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1844150502013London: John Murray 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. Croker edition complete in ten volumes. 12mo. Later marbled paper covered boards with leather spines and corners raised bands. Very Good overall. Marbled end papers. Contents are generally quite neat. From the personal collection of American author Osmond Tiffany with his bookplate on all front paste downs perforation to title pages small red stamps to verso; no other marks/wear as such. Leather worn at edges with some flaking especially at heads. All boards attached; some hinges are a bit tender. A solid mid-19th century set of Boswell's classic biography of Samuel Johnson with two volumes of Johnsoniana and "upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. John Murray hardcover books
18318638London. John Murray. 1831. Very handsomely bound by Riviere and Sons in 3/4 gilt ruled crushed morocco and linen covered boards. Gilt ruled spine compartments with elaborate gilt tooled motifs. Gilt tooled raised bands. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 8vo. 5.5" x 8.5". A New Edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croaker. Illustrated with an engraved Frontis to each volume. This is the last Library Edition of Croaker's Boswell. Spines evenly attractively sunned. A Very Fine pristine set in a stupendous binding. John Murray. hardcover books
183125405London: John Murray 1831. First Crocker edition 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 morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; vol. 1 rebacked with old spine laid down; joints cracked on vols. 2-5 cords holding and in the case of vol. 5 barely holding top of vol. 4 slightly chipped. This edition still stands as a monument of Johnsonian scholarship; but it was badly edited much and 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
225677London John Murray 1835. 8vo. Engraved frontispieces and pictorial title page plus 28 plates. 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards; spines with raised bands with elaborate gilt ruling and green leather spine label stamped in gilt; marbled edges; marbled endpapers. Very good fresh set. Bookplates of Robert Brown and John Bridie Mavor on the front free pastedown and front free endpaper. 10 volumes complete. Hardcover. Very Good. London, John Murray, 1835. hardcover books
183524973London: John Murray 1835. First edition thus. Three quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands six gilt decorated compartmentswith red morocco title label and black morocco volume label top edge gilt marbled endpapers sewn-in red silk bookmark. Spines a bit darkened extremities rubbed some scuffing to spines volume labels chipped one nearly gone one title label heavily chipped bindings tight leaves crisp and clean overall still a very good set but for the chipped labels. Illus. with engraved 12 frontispieces and 12 extra title page vignettes drawn by C. Stanfield and engraved by E. Finden. 12mo. Originally to be 8 volumes changed to 10 with addition of new material and thus new title pages were issued. John Murray hardcover books
18315972London: John Murray 1831. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson during his long life came into contact with virtually everyone in British society who left a footprint and Boswell names them all. John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's great biography-offered here in its initial printing-inspired something of a fashion for collectors to gather up printed portraits of the figures named in the biography and have them bound into their copies of Croker's Boswell opposite the pages where the figure is named or discussed. The majority of the portraits scenes facsimiles and maps in this copy date from the first quarter of the 19th century while a few were printed in the late 1700s and the most recent ones date from the 1840s. Celebrity portraits include those of Johnson Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi Richardson Rousseau Sterne Catherine the Great Leibnitz Byron Swift Joseph Banks Voltaire Madame de Sévigné Captain Cook Thomas Gray John Donne Adam Smith Walter Scott Joseph Addison Thomas Brown Montaigne Drake Milton and many many many others. Octavo 23 cm; 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 give or take black-and-white engravings some folding and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits facsimiles scenes and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. John Murray hardcover books
1901302759London: J.M. Dent 1901. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarter brown morocco and gilt spine t.e.g. by McDonald. Some rubbing. VG. Illus. with about 100 plates by Herbert Ralton and may portraits. 3 vols. Large 8vo. J.M. Dent unknown books
179320522London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition complete in three volumes. pp; 603 with frontis portrait complicated pagination of front matter/introductory materials provided on request; 634 with folding plate; 711 with folding plate. Volume I includes the inserted leaf of "additional corrections" C3. Contemporary calf boards nicely rebacked in the nineteenth century with new leather spines with red labels and decoration in gilt. Boards heavily worn at the corners bindings tight text quite clean. One page of early owner's notes in pencil bound in at the beginning of the first volume. The final edition printed in Boswell's lifetime "revised and augemented" from the first published in 1791. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover books
180753374Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake 1807. First American edition taken from the fifth Malone edition published in London earlier the same year 8vo 3 volumes frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; title page in volume II partially loose and torn with loss to a word or two; uncut copy in later full muslin manuscript paper labels on spine; very good. Pottle 85. <br/><br/> W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown books
