Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$17.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Text is clean, clear and bright throughout. Ex-library copy with white writing at bottom of spine, and the imprint of a stamp on the title page. Illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Rough cut page edges. Number 289 of 500 copies. Cover is sturdy but quite worn, showing shelfwear and a small hole in the spine, where a sticker has been removed. There are also holes on the (blank) f.e.p. where a sticker has been removed.
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$31.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: One of a Limited edition of five hundred copies. text block all good, the cloth is worn through and scuffed and the hinges have workman-like repairs. Previous owner's personal bookplate. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$31.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: One of a Limited edition of five hundred copies. text block all good, the cloth has patchy fade and the hinges have workman-like repairs. Previous owner's personal bookplate. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 5 only; Acceptable/Good condition; LIMITED EDITION; this copy is 291/500; cloth is worn with some staining and corners are bumped; binding is cracked, pages are age-tanned. No other markings. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No date given, c1885 with decorative Victorian bindings with stamped designs and gilt lettering. 3 volume complete set with each volume containing 2 volumes of the original 6. Contains the advertisements for the First through Sixth Editions of this work as well as the dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds and introduction. Unique to this set and laid in is the original broadsheet from the Charles E. Lauriat import company. Illustrated throughout. Boards with heavy wear and edges frayed; pages dusty and age toned with heavy soiling to the page ages; previous owner's old bookplates inside and old newspaper articles about Boswell's Johnson laid in.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$374.57 + shipping
Description: 189mm x 125mm (7" x 5"). lxii, 381pp; 398pp; 400pp; 390pp; 424pp + plates. 21 b/w plates. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and soiled with wear to title labels. Unopened
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Copy No. 302 of 500 sets. All edges untrimmed/uncut, dusting, sunned spines, chipped labels, Vol 1 separated at spine. Sir Joshua Reynolds Edition.
Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 volume set. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Royal octavos. lv 381pp, 398pp, 400pp, 390pp, 424pp. The Sir Joshua Reynolds edition, illustrated with portraits by Reynolds. 24 portraits. This edition is limited to just 500 sets of which this is set 201. Uniformly bound into 3/4 tan leather with marble boards and endpapers. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt top foredges and spine lettering. Floral design to spines. Previous owner's small book label (Gertrude B. Doxey) on first blank page of each volume. Some scuffing to spine raised bands and edges of boards.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. George Routledge, London, 1885.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good set of this Limited Edition #417, illustrated with portraits by Joshua Reynolds. Additional digital photos available. leaves untrimmedSize: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall please view photos before buying
Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. George Routledge, London, 1885.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good set of this Limited Edition #417, illustrated with portraits by Joshua Reynolds. Additional digital photos available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia