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77079London: The Office of the National Illustrated Library. New Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. A nice set of four volumes in the publisher's original cloth blindstamped on the boards and with decorative gilt at the spines. A little worn and bumped but overall in good condition. Size: Octavo . 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. Inventory No: 77079. . The Office of the National Illustrated Library hardcover
180737149Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. 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. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco spine labels. Binding worn internally clean with occasional foxing. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature" 63; Pottle 85; Shaw & Shoemaker 12184. For the 1791 first edition: Courtney-Nichol Smith p. 172; Grolier "English" 63; Pottle 79; Tinker 388 Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown
1938211348London: Curwen Press for the Limited Editions Club 1938. One of 1500 numbered copies. 3 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth red leather spine labels. Spines a little faded else nice set. One of 1500 numbered copies. 3 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Curwen Press for the Limited Editions Club hardcover
1846648816Henry G. Bohn 1846. First Thus. Leather Binding. Near Fine. 10 volumes complete as issued. Attractively bound in 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son spines with raised bands gilt floral devices and gilt-bordered compartments covers sectioned with a single gilt fillet top edges gilt marbled endpapers covers a trifle faded slight wear. A nice set with great shelf presence. PROVENANCE: Engraved armorial bookplates of Charles B. Barnes Jr. of Boston dated 1893. Henry G. Bohn unknown
1874005488654Bickers and Son 1874. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 3 volumes complete as issued. Attractively bound in full brown period tree calf presumably by Bickers itself spines with raised bands elaborate gilt tooling including thistle motifs and contrasting brown and black morocco labels covers bordered with repeating floral designs in gilt marbled edges and endpapers some rubbing to spines and boards particularly to spine tips.Engraved Frontis; Folding Map; 2 Folding Facsimile Plates. Bickers and Son unknown
192244088New York & Garden City NY: Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page and Co. 1922. Ten vols. 8vo. lxx 249 1; xxv 1 301 1; xxi 1 286; xxi 1 295 1; xxv 1 289 1; xix 1 287 1; xxvii 1 289 1; xxi 1 337 1; xxix 1 280; xxxiii 1 278 pp. Photogravure-illust. titles in red & blk Photogravure frntsps. in all vols. w/ tissue guards over 40 photogravure plates. Publishers’ Japan Vellum over brwn paper boards printed spine labls all vols w/ additional labl tipped-in to rear endpapers t.e.g. w/ d.j.s. printed paper spine labels on all jackets mnr shlfwr vry mnr dustsoilng a couple w/ very slght edgewear still a Fine/NF mostly uncut and unopened set. First edition thus No. 218 of 785 sets printed 35 not for sale of this classic work in biography and English literature; along with Boswell’s wry travel account of the Hebrides all of it illustrated with wonderful photogravures drawn from contemporary sources. Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page and Co., hardcover
87728Printed for T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington; Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown; Baldwin Cradock and Joy; Hatchard and Son; Ogle and Co.; G. and W. B. Whittaker; Simpkin and Marshall; J. Collingwood; and R. Saunders; London 1822. Ninth revised and augmented edition: four books octavo in two volumes; hardcover; quarter-bound in full-calf with marbled boards with gilt titles on black morocco labels between blind rules; 1900pp. 1-4pp.; i-xxxvipp.; 1-444pp.; 1-4pp.; 1-462pp.; 1-4pp.; 1-446pp.; 1-4pp.; 1-495pp.; 1 blank with an engraved frontispiece and two engraved folding plates. Rebound: spines sunned; text block edges toned with some spots; previous owner's contemporary ink inscriptions to the second and third title pages; scattered foxing throughout; bookbinder's bookplates to the rear pastedown of each volume. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Printed for T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Hatchard and So hardcover
0267793995.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
L4TLOSJBGeorge Routledge. Hardcover. Good Minus. Good minus five volume set complete. 1885. Limited Edition 449/500. Some foxing/spotting. Some cracking at hinges. Generally nice for age. Scarce. We use quality packaging materials. George Routledge hardcover
41583London: Printed for G. Cowie and Co. 1824. 4 Vols. 8vo 215 x 140 mm 2 439 1; 2 443; 2 426; 2 472pp. engraved portrait frontispiece offset onto title page one folding engraved plate some occasional foxing of text contemporary calf neatly rebacked spines tooled in gilt red leather lettering piece. Provenance: Each volume with the engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Simeon 1759-1836 Vicar of Holy Trinity Cambridge for 54 years from 1782 until his death. Simeon a contemporary of John Wesley William Wilberforce and a founder member of the Church Mission Society; presentation inscription at head of title page. London: Printed for G. Cowie and Co., 1824 hardcover
179186766London: By Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition. Hardcover. Some foxing and toning repair to front hinge of vol.II some ink ownership markings to title-pages; rebacked some wear to covers. No jacket. Stipple-engraved portrait by Heath after Reynolds 2 engraved plates of facsimiles. First edition first issue with "gve" on page 135 line 10 of volume I. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf rebacked in later calf with some matching recornering. Boswell's renowned sometimes hagiographical portrayal of Dr Samuel Johnson the great lexicographer moralist and wit of the 18th century. It is often considered one of the greatest biographies ever written in the English language. By Henry Baldwin for 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
43757LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY 1990. TWO VOLUMES IN QUARTER BUCKRAM OVER BROWN CLOTH. WITH SLIPCASE WITH VERY SLIGHT BUMP. 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
44705LONDON WILLIAM P. NIMM 1874. NEW EDITION. A NEAR FINE COPY IN FULL BROWN LEATHER WITH GILT TO ALL PAGE EDGES MARBLED END PAGES ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINE. CAREFULLY REVISED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES AND WITH NOTES. NEAT INSCRIPTION IN INK ON FEP. LONDON, WILLIAM P. NIMM, 1874 hardcover
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
