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17931249C005London: Charles Dilly 1793. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. VOL I: Frontis Title vi Dedication vii-xii Advertisement to 1st Ed. xiii-xviii Advertisement to 2nd Ed.; 1-xxii Additions recollected & received after the 2nd edition was printed xxiii-xxxi Chronological Catalouge of the prose works 1 blank xxvii-xxxix Table of Contents 1 xxxiii-xxxvi Corrections xxxviii Additional Corrections 1 blank 603. VOL II: Title 634 Fold-out plate facing p.450. VOL III: Title 711 Fold-out plate facing p.711 1 blank. Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Complete three volume set. Half calf leather bindings with marbled boards. Spines with gilt ruled compartments and red morocco title labels. Spines heavily worn and rubbed with loss to ends and chipping to edges. Joints cracked front board of Volume II is loose but held by the cords. Volume I has an old leather repair to rear joint. Good solid page blocks. Foxing to text and occasional pencilled margin markings. Owner's name to all title pages dated 1809 a later owner's name and address to front free endpaper in Volume I. The second London edition and first English octavo edition following the 1791 London quarto edition and the 1792 Dublin octavo edition. Complete with the portrait frontis in Volume I fold-out 'Round Robin' plate in Volume II and fold-out handwriting facsimile in Volume III. Volume I also includes the additional corrections leaf c3 p. xxxviii. Overall condition is Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Charles Dilly hardcover
1793824J2London: Charles Dilly 1793. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The first two volumes of James Boswell's well-known 18th century biography of author Samuel Johnson the second edition of this work. The second edition of this well-known biography revised and augmented.Including Volumes I and II lacking Volume III. Written by eighteenth-century Scottish biographer James Boswell. Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson is often claimed to be the greatest biography written in English and the text played an important role in the development of the modern genre of biography. Whilst Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject began rather later in 1763 when Johnson was fifty four years old Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. Including an engraved frontispiece portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds to Volume I and a folding 'Round Robin' plate with facsimile signatures to Volume II. Collated and complete. Samuel Johnson was an English author well-known in the literary world for his many lasting contributions to various areas of humanist art including poetry essay-writing biography and more. He is described by the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies' as the most distinguished man of letters in English history. Containing a contemporary ink inscription to the front free-endpaper of each volume: 'Edmund Calamy Esq to Ann Pope Feb the 3rd 1798'. ESTC Citation No. T64482 Bound in contemporary quarter calf binding with marbled boards. Externally some shelf wear to the boards and rubbing to the joints and spines. Containing a contemporary ink inscription to the front free-endpaper of each volume. Internally hinges are lightly strained though remaining binding is firm. Light spotting to the first and last few pages and the odd spot to the pages which are otherwise bright and clean especially considering the age of the work. Good Charles Dilly hardcover
17916571<p><strong>1791. 1st Edition Limited Edition .</strong> Hardcover. Very Good. Complete in 2 volumes. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Johnson by J. Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds and 2 additional engraved plates. All 3 plates with imprints dated April 10 1791. Frontispiece with the original tissue-guard intact. 4to. Bound in contemporary circa 1800 speckled calf with gilt armorial supralibros on all 4 covers spines with raised bands; red morocco gilt-lettered labels; small black morocco circular volume-number labels. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly London 1791. First Edition. <strong>Limited to 1750 copies.</strong> <br /><br /><strong>Printed on light blue paper. </strong>Vol. I has the correct give reading on page 135 line 10 generally considered the second state although as Pottle notes booksellers have given this rather uninteresting point more attention than it deserves. The copies printed on light blue paper were presumably reserved for members of the nobility: When Boswell published his The Life of Samuel Johnson the King was sent a copy of the First Edition printed on blue paper dutifully inscribed by Boswell himself. S. J. Patterson The Royal Library. Windsor Castle. in M. L. López-Vidriero P. M. Cátedra eds. El libro antiguo español Vol. III page 203. <br /><br />This blue-paper set belonged to the distinguished British Whig statesman William 1st Baron Grenville PC FRS 1759-1834 who served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister of Britain from 1806 to 1807. Each volume carries on both covers gilt-stamped armorial supralibros of William Grenville lettered Sigillum W.W. Baronis Grenville Cancellarii Academie Oxoniensis apparently dating from the period 1809-1834 when he was the Chancellor of Oxford University. <br /><br />Boswell's <em>Life of Johnson</em> arguably the most famous biography in any language was first mentioned in the authors extensive diaries in March 1772 although it is likely Boswell conceived of the idea to preserve but a faint impression of Johnson letter to Wilkes 13 July 1765 several years before. The task which Boswell saw as a glory to myself and a benefit to mankind took the best part of two decades to come to fruition and was eventually published 28 years after the first meeting of the author and his subject in Thomas Davies back parlor in 1763. When <em>The</em><em> Life of Samuel Johnson</em> was published in 1791 it at once commanded the admiration that Boswell had sought for so long and it has since suffered no diminution. Its style was unique in that unlike other biographies of that era it directly incorporated conversations that Boswell had noted down at the time for his journals. He also included far more personal and human details than those to which contemporary readers were accustomed. Instead of writing a respectful and dry record of Johnsons public life in the style of the time he painted a vivid portrait of the complete man brought to life through a dramatic style of dialogue. It has often been described as the greatest biography ever written. <br /><br />With the usual cancel leaves Mm4 in Vol. I and E3 Oo4 Qq3 Zz1 and Eee2 in Vol. II leaf Nn1 in Vol. I does not appear to be a cancel. Bindings slightly rubbed with a few minor scratches; light wear and bumping to corners; bottom fore-corner of the front cover of Vol. I somewhat bent; joints somewhat worn with some partial superficial cracking but all boards firmly and securely attached. Interiors with some light scattered spotting and minor foxing; a yellowish stain to page 530 in Vol. II; o/w a solid clean unmarked set with wide margins. <strong>A very rare blue paper copy</strong></p> Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover
1793685L2London: Henry Baldwin 1793. First edition. Fine Binding. Fine. 10.5" by 8". None. A finely bound copy of this very scarce work with manuscript corrections and additions to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'. The first edition. With nine contemporary manuscript corrections in black in to references on pages 14-16 18 20 22-23 and 27. The manuscript corrections are very similar to those in the Malahide-Isham copy. The Malahide-Isham copy has had the ink annotations attributed to Boswell himself. The annotations to this copy are very similar to those and indeed match examples of Boswell's later hand in the British Library.Rebound in a fine Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding with their binder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper. With the signatures A1 B-F4 G1. This was Boswell's final lifetime publication and is very scarce. To this title Boswell analyses his first edition of Dr Johnson's life. This biography earned Boswell a great reputation as a biographer. As a great friend of Johnson he was a perfect candidate to write about his life. This biography is a landmark in the development of the genre. Presented as a list with page references to the left this forty-two page work explains the corrections and reasoning behind this. A very scarce beautifully bound copy of this work. In a crushed morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with occasional scattered spots to pages mostly to the first and last few pages. Fine Henry Baldwin unknown
