London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, [1890]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], [9]-285, [1], xxxi, [1], [6] ads; original blue cloth; gilt lettering on covers and spine; laid in is a pink loose-leaf advertisement soliciting donations for the Salvation Army; spine extremities and corners scuffed; front joint splitting; 1965..... More
London: John Murray, 1851. First ediiton, 8vo, 3 volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I; original ribbed green cloth, paper labels on spines; a very good, sound set. Borrow's most controversial work which gained him innumerable critics and enemies. Autobiographical in content (although he denied it), Lavengro was a vitriolic..... More
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
Philadelphia: John F. Watson, 1810. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 412; contemporary marbled boards rebacked and retipped, new red morocco label on spine; title a bit browned, else a very good, sound copy. Another edition was published in Boston later the same year. "Though the Life is a...... 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: T. Cadell & W. Davis, 1807. Third Malone edition, 8vo, 4 volumes, frontispiece portrait, folding "Round Robin" plate, folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary calf, red morocco labels; ex-Heriot's Hospital, with its name in gilt at the base of each spine, and with early an 19th century ex-libris..... 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
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, [*i]-*xxxvi, [2],[xvii]-xxxix, [1], 603, [1]; [2], 634; [2], 711, [1]; frontispiece portrait, folding "Round Robin" plate, folding facsimile of..... 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: John Murray, 1831. First Crocker edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, each volume with engraved frontispiece, plus the round-robin plate and a map of the Hebrides; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, maroon and brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; light wear to extremities, upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed..... 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
[Mount Vernon, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928-1934]. Edition limited to 570 copies designed by Bruce Rogers (this 290), complete set in 18 volumes, plus the separately published, but uniformly bound Boswell's tour of the Hebrides,1936 by the Viking Press, and Oxford University Press's Index (limited to 1250 copies); 20..... 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: Allison & Busby, [1969]. Small 8vo, pp. 316; fine copy in very good jacket. 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: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 524, [1]; E3, E4 and M4 are cancels, as usual; leaves I5, Q7 and U6 are in Pottle's second state; beneath the list of errata at the end is a notice for Boswell's Life of..... 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
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; corner of 9/3 torn with minor loss to a few letters; mild and..... 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: 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; later quarter polished black calf over marbled..... 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: printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly, 1799. First Malone edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 452; [2], 490; [2], 475; [2], 514; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds, folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting, folding engraved Round Robin plate; labels gone on all but..... 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
