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St. Martin's Street, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Library of English Classics. 522 pages, index. Some pages unopened, edges untrimmed. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Old library spine label, spots of bleaching on covers, rear free endpaper has a torn corner.

New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Used-Acceptable/No Jacket. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 1200 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy with clean text. No dj. Upper part of spine damaged. Spine slightly skewed. No publishing year given. Publishing year gleaned from other sources, therefore, it is an approximation. Spine retaped.

P. F. Collier. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1900. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Vol. 10; 452 pages; Dark red cloth hard covers with gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with light aging. No dust jacket. .

P. F. Collier. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1900. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Vol. 11; 452 pages; Dark red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with light aging. No dust jacket. .

New York: Modern Library, 1950. Very Good. Very good plus. Book has red marks along top fine edges, brown stains inside front cover, and cover is wearing along edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

George Routledge and Sons. Hardcover. Acceptable. 2 Volumes. Volume 1 has bumping to corners, wear to edges. Shelf wear/rubbing. Spine is rubbed, ends are chipped and frayed. End papers have age staining. Writing on ffep, Name written on title page. Hinges split front and back. Interior pages are age tanned, have light age stains. Volume 2 has bumping/wear to corners and edges. Shelf wear/light soil. Spine is rubbed, wear to ends. Hinges split front and back, ffep and frontis is pulled from book. Writing on ffep. Newspaper clipping glued to backside of ffep, writing on it also. Interior pages are age tanned, have age staining.

London: T. Cadell, et.al., 1822. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of Boswell's famous Life of Samuel Johnson. The Ninth Edition, Revised and Augmented" (First Edition Thus). This is Volume One ONLY of the original four. Full leather binding, with decorative gilt ruling on both covers. Five raised bands can be discerned under a later spine repair that has covered them. The spine has a date of "1822" inked in white near the bottom. Clean text; xxxv, fold-out samples of Johnson's handwriting, and 444 pages. All edges are marbled. Published without a tissue guard, the frontis portrait has mildly offset to the Title Page. The text is exceptionally bright and free of any foxing; mild rubbing around the margins; a very solid copy that is great for reading. . First Thus. Full-Leather. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: J M Dent, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small octavo. pp Both complete. 5th printing. Boards a little grubby. Internally fine.

This 3 volume set of hard bound books is in good condition. All three books have gold paint at the top. The spines have gold embossing and gold lettering. The boards are combination of leather and paper. The binding is tight on all volumes and all pages are intact. Vol. I free back page has pencil writing near center top of the page and pencil number on left top of the page. All other pages are clean and free of marks. The edges of all the boards for all three volumes show wear and scuff marks. The spines of all three volumes also show scuff marks.

Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake. Good with no dust jacket. 1807. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 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.... Two only of 3 volumes. Vols I and 2. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers. 1807. Foxed. External staining. Tears within Vol II’s title page publication statement. .

New York: The Heritage Press, 1963. First Edition, Thus. Cloth. Fine/Slipcase. Threee Volumes, 8vo., 466, 486, 473pp. Beautiful First Heritage Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive Publisher's slipcases have a touch of edge-wear but quite minor. Bookpalte on front paste-down of each volume. A gorgeous collectable set at a great price.

New York: The Heritage Press [1963], 1964. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 vol. 8vo. [5], viii-lviii, [5], 2-466; [7], 2-486, [2]; [7], 2-473, [1] pp. Grey cloth, each spine with a red inset lettered in gold. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Prepared for publication with an introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. Illustrated by a color frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous painting of Johnson, volume two with a color frontispiece of George Willinson's portrait of a young Samuel Johnson, volume three with a color frontispiece portrait of Hester Thrale Piozzi. Includes the issue of The Sandglass. Bussacco 106-108. A lovely set of the first comprehensive biographical work written and published in English. A touch of toning to the spines on the slipcases, overall a beautiful example.

Heritage Press -, 1963. Hardcover/pub.1963/Gd. condition/466 pages - A biography of Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic, essayist, and dictionary maker. [AI929550]. Hard Cover. Good.

