BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson . London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. 4 o (297 x 235 mm). 42 pp. Stabbed and sewn in original plain blue-gray paper wrappers, ENTIRELY UNCUT AND UNOPENED, modern brown cloth slipcase, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance : James Boswell (1740-1795), manuscript corrections (see note below); Lady Joyce Gunning Kerr Talbot de Malahide (wife of 6th Lord Talbot, James Boswell Talbot de Malahide; with a TLS from the attorney for Lady Talbot, 7 June 1951, forwarding this copy "with the understanding that both of these are gifts" to:); Robert Heyward Isham (gift in 1955 to his son:); Jonathan Isham (Buchanan, pp. 342-4, itemizing items retained by R.H. Isham and his sons). FIRST EDITION, A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY WITH 10 CORRECTIONS APPARENTLY IN BOSWELL'S HAND, IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. The great mass of papers kept by Boswell were, for more than a century, believed to have been lost or destroyed. In 1925, however, it became known that most were still in the possession of Boswell's descendants, having been moved from Auchinleck to Malahide Castle in the early twentieth century. There was no single moment of discovery, or careful detection from the outside; rather the Talbot family, descendants of Boswell, began to quietly publicize the existence of the cache. Over the next decade the archive was acquired by the American collector Robert Heyward Isham, resulting in publication of the monumental Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt.-Col. Ralph Heyward Isham (1928-1934). The attorney, forwarding the book to Isham, explains that, "Naturally, it has at no time been contemplated that printed matter was included in the purchase of the material contained in Malahide Castle." This book was Boswell's last publication and was issued simultaneously with the second edition of the Life . The present copy also contains 10 manuscript changes in ink, 8 correcting page numbers and 2 correcting single-letter typographical errors. David Buchanan, The Treasure of Auchinleck , 1974 pp.342-344; Pottle 113; Rothschild 466.
BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson . London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. 4 o (297 x 235 mm). 42 pp. Stabbed and sewn in original plain blue-gray paper wrappers, ENTIRELY UNCUT AND UNOPENED, modern brown cloth slipcase, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance : James Boswell (1740-1795), manuscript corrections (see note below); Lady Joyce Gunning Kerr Talbot de Malahide (wife of 6th Lord Talbot, James Boswell Talbot de Malahide; with a TLS from the attorney for Lady Talbot, 7 June 1951, forwarding this copy "with the understanding that both of these are gifts" to:); Robert Heyward Isham (gift in 1955 to his son:); Jonathan Isham (Buchanan, pp. 342-4, itemizing items retained by R.H. Isham and his sons). FIRST EDITION, A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY WITH 10 CORRECTIONS APPARENTLY IN BOSWELL'S HAND, IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. The great mass of papers kept by Boswell were, for more than a century, believed to have been lost or destroyed. In 1925, however, it became known that most were still in the possession of Boswell's descendants, having been moved from Auchinleck to Malahide Castle in the early twentieth century. There was no single moment of discovery, or careful detection from the outside; rather the Talbot family, descendants of Boswell, began to quietly publicize the existence of the cache. Over the next decade the archive was acquired by the American collector Robert Heyward Isham, resulting in publication of the monumental Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt.-Col. Ralph Heyward Isham (1928-1934). The attorney, forwarding the book to Isham, explains that, "Naturally, it has at no time been contemplated that printed matter was included in the purchase of the material contained in Malahide Castle." This book was Boswell's last publication and was issued simultaneously with the second edition of the Life . The present copy also contains 10 manuscript changes in ink, 8 correcting page numbers and 2 correcting single-letter typographical errors. David Buchanan, The Treasure of Auchinleck , 1974 pp.342-344; Pottle 113; Rothschild 466.
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