. 8vo. Uncorrected Proof Copy; printed wrappers a very good clean copy. Proof copies of any titles in this sought-after series are scarce. Heinemann, unknown
195315473Heinemann 1953. Roy. 8vo. De Luxe Limited Edition with 9 plates and front and rear endpaper maps in red and black; buckram vellum back gilt top uncut solk marker a very good bright clean copy in publisher's card slip-case the latter mildly worn and frayed at edges and corners. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Volume four of 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. Brown 100 Heinemann, hardcover
1951014280London: William Heinemann 1951. Book measures 26x18.cm. xlii 448pp. Bound in original publishers quarter vellum blue cloth boards gilt crest leather title label gilt lettering top gilt edge others rough. Vellum slightly discoloured. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean and bright. Housed in a worn slipcase. A very nice clean copy. . Limited Edition. Quarter Vellum. Very Good Plus. Large 8vo. William Heinemann Hardcover
188731505Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1887. 6 volumes. First of the Edition. With fourteen engraved illustrations including a number of portraits of Johnson from Sir Joshua Reynolds' paintings from Opie's portrait and many facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting the Round Robin plate a map of johnson and Boswell's tour through the Hebrides and a chart of Johnson's contemporaries. 8vo handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled paper covered boards the spines with raised bands two compartments lettered in gilt marbled endleaves to match top edges gilt. xxvii 1 errata 522; 480; vi 464; vi 446; viii 460; lxxivii 324 pp. A very well preserved and handsome set the bindings are tight and show only minor age or evidence of use with a little rubbing and evidence of shelving Volume I has been rehinged the text-blocks and plates are all in excellent condition the spine panels as usual with green morocco or calf bindings have mellowed a bit to a honey-brown. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE CLARENDON PRESS EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON AND OTHER WORKS. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared." He said too that: “A sanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal. Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness that by recording so considerable a portion of the wit and wisdom of the brightest ornament of the eigteenth century I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.†If Boswell does indulge in a little harmless flattery to himself the concluding words of his preface are literally true for Boswell’s Johnson as much as any other book “has largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.â€<br> The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides is the famous account of Boswell and Johnson’s tour to the North in 1773 including some original poems by Johnson never before published and numerous “literary anecdotes and opinions of men and books.†This tour proved to be inspirational for both men; Johnson published A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND in 1775 and Boswell in addition to this work used his notes from the tour extensively in his LIFE OF JOHNSON published in 1791.<br> Volume VI is a very extensive study of the works of Johnson including a diagram of his contemporaries a significant section on the Titles of Works Quoted in the Notes an Addenda of Autograph Letters and etc. and a very extensive indes and Dicta Philosophi. At the Clarendon Press hardcover
A9781344959896Hardback. New. hardcover
31480LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1951. YALE EDITION THE DE LUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 1050 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 629. OCTAVO QUARTER VELLUM OVER BLUE BOARDS GILT COAT OF ARMS TO FRONT BOARD RED LABEL TO THE SPINE RED SILK MARKER T.E.G. 448 PAGES A NEAR FINE COPY IN A CHIPPED SLIPCASE. LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1951 hardcover
1951102361London: William Heinemann 1951. Limited Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Large 8vooriginal quarter vellum with gilt decorated blue boards hardcoverblack leather spine label lettered in giltillustrated448 pagestop page edges giltlimited edition this being number 36 of 1050 copiesendpapers foxed otherwise a near fine copy in vey good original slipcase. <br/> <br/> William Heinemann hardcover
186034886London: John Murray 1860. "A New Edition" and being an early edition presented in one volume and being thoroughly revised and with much additional matter included by J. W. Croker. With a frontispiece showing six engraved portraits of Johnson engraved title-page featuring a sketch of James Boswell and with ten full-page engraved plates being portraits and a view. Thick royal 8vo contemporary three-quarter red calf over purple cloth covered boards the spine divided into six compartments separated by gilt hatched raised bands one compartment lettered in gilt on a green morocco label gilt trimmed all edges red. xxiv 874 pp. A very handsome copy in pleasing binding a tight clean and crisp copy the text and plates all bright and especially fresh the binding strong solid and very attractive with light evidence of age. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF TWO OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE AGE. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> The tour proved to be inspirational for both men. Johnson published A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND in 1775 and Boswell in addition to this work used his notes from the tour extensively in his LIFE OF JOHNSON published in 1791. "As a narrative of personal adventures Boswell's account is to be preferred to Johnson's. Naturally such a work as was true of everything concerning Dr. Johnson aroused great interest which was heightened by Boswell's frankness in expressing opinions about his hosts as well as by his naiveté in relating incidents that did not reflect credit to himself" Cox.<br> This is a very handsomely bound and readable copy of these two masterworks and includes important contributions Mr. Malone's and Mr. Boswell's advertisements as well as a significant number of the Thrale letters and others. John Murray hardcover