Four volume set, published in 1826. Three-quarter binding, covers as shown with this listing are rubbed and scuffed. Marbled endpapers match the bindings, head and tail bands, gilt tops, five raised bands on spines. Bindings are firm. A facsimile of a round-robin addressed to Dr. Johnson tipped in the front matter of Volume Three and a facsimile of a letter from Dr. Johnson (dated March 1755) to the Chancellor of the University of Oxford tipped in the front of Volume Five. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-N3)

London: Macmilland And Co., Limited, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. (Wikipedia) Johnson's 'A Dictionary of the English Language' appeared in 1755, and was acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship", initiating several dictionary genres. Volumes are a first edition reprint "Library of English Classics". <br><br>From title page, Volume I, 1791 edition: "...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...exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain for near half a century during which he flourished." <br><br>Volume I: xv, Biographical… Read More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A four volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell, edited by Alexander Napier. 4 Volumes, complete. Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 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 was a devout Anglican and political conservative. Samuel Johnson is probably most famous for his dictionary. James Boswell, 1740 – 1795, was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. In cloth binding with gilt lettering. Externally smart. Some wear to the extremities, including bumping and discolouration. Volume 3 has a closed tear to the spine and marks to the front board.… Read More

New York: George Dearborn & Co., Publishers, 1837. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York: George Dearborn & Co., Publishers, 1837. Volume I: 563 pages/Volume II: 566 pages. A New Edition. With Numerous Additions and Notes, by John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F.R.S. Brown boards beautifully embossed with floral motifs. Gold lettering on spine. Spine cracked and chipped and some parts mising. Boards bumped and chipped on all sides. Cracked hinge on front end paper of Volume II. Tissue over frontispiece engraving of Boswell. Some foxing. Interior in good shape with tight binding. Volume II inside front end paper ripped at top right-hand corner. Half of the next page is cut off. Previous owner's stamp (W.W. Stuart) at upper right-hand corner of next page. Tissue over frontispiece. No cracks. Some foxing. Interior in good shape with tight binding. A "must-read" for every well-educated Victorian gentleman. A classic. Collectible.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good+. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-394, [2]; [5], 4-416; [5], 2-395, [1]; [7], vi-xi, [2], 2-428 pp. Full contemporary calf (tree calf on volumes three and four), the spines have been rebacked in period style, twin gilt borders on each board, spines in six compartments with two morocco labels (one red and one black), gilt lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Volumes one and two illustrated with a frontispiece, volume three with the folding "Round Robin" facsimile plate, volume four with a folding plate, a facsimile of Dr. Johnson's letter. Bookseller's ticket of Hugh Hopkins in Glasgow in each volume. Kelly 1826.2. Keynes 54. Pottle 90. Edited by Francis Pearson Walesby. A beautifully produced edition of the landmark biography and history of the man of letters. The boards quite rubbed and worn, especially volumes one and two, a few gutters with tape ghosts.

London: John Murray, 1835. Complete in ten volumes. The second Croker edition. The first 8 volumes are 1835 printings; volumes 9 and ten are from 1839. The ten volumes are uniformly bound in a contemporary full light brown leather. In 1831 Murray published a 5-volume edition that included for the first time the additions and notes of Coker. The poorly edited edition was panned by critics (notably, Macaulay); so the publisher rushed to re-edit the text and published this set in 1835 and 1839. The second edition not only was better edited, but it also contained additional illustrations not found in the first edition. The attractive set is in about very good condition: each volume is clean and tight, with some edgewear; most volumes have waterstains on covers--see the attached images for an example of the typical stain.. The second Croker Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 10 vol. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xxiv, [2], 3-325, [3]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-344, [2]; [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-323, [3]; [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-343, [1]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-341, [3]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-342, [2]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-381, [3]; [5], vi-xi, [2], 2-431, [3]; [5], vi-xv, [2], 2-335, [3]; [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-376, [2] pp. Late nineteenth-century half polished calf over pink cloth, spines in six compartments (spines unpolished), lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece and vignette engraved title page, volume three with a fold-out map of Scotland and the Hebrides. Volume six contains the fold-out Round Robin facsimile of Johnson's hand-writing (to which there is a tiny hairline split, not affecting the legibility of the fold-out plate). Oxford DNB, Pat Rogers, "Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)". Pottle 92. The… Read More