Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including their Tour to the Hebrides - A New Edition, Thoroughly Revised, with Much Additional Matter
Published by Little, Brown and Co. 0, Boston
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.Saucony Book Shop
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2006
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 50.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Original copy, vintage rebinding in medium blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Cloth shows foxing/spotting on spine panel and along front joint, more minor spotting to both covers, tanned text block edges. xxiv,874 pp. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover. Volumes shows engraved first title/frontis. (multiple portraits of Johnson, with tissue guard) from John Murray (London) edition, followed by second title with Little, Brown imprint -- unknown whether this curiosity is original to issue. The "new edition" of Croker was initially issued in 1831 and remained the best edition of Boswell's Johnson for numerous decades thereafter. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Seller Inventory # 051105
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including their Tour to the Hebrides - A New Edition, Thoroughly Revised, with Much Additional Matter
- Author
- Boswell, James; John Wilson Croker (editor)
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co. 0, Boston
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- N/A
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- England, Scotland, & Ireland, Literature: Novels/Stories, Drama, Modern 1sts
Saucony Book Shop
Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2006
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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. Hours by appointment or chance April through October, closed winters. Do drop by and browse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. If traveling from a distance, please call ahead to be sure that we're not off at another auction! Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel.…
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