193033628London: G. Bell and Sons Limited 1930. First Edition the Large Paper Edition Limited to Three Hundred and Fifty Copies Signed by the Artist. This copy is number 35. With an engraved and illustrated title-page featuring Johnson and Boswell strolling through London and with 54 additional full-page engravings throughout as well as a map at the rear endleaves featuring the journey of Boswell and Johnson to Scotland and the Hebrides. Thick royal 8vo handsomely bound in the publisher's polished grained cloth the spine lettered in gilt the upper cover with a gilt illustrative device showing Boswell and Johnson strolling with one another top edge gilt. xx 609 pp. A very fine copy of this edition beautifully preserved and in a very pleasing condition a tight clean and crisp copy the text and plates all bright and especially fresh the binding strong solid and very attractive virtually pristine. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF TWO OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE AGE BOUND TOGETHER INTO THIS FAMOUS PRESENTATION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ERNEST SHEPARD SIGNED BY HIM. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> The tour proved to be inspirational for both men. Johnson published A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND in 1775 and Boswell in addition to this work used his notes from the tour extensively in his LIFE OF JOHNSON published in 1791. "As a narrative of personal adventures Boswell's account is to be preferred to Johnson's. Naturally such a work as was true of everything concerning Dr. Johnson aroused great interest which was heightened by Boswell's frankness in expressing opinions about his hosts as well as by his naiveté in relating incidents that did not reflect credit to himself" Cox.<br> This is a very handsomely bound and readable copy of these two masterworks. G. Bell and Sons, Limited hardcover
1930009187LONDON : G.BELL AND SONS 1930. 1st Edition . LEATHER. Very Good/No Jacket. SHEPARD ERNEST . BOUND IN GREEN LEATHER WITH GILT LETTERING AND DESIGN BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY ERNEST SHEPARD WONDERFUL ENDPAPERS SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED MAP OF HEBRIDES IN GREAT SHAPE SILK BOOK MARK IN PLACE 7 INDENTED RINGS ON SPINE SPINE HAS AGED GRACEFULLY TO BROWN OVER THE YEARS ONE SMALL CHIP AT TOP OF SPINE TOP OF TEXTBLOCK IS GILT A VERY WELL MADE TITLE <br/> <br/> G.BELL AND SONS hardcover
1930012619London: G Bell and Sons 1930 excellent copy faintest foxing to some closed edges tan buckram with gilt figures of Boswell and Johnson to upper board illustrated by E H Shepard xx 609pp map rear endpapers 'Being the life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text and from the 'Tour to the Hebrides'". First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E H Shepard. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. G Bell and Sons hardcover
1857356398London.: Richard Bentley. 1857. 1st Edition. Bound by Riviere in half brown calf over tan cloth raised bands gilt decorated spine panels gilt title on red label top edge gilt marbled endpapers original cover and spine bound in at the back. Near fine small dark spot on cover. 8vo. 2.5x14.5x3 cm. Gift inscription from the publisher on the half-title page. weight: 2.0 lb. Richard Bentley. hardcover
18871249881887. JOHNSON Samuel BOSWELL James. Boswell's Life of Johnson including Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Oxford: Clarendon 1887. Six volumes bound in eleven. Octavo contemporary full navy morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $11000.First George Birkbeck Hill edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson and Johnson's travels extra-illustrated with 1153 finely engraved portraits views maps and facsimiles including many proofs on India paper and facsimile of handwritten note by Hill tipped in. Handsomely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son.Hill was a renowned Johnsonian scholar; when the Clarendon Press brought out this six-volume set in 1887 ""the edition was accepted as a masterpiece of spacious editing. The index forming the sixth volume is a monument of industry and completeness"" DNB. ""The fascination of Boswell and Johnson's dialogue that dialogue of mind heart and voice round which Boswell organized his great Life is that it is not merely between two very different men but between two epochs. In its pages Romantic Europe speaks to Renaissance Europe and is answered"" Wain 229. Due to the profusion of added plates portraits and facsimiles each of the five text volumes were divided into two volumes for a total of 11 volumes the index volume is not extra-illustrated. Interiors and added plates clean and fine. Volume I Part I and Volume III Part I expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down a few other joints slightly tender or with minor reinforcements bindings sound. A very handsome and lavishly extra-illustrated set in excellent condition. hardcover
1785006222London:: Charles Dilly 1785. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG 1st ed 2nd state 1785. In modern calf to style over tree calf boards tips repaired. Spine gilt tooling original gilt titles to red calf label. Internally half title 4 v-vii 1 1 2-254 pp 1 errata/advert some light spotting to eps & half title very faint edge browning short margin tears to p509-514 text block edges yellowed. Folio 124210 mm ESTC T53594. Pottle 114. Boswell was and remains a divisive personality even for modern readers who find the fluent precise demotic prose of the journals compelling: an unstable amalgam of vibrant self-advertising vanity and self-tortured insecurity; an able but reluctant Edinburgh lawyer who marred his chances for judicial promotion with over-zealous and occasionally frenetic defences of poor criminal clients with whom he felt a particular sympathy; a loving but erratic husband; a lenient beloved but overburdened father; a kind and improvement-oriented lowland laird who longed for life in London; a sentimental Jacobite who developed an extraordinary veneration for George III. <br/> <br/> Charles Dilly hardcover
