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18912542London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd 1891. Octavo 6 volumes bound in three quarters red morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine top edge gilt illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively bound set. "Everyone with an interest in Johnson is very much in debt to Boswell not only for the years of devotion he invested in the study of Johnson's life but for the uncanny skill with which he conveyed the quality of Johnson's personality and his effect on the people about him. If there had been no Boswell Johnson would have been one of the most famous names in English literature; but that he has become a household name is due to the chance that brought Boswell into his company Boswell is the sniffing bloodhound who will follow the scent of individuality into whatever territory it leads him. The fascination of their 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. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd unknown books
122670London: William Pickering and Oxford: Talboys and Wheeler 1826. 4 vols. 8vo xxi 394; 416; 395; 428 pp. Original red buckram black labels engraved portrait of Boswell and Round Robin plate and a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; a very good copy of the large-paper edition in the original binding. Bookplate of H.L. Hobart. Pickering 8pp. ads at front of vol. 1. § Limited to 50 copies on large paper CBEL II 1214; Keynes p. 54; Pottle 90: "This edition in four volumes large octavo is the most beautiful that has yet appeared. The editor was Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and afterwards 1829-34 Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford who in the previous year had edited the edition of Johnson's works in the Oxford English Classics with which this edition of the Life is uniform. This is the first edition of the Life to include a portrait of Boswell as a frontispiece." William Pickering hardcover books
2438.2New York: The Modern Library n. d. Circa mid-60s. Torquise cloth binding style G6. Dark blue dust jacket. NF/VG. 1200 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Giant #G2. The Modern Library hardcover books
1938705London: Limited Editions Club 1938. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Oliver Simon and printed at the Curwen Press. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the leather spine spine label stamped in gilt. Fading to spines otherwise in near fine condition. LEC Bibliography 103. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
19521082998vo. New York: The Modern Library 1952. 8vo. xv 559 pp. Full blue cloth with title stamped in gilt to backstrip with original pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket shows hints of edge wear price-clipped internally bright; very good. Signed in ink on the half-title by Ruth Moline. § First edition thus. “Few men in history have ever been known as intimately as Samuel Johnson. Famous in his own time for his wit and wisdom he has had the rare good fortune to gain a posthumous extension of personality and influence over a period of more than one hundred and sixty years. James Boswell’s boast that Johnson would ‘be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived’ has been borne out in the greatest biography in the English language.†The Modern Library hardcover books
179153375London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition the so-called second state with "give" reading on p. 135 in vol. I 2 volumes 4to pp. xii 16 516; 2 588; engraved portrait frontispiece by Heath after Joshua Reynolds and with the Round Robin plate and the plate showing facsimile signatures of Johnson; nice copy in contemporary full calf neatly and pleasingly rebacked sometime in the 20th century preserving the old red and black morocco labels on spine; all the standard cancels are present per Pottle. Regarding the "give" versus "gve" reading Pottle notes that the "booksellers have given this rather uninteresting 'point' more attention than it deserves." 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 the heroic poets Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of the orators than Boswell is the first of biographers" Macaulay. Grolier English 100 no. 65; Rothschild 463; Pottle 79. <br/><br/> Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
179923381London: printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly 1799. First Malone edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxxi 1 452; 2 490; 2 475; 2 514; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; labels gone on all but the last volume but generally a very good sound copy in contemporary full calf. The second edition was something of a botched effort by Boswell and the result was a book "painfully at variance with his own standards of ordered arrangement" although much new important material was added. It was left to Malone to "shake together" Boswell's second and the third "is now generally regarded as the definitive edition" Pottle. Pottle 82. <br/><br/> printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly unknown books
181125406London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1811. Last Malone edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. 4 xxxvii 1 464; 2 496; 2 482; 2 530; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; contemporary full mottled calf gilt-decorated spines black morocco labels; front joint on vol. 1 cracked but generally a very good set. "This edition was the one most frequently reprinted in the 19th century and is often spoken of as 'the best of the pre-Crokerian editions'. The more general critical tendency now however seems to be to return to the text of the third as being more nearly that which the author himself approved" Pottle. Pottle 86. <br/><br/> T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
19258132Bath: George Bayntun 1925 Quarto 10x7½ inches. Pp. xl 576 xv 577-1172. Illustrated with 576 illustrations facsimiles and map including 13 plates in photogravure. Extensive notes bibliography chronology index. Bound in three-quarter crimson morocco red cloth sides spines ruled in gilt gilt lettering and pictorial devises within compartments between raised bands. Bookplate on front pastedowns slight fading to front cloth of volume II. A very fine crisp set in a handsome binding. This is a wonderfully illustrated and invaluable edition of Boswell's classic biography of Johnson with hundreds of portraits of all the major players views facsimiles of letters and other writings etc. Volume I covers 1709 to March 18 1776; volume II covers March 19 1776 to December 13 1784. "Includes a wealth of carefully annotated pictures of various kinds. we congratulate publisher and author on the excellent idea of illustrating the greatest of biographers on an ample scale" Atheæum. George Bayntun hardcover books
1798WB18306London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1798. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes. First octavo edition. First edition was 1791; Dublin octavo followed in 1792 so this is in essence the third edition overall. Contemporary brown calf professionally rebacked. Ex libris Anne Davies with her old book label. Smaller modern bookseller label of Henry Southern. <br/><br/> Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry hardcover books
