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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
19019023265London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1901. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in half leather and cloth covered boards gilt ruled covers. Four raised bands on the spines. Spines are sunned stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. Frontispieces and illustrations throughout. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover books
19242266262Oxford University Press 1924. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1952-1970 printing. Includes original jacket with 388 titles listed on reverse. A few small jackets tears and minor loss from corners. 1924 Hard Cover. xv 1 559 1 pp. Bergen Evans's abridgment of Boswell's famous biographical work about Samuel Johnson which helped shape the style of biographies published thereafter. Oxford University Press hardcover books
19251104402 vols. Bath: George Bayntun 1925. 2 vols 8vo 1172 pp. With 576 Illustrations Facsimiles and Maps Including 13 Plates in Photogravure. Original three-quarter bright red morocco gilt spine tooled in gilt with decorative medallions five raised bands; t.e.g. A splendid set beautifully bound by Bayntun. § A perfect copy of a very good edition of this classic of English literature and history. George Bayntun hardcover books
18071503106Andrews 1807. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Published by William Andrews and Lemuel Blake Greenough and Stebbins Printers Boston 1807. First American in Boards Uncut. From the fifth London edition. 3 vols. 8vo First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The First edition was published in 1791. All three volumes very good in contemporary or original boards. Andrews hardcover books
180737183Boston: Published by William Andrews and Lemuel Blake Greenough and Stebbins Printers 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The First edition was published in 1791. Engraved portrait frontispiece by D. Edwin in first volume. Pp. 500; 512; 543. Two folding facsimile leaves vol. 2 following p. 342vol 3 following p.472. 3 vols. 8vo. Original cream paper-backed blue and cream marbled boards orange printed label ornamental decorations on spine uncut. First volume dampstained throughout some holes in title which is spotted some foxing binding of first volume damaged and lacking spine portion of spine with label laid in covers loosened volumes two and three with some rubbing of bindings and short tears of spines insect holes along bands some light spotting but generally the last two volumes very good with contemporary signature of John McVickar on endpapers. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The First edition was published in 1791. Engraved portrait frontispiece by D. Edwin in first volume. Pp. 500; 512; 543. Two folding facsimile leaves vol. 2 following p. 342vol 3 following p.472. 3 vols. 8vo. First American in Boards Uncut. John McVickar is rest recalled as an economist. He was one of the earliest teachers of political economy in the U. S. taught while he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Columbia which he held from 1817 until 1857. In 1857 when Columbia brought in Francis Leiber to teach political economy McVickar was transferred to the Chair of Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion a position he held until his retirement in 1864. From 1844 until 1864 he was also Army Chaplain at Fort Columbus in New York. He is also recalled as one of the founders of St. Stephen's College for Episcopal clergyman. He was the author of several works including the revised and greatly extended "Britannica" article by McCulloch "Outline of Political Economy "1825 "Hints on Banking"1827; and several others on finance and banking and a biography of Henry Hobart. Published by W[illiam] Andrews and L[emuel] Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown books
18269364.1Oxford: Published by William Pickering London; and Talboys & Wheeler Oxford 1826. 1st edition thus Kelly 1826.2; Keynes p. 54; NCBEL II 1214. 19th C. tan half-calf with deep maroon spine labels; marbled boards & edges. Overall VG some modest binding wear. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait of Boswell V1 & two facsimile letters. 8vo. <br/><br/>One of the Pickering imprints that Keynes notes as having "special merit". Published by William Pickering, London; and Talboys & Wheeler, Oxford hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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