185910896<p>Routledge Warnes and Routledge. London. 1859. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. 7.6 x 5.3 inches. Illustrated throughout with fine engravings some full page. Contemporary fine bindings of half dark reen calf. Spines with raised bands with decorative gilt tooling. Gilt ruling decoration and lettering to compartments. Red title labels ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper to boards and endpapers. All edges marbled. Overall a very good clean set in attractive nineteenth century bindings. -- This edition was edited by Robert Carruthers.</p> Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge. London. 1859 hardcover
177967Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons 1907. 2 vols. Tall 8vo 9½ x 7½ ins. Rebound in later green half calf gilt tooled raised-ribbed spines top edges gilt near Fine. Pp. 1172 illus with b&w plates and in text; upper cover of dustwrapper bound-in at rear of vol II prelims lightly spotted; previous owner's neat inscription on half titles. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1907 unknown
180733660London: Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington ; Longman Hurst Rees etc. 1807. 4 volumes. The Fifth Edition Revised and Augmented. Engraved portrait Reynolds as frontispiece to Vol. I folding plate with facsimiles of Johnson’s handwriting in the second volume the Round Robin plate in Vol. III all complete as called for. 8vo in handsome contemporary bindings of full mottled calf the covers with gilt roll tooling to the borders the spines richly gilt with multi-ruled and decorated gilt bands separating the compartments the compartments with central gilt ornaments lettered in gilt in one compartment original marbled endleaves. xxxv 3 478; 496; 480; 522 2 pp. A handsome set generally quite well preserved with some inevitable rubbing to the extremities and some light wear to the hinges though the bindings are strong and tight and the text-blocks all in good order crisp clean and unpressed some light mellowing on occasion. EARLY PRINTING OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BIOGRAPHIES IN THE LANGUAGE. Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared." He said too that: “A sanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal. Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness that by recording so considerable a portion of the wit and wisdom of the brightest ornament of the eigteenth century I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.†If Boswell does indulge in a little harmless flattery to himself the concluding words of his preface are literally true for Boswell’s Johnson as much as any other book “has largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.â€<br> A valuable reference to the life and times of the era. The object of the work is to depict the life of the period in English history which may legitimately be described as the Age of Johnson. Johnson lived from 1709 to 1784 from the time of Queen Anne and into the third decade of the reign of George III. The book is a descriptive tour de force extremely well written and highly illuminating.<br> Johnson had once said of his own time--’The present age’ he wrote in 1758 <br>though not likely to shine hereafter among the most splendid periods of history has yet given examples of charity which may be very properly commended to imitation.’ The years after Johnson wrote those words saw the year of Minden of Quiberon Bay Lgos and the taKing of Quebec a series of victories to which there are few parallels. It was the age of Chatham too and of Clive Cook Wolfe Burke Fox Gibbon Fielding Reynolds Gainsborough the Adams Garrick Cavendish Priestley Watt and many many others. It can be reckoned among the splendid periods of history. Printed for T. Cadell; F.C. And J. Rivington ; Longman, Hurst Rees, etc. unknown
179333744London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. 3 volumes. First Octavo Edition revised and augmented by Boswell with the corrections cancels and misprints. This copy also with the "Additions received after the Second Edition was printed" pp. i-xxii "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" which is the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii- xxxi and thirteen letters to Bennet Langton and one to the Earl of Bute. Most of this material was issued here for the first time and was not in the first edition quarto. Engraved portrait frontispiece after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Also with the folding ‘Round Robin’ plate and a folding plate of with a facsimile of Dr. Johnson's handwriting. 8vo handsomely bound to style the bindings of three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines gilt decorated and gilt lettered within compartments separated by raised bands. portrait titlexviii ixvii-xxxii xxxix Alphabetical Table of Contents xxxiii-xxxvi 603; 634; 711 pp. A fine and handsome copy well preserved the bindings in very pleasing condition with only very slight mellowing at the spine panels tight and strong with virtually no wear the text-blocks crisp clean and unpressed. IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION IN HANDSOME BINDING. The first 8vo edition of what is perhaps the greatest biography ever written in the English language. The "chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson" appears in this edition for the first time. This set with the alphabetical table of contents before the text rather than at the end of volume 3 as is often the case and with the scarce leaves of corrections and additions following the contents.<br> Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover
