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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
183557152E-252: John Murray. Very Good. 1835. Leather. Leather. Small 8vo. John Murray London. 1835. 10 volumes. Xxiv 325 pgs; viii 344 pgs; ix 323 pgs; xii 343 pgs; viii 341 pgs; viii 342 pgs; viii 381 pgs; xi 431 pgs xv 335 pgs; xii 376 pgs. Illustrated with a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and an additional hand-colored vignette title all engraved by Edward Francis Finden 1791-1857. In addition there are nineteen hand-colored plates portraits and views a folding map of "The Tour through Scotland and the Hebrides. In 1773" volume IV a folding facsimile "Round Robin" volume VI and six folding facsimile letters. First Illustrated Edition Croker's Second Edition. Bound in tree calf leather with gilt double-rule border on covers spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with red maroon labels with gilt lettering and gilt board edges and turn-ins all edges gilt with some uncut pages and marbled endpapers unsigned binding; looks like Bayntun. Full purple morocco covers elaborately tooled in gilt in a geometric pattern. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes Johnson emerges as a sociable figure vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick Goldsmith Burney and Burke and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties and obsessions also darkened Johnson's private hours and Boswell's attentiveness to every facet of Johnson's character makes this biography as moving as it is entertaining. EB; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . John Murray hardcover
179110227London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1791. First edition first state 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. 4to 203 x 295 mm; untrimmed engraved portrait of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds browned 2 engraved plates of facsimiles by H. Shepherd. An extraordinary copy in contemporary half calf and the original publisher’s boards and with the edges of the paper all uncut to the extent that it is an exceptional tall copy almost a large paper copy morocco spine labels. Hinges cracked scattered foxing a few trifling stains boards somewhat worn and fragile preserved in a brown cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. Booklabels of W. Strong 1p. ALS from J. Parsons to him laid in and ink signature of J. Robinson in Volume I. Accompanied by The London Chronicle No. 5414 for May 5 1791 which prints an advertisement for the book.W. Strong is addressed in the letter as Rev.d Archdeacon Strong – he has used the blank page of the letter to make notes on volume II of the book and has added some notes on the front pastedown and on another small sheet which is inserted loose.<br>‘Boswell's<em> </em>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 Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography; Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived and he has beaten them all’ Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review 1831 ap. Allibone.<br>W. Jackson Bate Johnson's best modern biographer assessed Boswell's achievement in this way: ‘It was to be a new kind of biography - a life in Scenes as though it were a kind of drama. And when this life in Scenes did appear nothing comparable to it had existed. Nor has anything comparable been written since because that special union of talents opportunities and subject matter has never been duplicated. If there were writers who had Boswell's opportunities of knowing their subject as well they have not had his unusual combination of talents. If they had his talents they have lacked his opportunities. The talents include his gift for empathy and dramatic imitation his ability to draw people out and get them to talk freely his astonishing memory for conversations his zest and gusto his generous capacity for admiration and his sheer industry as a reporter - qualities that are by no means often found together. Whatever its limitations the work remains unique among all writings by one human being about another in the drama fidelity and range of interests in the conversation of one of the most fascinating individuals in history Samuel Johnson’ N. Y.: Harcourt Brace 1977 pp. 365-366.<em><br></em>Adam 2:37. Courtney 172-173. Grolier English 65. Pottle 79. Rothschild 463-465. The greatest biography in the English language – a remarkable untrimmed copy in contemporary boards printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover
183500009011London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 10 vol. Small 8vo. 5 vi-xxiv 2 3-325 3; 5 vi-viii 1 2-344 2; 5 vi-ix 2 2-323 3; 5 vi-xii 1 2-343 1; 5 vi-viii 1 2-341 3; 5 vi-viii 1 2-342 2; 5 vi-viii 1 2-381 3; 5 vi-xi 2 2-431 3; 5 vi-xv 2 2-335 3; 5 vi-xii 1 2-376 2 pp. Late nineteenth-century half polished sheep over pink cloth spines in six compartments spines unpolished lettered and tooled in gold; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and vignette engraved title page volume three with a fold-out map of Scotland and the Hebrides. Volume six contains the fold-out Round Robin facsimile of Johnson's hand-writing to which there is a tiny hairline split not affecting the legibility of the fold-out plate. Oxford DNB Pat Rogers "Johnson Samuel 1709–1784". Pottle 92. The second Croker edition with little change to the text except for "the notes and Johnsoniana" Pottle 182. Pottle notes that the last two volumes in the set are extremely useful with some material never having been before published. Pottle also calls this "the first illustrated edition" Pottle 183. A stunning set of Boswell's magnum opus a monumental and early English biography. Samuel Johnson most famous for compiling the English dictionary that would replace the Bailey dictionary and would later become the dictionary that Noah Webster would consult is a legendary author and man of letters. Here his biographer and diarist James Boswell relates his life work and correspondences in the ten volumes. The final two volumes include the anecdotes about Johnson from his contemporaries. A principal work in English biographical literature housed in a lovely binding. A Near Fine set with a few hints of wear to the extremities overall bright and beautiful. John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover
1925HALL509357Hardback. 1925. Fully illustrated with about 100 drawings in pen and ink by Herbert Railton and many portraits in photogravure. 3 vols. xl 458 464 & 466pp J.M. Dent London 1925. A very good set. . hardcover
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
18681607250131Henry G. Bohn 1868-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4 volume set. Contemporary moroccan leather over marbled baords. Gilt stamped. Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Handsome set. Contemporary book plate. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Henry G. Bohn hardcover
1924DEMO013960ILondon: The Navarre Society 1924. New Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. 20 photogravures. 8vos; 433 479 577 pages blue cloth <br/><br/>Limited to 2000 copies. The text of the first edition reprinted verbatim with the corrections and additions. Includes a facsimile autograph letter. Boswell's JOHNSON was considered the paragon of biographies for nearly two centuries. 20 photogravures 50 half-tones. . Preface by Clement K. Shorter. The Navarre Society hardcover
19240009095London: The Navarre Society 1924. New Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 20 photogravures. 8vos; 433 479 577 pages rebound by Birdsall of London in 3/4 red morocco raised bands extra-gilt spines head and tail bands. <br/><br/>Limited to 2000 copies. The text of the first editioin reprinted verbatim with the corrections and additions. Includes a facsimile autograph letter. Boswell's JOHNSON was considered the paragon of biographies for nearly two centuries. 20 photogravures 50 half-tones. . Preface by Clement K. Shorter. The Navarre Society hardcover
182474745Bellows Falls VT: Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. Very Good-. 1824. Leather. . 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. A New Edition. Copious Notes and Biographical Illustrations By Malone. In Five Volumes; Printed By Blake Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. Bellows Falls VT. 1824. 5 volume set are hard-bound in 1/2 leather with marbled paper covered boards with gilt stamped numbers and gilt stamped red leather labels on the spines - scuffed and soiled with edge-wear and rubbing to the joints corners and spine-ends. Volume I front board barely attached - contents are bright and legible but with scattered foxing and toning throughout. Portrait frontispiece in Volume 1 and a folding plate in volumes 2 & 3. Volume I is a Vermont Imprint Published in Bellows Falls VT. 1824. with the rest of the volumes printed in Bellows Falls VT but have a Boston MA imprint. . Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington hardcover
42792Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1925. Hard Cover. Three volumes: 1172 p. frontispieces illus. incl. maps plates portraits facsimiles; 26 cm. Paged continuously. Title continues: Newly Edited with Notes by Roger Ingpen. Reissue of Roger Ingpen's 1907 edition of the Boswell classic amply illustrated handsomely produced in an attractive copy. Stock#42793. Vg / no dj. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co., 1925 hardcover
186337562Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1863. Hardcover. Vols 2-4 only of four. "The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides". Finely bound in brown calf over marbled boards with matching end papers and text block edges. Spine is covered with ornate gilding. Contents firm and clean. . J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
1819273419London: Printed for the Proprietors 1819. hardcover. near fine. 4 volumes. Extra illustrated with many portraits views and facsimiles some folding done in mezzotints copper engravings and some in sepia. Small 8vo 3/4 burgundy morocco ornately gilt spines top edges gilt cover on one volume faded. London: Printed for the Proprietors 1819. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> Printed for the Proprietors unknown
192235941Garden City NY: Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page and Company 1922. Complete set in10 volumes. The Temple Bar Edition. "This Edition Is Limited To Seven Hundred And Eighty-Five Copies of Which Thirty-Five Are Not For Sale." Printed on watermarked Old Stratford paper. Vellum spines with brown paper covered boards. Paper spine labels printed in red and black. Top edges gold gilt. Title pages are printed in red and black with a small engraved vignette. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and protective tissue-guard. Authors for the Introductory chapters include Aleyn Reade Augustine Birrell Professor Trent G. K. Chesterton A. Edward Newton John Drinkwater R. B. Adam Walter De La Mare Professor Tinker and Richard Ashe King. Some modest wear clean and bright internally. No name bookplate or other markings noted. See photos. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page and Company Hardcover
17911704207Baldwin for Dilly 1791. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first issue with "gve" for "give" on page 135 line 10 in what may be the incredibly scarce original boards. Two volumes quarto. Very good. Some soiling to pages of the second volume. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. This copy has an extra full page frontispiece portrait of Boswell in the second volume not called for in the bibliographies. Baldwin, for Dilly hardcover
19255471Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. Corners bumped spine ends worn and rubbed 3rd vol. Shaken spines toned but overall a very good clean set. ; All vols. Uniform gilt illustrated red cloth 4tos gilt lettering spines frontispieces. Vol. 1: 1709-November 10 1769 364pp. Vol. 2: 1770-April 8 1778 397pp. Vol. 3: 1778-December 13 1784 409pp chronology index. Pages uncut. Includes 576 illustrations facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure. . Charles E. Lauriat Company hardcover
19634251New York: The Heritage Press. 1963. Vols. 1 & 2 are in fine condition vol. 3 in VG condition short dark mark fore-edge pages but otherwise a beautiful set in NF slipcases with just some some occasional rubbing here and there. Please contact us first before ordering as there may be extra shipping charges included due to the extra weight of this set. ; Three vols. Are uniform brown 8vos with gilt lettering on red paper labels attached to head of spines contain color frontispieces and each are housed in their own identical brown and cream slipcase. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi; prepared for publication with an Introduction by Edward G Fletcher. Vol. 1: 466pp. And includes four page Heritage Club Sandglass Special Publication: S28 pamphlet laid in. Vol. 2: 486pp. Vol. 3: 473pp. . The Heritage Press unknown
1896275727Westminster: Constable 1896. hardcover. fine. 6 volumes. Frontispiece protected with tissue guard in each volume. Titles in red and black. 12mos 3/4 black leather over marbled boards raised spine bands gilt stamped text and subtle decorations marbled endpapers. Westminster: Constable 1896. A fine set.<br/> <br/> Constable unknown
182439477Bellows Falls Vt.: Printed by Blake Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. 1824. Hardcover. Very Good-. Five Volume Set; 8vo; 5 vols pages; FIve volumes in full sheepskin covers in a decorative "tree" pattern flat spines paneled with pairs of gilt rules red and black leather labels lettered in gilt with the titles and volume numbers respectively in the second and fourth panels. Some wear and rubbing all covers soundly attached small pieces missing from the spines of volumes II and IV other volumes with just trifling losses at the head of the spines. Ink signatures in each volume by John H. Edmonds a leading Utica NY lawyer dated March 1849 -- on the front paste-down endpapers. An interesting early American edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson printed in Bellows Falls Vermont -- the site of the first bridge over the Connecticut River in 1785. A paper mill was one of the first commercial enterprises in the town. The firm of printers who produced these volumes was "Blake Cutler and Co." Blake was Bill Blake proprietor of the first newspaper to be published in the town of Rockingham -- 'The Vermont Intelligencer and Bellows Falls Advertiser' founded January 1 1817. This newspaper was established owned and published by Bill Blake & Company who occupied a building upon the corner of Westminster and Mill streets. They carried on an extensive printing and publishing business; also a book bindery and a wholesale and retail book store. In addition to these they owned a paper-mill where they manufactured both writing and printing paper. Blake's company became Blake Cutler & Company in which form the firm appears on these volumes and later James I. Cutler & Company. Sadly their paper-mill was burned on July 11 1846 and the printing office building on March 14 1860. Their handsome Boswell's Life of Johnson is the second Boston edition of this greatest of all biographies. The first had the imprint: "Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins printers. 1807." That 1807 edition appeared in three volumes and the title page stated: "First American from the fifth London edition." This Bellows Falls edition can be counted as the second Boston edition for while the imprint of the first volume reads: "Bellows Falls Vt. : Printed by Blake Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. 1824" -- the imprint varies on the title pages of the rest of the set. Volumes 2-5 have title pages reading: "Boston: Published by Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington. 1824. Each of these final four volumes have the printer's slug of "Blake Cutler & Co. printers Bellows Falls Vt." on the versos of title pages. Assuming that Blake and Cutler used their own paper for these volumes the present condition speaks well for the quality of their product. The text sheets are clean crisp and almost entirely free from foxing. There are no vertical chain lines although there are faint closely-spaced horizontal lines from the screen on which the paper was made it is essentially "wove" paper rather than laid. The endpapers and binder's blanks are foxed. Half titles present in each volume. Volume I has an engraved portrait of Dr. Johnson as frontispiece -- signed: "Bowen prt." The frontispiece plate in volume II is a folding engraved "Fac Similies of Dr. Johnson"s Hand Writing." The frontispiece plate in volume III is a folding engraved "Round Robin Addressed to Samuel Johnson L.L.D." Gathered in sixes. Pagination: Vol. 1: xxxiii 1 302 p. 1 leaf of plates; v. 2: 4 318 p. 1 folded leaf of plates; v. 3: 4 316 p. 1 folded leaf of plates; v. 4: 4 348 p.; v. 5: 4 332 p.Errors in paging: v. 1 p. 221 misnumbered 218; v. 3 p. 69-71 misnumbered 79-81."Chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson LL.D."--v. 1 p. xxv-xxxiii.Includes index. OCLC: 3227954. There are two other OCLC Numbers: including 191251289 citing a single location only: the American Antiquarian Society Worcester Massachusetts whose copy lacks a lower cover for volume I. There is also a separate number for the National Library of Scotland set. Shoemaker 15528 . Printed by Blake, Cutler and Co. for Charles Ewer and Timothy Bedlington hardcover
190636543London: Robert Riviere & Son 1906. Unstated Edition. Hardcover. iconic biography of the renowned British writer two volumes in 3/4 blue leather over blue boards with gilt top edge; front board of volume one is completely detached both volumes have fairly heavy rubbing to the edges and joints volume one has owner inscription on frontispiece verso else they are both tight square unmarked copies; publishing date estimated not stated; photos on request Robert Riviere & Son hardcover
1822004510London: T. Cadell et.al. 1822. This is a Very Good Plus copy of Boswell's famous Life of Samuel Johnson. The Ninth Edition Revised and Augmented" First Edition Thus. This is Volume One ONLY of the original four. Full leather binding with decorative gilt ruling on both covers. Five raised bands can be discerned under a later spine repair that has covered them. The spine has a date of "1822" inked in white near the bottom. Clean text; xxxv fold-out samples of Johnson's handwriting and 444 pages. All edges are marbled. Published without a tissue guard the frontis portrait has mildly offset to the Title Page. The text is exceptionally bright and free of any foxing; mild rubbing around the margins; a very solid copy that is great for reading. . First Thus. Full-Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. Cadell, et.al. Hardcover
185343257London Henry G. Bohn 1853. Small 8vo. Bound in 10 uniform fine contemp. hcalf with richly gilt spines. !0 engraved portraits as frontispiece and 10 engraved titlepages dated 1835. With many engraved plates views portraits a.facsimiles. Fine and clean. unknown
18896846430London: George Bell and Son 1889. Volumes 2 to 6. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Half leather binding; marble covers and inside covers; torn spines; spines splitting; internally clean; raised bands; worn spines; detached covers; front cover of volume three missing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2800grams ISBN: George Bell and Son hardcover
1807310411London: T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1807. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary calf recently rebacked with gilt spines red and green title labels. 4 vols. 8vo. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand unknown
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
