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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
190627574Robert Riviere 1906. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus on India Paper with 2 portrait frontispieces original tissue guards present; attractively bound in dark green half calf cloth boards backs with raised bands second and third compartments lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt tops marbled endpapers expertly rebacked in calf to style an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. This edition not recorded by Pottle. Robert Riviere, hardcover
21922LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY 1990. TWO VOLUMES IN QUARTER BUCKRAM OVER BROWN CLOTH. WITH SLIP CASE. 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
185912910Routledge Warnes & Routledge 1859. 4 vols. 8vo. with four engraved frontispieces engraved and printed titles and very numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout neat contemporary signature on printed titles some very light occasional and inoffensive spotting; original patterned cloth elaborately blocked in blind backs gilt extra lightly rubbed at headbands without material loss one or two corners lightly bruised else a very good clean copy. With the contemporary trade ticket of M. Ogle of Glasgow on front paste-down and the binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge on rear paste-down. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of fourth volume. An early reissue of the National Illustrated Library Edition the first illustrated version first published in 1851. It is a reprint of Malone's sixth edition with a few original notes. 'The illustrations are profuse and useful' Pottle. A SPLENDID WHOLLY UNRESTORED AND ENTIRELY TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF A MID-VICTORIAN EDITION COMPLETE WITH PATTERNED CLOTH BINDING PIBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT AND BOOKSELLER'S AND BINDER'S TICKETS. Leighton Son & Hodge were leading trade and remnant binders of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Pottle 94 recording the NLI 1851 edition. Routledge Warnes & Routledge, hardcover
1835500020265London: John Murray 1835. First. . hardcover Sp & hardcover. Good. 12mo. 7 volumes with contemporary leather spine and marbled boards. vol 6 7 & 10 in maroon cloth with faded spine and the last with detached boards <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
188424975London: George Bell 1884. six volumes in total bound in publishers tan cloth on spines and maroon cloth on boards covers mostly bumped at corners and some sunning and soiling to cloth but bindings are sound and tight brown-spotting at edges and occasionally within mostly affecting outer leaves. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. George Bell Hardcover
1811003418London: T Cadell and W Davies 1811. Sixth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG 1811 in contemporary honeycombed calf gilt lines to edges corners and edges a little worn and bumped. All spines have been professionally relaid raised bands gilt tooling and title edges a little worn and bumped. Internally all have red marbled endpapers some offsetting and minimal foxing to prelims. Vol 1 frontis of Johnson dated 1756 2 xxxvii 1 481 pp 2 pull out sheets. Vol 2 2 496 pp. Vol 3 2 483 pp. Vol 4 2 530 pp all printed in London by C Baldwin of New Bridge St. A lovely set. lawyer diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson published his Life of and on 13 May forty-one London booksellers purchased more than 400 sets of two large quarto volumes and on 16 May the twenty-eighth anniversary of his first meeting with Johnson in Davies's back parlour the biography was published. Sales exceeded all expectations. Of a total of 1750 sets printed 800 were sold in the first two weeks 1200 by the end of August 1400 by December and 1600 by August 1792. see ODNB for a full Bio. 210129 mm. see Kent 152. Allibone 978. Pottle 174. <br/> <br/> T Cadell and W Davies hardcover
17917195London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1791. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. xii 16 3-516; 1 2-588 2. Engraved portrait frontis. after Sir Joshua Reynolds in the first volume. Second volume illustrated with two plates of Dr. Johnson's handwriting in facsimile. Marbled endpapers. Full speckled calf with gilt filigree borders and inner dentelles rebacked in period style; repaired corners. Two bookplates: "The High Canon's Library" and "Malo Mori Quam Foedari" possibly the plate of Cardinal Henry Edward Manning. Interiors quite nice. First edition first state with "gve" in lieu of "give" on p.135 of Vol. I.<p>Boswell's achievement was not to simply capture the brilliance and wit of his subject but to provide through meticulous scholarship the complexities of Johnson amid the literary realm of his era.<p>Provenance: Sold at the 1922 Sotheby's sale of The Valuable Library . of the Late Baroness Burdett Coutts. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown
18912335142London: George Routledge and Sons Limited 1891. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Reynolds Joshua. The Library Edition.' 1 inch split to cloth along front joint of first volume endpapers foxed front hinge of first and third volumes just beginning to weaken front and rear hinges of second and fifth volumes weakening some pages unopened. 1891 Hard Cover. Complete in five volumes. lxii 381; 398; 400 4; 390 4; 424 4 pp. Navy blue cloth gilt titles frontispiece portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds edited by Henry Morley includes advertisements and prefaces from several editions including John Wilson Croker's. Samuel Johnson byname Dr. Johnson born September 18 1709 Lichfield Staffordshire England - died December 13 1784 London English critic biographer essayist poet and lexicographer regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson once characterized literary biographies as "mournful narratives" and he believed that he lived "a life radically wretched." Yet his career can be seen as a literary success story of the sickly boy from the Midlands who by talent tenacity and intelligence became the foremost literary figure and the most formidable conversationalist of his time. For future generations Johnson was synonymous with the later 18th century in England. The disparity between his circumstances and achievement gives his life its especial interest. - Britannica George Routledge and Sons, Limited hardcover
