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Price: US$7.73 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair+. Binding copy. Half calf and marbled boards. Calf to spine missing. Covers rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of `Lambert Middleton` to front pastedown. All edges marbled.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.15 + shipping
Description: Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description: two volumes only: VI & X. Subject; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description: two volumes only: VI & X. Subject; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; A New Edition. Complete in ten volumes, uniformly bound in 3/4 grained calf and marbled paper boards with gilt work and titles tooled to spines. "Upwards of 50 engravings" some on doubled leaves. All edges marbled. Extra engraved title pages for each volume from the 1835 edition. Frontis engravings present for all volumes along with half-title pages for all but Vol III. Some dryness to leather at spines with mild stress crazing. Boards tenuous or detached in Vols I, II and X. Mild foxing to front and rear endmatter, but text pages generally bright and clean with a few mild instances of a shallow damp stain to a small number of pages along the top edge. A decent and complete set. G++ . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$439.95 + shipping
Description: ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 4.1kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 6¾" x 4¼" (4.1 kg); Complete in 10 volumes: Volume 1: (2), xxiv, 325, (2) pp. (6) leaves of plates, 1 folding; Volume 2: (2), viii, 342, (2) pp. (6) leaves of plates, 2 folding; Volume 3: (2), ix, 323, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates, 1 folding; Volume 4: (2), xii, 343, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates; Volume 5: (2), viii, 341, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates; Volume 6: (2), viii, 342, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates, 1 folding; Volume 7: (2), viii, 381, (2) pp. (4) leaves of plates, 2 folding; Volume 8: (2), xi, 431, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates, 1 folding; Volume 9: (2), xv, 335, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates, 1 folding; Volume 10: (2), xii, 376, (2) pp. (3) leaves of plates, 2 folding; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191833|| Condition: Very Good. A touch faded at the spine of all ten volumes. Tissue guards to the frontispieces of all the volumes age-toned and offset to the facing leaf. The contents complete, clean and tight overall but all the plates are age-toned, more heavily to the margins. Page 97 in volume XI nearly detached
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: New Edition. Fifty Engraved Illustrations. 10 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary pebbled 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper, gilt spines, t.e.g. Near fine set with the bookplate of James Stracham Fifty Engraved Illustrations. 10 vols. Small 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
James Boswell; John Wilson Croker. The Life of Samuel Johnson. John Murray, London, 1839.
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An illustrated set of James Boswell's acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's renowned biography of eighteenth century poet, playwright, critic, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Frequently regarded as the foremost literary critic of the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson is perhaps best known for his influential 'A Dictionary of the English Language', which had a far-reaching effect on the Modern English language and remained the standard for one-hundred and fifty years after its publication. James Boswell, the author of the present biography, met Johnson in 1763, when Johnson was fifty-four years old and the formed a friendship that lasted until Johnson's death in 1784. Although there are now many biographies of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's account is often considered the best due to its inclusion of more personal details. With six plates to volume I, including two folding plates, collated and complete. With five plates to volume II, including two folding plates, collated and complete. With two plates to volume III, including a folding plate, collated and complete. With two plates to volume IV, collated and complete. With two plates to volume V, collated and complete. With two plates to volume VI, including a folding plate, collated and complete. With three plates to volume VII, collated and complete. With two plates to volume VIII, collated and complete. With two plates to volume IX, including a folding plate, collated and complete. With two plates to volume X, collated and complete. In a maroon cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. There are some light marks to the front board of volumes III and IV, but otherwise volumes lightly rubbed to the boards and the spines, which is are little discoloured. A little bumped to the the head and tail of all volumes, with a small closed tear to the head of the spine of volume I. There is a tiny chip in the cloth to the head of volume IV, and a larger chip to the spine of volume IX. The front hinge is starting but firm to volumes I and III, and both hinges are starting to volumes VI and IX. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1095.02 + shipping
Description: 10 volumes octavo 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Complete. VERY HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND in half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting red and green leather lettering labels. Top edges gilt. Bindings in good condition. Illustrated with 'upwards of fifty engraved illustrations' including portraits, views, facsimile letters, frontispieces and engraved titles. Spotting to the blank endpapers and the occasional minor blemish, but basically internally and externally a good copy. A smart set.
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 10 vols, foolscap 8vo (6 3/4" x 4 1/4"), extra engraved titles, fifty engraved plates, extra illustrated with hundreds of additional engraved plates. Three-quarter black crushed morocco & cloth, gilt paneled backs in six compartments, gilt lettered in the second & fourth, gilt center & corner ornaments in the rest, gilt "extra illustrated 1839" at foot, top edges gilt. H9151
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: 10 vols; small 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm); extra-illustrated with over 100 engraved plates, prints, and facsimile letters, including title vignettes and frontispieces, and folding plates; later full tan calf by Morrell, ruled in gilt, gilt spine, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, top edge gilt others uncut, internally very clean, minor wear to panels, rear joint in vols. II and III cracked internally but holding, near fine. A handsomely bound extra-illustrated set of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. This revised edition by the Anglo-Irish MP and writer John Wilson Croker (1780-1857) was bitterly attacked in the Edinburgh Review by the Whig historian Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859), possibly in an act of revenge following a hostile exchange in the House of Commons between Croker and Macauley on the subject of reform. 'This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition' (Pottle).
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom