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An Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica.
by Boswell, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly., 1768. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xii, [iii], 382 + folding map frontispiece. Contemporary mottled calf, edges sprinkled red. Small handling tear to edge of map. Sometime rebacked, spine divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco label, old leather a little rubbed. Bookplate of John M. Cameron and old bookseller’s catalogue clipping to pastedown, monogram to flyleaf dated 1894. The first edition of Boswell’s first proper book, an account of his journey to Corsica and a biography of Corsican president Pascal Paoli. In this copy leaves E2 and Z3 are cancellentia. Neither Gaskell nor ESTC nor Pottle assign any precedence to the various textual variations found across printings, with Pottle suggesting that the cancel leaves were printed in duplicate, four copies of each across an octavo sheet, resulting in slight differences, alongside other misprints across the edition ‘no doubt corrected in the press’ (p. 52). Rothschild records a few variations not mentioned by other bibliographers: the map in this copy is in his second state, with the imprint to the bottom margin, and on page 51 the words ‘John Home’ correctly follow the second quotation, Rothschild’s second state again. Rothschild also differentiates the varying states of the cancel leaves, with our E2 in his state (i), though no information is given on how to distinguish the three states of Z3. ESTC T26157; Gaskell 473; Pottle 24; Rothschild 442.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5847
- Title
- An Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica.
- Author
- Boswell, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly.
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1768
- Keywords
- Travel & Topography Scottish
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- Calf
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Octavo
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- Leaves
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- Edges
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- Morocco
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- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Gilt
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