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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

Price: $1,026.70

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1785

Seller ID: Books012908

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xx, [1], 534, [1]. Complete, with half title, and advert leaf at rear. Ding to top corner of front board. Old bookplate and signature to front pastedown; signature again at head of title page. Light foxing/offsetting to first few and final few leaves; else remarkably clean. A pleasing unsophisticated example in sound contemporary binding.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson [first issue]

By: Boswell, James

Price: $10,267.04

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1791

Seller ID: Books012732

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xii, [16], 516; 586 pages; with fronispiece portrait in Vol. I, Round Robin and facsimile of Johnson's handwriting in II. First issue, with "gve" on page 135 of Vol. I. Contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, with gilt tooling in compartments, contrasting spine labels, corners restored. Intermittent light foxing throughout, 1cm tideline along fore-edge of textblock of Vol. I (not penetrating to margin), small marginal stains on final leaves of Vol. I, not affecting text. With Paul Lockwood's [Abelard Books] c.1980 catalogue description laid in: "Despite minor faults, overall an exceptionally clea...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works...

By: Boswell, James

Price: $682.17

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1793

Seller ID: Books013293

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

xviii, [*1]-*xxii, [*xxiv]-*xxvi, *xxvi (sic)-*xxxvi, [1], [1]-603; [1]-634; [xvii]-[xl], [1]-711 pages, complete with frontispiece, two folding plates, and the leaf of Additional Corrections. Spines darkened and dry, labels chipped. Hinges of i and ii reinforced with cloth tape. Upper board of i detached, lower a little tender; upper joint of ii split but board secure; iii was at some point rebacked using original spine. John Le Marchant signature dated 1794 and bookplate (Me Minerva Ducit) to front pastedown of each. Plate of W. Morton Webb, and his 1910 signature in each. Foxing to first fe...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides: Complete in Four Volumes

By: Boswell, James

Price: $241.17

Publisher: New York, Chicago, Siegel - Cooper : 1896

Seller ID: Books009135

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

468, 479, 452, 452 pages. Rare issue, not recorded in Worldcat. Appears identical (in title and pagination) to Derby & Jackson though without frontispieces. Each title page is a cancel and no date of issue is specified. Siegel-Cooper opened in New York 1896. Title page: "New Edition, with numerous additions and notes by the Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P. and copious notes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, Scott, Markland, Burney, Blakeway, Chalmers, Porter, Langton, and others." Olive cloth with gilt to spine and top edges. Quite handsome ex...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson [first issue]

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides: Complete in Four Volumes