WRCLIT74048London: Printed for Henry Baldwin 1791. xii16516;588i.e.5861pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf rebacked and recornered at a later date to a semblance of style gilt labels. Portrait. Facsimile and plate. 19th century ink name "Walter Fletcher" on endsheets and effaced from margin of titles edges rubbed endsheets creased some soiling to verso of portrait clean tear in R4 vol. I with no loss some occasional pencil annotations. but a sound set. First edition uncorrected state of I:135:10 'gve' with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle as usual. In volume two pages 78 92 275 and 352 are in their first uncorrected states. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the English language. Each volume bears the bookplate of Jonathan Boucher 1737-1804 Anglican clergyman and for a period beginning in 1759 a prominent figure in the colonies and intimate of George Washington. However his staunch loyalist sympathies caused him to return to England in 1775 where he occupied himself with various matters including for fourteen years an unfinished "Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words" intended to supplement Johnson's Dictionary. After his death a preliminary section was published but the remainder of his work was turned over to the proprietors of Webster's English Dictionary. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. Printed for Henry Baldwin unknown books
1791WRCLIT71587London: Printed for Henry Baldwin 1791. xii16516;2588i.e.5862pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Handsomely bound in full speckled calf elaborately gilt extra a.e.g. for Brentano's. Portrait. Facsimile and plate. Isolated minor foxing a couple of thin scratches to one upper board S2-3 in first volume exhibit odd discoloration otherwise a bright set very good or slightly better. First edition but with the corrected state of I:135:10 'give' and with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle as usual. In volume two pages 78 92 275 and 352 are in their first uncorrected states. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the English language. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. Printed for Henry Baldwin unknown books
WRCLIT66919London: Printed for Henry Baldwin 1791. xii16516;588i.e.5861pp. Two volumes. Quarto 29 x 23 cm. Portrait in first volume and two engraved plates in second. Full olive brown morocco raised bands gilt t.e.g. others largely untrimmed. Occasional light foxing and some dusting to a few edges early small marginal restoration around upper blank forecorners of frontis and first five leaves a few small nicks and rubs at binding extremities with two narrow surface scratches to boards but a very good set. First edition uncorrected state of I:135:10 'gve' with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle as usual. In volume two pages 78 92 275 and 352 are in their first uncorrected states. Uncommon in untrimmed condition: the vertical dimension of this set matches that of the Rothschild set untrimmed in original boards. One of 1750 copies printed. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the English language. With the gilt morocco bookplate in each volume "Omnia Pro Bono H.M." identified by some as an uncharacteristic bookplate for Harold Murdock. Laid in is a copy of A. Edward Newton's quarto leaflet reproducing the uncorrected II:302 inscribed with initials in 1933 to another collector a bit ragged at fore-edge and folded. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. Printed for Henry Baldwin hardcover books
1824000689London: J.F. Dove Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford Etc. 1824. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1; folding facsimile plate in Volume 2. Period diced full calf modern calf rebacking morocco spine labels. Some light wear to board edges; very good handsomely rebacked. <br /><br /> J.F. Dove, Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford, Etc. books
182229787London: T. Cadell F.C. & J. Rivington et al. 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes 8vo pp. 2 xxxv 1 444; 2 462; 2 446; 2 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; later quarter polished black calf over marbled boards by R. Carswell Belfast with his ticket on front pastedown; red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; minor rubbing and cracking; generally very good sound set. "This edition was edited by Boswell's friend Alexander Chambers. In his Advertisement Chalmers says that at Malone's request he contributed a few notes and corrections to the sixth edition 'and has now added many more as well as some additional particulars.' . His additional notes to this edition are not extensive but are solid and useful" Pottle. Pottle 89. <br/><br/> T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.] hardcover books
182226274London: T. Cadell F.C. & J. Rivington et al. 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes 8vo pp. 2 xxxv 1 444; 2 462; 2 446; 2 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; contemporary brown cloth with printed paper labels on spines; short crack in cloth at the top of the front joint on vol. I; leaf 2F1 in vol. 1 torn in the gutter no loss of text almost detached and bound out of order; otherwise a good sound set. It would be tempting to call this binding original and perhaps it is although certainly a remainder binding if true. "This edition was edited by Boswell's friend Alexander Chambers. In his Advertisement Chalmers says that at Malone's request he contributed a few notes and corrections to the sixth edition 'and has now added many more as well as some additional particulars.' . His additional notes to this edition are not extensive but are solid and useful" Pottle. Pottle 89. <br/><br/> T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.] hardcover books