1922johnson3volumeMacMillan 1922. Hardcover. Clean pages tight binding 3/4 . The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell in 3 volumes complete. Part of the Library of English Classics published by MacMillan in 1922. Set is bound in original 3/4 leather and marble boards.Clean pages tight binding 3/4 leather boards show heavy wear at the hinges drying to leather and light bumping MacMillan hardcover
100-35234Plume. Paperback. Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Plume paperback
1020400854.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
180717178Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake Greenough and Stebbins printers 1807. First American Edition from the Fifth London Edition. Full Leather Hardcovers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. <br /> <br /> Full Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies And Numerous Works In Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons And Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: The Whole Exhibiting A View of Literature And Literary Men In Great Britain For Near Half A Century During Which He Flourished<br /> <br /> Full calf with red leather spine label with gilt sections and numerals on the spine. Edges stained and speckled light blue with 8vo; 9 by 5.5 inches; pp 500 / 512 / 543 with index; Frontispiece of Samuel Johnson in volume 1. Advertisements of first five volumes and a six-page Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson precedes the text in volume one. First American Edition from the Fifth London Edition. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index.<br /> <br /> The bindings are tight and square. Text clean light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; minor bump to the lower text block of Volume 1 and 2. Some loss of sharpness of gilt on the spine. Lacking tissue guard before the frontispiece in vol 1. Small hole center front of partially through the front board near the spine of vol 3. There are no fold-out plates. A complete set of Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson originally published in 1791.<br /> <br /> James Boswell was a Scottish biographer diarist and lawyer born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the English writer Samuel Johnson which is often said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. <br /> <br /> Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 was an English writer poet playwright essayist critic biographer editor and lexicographer and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history.<br /> <br /> Ref: Shaw & Shoemaker Am Biblio 12184 W. Andrews and L. Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, printers hardcover
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1020708689.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
mon0000415744W. P. Nimmo Hay & Mitchell 1887T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean pages with some minor wear to cover's edges. Good otherwise. W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell hardcover
1807lsj03London: T Cadell; W Davies. VG : in very good condition. Respined and with new endpapers. Some rubbing and scuffing to leather. Tightly bound. Browning to prelims. Previous owner's inscriptions to original prelim pages. 1807. 5th edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xxxvi 478pp; 496pp; 480pp; 522pp. Engraved frontispiece; fold out page of facsimile handwriting. 'Comprehending an account of Johnson's studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces never before published' Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . T Cadell; W Davies hardcover
1826000013223Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler 1826. First Pickering edition. Hardcover. Good or better. 4 vol. 8vo. 5 vi-xix 2 2-394 2; 5 4-416; 5 2-395 1; 7 vi-xi 2 2-428 pp. Full contemporary calf tree calf on volumes three and four the spines have been rebacked in period style twin gold borders on each board spines in six compartments with two morocco labels one red and one black gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Volumes one and two illustrated with a frontispiece volume three with the folding "Round Robin" facsimile plate volume four with a folding plate a facsimile of Dr. Johnson's letter. Bookseller's ticket of Hugh Hopkins in Glasgow in each volume. Kelly 1826.2. Keynes 54. Pottle 90. Edited by Francis Pearson Walesby. The landmark biography and history of the man of letters. The boards quite rubbed and worn especially volumes one and two a few gutters with tape ghosts. William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler hardcover
005740London: Charles griffin and Company. Leather. Very Good. Octavo. Signed Binding. Full polished green calf raised bands red morocco title label gilt title and gilt decorative panels ruled boards marbled endpapers and edges 9 x 6.25 inches. N.D. no date circa 1870. xii 580 pages with Index; illustrated with steel engraved frontis and plates. Signed binding by Zaehnsdorf binders stamp on lower front free endpage. Showing some overall general wear and rubbing. Previous owner's signature of Handley Davies dated December 1894. A handsomely bound copy of a classic work <br/> <br/> Charles griffin and Company hardcover
19018468London: J.M. Dent & Co 1901. 458464466pp. Octavo 23 cm Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Map endsheets and pastedowns. All volumes very good or better. Illustrated with numerous photogravures. Classic work that was from the beginning a critical and popular success and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. J.M. Dent & Co unknown
