Author: BOSWELL, James
Title: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.
Description: Philadelphia, John F. Watson, 1810. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvi, 414pp. Very good overall. Rebind is pristine and fresh, while text block is moderately age toned and foxed sporadically throughout, with bit of old dampstain to preliminary leaves. First American edition of this travelogue originally published in London in 1785 -- here "From the London Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Author." Two versions of the first edition were published in 1810 and since both (the other being New York/Boston, Inskeep and Bradford) were printed by R. & W. Carr of Philadelphia and differ only in title page, it's arguable that Philly publisher Watson's copies hit the bookshops sooner than those shipped to New York and Boston -- not a certain precedence, though, so either imprint are considered first editions. Interestingly, remounted to the front pastedown is the late 19th century "Library of the Young Men's Christian Association" bookplate of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- which explains the printed "Bequest of the / Hon. Simon Cameron" label above this, for when Lincoln's Secretary of War and Pennsylvania senator died in 1877 he was buried in Harrisburg and apparently his books were bequested to the local YMCA. Though rebound, a decent and quite handleable first with an intriguing provenance. SHAW AND SHOEMAKER 19607. .
Keywords: British Literature Travel & Exploration
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Title: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.
Description: Philadelphia, John F. Watson, 1810. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvi, 414pp. Very good overall. Rebind is pristine and fresh, while text block is moderately age toned and foxed sporadically throughout, with bit of old dampstain to preliminary leaves. First American edition of this travelogue originally published in London in 1785 -- here "From the London Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Author." Two versions of the first edition were published in 1810 and since both (the other being New York/Boston, Inskeep and Bradford) were printed by R. & W. Carr of Philadelphia and differ only in title page, it's arguable that Philly publisher Watson's copies hit the bookshops sooner than those shipped to New York and Boston -- not a certain precedence, though, so either imprint are considered first editions. Interestingly, remounted to the front pastedown is the late 19th century "Library of the Young Men's Christian Association" bookplate of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- which explains the printed "Bequest of the / Hon. Simon Cameron" label above this, for when Lincoln's Secretary of War and Pennsylvania senator died in 1877 he was buried in Harrisburg and apparently his books were bequested to the local YMCA. Though rebound, a decent and quite handleable first with an intriguing provenance. SHAW AND SHOEMAKER 19607. .
Keywords: British Literature Travel & Exploration
Price: US$ 500.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 49751
- Book number: 49751
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