Johnson doctor samuel (4 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 1st edition. Vellum, G+. 156pp, lacks endpaper, vellum evenly soiled, a nice copy. Attractively produced book which gives a life of Johnson followed by a collection of anecdotes & epithets for which he is famous - his Table Talk. In a Vellum binding & published to mark the Centenary of his death. 150 grams.…

168pp. Woodcuts by Douglas Percy Bliss 1st edition thus Small tears in spine bottom, extremities rubbed, else clean tight copy: Good+ to VG-/no dj.

Leather. Condizione: Good. An unauthorised Dublin edition of this popular travel work by Samuel Johnson, complete in two volumes bound in one. An unauthorised Dublin edition of this work, published in the same year as the first London edition, in a half calf binding. ESTC citation number T147766. Complete as two volumes bound in one. Each volume has its own title page. Error in pagination to Volume II, with the second page of text numbered page 26, and numbered page 121 misnumbered 289. The pagination then continues from 289 to 384; however, the text is continuous. Collated, complete.Ink inscriptions to the title page, the verso of the title page and page 1.Samuel Johnson's vivid account of his 1773 expedition to Scotland with his friend James Boswell, an important early travel work. Boswell encouraged Johnson on this tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland, setting out from Edinburgh in 1773. They travelled for 83 days from the late summer to autumn and saw the wildness of the Highlands. Boswell and Johnson met in 1763 when Johnson was fifty-four, and they became fast friends. Their friendship resulted in the influential biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'. Boswell later published his own account of this trip in 1785. In a half calf binding. Externally sound, with rubbing to the spine and extremities. Loss to the head of the backstrip, with two small holes to the backstrip. Reinforced at the hinges. Front hinge is slightly strained to the title page but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, apart from a little soiling to the title page and ink inscriptions to the first couple of pages. Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book. …

2pp., 12mo. With stamped and postmarked envelope, addressed by Tinker to 'Chas. Mc.Carnie, Esqr., | Natl. Bank of W. V. Bldg, | Wheeling, W. V.' Tinker considers that 'The MSS. certainly ought to go to the Yale Library, rather than to the Elizabethan Club, - and the librarian will be delighted to receive it and to acknowledge your goodness in presenting it.' He asks McCamie for 'an account of it in a letter from yourself, to accompany the MS.' Concerning Aleyn Lyell Reade's book on Samuel Johnson's servant Francis Barber, he thanks McCamie for having remembered his 'need of the volume on Barber'. He had 'tried to get one from Reade and failed. Did you actually see him?'.…