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BOSWELL JAMES (Br). THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D - comprening AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES, AND NUMEROUS WORKS ETC.. CADELL T. AND DAVIES W., 1811.

Price: US$39.87 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: R320062894: 1811. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 391 pages -Plats desolidarisés - Mors abimés -. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

Boswell, James ; Fitzgerald, Percy (Editor). The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works. In Five Volumes VOLUMES 1 - 5. T.Cadell and W.Davies, London UK, 1811.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: 5 Volumes VERY SHABBY, FOR REBINDING. xxxviii + 355 + 412+424+391+384 pages including index. Where present set has rubbed maroon marbled boards, mid/light brown leather to spine/hnges/corners, light gilt patterning/small title to spine. Vol I missing both boards, binding failed and nearly in bits, damp staining to prelims; two fold-out facsimilies to this volume. Vol 2- binding failed at title page, this & front board detached, 25% spine leather chipped off at bottom front hinge, losses to spine-ends/corners, damp mstain to top prelims. Vol 3- foxing to prelins, spine covering mostly missingheavy wear to corners, bindign feels sound. Vol 4 - Vol 4 - spine covering half missing, front board missing, foxing to flyleaf, wer to rear board corners, bindign feels soune, Vol 5-front board detached, chips to spine surfae, wear to corners, lighty blotching to flyleaf, bindign feels sound. Text to all volumes has some blotching to some pages, best described as servicably clean.

Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom

Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending 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, Never Before Published: The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During Which He Flourished [Three Volumes]. T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand London The Sixth Edition, Revised and Augmented . Three Volumes. 1811., 1811.

Price: US$84.47 + shipping

Description: Contemporary full calf covers, gilt lettering and designs to spines, gilt tooling to edges of upper and lower boards, inner gilt dentelles, marble end papers and page edges. 8vo 8½" x 5½" 496; 483; 530 [pp]. 3 [of 4] volumes with volume I missing, upper board to volume IV loose but not detached, other upper boards starting, spines slightly dull with general rubbing. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom

James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson Comprehending 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 Never Before Published The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, For Near Half A Century During Which He Flourished. T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1811.

Price: US$337.87 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Boswell's first-hand account of Samuel Johnson's life is often considered one of the greatest biographies written in English. Four hardbound volumes in blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, two fold-outs and engraved frontispiece. Samuel Johnson (often referred to as Dr Johnson) (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784) was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was in his 54th year, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The most admired and best remembered portions of the book though are Boswell's first-hand accounts of Johnson from the last twenty-one years of the subject's life. The volumes have been rebound with new blank endpapers. There is some mild wear to the extremities including small marks and rubbing to the boards. The bindings are tight and firm with all covers and pages securely attached. . Internally the pages are generally clean and bright apart from the occasional handling mark and odd spot. The title page and frontispiece in Volume I are slightly spotted and age-toned. The fold-out illustration in Volume I is slightly creased with a closed tear to one of the folds. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

(JOHNSON, Samuel). Boswell, James.. The Life of Samuel Johnson.Comprehending 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, Never Before Published.. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811., 1811.

Price: US$341.16 + shipping

Description: In five volumes. The Seventh Edition, Revised and Augmented. 12mo., full cont. calf, gilt decoration on the spines. With a frontis and folding plate in volume one. Some rubbing o/w a very good set.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada

BOSWELL James 1740-1795. The Life of Samuel Johnson. (4 Vols Complete). T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1811.

Price: US$357.38 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG, 1811, in contemporary honeycombed calf, gilt lines to edges, corners and edges a little worn and bumped. All spines have been professionally relaid, raised bands, gilt tooling and title, edges a little worn and bumped. Internally all have red marbled endpapers, some offsetting and minimal foxing to prelims. Vol 1, frontis of Johnson dated 1756, [2], (xxxvii), [1], 481 pp, 2 pull out sheets. Vol 2, [2], 496 pp. Vol 3, [2], 483 pp. Vol 4, [2], 530 pp, all printed in London by C Baldwin of New Bridge St. A lovely set. lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson, published his Life of and on 13 May forty-one London booksellers purchased more than 400 sets (of two large quarto volumes), and on 16 May, the twenty-eighth anniversary of his first meeting with Johnson in Davies's back parlour, the biography was published. Sales exceeded all expectations. Of a total of 1750 sets printed, 800 were sold in the first two weeks, 1200 by the end of August, 1400 by December, and 1600 by August 1792. see ODNB for a full Bio. (210*129 mm). (see Kent 152. Allibone 978. Pottle 174).

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

Boswell (James). THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON : FOUR VOLUMES. T. Cadell & W Davies, London, 1811.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Sixth Edition, Revised and Augmented, in 4 Volumes, frontispiece portrait of Johnson in volume I, two folding facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting in volumes I & III, offsetting from these illustrations, some foxing throughout, marbled edges and endpapers, book plates to each pastedown, brown calf, gilt borders and dentelle, panelled spines with gilt decoration, lettering on black panels, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, slight scuffs to covers. A HANDSOME SET. PLEASE NOTE THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE 4 VOLUMES THIS MAY INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE CHARGES FOR AN OVERSEAS BUYER. Size: 8vo

Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom

Boswell, James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works.. T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1811.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: The sixth edition, revised and augmented. Four volumes. (iv) xxxviii 431p; (iv) 496p; (iv) 483p; (iv) 530p. Portrait frontispiece engraved by Baker after Sir Joshua Reynolds, folding plate of facsimiles of Johnson's hand writing, folding "Round Robin" plate in Vol. III. Bound in full period calf and rebacked to style, the spines with red and tan title labels and with decorations in blind separated by wide decorative gilt bands. Boswell's Life is regarded as the greatest of English biographies. Contents generally clean with some spotting, the covers with moderate old wear. Generally very good and quite sound The sixth edition, revised and augmented.

Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.

BOSWELL, JAMES. The life of Samuel Johnson. LL.D. comprehending 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 never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain. The sixth edition, revised and augmented. In four volumes. T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1811.

Price: US$1062.50 + shipping

Description: Last Malone edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], xxxvii, [1], 464; [2], 496; [2], 482; [2], 530; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds, folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting, folding engraved Round Robin plate; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines, black morocco labels; front joint on vol. 1 cracked, but generally a very good set. "This edition was the one most frequently reprinted in the 19th century, and is often spoken of as 'the best of the pre-Crokerian editions'. The more general critical tendency now, however, seems to be to return to the text of the third, as being more nearly that which the author himself approved" (Pottle). Pottle 86.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.