[Rarebooks] FS Boswell Notebook: RBA Reproduction

David Klappholz d.klappholz at worldnet.att.net
Sun Oct 17 16:23:08 EDT 2004


Boswell, James [Robert Borthwick Adam] [A. Edward Newton], no title 
[reproduction of Boswell's notebook, from the years 1776-1777, when he was 
traveling with Samuel Johnson], n.p., n.d.[1919], small 8vo, in tan card 
wraps.  Covers rubbed;  overall VG-.  One of 50 copies, this one unnumbered.

This is a  keepsake issued by Robert Borthwick Adam, whose Johnson 
collection was later bought by Donald and Mary Hyde, and which, with the 
Hydes' additions, has just gone to the Houghton Library at Harvard.with an 
introduction by A. Edward Newton.
$300 ppd media mail within the US

Another copy, this one with covers detached, but present, and inscribed by 
Adam to Edgar Munson;  detached covers g+;  text block VG.
$200 ppd media mail within the US

David Klappholz
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