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James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson: Volume the Third. T. Cadell, 1807.
Price: US$14.06 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1807. 480 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering. Volume the Third. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson: Volume the Second. T. Cadell, 1807.
Price: US$14.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1807. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Firmly bound original full leather binding. Rubbed gilt spine decorations with worn hinges and rubbed edges. Heavily worn top corners, dusted and tanned closed page edges. Mostly clean inside with foxing and browning to front end papers, title page and first and last few pages. Volume four only from set of four volumes
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Description: 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches), 480-pages. Contemporary full marbled tan calf, spine gilt with red & green lettering pieces; rubbed. Bound with the half-title. Old name on front pastedown.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.. T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1807.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In 4 volumes. Vol. 1 has illustrated frontispiece. Spines badly damaged. Corners bumped. Bindings tight. Endpapers stained. Inevitable foxing. Otherwise a reasonable set. 0.0
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.. T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1807.
Price: US$179.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcovers in good condition. No jackets. Fifth edition, revised and augmented, in four volumes. Boards and spines are worn, faded and scored. Abrasions on spines and rear board of volume three. Title plates on spines are partially detached and torn. Halves of volume three and two title plates are detached and laid in the volumes. Abrasions on worn and bumped leading corners and edges. Spine ends are chipped and nicked. Three centimetre portion of cover on volume four spine head is chipped away. Spine sides and hinges on early and closing pages are split, but bindings remain intact. Page blocks and pages are tanned, stained and foxed. Book plates on front pastedowns. Some pages are nicked and chipped. Creases throughout pages. Text remains legible throughout. HCW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$377.11 + shipping
Description: 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 478pp; 496pp; 480pp; 522pp. Engraved frontispiece; fold out page of facsimile handwriting. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Comprehending an account of Johnson's studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces never before published. VG : in very good condition. Respined and with new endpapers. Some rubbing and scuffing to leather. Tightly bound. Browning to prelims. Previous owner's inscriptions to original prelim pages
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1807. Fifth Edition, "Revised and Augmented." Four octavo volumes. 478, 496, 480, and 522 pp.; frontispiece engraved by Robert Cooper after the famous Reynolds portrait of Johnson; a tipped-in fold-out reproduction of a "Round Robin" Johnsonian parlor game; and a tipped-in fold-out sheet showing facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting, the latter two bound to end of text of volume IV. Contemporary calf boards rebacked with modern calf spine spine elaborately decorated in gilt; new endpapers; dark topstains; edges else sprayed red. Boards edgeworn with exposure, signs of professional repair to edges and joints. Bindings sound, spotting to plates and pages else unmarked. A Very Good professionally restored and still attractive set.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Third Malone edition, 8vo, 4 volumes, frontispiece portrait, folding "Round Robin" plate, folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary calf, red morocco labels; ex-Heriot's Hospital, with its name in gilt at the base of each spine, and with early an 19th century ex-libris on the title-pp.; a good, sound set. "Malone's new advertisement is dated 1 Jan. 1807. He states that some typographical errors have been corrected, two more letters of Johnson inserted, and several new notes added" (Pottle). Pottle 84.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary calf, recently rebacked with gilt spines, red and green title labels
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Description: 5th edn revised and augmented. 4 vols. 8vo (8½ x 5½ ins). Contemporary full speckled calf, spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels, boards gilt tooled at edges (2 ins tear at bottom lower edge of spine of vol IV and some light scratching on boards - otherwise a VG set). Pp. [iv] + xxxv + 478 + [2] blank [&] [iv] + 496 + [2] blank [&] [iv] + 480 + [2] blank [&] [iv] + 522 + [2] blank, illus with engraved frontispiece in vol I and folding facsimiles (2) in vols I and III (previous owner's engraved card on front paste-downs and rear endpapers of vol VI a little toned and creased; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$728.56 + shipping
Description: 4 vols., roy. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece, and 2 large folding facsimiles, free endpapers mildly browned, some light age-staining to text; strongly bound IN ORIGINAL DOVE-GREY BOARDS, expertly rebacked in ivory faux-vellum to style, backstrips with printed paper labels, uncut, boards lightly age-soiled, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. Complete with half-titles, and the errata slip to all four volumes in first volume. With 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated 1 December 1808) bound in at end of first volume. The facsimiles are the 'Round Robin' and the sample of Johnson's hand. In addition to the dedication to Reynolds, this edition retains Bowell's advertisements to the first and second editions, Malone's similar to the fourth and fifth editions, and the chronological list of Johnson's prose works. 'In this fifth edition some errors have been corrected. Two letters written by Dr. Johnson, and several new notes, have been added' (Malone). COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS ARE VERY SCARCE. NCBEL II, p.1214; Pottle (Boswell) 84.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom