Boswell JamesBiblio.com
3 842 résultats
179131227London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1791. 2 volumes. First Edition First Issue with 'gve' on p.135 of the first volume; Mm4 and Nn1 in Volume I and E3 Qq3 and Eee2 in Volume II are cancels as called for. With round robin plate signatures page portrait frontispiece. 4to 275 x 210 mm. full contemporary mottled calf the spines with raised bands separating the compartments the bands ruled in gilt two compartments with terra-cotta-red morocco lettering labels gilt the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders gilt tooled edges original endleaves. xii 16 516; 588 pp. A handsome and fine set with the bindings in excellent condition sometime expertly and very sympathetically renewed at the spines to style. A very pleasing set quite clean and crisp throughout. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION FIRST STATE IN PLEASING CONDITION. 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> Only 1750 copies of the first edition were printed. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry hardcover
185931462London: Routledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. 4 volumes bound in two. A New Edition Elucidated by Copious Notes and Illustrated with Numerous Portraits Views and Characteristic Designs Engraved from Authentic Sources. Decorated with four frontispiece engravings four engraved title-pages the round robin plate with signatures on thick paper and a great profusion of engravings throughout the text. 8vo beautifully bound in full polished calf the covers with double gilt fillet frames enclosing an inner stippled frame in blind the spines with raised bands gilt stippled separating compartments decorated with full gilt panels tooled in gilt with elaborate corner pieces and central floral elements two compartments with contrasting green and black morocco lettering labels gilt edges tooled in gilt turnovers tooled in blind marbled endleaves and edges xxxii 291; viii 298; viii 298; viii 300 pp. A very handsome and very fine set with the bindings in excellent condition. Beautifully preserved and presented. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN THE LANGUAGE VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND AND FULLY ILLUSTRATED. 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> Only 1750 copies of the first edition were printed. Routledge, Warnes and Routledge hardcover
180745012Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1807. 4 vols. roy. 8vo. Fifth Edition with engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 large folding facsimiles free endpapers mildly browned some light age-staining to text; strongly bound IN ORIGINAL DOVE-GREY BOARDS expertly rebacked in ivory faux-vellum to style backstrips with printed paper labels uncut boards lightly age-soiled a remarkably bright clean crisp copy. Complete with half-titles and the errata slip to all four volumes in first volume. With 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 1 December 1808 bound in at end of first volume. The facsimiles are the 'Round Robin' and the sample of Johnson's hand. In addition to the dedication to Reynolds this edition retains Bowell's advertisements to the first and second editions Malone's similar to the fourth and fifth editions and the chronological list of Johnson's prose works. 'In this fifth edition some errors have been corrected. Two letters written by Dr. Johnson and several new notes have been added' Malone. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS ARE VERY SCARCE. NCBEL II p.1214; Pottle Boswell 84. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, hardcover
37626LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY 1990. TWO VOLUMES IN QUARTER BUCKRAM OVER BROWN CLOTH. WITH SLIP CASE. REPRINT. FINE COPIES. BOOKPLATE OF PREVIOUS OWNER. EDITED BY RODNEY SHEWAN EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED. LONDON, THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 1990 hardcover
38239LONDON' HENRY BOHN 1846. NEW EDITION COMPLETE IN 10 VOLUMES. FULL POLISHED CALF RED AND GREEN LABELS ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINES MARBLED PAGES EDGES UPWARDS OF FIFTY FINE ENGRAVINGS. WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS AND NOTES BYJOHN WILSON CROKER TO WHICH ARE ADDED TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES OF JOHNSONIANA. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. A FINE AND HANDSOME SET. LONDON' HENRY BOHN, 1846 unknown
38925LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY 1991. SECOND PRINTING. TWO VOLUMES IN QUARTER BUCKRAM OVER BROWN CLOTH. WITH SLIGHTLY MARKED SLIP CASE. FINE COPIES. EDITED BY RODNEY SHEWAN EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED. LONDON, THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 1991 hardcover
1835012986London: John Murray 1835. Complete in 10 volumes. Books measure 18x11.5.cm. Bound in later half calf calf corners cloth boards gilt head and tail bands gilt lettering. Calf lightly rubbed scuffed on edges/corners private library number on spines. All bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally private library stamp on endpapers. Pages in good clean condition. A nice clean solid set. . Half Calf. Near Very Good. 8vo. John Murray Hardcover
166498Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. 5th edn revised and augmented. 4 vols. 8vo 8½ x 5½ ins. Contemporary full speckled calf spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels boards gilt tooled at edges 2 ins tear at bottom lower edge of spine of vol IV and some light scratching on boards - otherwise a VG set. Pp. iv xxxv 478 2 blank & iv 496 2 blank & iv 480 2 blank & iv 522 2 blank illus with engraved frontispiece in vol I and folding facsimiles 2 in vols I and III previous owner's engraved card on front paste-downs and rear endpapers of vol VI a little toned and creased; no inscriptions. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 unknown
