John wilson croker editor (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. a new edition. Half calf over marbled boards, G++. xxiv+874pp, b/w frontis, engraved title, 10 b/w plates, a nice copy, paper label cut from upper board removing a square of the marbled paper, spine & gilt decoration in nice condition. An edited version of Boswells Life, printed in double column. The most famous biography in the English language. 1550 grams.…

Hardcover. Octavo, Three volumes. In Fair condition. Spines are brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth with gold and black print. Spine caps worn or torn away, corners exposed, first volume has bent front corner. Text blocks have owner label on front pastedown, first volume has tanning to title page, all volumes have cracked hinges and intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece in first two volumes. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. lxiv, 350 pages - Vol. 2. viii, 389 pages - Vol. 3. viii, 436 pages + 16-page publisher catalog. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area (ND-MV). 1374542. FP New Rockville Stock.…

[Biography] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition, with notes etc. In four volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 12cm), pp.xxxvi; 25-468 [2]; pp.[2] 479 [3]; pp.[2] 452 [6]; pp.[2] 452 [6]. With an engraved frontispiece to volumes I and II. Contemporary tan half calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to black labels on spines. Marbled paper over boards. Spotting to preliminaries. Light black ink ownership notes to free endpapers, dated 1866. Wear to board edges; corners bumped. Light speckling of white paint over spine of volume I. Good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover, ten volume set. Bound with maroon leather spines and corners, marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers and foreedges as well. All the bindings are good and tight and attractive. Some slight wear to corners here and there, but never significant. Bookplate of George Phillips Parker on the inside front cover of all 10 volumes. Text illustrated with plates and including some folding plates and some facsimile handwritten pages. The editor, Croker, adds 2 volumes of other writings which seems to include many of Johnson's prefaces. Books measure 4.25 x 6.5 inches. They sit on 11.5 inches of shelf space. International shipping will require extra postage because there are so many volumes. Please email with questions.…

Octavo (23 cm); 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 (give or take) black-and-white engravings (some folding) and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits, facsimiles, scenes, and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates, but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson, during his long life, came into contact with virtually everyone in British society who left a footprint, and Boswell names them all. John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's great biography-offered here in its initial printing-inspired something of a fashion for collectors to gather up printed portraits of the figures named in the biography, and have them bound into their copies of Croker's Boswell opposite the pages where the figure is named or discussed. The majority of the portraits, scenes, facsimiles, and maps in this copy date from the first quarter of the 19th century, while a few were printed in the late 1700s and the most recent ones date from the 1840s. Celebrity portraits include those of Johnson, Boswell, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richardson, Rousseau, Sterne, Catherine the Great, Leibnitz, Byron, Swift, Joseph Banks, Voltaire, Madame de Sévigné, Captain Cook, Thomas Gray, John Donne, Adam Smith, Walter Scott, Joseph Addison, Thomas Brown, Montaigne, Drake, Milton, and many, many, many others.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 10 volume set. Bound with maroon leather spines and corners. Red cloth over boards. Raised cords on the spines. Lettering in gold, with volume numbers, date, and 'extra illustrated.' Top edges gilt. Varying page counts - between 320 and 425. A pencil notation inside the front cover of volume 1 says there are 140 additional plates. These plates are usually portraits of people mentioned in the biography, taken from earlier sources and carefully sized and inserted here to supplement the original material. Each of these additional plates has the binder's code on the back, identifying which volume and which page it should be inserted at. Some folding facsimiles pages as well. Bindings good and right and quite attractive. Some slight wear to the hinges, but this hardly detracts. Also, a small chip at the extended top of the crown of the spines on 3 volumes prevent it from being flawless, but these chips are so small as only to be visible when you look down on the books from above. Each volume measures 4.5 x 6.75 inches. The whole set sits on 12 inches of shelf space. Please email to request photos or with questions. Extra shipping will be required to ship the 10 vol set safely.…