1963Embry 196108Heritage Press 1963. Bookplate else fine in fine slipcases. Illustrated. Tan cloth with red labels. Lacking Sandglass. Heritage Press, 1963. hardcover books
1891266435New York: Harper 1891. hardcover. very good. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Frontispiece portrait folding facsimiles and black and white illustrations throughout 6 volumes. Tall thick 8vos handsomely bound in 3/4 green morocco evenly faded to brown with marbled boards gilt-decorated spines; top edge gilt marbled end-papers. New York: Harper 1891. First American Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
1889261993New York: Harper 1889. First. hardcover. near fine. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Frontispiece portrait folding facsimiles and black and white illustrations throughout 6 volumes. Tall thick 8vos handsomely bound in publisher's 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards with gilt-decorated spines; top edge gilt marbled end-papers. New York: Harper 1889. First American Edition. Limited edition -- one of 300 copies -- this set not numbered.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
1824246342Bellows Falls Vt. Volume I and Boston: Charles Ewer: Printed for the Proprietors and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor 1824. A New Edition. Frontispiece Vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Original boards uncut one joint off spines rubbed with loss else Good. A New Edition. Frontispiece Vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor unknown books
1945WRCLIT16996Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Co. 1945. Large octavo. Portrait and plates. Cloth t.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. Backstrip a shade tanned else about fine in slipcase. Doubleday, Doran and Co. hardcover books
199393144London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1993. Hardcover. B000HL1GF0 . Complete in two volumes. Edited by Rodney Shewan. Third printing thus. Both volumes are near fine. Housed in a near fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
19402214NY: Art Digest 1940. Hardcover. Fair spine chipped and missing pieces. Boards. 48 pp. 28 bw repros. Includes literary contributions by Boswell Parker Alexander J. Wall Mark Eisner J. Frederick Larson. Biographical notes. Inscribed warmly by the artist from his home in New Hope Pa. to someone whose name has been erased. Scarce. Art Digest hardcover books
199728240Minneapolis: Walker Art Center 1997. First Edition. Quarto. Linen-backed glazed illustrated boards; 224pp; illus. Faint sticker residue to front board else about Fine; no dustjacket presumably as issued. Survey of the montage work of the eminent Berlin Dadaist Hanna Höch 1889-1978 including her daring Weimar-era anti-fascist collages. Walker Art Center unknown books
018814Cambridge; 2009: Cambridge University Press. First Edition. Octavo. Review copy. 272p. index. bibliography. This book helps solve the puzzle of why governmental agencies invest in research but often fail to use it. A fine bright copy bound in black cloth spine lettering gilt in fine pictorial dust jacket. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1932034158Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1932. xviii 370p. colored front. b/w illus. deckle edges original cloth partially unopened. Harvard University Press unknown 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
196062873London: William Heinemann 1960. First British editions as edited for this series of six first seven volumes of the journals each a limited edition see below for limitations. 8vo. Six volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762 1951 448 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 428 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour German and Switzerland 1764 1953 353 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 1/400 copies 383 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1957 1/400 copies 425 pp.; 6 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1960 1/350 copies 396 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans. Pottle edited these volumes the first three by himself the following two with Frederick Brady and the final one with William K. Wimsatt. Small book label on the front pastedown of each volume otherwise all very good to fine. All quarter vellum gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth leather spine labels London Journal chipped at lower corner t.e.g. others untrimmed publisher's slipcases lacking for "Holland" and "Wife" the others with rubbed or bumped corners. 9735. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
198962874New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co 1989. First American edition as edited for this series of all volumes. 8vo. 13 volumes: 1 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 now first published from the original manuscript 1950 370 pp.; 2 Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen 1952 433 pp.; 3 Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764 1953 357 pp.; 4 Boswell on the Grand Tour Italy Corsica and France 1765-1766 1955 356 pp.; 5 Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769 1956 390 pp.; 6 Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LL.D 1773 1961 520 pp.; 7 Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 1959 396 pp.; 8 Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-1776 1963 427 pp.; 9 Boswell in Extremes 1776-1778 1970 418 pp.; 10 Boswell Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782 1977 570 pp.; 11 Boswell the Applause of the Jury 1782-1785 1981 419 pp.; 12 Boswell: The English Experiment 1785-1789 1986 332 pp.; 13 Boswell the Great Biographer 1789-1795 1989 371 pp. Illustrated from old paintings sculpture portraits artifacts documents and correspondence plates maps and plans endpaper maps. Pottle edited the first 12 volumes the first three by himself the next nine with an associate from the list of editors above; the final volume was edited by Danziger and Frank Brady. Another volume "Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds" ed. by Frederick W. Hiles 1952 was issued as a part of the series but is not present here. Gift inscription on the front endpaper of "Applause" two volumes with bookplates on the front pastedown otherwise all very good to fine. All cloth and boards color pictorial dust jackets a little edgewear to several volumes two price-clipped several with small prices in ink. 9734. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill Book Co hardcover books
2013UBOSTUM00LAWGraywolf Press 2013. Very Good. Boswell Robert. Tumbledown. Minneapolis MN: Graywolf Press 2013. 431pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with a few gentle bumps to edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. In plastic protector. Graywolf Press hardcover books
2013UBOSTUM00MELGraywolf 2013. Fine. Boswell Robert. Tumbledown. Minneapolis MN: Graywolf 2013. First edition in dust jacket. 429pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Graywolf hardcover books
