Boswell James Illustrator (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1954. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. James Boswell, Illustrator. Stated First Edition in dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with small illustration (goat and boy) on front cover. No fraying or wear, very slight browning to spine edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. No names, writing or bookplates. Pages and edges are clean. 120 pgs. Illustrated with drawings. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has fading to spine, very small chip at top of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. James Boswell, Illustrator (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Green cloth cover is frayed at corners with a 1/3" tear to top of spine strip and light scuffing but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Gutter between end sheets and paste downs cracked but binding reglued and secure. Pages are clean and in very good condition. B&w frontispiece and plates with one folding plate. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 169 pages, 8vo. Includes slipcase. Minor shelfwear to book. Some scuffing and scratch marks on slipcase. Volume is in Near Fine condition.

new edition cloth binding Nice copy small octavo xvi + 526pp., frontis., illusts., index, Ownership stamp & signature o/w a quite nice copy bound with a new spine & end papers but retaining original blind-stamped green boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Custom Binding (Asprey?) - Dark blue morocco 3/4 bound to spine and corners with bright gilt rulings separating leather and lighter blue linen cloth on boards. With 3 raised hubs on the spine and elaborate gilt flowers and titling to spine. Top edge gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good hardcover book with some bookseller pencil notes to end paper. Everybody's Boswell Being the life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text and from the "Tour of The Hebredies". Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. This large paper edition signed by the artist is limited to three hundred and fifty copies of which this is number 134. Published by G. Bell and Sons Ltd., London 1930. Signed by Author(s).…

First thus. Three octavo volumes extended to seven (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 222 x 152 mm.). Extra-illustrated by the insertion of over six hundred plates including many portraits and scenes by various artists, at least one original letter (complete with envelope), pages from books and periodicals contemporary to the events being related by Boswell (including The Gentleman's Magazine), notices of marriages and deaths, bookseller catalogues, auction catalogues, etc., some items with hand-written captions, many mounted onto stiff paper with decorative borders. Bound by Pfister of New York ca. 1901, in full red morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decorative gilt inside borders, mottled pink endleaves. With the bookplate of Robert Freeman Pick. "Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them" (Macauley). Indeed, drawing on his close and longstanding collaboration with Johnson as well as Johnson's own diary, James Boswell released a book that was a popular success and helped to establish the modern genre of biography. Still considered an important resource on the life and times of the famed memoirist and dictionary compiler, Boswell's Life of Johnson breathes vivid life into one of the most important British figures of the century. "We know of him not as he was known to men of his generation, but as he was known to men whose fathers he might have been.and long after his works may be forgotten, he will be remembered through Boswell's Life" (Macauley). F. J. Pfister was a New York-based bookbinder active during the 1890s and 1900s. A lecture in 1900 he "delivered an interesting address on the art of decorating the covers of books by means of pyrography, or of "burning in" with a heated tool the design with which the cover of a book is to be decorated, instead of impressing it, either blind or gilded, with dies or the ordinary binders' tools. Mr. Pfister pointed out that pyrography is not a recent art, but an ancient process revived" (The Booksellers' League). With the Ex-Libris in each volume of one "R.F. Pick", his name across an open book laying on two laurel branches and with a small beetle busily eating his way through the pages. Based on the name, the New York bindery, and the design of the Ex-Libris it seems highly likely that our Mr. Pick was the bookseller of that name who had an establishment at 136 E. 34th Street, New York City, and advertised his firm as "Bookseller and Importer" of "Rare and Choice Books". Interestingly, on the same page of the Literary Collector (dated October 1901 to March 1902) on which we find Mr. Pick's advertisement is one for the bindery, F.J. Pfister, directly beneath.…