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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
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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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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
19631148403New York: The Heritage Press 1963. A bit of wear on the open corners of the Volume 1 slipcase. Slipcases on Volumes 2 and 3 are near fine. A heavy set that will ship at my postage cost; cannot be shipped internationally. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jackets. Large Octavos. Book. The Heritage Press Hardcover
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180764362Boston: published by W. Andrews and L. Blake Greenough and Stebbins printers 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; contemporary full sheep black and red labels; joints reinforced on first and third volumes joints rubbed on the second volume paper flaw on pages 265-6 in the second volume affecting a few letters; generally a good sound set in a tan cloth clamshell box. Ownership signature of Anna Guest on all title pages. This is the first edition of The Life to contain an index. American Imprints 12184; Pottle 85. published by W. Andrews and L. Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, printers unknown
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1859009582New York: Derry & Jackson 1859 1859-1860. New Edition With Numerous Additions and Notes by The Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker M.P. and others. Uniformly bound in 3/4 leather and marbled paper 5 raised bands on spines all edges marbled marbled endpapers with all binding and hinges tight and all cover attached. Tissue guarded frontispiece in Volumes I & IV which also have light foxing on the preliminary pages. NO LABELS INSCRIPTIONS NOR MARKINGS. Covers lightly rubbed. Derry & Jackson hardcover
1791007319London: Charles Dilly. Printer: Henry Baldwin 1791. Half Morocco. Paper pastedown on boards. Custom cloth slipcase custom cloth dust jacket. Near Fine. 4to. 28.5 by 23 cm. Frontis portrait of Johnson after Reynolds painting engraved by J. Heath. Title Dedication to Reynolds -- vii Table of Contents unpaginated with Corrections and Additions 16 1-516 second title Advertisement -- pagination to xii 1-588 pp. followed by Facsimles of Johnson's hand writing plate. Round Robin plate also present -- Vol. 2 by p. 92. First issue -- "gve in second indented quote line p. 135. Condition: morocco of bindings with some wear -- typical rubbing along joints some along raised bands. Interior: scattered mostly light foxing generally by upper and lower margins or early and final leaves and here and there elsewhere but overall a clean-ish copy and few would find such soiling disconcerting we believe. A very handsome copy of this classic seminal and really sui generis biogaphy of the great Dr. Johnson that more than simply a recounting of his life captures his personality and originality. And a work in which Dr. Johnson can entertain us more than two centuries later almost as if we were present as he was holding forth. Charles Dilly. Printer: Henry Baldwin unknown
181654679London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1816. Octavo 22cm in four volumes. In contemporary brown calf with blind roll and double gilt frame to boards; gilt tooling to board edges rebacked in brown leather titled in gilt on spines all edges marbled; brown endpapers; vol I: ii i-xxxviii 1-481pp; vol II: ii 1 496pp; vol III: ii 1-483pp; vol IV: ii 1-530pp; with frontispiece portrait by W. T. Fry and folding plate with handwriting facsimiles in vol. I and folding plate with "Round Robin" facsimile in vol. II. Vols II-IV with ownership inscriptions of "J. M. Beatty 1869" and "W. E. Hall / Bridge of Allan." Clean upright copies in sturdy bindings board edges rubbed damage to vol. I f.f.e.p. where bookplate was removed and one-cm tear to "Round Robin" plate at hinge: Good. POTTLE 88. T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown
