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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides: Complete in Four Volumes

By: Boswell, James

Price: $224.44

Publisher: New York, Chicago, Siegel - Cooper: 1896

Seller ID: Books009135

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

468, 479, 452, 452 pages. Rare issue, not recorded in Worldcat. Appears identical (in title and pagination) to Derby & Jackson though without frontispieces. Each title page is a cancel and no date of issue is specified. Siegel-Cooper opened in New York 1896. Title page: "New Edition, with numerous additions and notes by the Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P. and copious notes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, Scott, Markland, Burney, Blakeway, Chalmers, Porter, Langton, and others." Olive cloth with gilt to spine and top edges. Quite han...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [five volumes in publisher's binding]

By: Boswell, James

Price: $881.72

Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons:

Seller ID: Books012025

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxxii, 291; viii, 298; viii, 298; viii, 300; xxvi, 360 pages. Five volumes (complete). Attractive publisher's blue cloth stamped in black to front and blind to rear; gilt to spine. Two title pages and frontispiece with tissue guard in each. Profusely illustrated. No date of issue specified. The Journal has the Robert Carruthers introduction (dated 1852) and notes. Pencil signature to front free endpaper of four volumes. Bindings are sound.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson [first issue]

By: Boswell, James

Price: $9,554.63

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly: 1791

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books012732

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xii, [16], 516; 586 pages; with fronispiece portrait in Vol. I, Round Robin and facsimile of Johnson's handwriting in II. First issue, with "gve" on page 135 of Vol. I. Contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, with gilt tooling in compartments, contrasting spine labels, corners restored. Intermittent light foxing throughout, 1cm tideline along fore-edge of textblock of Vol. I (not penetrating to margin), small marginal stains on final leaves of Vol. I, not affecting text. With Paul Lockwood's [Abelard Books] c.1980 catalogue description laid in: "Despite minor faults, overall an exceptionally clea...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $955.46

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly: 1785

Edition: Second Edition, Revised and Corrected

Seller ID: Books012908

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xx, [1], 534, [1]. Complete, with half title, and advert leaf at rear. Ding to top corner of front board. Old bookplate and signature to front pastedown; signature again at head of title page. Light foxing/offsetting to first few and final few leaves; else remarkably clean. A pleasing unsophisticated example in contemporary sound binding.
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 1: 1709-1765 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers James Boswell)

By: Boswell, James

Price: $211.61

Publisher: Yale / Edinburgh, Yale University Press / Edinburgh University Press: 1994

Seller ID: Books013193

ISBN: 0300060602

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxxix, [2], 518 pages. Clean and unmarked. Volume 1 only.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works...

By: Boswell, James

Price: $634.84

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly: 1793

Edition: Second edition

Seller ID: Books013293

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

xviii, [*1]-*xxii, [*xxiv]-*xxvi, *xxvi (sic)-*xxxvi, [1], [1]-603; [1]-634; [xvii]-[xl], [1]-711 pages, complete with frontispiece, two folding plates, and the leaf of Additional Corrections. Spines darkened and dry, labels chipped. Hinges of i and ii reinforced with cloth tape. Upper board of i detached, lower a little tender; upper joint of ii split but board secure; iii was at some point rebacked using original spine. John Le Marchant signature dated 1794 and bookplate (Me Minerva Ducit) to front pastedown of each. Plate of W. Morton Webb, and his 1910 signature in each. Foxing to first fe...
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Author:Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides: Complete in Four Volumes

The Life of Samuel Johnson, and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [five volumes in publisher's binding]

The Life of Samuel Johnson [first issue]

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 1: 1709-1765 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers James Boswell)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works...