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James Boswell. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, f...
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James Boswell. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. From theLibrary of Glenn Ford."The Second Edition, Revised and Corrected." Octavo. xx, [2], 534, [1, ad for Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson], [1, blank] pp.
Eighteenth century speckled calf, rebacked to style at an early date. Double fillet borders rolled in blind, smooth spine ruled and stamped in gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco lettering piece. Early nineteenth century ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Two columns of a middle nineteenth century English newspaper clipping affixed to rear endpapers ("Dr. Johnson's Act of Penance in Uttoxeter Market ... By the American Writer Hawthorne.") Shelf wear to board extremities, upper outer corner of front board bumped and softening. Marginal worming to upper outer corner of text block, completely unaffecting text, pinhole-sized and nearly invisible except from [a]1 through B8 and Ll4 to final leaf; also to lower outer corner from [a]1 through [a]4. Overall a very good copy.
A lovely copy in contemporary boards of Boswell's famous travel journal, which became a kind of preview for his Life of Samuel Johnson. Arguably the greatest biography ever written, Boswell's Life of Johnson was published six years after the publication of the present volume, whose final leaf contains an advertisement for the later book. From the library of American film actor Glenn Ford, with his armorial bookplate.
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2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2008
16th-18th
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