PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL FROM MALAHIDE CASTLE. IN THE COLLECTION OF LT.-COLONEL RALPH HEYWARD ISHAM....
Boswell, James:
[New York]: Privately Printed, 1928 - 1937. Twenty volumes. Folio, quarto, and octavo. Boards, cloth- backed boards, and cloth, paper labels. Illustrated throughout with expertly executed facsimiles. A bit of mild hand smudging and sunning to a few spines, otherwise near fine in very good slipcases (with a few bumps and cracks to a handful of joints and some rubbing at tips), where issued. The first, private subscriber's edition of the Isham Boswell papers, edited for publication by Geoffrey Scott, and later, Frederick A. Pottle. The story of the acquisition and publication of the Boswell Papers by Colonel Isham remains one of the great and colorful stories of 20th century collecting and publishing history. We highly recommend (if one is fortunate enough to be able to lay hands on a copy) Pottle's PRIDE AND NEGLIGENCE as the most reliable account of the whole affair. The edition was limited to 570 numbered sets, designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by Rudge. However, as the bleaker years of the depression kicked in, many subscribers dropped by the wayside, and some of the stock of the later volumes suffered mishap. This set includes the separately published, but uniform TOUR OF THE HEBRIDES (1936, limited to 790 copies) and INDEX TO THE PRIVATE PAPERS (1937, limited to 1250 copies). A work less and less easily acquired in recent years.
(Item ID: WRCLIT47000) $6,500.00