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Boswell, James HONESTY AND THE DEFENSE.
An Account by James Boswell, Esq., of a Conversation between himself and Samuel Johnson Regarding the Practice of Law, Oxford, 26 March 1768. Charlottesville Sisson, Foss & Co. 1985 broadside, 11 1/2 by 7 5/8 inches
Limited to 250 copies. Facsimile of James Boswell's account of a conversation between himself and Samuel Johnson, March 26, 1768. Printed by hand on paper made at the press.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 108870

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(Johnson, Samuel) Boswell, James LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D., TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES.
5 volumes London George Bell and Sons 1884 8vo. original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, deckled edges lv+(i), 581, (3); x, (ii), 569+(1); ix, (iii), 563+(1); xiii, (iii), 467, (3); xi, (iii), 432 pages
First Napier edition, (New editions) with Notes and Appendices by Alexander Napier, plus one volume, unnumbered of Johnsoniana ("Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy...and extracts from the diary of Madame D'Arblay") 'newly collected and edited by Robina Napier' (Pottle 96). Referred to by Pottle as the best edition of the "Life" before Hill's, essentially a revised Croker. Some of Boswell's notes are placed in the appendixes, which also contain valuable discussions of points too lengthy for use as notes. This edition is prefaced by a valuable essay on Johnson's various biographers, and a summary of the work done by different editors on Boswell's text. The "Life" and the "Tour" contain excellent separate indexes. The most important item in Mrs. Napier's "Johnsoniana" is Thomas Campbell's "Diary of a Visit to England in 1775," which was first published at Sydney, Australia, in 1854, but was here printed for the first time in England. Also separately indexed. "Handsomely printed, with many (54) useful and beautiful illustrations." Pages uncut. Covers soiled, some rubbing to extremites, offset to endpapers, waterstains to top edge of frontispiece and title page in volume five.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 73966

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(Johnson, Samuel) Boswell, James THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Garden City Doubleday, Doran and Company 1945 large 8vo. cloth, portrait of Johnson on front board, top edge gilt, slipcase (ii), x, (ii), 631+(1) pages with 16 additional leaves of illustrations
Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist, Gordon Ross. This reprint of James Boswell's 1791 biography of Samuel Johnson is accompanied by 16 color illustrations by Gordon Ross. One of Doubleday Doran's Limited Editions, a series illustrated by famous American artists. Slipcase chipping, top edges cracking. Minor foxing on illustrations.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 73734

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(Rogers, Bruce) Boswell, James. PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL FROM MALAHIDE CASTLE, IN THE COLLECTION OF LT.-COLONEL RALPH HEYWARD ISHAM.
22 volumes, complete. N.P. n.p. (Ralph Heywood Isham printed by W.E. Rudge) 1928-1937 various sizes between 8vo. and large 4to. red paper-covered boards, paper spine labels, slipcases. Various paginations.
Printed in an edition limited to 570 numbered copies. (Haas no.153). One could call Boswell's diaries and private journals a kind of uncompleted "Life of Boswell," related in various ways to his other biographical enterprise. Certainly Boswell's habit of collecting concepts, conversations, characters and characteristics served him well later, and also make his private writings a source of information on personalities and social life in later 18th-century England. Unfortunately, most of these writings were long lost. They began to come to light again in the mid-1920's, and in 1926 the collector Ralph Heywood Isham (1890-1955) succeeded in acquiring a large number of Boswell papers, along with publishing rights, from Boswell's reluctant descendants. More discoveries of Boswelliana and their eventual purchase by Isham followed. Yale University acquired the entire Isham Boswell collection in 1949.
Isham planned an edition from the beginning, and in 1928 engaged Geoffrey Scott as editor, W.E. Rudge to print the edition, and Bruce Rogers to design the books. Rogers describes his design in the prospectus: "I have chosen a style flexible enough to accommodate the various papers, journals and documents comprised in the collection. No special effort has been made to secure an air of antiquity, but with the importation of a recent English reproduction of John Baskerville's famous eighteenth century types it was been possible to present the text in a form typographically harmonious with Boswell's individual mode of expression. The size of the different volumes is determined, as a rule, by the dimensions of the facsimile documents..." (Blumenthal p.105).
The full set ran to eighteen volumes, published 1928-1934. G. Scott died after completion of vol. 6, and F.A. Pottle took over the editing. This set also includes The Private Papers of James Boswell... A Catalogue by Frederick A. Pottle & Marion S. Pottle, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1931 (limited to 415 copies), Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., New York: The Viking Press, 1936 (limited to 790 copies), Index to the Private Papers of James Boswell, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1937 (limited to 1250 numbered copies). These three volumes are bound in a similar fashion to the eighteen volume set. Also present is the large original prospectus to the set which contains a lengthy statement by Bruce Rogers (folio, stiff red paper wrappers, 13 pages), the note that the original editor Geoffrey Scott had died (small 4to., stiff red paper wrappers, 6 pages), and Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, New York: Grolier Club, 1931 (8vo., stiff paper wrappers, many pages).
There is uneven fading to the spines (remember that the set was issued over a long period of time). The supplementary volumes of 1931 and 1937 lack the slipcase.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 72684

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