Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. First Hill edition and one of the finest of all editions of this classic work; 6 volumes, large 8vo, 14 plates including frontispieces, facsimiles (some folding) and a map; generally a fine set in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Pottle 98: "This has so long held..... More

Oxford: William Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 [i.e. 1827]. First Pickering edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait of Boswell and Round Robin plate and a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary full blindstamped calf, gilt decorated spines, a.e.g.; light wear to the spines but on the whole very good..... More

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. First London octavo, third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes, pp. [2], xviii, [xvii]-xxxix, [1], [*i]-*xxxvi, [2], 603, [1]; [2], 634; [2], 711, [1]; frontispiece portrait, folding "Round Robin" plate, folding facsimile..... More

Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake, 1807. First American edition, taken from the fifth Malone edition published in London earlier the same year, 8vo, 3 volumes, frontispiece portrait, folding "Round Robin" plate, folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; title page in volume II partially loose and torn, with loss to a...... More

London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, the so-called second state with "give" reading on p. 135 in vol. I, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xii, [16], 516; [2], 588; engraved portrait frontispiece by Heath after Joshua Reynolds, and with the Round Robin plate, and the plate showing facsimile..... More

New York [et al.]: McGraw-Hill, [1952]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix-[xx], 433; map endpapers, frontis and 2 plates; fine copy in the jacket. More

[London]: John Lehmann, 1949. Small 8vo, pp. 316; fine copy in the jacket. Issued as no. 33 in the publisher's Chiltern Library series. More

London: printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1807. 8vo, pp. [2], xv, [1], 460; engraved frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds; recent half tan calf antique over marbled boards, red morocco label; occasional spotting, especially in the margins of the frontispiece, otherwise near fine. This is the first edition to include..... More

London: John Murray, 1835. 8vo, 10 volumes, engraved frontispiece and title-p. in each volume all by Stanfield after Finden, original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt lettering direct and within blindstamped labels; vol. 1, 2, and 10 neatly rebacked; the binding was a dainty one from the start, and needs care in..... More

London: T. Cadell, F.C. & J. Rivington [et al.], 1822. First Chambers edition; 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xxxv, [1], 444; [2], 462; [2], 446; [2], 495; engraved frontispiece portrait after Reynolds, folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting, folding engraved Round Robin plate; contemporary brown cloth with printed paper labels..... More

London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888. 3 vols., 8vo, frontispiece portrait, facsimile of the 1791 title-p.; very good, bright set in orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines, t.e.g. See Pottle 95: "This edition represents the first scholarly reaction against the tradition of the 'edited' Boswell … Fitzgerald..... More

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811. 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..... More