LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D., THE (3 Volumes) by Boswell, James Esq - 0

St. Martin's Street, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Library of English Classics. 522 pages, index. Some pages unopened, edges untrimmed. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Old library spine label, spots of bleaching on covers, rear free endpaper has a torn corner.

New York: Modern Library, 1950. Very Good. Very good plus. Book has red marks along top fine edges, brown stains inside front cover, and cover is wearing along edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Hardcover. Good. Later printing. New editions with notes and appendices by Alexander Napier. 467pp. Illustrated. Gift inscription dated 1924 on front fly, neat owner stamp on a few pages including title page, early pages with tidelines, upper hinge cracked, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, good only. Volume four only of a five-volume set.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1963. First Edition, Thus. Cloth. Fine/Slipcase. Threee Volumes, 8vo., 466, 486, 473pp. Beautiful First Heritage Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive Publisher's slipcases have a touch of edge-wear but quite minor. Bookpalte on front paste-down of each volume. A gorgeous collectable set at a great price.

New York: The Heritage Press [1963], 1964. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 vol. 8vo. [5], viii-lviii, [5], 2-466; [7], 2-486, [2]; [7], 2-473, [1] pp. Grey cloth, each spine with a red inset lettered in gold. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Prepared for publication with an introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. Illustrated by a color frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous painting of Johnson, volume two with a color frontispiece of George Willinson's portrait of a young Samuel Johnson, volume three with a color frontispiece portrait of Hester Thrale Piozzi. Includes the issue of The Sandglass. Bussacco 106-108. A lovely set of the first comprehensive biographical work written and published in English. A touch of toning to the spines on the slipcases, overall a beautiful example.

Heritage Press -, 1963. Hardcover/pub.1963/Gd. condition/466 pages - A biography of Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic, essayist, and dictionary maker. [AI929550]. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Fort. Cadel and W. Davies, 1807. Hardcover. Poor to Good -/No Jacket. Hard cover boards falling off on a few books, Covers may once have been leather, now deteriorating. All four volumes kept in sleeves for protection. Text in all volumes completely readable.

London: Macmilland And Co., Limited, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. (Wikipedia) Johnson's 'A Dictionary of the English Language' appeared in 1755, and was acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship", initiating several dictionary genres. Volumes are a first edition reprint "Library of English Classics". <br><br>From title page, Volume I, 1791 edition: "...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...exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain for near half a century during which he flourished." <br><br>Volume I: xv, Biographical… Read More

London: John Murray. Very Good+. 1835. 1/4 Cloth. A rather attractive, complete set of Croker's Second edition, Pottle 92. All volumes in Very Good+ or better condition, except volume five, showing beginning separation of spine, internally fine though. Bound in attractive red morocco, all edges gilt. Raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration on the spines. First volume showing bookplate from the libary of Oscar Benjamin Cintas, prominent sugar and railroad magnate and book collector who served as Cuba's ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934; Often praised as the greatest biography written in English, Boswell's famous work covers Samuel Johnson, (1709 -1784), English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer; Small 8vo .

Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good+. 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 gilt borders on each board, spines in six compartments with two morocco labels (one red and one black), gilt 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. A beautifully produced edition of 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.