WRCLIT45377Dublin: Printed by John Chambers & John Exshaw & Robert Rhames for second and third volumes respectively for R. Cross et al. 1792. Three volumes. xxxiv536;2605;573pp. plus two folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf spines gilt extra gilt green morocco lettering pieces. Occasional minor soiling narrow crack at toe of lower joint of 2nd volume narrow short worm track largely marginal but touching a few letters in 2Q of 2nd volume but a very good crisp set in a handsome contemporary binding. First Dublin edition set up from the first London edition and incorporating corrections to some of the errata but introducing other errors. Though undertaken for the same group of booksellers the task of printing was doled out to three separate printers with consequent variations in the imprint. An unusually nice set of this edition noted by Pottle as "cheaply and rather poorly printed evidently to undersell the genuine edition which must however have been nearly if not quite exhausted when it appeared. It is now listed by the booksellers as 'very rare' which is perhaps justified as there is no copy in the British Museum the Bodleian or the National Library of Scotland" - Pottle. As this edition predated the second London edition by almost a year its appearance had no doubt a considerably greater effect on the sales of that edition than it had on the first. Pottle's collation places the "Round Robin" plate as a frontis to the first volume; in this set it appears in company with the manuscript facsimile at the end of the third perchance as issued. POTTLE 80. ESTC T64484. Printed by John Chambers [& John Exshaw, & Robert Rhames for second and third volumes respectively] for R. Cross, et al. unknown books
48495Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London: Routledge Warne & Routledge 1865. Two volumes complete. A sound ex-library set with clean contents usual markings from the library and tight repaired bindings. Best suited for reading. . Other hardcover books
1793D264London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Contemporary calf gilt-ruled spine gilt-stamped lettering in morocco spine labels; three volumes; 1 title-p. xxxix 1 603 plus engraved frontis.; 1 634 plus folding plate engraved "Round Robin"; 1 711 plus folding plate at rear facsimile of Johnson's handwriting in his 16th year 35th year and last year of his life. Volumes I and II rebacked Volume III rebacked with bottom board in newer calf; spine of Volume I a little dry and wrinkled; hinges of Volumes II and III reinforced. All Volumes -- corners rubbed; scattered foxing throughout. The second edition "was the last actually published in Boswell's 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. A handsome set. <br/><br/> Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
1793045403London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in modern calf backed marbled boards - volume 1 similar but not identical to the other two bindings. Scattered foxing and staining signature to title but a clean bright ample margined copy overall. The first issue without the added corrections in volume 1. 2xxxix1xxxvi6031; 2634; 27111pp An appealing copy of the second edition of this greatest of biographies. With the frontis portrait two folding plates and 22 pages of new material including the first appearance of the 'A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works. Size: Octavo 8vo. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045403. <br/><br/> Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover books
1891225467London. : Routledge. 1891. Quarter red cloth over pink cloth boards. . Very good spines lightly sunned some volumes slightly cocked. 8vo. Heavy set requires extra postage. Edited by Henry Morley. Portrait frontispieces by sir Joshua Reynolds. Routledge. hardcover books
1835WN62522London: John Murray 1835. Three quarter dark green morocco 5 raised bands gilt spine lettering decoration and rules. Green cloth covered boards. Top edges gilt. Signed bindings by Bayntun of Bath. First volume has some dampstain on preliminaries. Some foxing throughout especially near plates but overall impressive text blocks. A beautiful set for Boswellians and others. First Thus. Three Quarter Leather. Good/No Dust Jackets. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. John Murray Hardcover books
179353381London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii i-xxxvi 2xvii-xxxix 1 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards 5red leather labels on spines black numbering pieces that on vol. II a little chipped; in all a good sound set or better unrestored; in a recent brown cloth slipcase. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. Bookplates of Lord Rendelsham in each volume. "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. Rothschild 468. <br/><br/> Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover books
179323224London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii xvii-xxxix 1 i-xxxvi 2 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary tree calf elaborately gilt-decorated spines red and b;lack morocco labels; rear joints on volumes I and II cracked front joint on volume III starting; the bindings remain firm and all in all this is a handsome unrestored set. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. "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. Rothschild 468. <br/><br/> Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly unknown books
19636932New York: The Heritage Press 1963 3 volumes. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Prepared for publication with an Introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. Frontis portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds George Willison and Robert Edge Pine. Brown cloth in marbled slipcases. Very slight darkening to foredges of slipcases else a very fine set. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. The Heritage Press hardcover books
180720232Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake 1807. First American edition taken from the fifth Malone edition published in London earlier the same year 8vo 3 volumes frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; corner of 9/3 torn with minor loss to a few letters; mild and occasionally moderate foxing throughout else good and sound in recent 1/2 tan calf over blue linen sides. Pottle 85. <br/><br/> W. Andrews and L. Blake unknown books
