London: Printed for Robert Jennings, 1816. xvi,226pp. Octavo. Contemporary dyed calf, rebacked in sympathetic style. Frontis and facsimile. Spine rather rubbed, some foxing and spotting, clipped description of the original ms. from R. Jennings' catalogue pasted to blank portion of half-title, front inner hinge rather crudely mended, still a largely.....
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [ 1965]. Gilt cloth. Map. Reprint. Selected and Edited by David Littlejohn. Top edge dust marked, fore-corner of free endsheet cut away, but a good, sound copy in spine darkened, price-clipped and frayed dust jacket.
London: Zodiac Books, 1948. 52,[4]pp. Decorated paper boards. Endpapers darkened, upper board and spine soiled, chip at toe of spine, else good. First edition in this format. Selected by John Hayward; a collection of Dr. Johnson's conversation, repartee, aphorisms, reflections and obita dicta from Boswell and others.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley ... and Sold by M. Cooper ... 1749. [8],86,[2]pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume. T.e.g., a few small smudges to half-title, otherwise a very good copy, with the advert leaf. First edition of Johnson's only play, published a dozen years after its completion as a......
London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [ 1973]. Gilt blue cloth. First edition. Edited by John Wain. Small sticker ghost on front pastedown, else about fine in price-clipped dust jacket. A volume in The Routledge Critics Series.
New York: Pantheon, [ 1964]. Gilt cloth. Edited by E.L. McAdam, Jr., and George Milne. First edition of this selection. Very good in dust jacket.
New York: Pantheon Books, [ 1964]. Gilt cloth and patterned paper over boards. First edition of this selection, edited by E.L. McAdam, Jr. and George Milne. Top edge dusty, light shelf wear, else very good in soiled and edgeworn dust jacket.
[ Oxford: Printed for Pembroke College, 1974]. Fourteen pamphlets, plus [4]pp. leaflet of explanatory text. 12mo to small quarto. Sewn plain and marbled wrappers. Each pamphlet in plastic sleeve, the collection in publisher's gilt synthetic cloth slipcase. Fine. First edition of this collection of photographic facsimiles of Johnson's manuscript prayer.....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892. Two volumes. Large octavos. Gilt cloth. Folding facsimile. First edition. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Spine ends nicked and somewhat frayed, small snag in spine of vol. one, extreme fore-tips rubbed, covers marked, but a good, sound, and internally nice set of the first.....
London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788. Two volumes. xvi,397 [390/1 duplicated],[1]; xi,[1],423,[1]pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Old calf, rebacked in approximate style. Armorial bookplate in each volume, scattered foxing, somewhat more pronounced to prelims and terminal leaves, old tide mark in upper gutter of prelims and endleaves of.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Edited by Bruce Redford. As new in dust jacket.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Edited by Bruce Redford. About fine in dust jacket.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Edited by Bruce Redford. As new in dust jacket.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst [et al], 1781. Four volumes. Contemporary calf, gilt labels, spines gilt extra. Portrait in first volume. Joints cracked, four boards and a couple of endsheets detached, chipping at head and toe of spines, but textually a very good set, with the bookplates of Willis Vickery.....
London: Printed for W. Osborne and T. Griffin, 1785. viii,152pp. Small octavo. Contemporary calf. Early ink name partially effaced from half-title, upper joint cracking, but sound, a good copy. "New edition," based on the text of the 2nd issue of Kearsley's edition of the same year, with corrections.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. Edited by Donald J. Greene. First edition of Volume X in the Yale Edition of the Works. Spine ends lightly bumped, a few stray marks on edges, but a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket.
Oxford: University Press, 1930. Folio. Marbled wrappers, paper label. Collotype facsimile. One of 300 copies. A few nicks, and split at toe of spine, else very good.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Thick octavo. Gilt cloth boards. First edition, U.S. issue, bound up from British sheets, with a cancel title-leaf. Edited by Mona Wilson. Very good, or better, in price- clipped Reynolds Stone dust jacket. Issued in The Reynard Library.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1749. 28pp. Quarto. Modern three quarter black morocco, lettered in gilt. Carefully calligraphed early ownership signature on title leaf ("John Costman"), early acquisition inscription at base of title, some minor foxing along the top edge, and faint old floral offset to gutters of first two.....
Boston: Godine, 1970. Printed wrappers. Wood engraving by Lance Hidy. First edition thus. One of three thousand copies. Fine.
London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810-11. Fourteen volumes. Large octavo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt extra, gilt labels (one absent). Portrait in first volume. Scattered foxing, slight darkening at edges, a bit of wear to a few extremities, a few hinges cracking slightly (but perfectly sound), and tiny.....
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1744. [2],184,179-180pp. Octavo. 20th century three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Bookplate on pastedown, spine slightly sunned and rubbed, bound without the half-title and advert leaf (the latter as almost inevitable), old light ink smudge to title, tiny mend to original stabhole in.....
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1770. 53,[1]pp. Full early 20th century mottled calf, gilt label, half-title bound in. Half-title a bit dust soiled, with very early ink name and attribution of authorship, and a slightly later small ownership stamp, joints slightly rubbed, otherwise a very nice copy, with the bookplate.....
London: John Murray, 1837. Not paginated. 24 plates and facsimiles, with accompanying leaves of descriptive text. Large octavo. Decently bound in olive green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., some occasional foxing, offsetting from occasional once laid-in relevant clippings (now preserved separately), bookplate of a noted collector. A good.....
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. [2],384pp. (errata bound after title). Octavo. Modern linen over boards, gilt leather label. Scattered foxing and light soiling, small spot of natural thinning at fore-edge of title-leaf, else a good, serviceable copy. With the six-line errata, and hence properly the second.....
