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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides... by Boswell, James; John Wilson Croker, editor.

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Title
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides...
Author
Boswell, James; John Wilson Croker, editor.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Description
London: John Murray, 1831. 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.
LITTLE DEGCHIE-HEAD

LITTLE DEGCHIE-HEAD by [Bannerman, Helen]

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LITTLE DEGCHIE-HEAD
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[Bannerman, Helen]
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Sumner & Stillman (United States)
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1903. An Awful Warning to Bad Babas. By the Author of "Little Black Mingo" and "Little Black Quibba." London: James Nisbet & Co., 1903. Original light olive cloth illustrated in black and printed in red. First Edition of the most unusual, and one of the least-known, of Helen Bannerman's eight small-format books for children. Five of the eight were about "black" children (though they were really about native Tamils in the region of southern India where Helen Bannerman lived) -- usually outwitting fierce animals that threatened them: LITTLE BLACK SAMBO (1899), LITTLE BLACK MINGO (1901), LITTLE BLACK QUIBBA (1902), LITTLE BLACK QUASHA (1908) and LITTLE BLACK BOBTAIL (1909). Her other three were this one, PAT AND THE SPIDER (1905) and THE TEASING MONKEY (1907). LITTLE DEGCHIE-HEAD (a "degchie" is a large handle-less pot frequently used in Indian cuisine) is about a little (white) girl named Mary who despite warnings from her mother, cannot resist poking at fires; one day she falls into the fire and literally loses her head. Domingo the cook finds her headless body and manages to affix a degchie onto her shoulders as a temporary head (with his artwork for eyes nose and mouth) -- after which Mary hides her head in shame. But on Christmas Eve, Old Father Christmas comes to visit, sees that she needs a new head, and leaves a beautiful doll's head, which, in the morning, Mary successfully glues onto her neck -- after which Mary would never go near a fire any more. As in all of the Bannerman books, the color illustrations (many of which are strange to say the least) are opposite the text, with the reverse side of both leaves blank. This is a near-fine copy, with scarcely any soil or wear (one light red dampmark on the fore-edge of the leaves).
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William Blake. Exhibition Catalogue by Blake, William

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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
Title
William Blake. Exhibition Catalogue
Author
Blake, William
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1947. London: Tate Gallery, 1947. 8vo, 40 pp, with 24 illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good, with slight wear and small marks to wrappers. ß Bentley, BB, 657A.
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NEW PENTECOST: VATICAN II: SESSION I by YZERMANS, Vincent A

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NEW PENTECOST: VATICAN II: SESSION I
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YZERMANS, Vincent A
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
WEST, NEWMAN, 1963. INTRO BY HANS KUNG FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F.