190627574Robert Riviere 1906. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus on India Paper with 2 portrait frontispieces original tissue guards present; attractively bound in dark green half calf cloth boards backs with raised bands second and third compartments lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt tops marbled endpapers expertly rebacked in calf to style an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. This edition not recorded by Pottle. Robert Riviere, hardcover
21922LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY 1990. TWO VOLUMES IN QUARTER BUCKRAM OVER BROWN CLOTH. WITH SLIP CASE. REPRINT. FINE COPIES. EDITED BY RODNEY SHEWAN EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED. LONDON, THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 1990 hardcover
185912910Routledge Warnes & Routledge 1859. 4 vols. 8vo. with four engraved frontispieces engraved and printed titles and very numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout neat contemporary signature on printed titles some very light occasional and inoffensive spotting; original patterned cloth elaborately blocked in blind backs gilt extra lightly rubbed at headbands without material loss one or two corners lightly bruised else a very good clean copy. With the contemporary trade ticket of M. Ogle of Glasgow on front paste-down and the binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge on rear paste-down. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of fourth volume. An early reissue of the National Illustrated Library Edition the first illustrated version first published in 1851. It is a reprint of Malone's sixth edition with a few original notes. 'The illustrations are profuse and useful' Pottle. A SPLENDID WHOLLY UNRESTORED AND ENTIRELY TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF A MID-VICTORIAN EDITION COMPLETE WITH PATTERNED CLOTH BINDING PIBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT AND BOOKSELLER'S AND BINDER'S TICKETS. Leighton Son & Hodge were leading trade and remnant binders of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Pottle 94 recording the NLI 1851 edition. Routledge Warnes & Routledge, hardcover
1835500020265London: John Murray 1835. First. . hardcover Sp & hardcover. Good. 12mo. 7 volumes with contemporary leather spine and marbled boards. vol 6 7 & 10 in maroon cloth with faded spine and the last with detached boards <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
188424975London: George Bell 1884. six volumes in total bound in publishers tan cloth on spines and maroon cloth on boards covers mostly bumped at corners and some sunning and soiling to cloth but bindings are sound and tight brown-spotting at edges and occasionally within mostly affecting outer leaves. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. George Bell Hardcover
1811003418London: T Cadell and W Davies 1811. Sixth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG 1811 in contemporary honeycombed calf gilt lines to edges corners and edges a little worn and bumped. All spines have been professionally relaid raised bands gilt tooling and title edges a little worn and bumped. Internally all have red marbled endpapers some offsetting and minimal foxing to prelims. Vol 1 frontis of Johnson dated 1756 2 xxxvii 1 481 pp 2 pull out sheets. Vol 2 2 496 pp. Vol 3 2 483 pp. Vol 4 2 530 pp all printed in London by C Baldwin of New Bridge St. A lovely set. lawyer diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson published his Life of and on 13 May forty-one London booksellers purchased more than 400 sets of two large quarto volumes and on 16 May the twenty-eighth anniversary of his first meeting with Johnson in Davies's back parlour the biography was published. Sales exceeded all expectations. Of a total of 1750 sets printed 800 were sold in the first two weeks 1200 by the end of August 1400 by December and 1600 by August 1792. see ODNB for a full Bio. 210129 mm. see Kent 152. Allibone 978. Pottle 174. <br/> <br/> T Cadell and W Davies hardcover
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, 5 plates, 2 maps on one large folder, and front and rear endpaper maps coloured in outline; cloth gilt. gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Seventh volume of 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. Brown 103
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.
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, 2 plates, a double-page facsimile and endpaper maps; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of the definitive series 'The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. The work is complete in itself. Brown 99
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, 2 plates, a double-page facsimile and endpaper maps; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of the definitive series 'The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. The work is complete in itself. Brown 99
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.
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
Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus with a frontispiece 7 plates and endpaper maps; navy buckram vellum back black label lettered in gilt gilt top uncut silk marker a very good bright clean copy in publisher's card slip-case the latter mildly worn at edges and c EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. Published in 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'.
8vo. Uncorrected Proof Copy; printed wrappers a very good clean copy. Proof copies of any titles in this sought-after series are scarce.
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 5 engraved frontispieces (all original tissue guards present), and titles in red and black, free endpapers and half-titles lightly browned; olive cloth, backstrips with paper labels printed in red and black, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a remarkably bright, well-preserved copy. With spare labels tipped-in on rear free endpapers. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Fifth Impression, with a portrait frontispiece, 3 full-page facsimiles and endpaper maps, small neat contemporary signature on title; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. First volume of The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Brown 98 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title, numerous plates and rear endpaper map; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
