Roger ingpen boswell (43 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good ++. No Dustjacket. Newly Edited. 576 pages. Illustrated with plats and within textNo dustjacket. Dark marroon ?leather spine which is cross-banded with a gilt-coloured titles and simple decoration. Moderate wear and rubs to boards' corners and edges and to spine-ends/ Page-edges moderately browned o/w clean pages. …

Condizione: New.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; viii, 504 p. ; facsims., port. (frontis.) 18 cm. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 Biography. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. English literature. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; viii, 504 p. ; facsims., port. (frontis.) 18 cm. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 Biography. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. English literature. 1 Kg. …

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Buckram. Condizione: Good. No DJ. 1925 Edition. This is a good hardcover copy in gray buckram with a gold image of Sam Johnson on the cover, no DJ. With 576 illustrations facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure. 1172 pages. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.…

Condizione: Good. Good condition. 3 volumes in 1. (biography) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hard Covers. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jackets. Three volumes in red cloth. Light rubbing to cloth. Bookplate in volume I. A nice set.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a clean three volume set each signed by the owner, but otherwise unmarked. The red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering are slightly faded and the pages are browning due to age.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 1. Publisher's full blue cloth with embossed gilt portrait and facsimile signature on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, blue endpapers. With 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure. Complete in one volume. . Head and heel of spine are rubbed, front hinge is starting at the top, rear hinge firm, spine slightly faded, one water splash on rear cover. . B&W drawings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xxxvi. 1172 pp.…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2-volume set (complete). Spine sunned. Endpapers foxed. boards a bit rubbed/scuffed. The publication date given above is an estimate only, there being no date given in the book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Johnson/Boswell; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13025. This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2 volume set. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hinges weak on volume 1. Maroon cloth boards, Hardcover. Bayntun pub, 1925. Book plate inside cover. Gift inscription. Tear to head of spine. Johnson related news clippings on end pages of vol. 1. Spines sunned. Ships daily. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., Amen Corner, 1907, First Edition Thus (profusely illustrated). Publisher's binding, full green cloth, titles in gilt to the spine, gilt portrait of Johnson to the front board, top page edges gilt, others tanned. Text block tight with a little give in the overall binding. Extensively illustrated with over 500 illustrations and 12 photogravure plates. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the English writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. A great mass of Boswell's diaries, letters and private papers were recovered from the 1920s to the 1950s, and their ongoing publication by Yale University has transformed his reputation. Pagination: Vol I - xxxii, 576pp; Vol II - xv, [i], 577-1172pp with 4pp of adverts. Approximately 10 inches (25cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - good condition - worn and rubbed, gilt titles. Joints - good condition - rubbed and worn. Corners - good condition - bumped and worn. Boards - good condition - green cloth with gilt portrait of Johnson to the front board, rubbed and worn. Page edges - good condition - top edge dust darkened gilt, others tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - good condition - sound. Paste downs - good condition - tanned. End papers - good condition - tanned. Title - good condition - tanned. Pages - good condition - tanned. Binding - good condition - attractive. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good(+). First edition thus. Two large quarto volumes in polished pale red cloth with gilt titles and illus stamped to front and spine; frontispieces, plates, portraits, facsimiles; 1172p, notes, index; 26 cm. To our knowledge, the most lavishly illustrated edition yet published, with a munificent abundance of b&w illustrations, plates and facsimiles throughout (almost every other page). Impressive. Extra postage fees may apply. Please inquire. Set weighs 8 lbs properly packed. Superficial damp-spotting to spine regions, both volumes (affects outer cloth only) ; else very tight and clean. Overall, a very good to even very good(+) set thus.…

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. 3 Volumes 10 X 7 3/4 inches, HB NODJ, 1925, 1st edition with new preface, Beige tweed embossed cloth with minor rub & wear & very slight soil, Interior Nice, Tight Clean Minor Wear, VG+/VG, AS-IS, NODJ.

Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Corners bumped, spine ends worn and rubbed, 3rd vol. Shaken, spines toned, but overall a very good clean set. ; All vols. Uniform gilt illustrated red cloth 4tos, gilt lettering spines, frontispieces. Vol. 1: (1709-November 10, 1769) 364pp. Vol. 2: (1770-April 8, 1778) 397pp. Vol. 3: (1778-December 13, 1784) 409pp, chronology, index. Pages uncut. Includes 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No dust jackets. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. 3 separate volumes, complete. Near Very Good condition. Light cover soil. Previous owner's names on front endpaper. Internally Very Good to Fine. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Pages are clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1925. Reissue of the 1907 edition, with a substantial new preface by the editor giving much of interest on "recent results of the labours and researches of admirers of Johnson." This is an important edition as it contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. The (London) Times reviewer stated: "The raison d'etre of this edition is its illustrations. Of these there are portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title-pages. a series of views of Johnson's old haunts. Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures, and his industry in collecting illustrative material." From another review: "The appearance of a new edition of the greatest biography in the English language is a literary event of some consequence. The idea. has been to annotate the work with illustrations, each picture being supplied with a full descriptive note. The portraits are those of practically all the men and women of note in literature in Johnson's day, and many of those who were famous in art, drama, and social life. Some of these, it should be said, are now reproduced for the first time." Uniformly bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright gold over black spine labels. Oversize Hardcover. 7.75" wide by 10" tall by 3.25" thick. This heavy 3 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 2 volumes at no extra cost. . Oversize Hardcover. Near Very Good condition/No dust jackets. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 3 volumes: 1,172pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 1,172 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and small gilt decoration of Samuel Johnson on front cover. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Comes in original blue slipcase, which is worn at edges. Illust. w/ 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. Contents nice. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Edited and with notes by Ingpen. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spines and covers stamped in gilt. Contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps in black and white, including thirteen plates in photogravure. Mild wear to corners, heads and heels. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. 1,172 pages total pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. Complete in two volumes. xl, 576pp; xvi, 577-1172pp. With 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure across the two volumes. Uniformly bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on front panels, gilt lettering on spines. Top edges gilt. 4to. Cloth is faded over spines, with volume II also faded along top edge on front panel; gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Fore and lower text block edges a little spotted and toned. Hint of toning on endpapers. First few leaves of volume two have a mild crease, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Volume one has a previous owner's name pencilled on the front free endpaper.…

Leather Binding. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Volume I only of II, complete to March 18th 1776) photogravure illustrations. All edges gilt. Leather binding with raise bands to spine, some rubbing to extremities.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good++ condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No dust jackets. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. 3 separate volumes, complete. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Very Good++ condition. Sharp corners. One small spot on the spine of Vol. 1. NO owner's name or bookplate. Internally Near Fine. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1925. Reissue of the 1907 edition, with a substantial new preface by the editor giving much of interest on "recent results of the labours and researches of admirers of Johnson." This is an important edition as it contains 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 plates in photogravure. The (London) Times reviewer stated: "The raison d'etre of this edition is its illustrations. Of these there are portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title-pages. a series of views of Johnson's old haunts. Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures, and his industry in collecting illustrative material." From another review: "The appearance of a new edition of the greatest biography in the English language is a literary event of some consequence. The idea. has been to annotate the work with illustrations, each picture being supplied with a full descriptive note. The portraits are those of practically all the men and women of note in literature in Johnson's day, and many of those who were famous in art, drama, and social life. Some of these, it should be said, are now reproduced for the first time." Uniformly bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright gold over black spine labels. Oversize Hardcover. 7.75" wide by 10" tall by 3.25" thick. This heavy 3 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 2 volumes at no extra cost. . Oversize Hardcover. Very Good++ condition/No dust jackets. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 3 volumes: 1,172pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…

Full Cloth. Condizione: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. 2 Volumes complete. Large thick books. Original full cream colored cloth with blue paper over the cover giving an old-time half cloth appearance. Moderate wear with the binding shaken, no previous owner's names, not exlibrary, 306 illustrations with 6 photogravure plates. 1172pp (continuous pagination between the two volumes). Overall in GOOD condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Slipcased. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reissue. This set of three books has been bound in a light yellow/orange cloth with gilt lettering on black spine title labels. The board slipcase has a matching paper with colored design upper and lower edge. The case is rough with light dirt, wear and rubbing. But it has done an admirable job protecting the books. Except for a small bump to the upper edge of the back board of the first volume and very slight discoloration upper spine of volume three; the books are in near new condition. Text is tinted mustard on upper edges. Clean and solid in binding with no ownership or other markings. 576 illustrations; facsimiles and maps, including 13 plates in Photogravure. Extensive Index located at the end of the text in volume three. A very nice set. Due to the size and weight of this book set, it may require additional shipping. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Various (illustratore). Set.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. A two-volume illustrated edition of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson, edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. A new two-volume edition of this work uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards. Top edge gilt.Written by Scottish biographer James Boswell (1740-1795), this biography is often described as being the greatest biography ever written in English. This is a new edition, with notes by Roger Ingpen.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English poet, essayist, biographer and literary critic. He published 'A Dictionary of the English Language' in 1755, considered the foremost dictionary of the time until the Oxford English Dictionary was published 173 years later. He was a devout Anglican and firmly opposed slavery; his religious writings emphasize the goodness of charity, repentance, marriage and pride.Profusely illustrated with five hundred and seventy six illustrations, facsimiles and maps, including thirteen plates in photogravure. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with light shelf wear to the joints and extremities. Gilt remains bright. Faint marks to the head of the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Mark to the fore edge of volume II, affecting the edge of several pages. Very Good Indeed. Sir Joshua Reynolds; Samuel Belin; George Dance; et al. (illustratore). book.…

2 vols. Tall 8vo (9½ x 7½ ins). Rebound in later green half calf, gilt tooled raised-ribbed spines, top edges gilt (near Fine). Pp. 1172, illus with b&w plates and in text; upper cover of dustwrapper bound-in at rear of vol II (prelims lightly spotted; previous owner's neat inscription on half titles).…