Extra illustrated boswell james (4 risultati)

Fine Leather Bound by Bayntun. Condizione: VG+. A complete five volume set in VG+/Near Fine condition beautifully bound by Bayntun in full crushed Morocco with double rule blind stamp details to boards, six compartments and five raised bands to spines with bright gilt details and title. Small amount of wear to leather extremities. Hinges to volume one discreetly reinforced with Japanese tissue. Leather to spines darkened. Binding and hinge are excellent, silk end papers and paste downs, AEG. Pages are bright and clean, without marks, some light sporadic foxing. Extra illustrated with 227 extra plates 50 of which are in color. Books measure 8.5"x5.75". 195 years old. An attractive set in scarce Bayntun binding. Extra Illustrated (illustratore).…

267 x 210 mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4"). Two volumes expanded to eight. ORNATE AND SUBSTANTIAL 19TH CENTURY FOREST GREEN STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, covers with a gilt French fillet, raised bands, spines (and some corners) renewed with considerable skill, their compartments with urn centerpieces flanked by scrolling foliage, turn-ins gilt tooled, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First volume with an engraved frontispiece, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A TOTAL OF 919 PLATES, 96 of them hand colored. Each volume with an added facsimile title page. Pottle 79; Day, "History of English Literature, 1660-1837," pp. 164-65. Boards with a few dark spots (mostly where chafing has been covered with dye), the hinge at the front of seven volumes with paper covering gone (two other hinges partly affected), but everything still very tight; some (never serious) offsetting from plates, intermittent minor foxing, a handful of leaves in Vol I., Part IV with a repaired open tear to upper margin, other trivial defects, but still a set with very considerable appeal--full of visual interest internally, and looking quite grand in a substantial row. Although there are no signs of ownership, this is the elegantly bound Jacques Levy copy of what is often considered to be the greatest biography in any language--extra-illustrated here with an enormous number of plates. James Boswell (1740-95) was a personal friend of his subject, the main reason that this work proved to be the architect of his enduring reputation. It is a tribute to Boswell's skill as a biographer that the bulk of the text is made up of accounts by the author of situations that he himself created so that his subject would be prompted to behave in a revealing and memorable way. Day tells us that Boswell "was a consummate impresario, stage-managing the setting and 'dramatis personae' amidst which Johnson would glitter, and then providing topics and opinions to elicit the magnificent rejoinders of Johnson." The result is that we see an unforgettable portrait of a man who was flawed as well as brilliant--in Day's words, "the most fully realized figure, the most three-dimensional character, in literature." Our previous owner, New York bibliophile Jacques Levy (d. 1980), first began buying on a whim while in Paris for business. He spent the next 40 years building an impressive and eclectic library, which included travel literature, illustrated books, and fine bindings. A dedicated auction of his collection took place at Sotheby's New York on April 20, 2012, realizing more than $6 million. The present copy contains more than 900 added plates which illustrate the settings and figures populating the biography, as well as expanding the two volumes into an imposing set that is quite attractive on the shelf. The first printing of Boswell's Johnson is easy to obtain, but extra-illustrated sets seem to be quite rare: except for the present item (which went for $11,250 at the Levy sale), the last such copy we could trace at auction was a four-volume set sold in 1988. FIRST EDITION, First State (with "gve" reading on p. 135).…

Condizione: Near Fine. Superbly extra-illustrated with more than 500 mounted portraits. Added title pages for each volume, printed in red and black. Numerous folding plates. 11 vols. 8vo. An abundantly extra-illustrated set of Boswell's classic biography of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Full red morocco gilt, doublures gilt, t.e.g. Bookplate of Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878-1930) by J. & E.B. Spines a bit toned; top of upper joint of Index volume with small repair, a near fine and very handsome set Superbly extra-illustrated with more than 500 mounted portraits. Added title pages for each volume, printed in red and black. Numerous folding plates. 11 vols. 8vo. …

170 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4"). 10 volumes. VERY PRETTY PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY BAYNTUN OF BATH (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with gilt rule border, central panel diapered in gilt with knots at line intersection, central compartment filled with floral tools, raised bands, spine compartments with large fleuron, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins with trefoil at corners, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With a total of 51 ILLUSTRATIONS, consisting of: engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title page with vignette in each volume, a folding map, a folding facsimile plate, and one double-page plate, as called for, all by Edward Francis Finden and all hand-colored, AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 28 PLATES (10 portraits, nine views, nine folding facsimile plates, four with vignette views), ALL COLORED BY HAND, all with tissue guards. Pottle 92. Spines just slightly and evenly sunned to a very pleasing burgundy, one front hinge exposed (with no hint of looseness), offsetting from and onto the folding facsimiles, other trivial imperfections, but A LOVELY SET, clean and fresh internally with attractively colored plates, in a luscious and lustrous binding with virtually no signs of use. This is the first illustrated edition of the work generally considered to be the greatest biography in any language, here embellished with additional portraits of Johnson's associates and views of important places in his life. First published in 1791, Boswell's account of Dr. Johnson reveals the most fully realized figure in literature, and it prefigures modern biography in emphasizing the character of the subject, rather than his deeds. It is also a tribute to Boswell's genius in that the bulk of the text is made up of accounts by the author of situations that he himself created so that his subject would be prompted to behave in a revealing and memorable way. Boswell "was a consummate impresario, stage-managing the setting and 'dramatis personae' amidst which Johnson would glitter, and then providing topics and opinions to elicit the magnificent rejoinders of Johnson." The result is that we see an unforgettable portrait of a man brilliant and profound and at the same time dogmatic, overbearing, prejudiced, and irascible. (Day) This edition also includes Johnson's journal of his visit to the Hebrides Islands and "anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c., and notes by various hands" in the two final volumes, which have the running title "Johnsoniana." Our handsome set is a good example of the early 20th century decorative work typical of the Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894 and now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. It is not terribly uncommon to encounter extra-illustrated examples of this and similar sets of major literary works, but it is unusual to find such a set with all the illustrations hand colored. First Illustrated Edition, Croker's Second Edition.…