The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.; (13 volumes, a complete set of the Journals). Edited by Frederick A. Pottle, Frederick Brady, Charles Bennett, William K. Wimsatt, Charles Ryskamp, Joseph W. Reed, Irma S. Lustig, Marlies K. Danziger, and Frank Brady.].
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., (c1950-1989). First American edition, as edited for this series, of all volumes. 8vo. 13 volumes: (1) Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763, now first published from the original manuscript (1950, 370 pp.); (2) Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen (1952, 433 pp.); (3) Boswell on the Grand Tour, Germany and Switzerland, 1764 (1953, 357 pp.); (4) Boswell on the Grand Tour, Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766 (1955, 356 pp.); (5) Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766-1769 (1956, 390 pp.); (6) Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D, 1773 (1961, 520 pp.); (7) Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774 (1959, 396 pp.); (8) Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774-1776 (1963, 427 pp.); (9) Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 (1970, 418 pp.); (10) Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782 (1977, 570 pp.); (11) Boswell, the Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 (1981, 419 pp.); (12) Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785-1789 (1986, 332 pp.); (13) Boswell, the Great Biographer, 1789-1795 (1989, 371 pp.). Illustrated from old paintings, sculpture, portraits, artifacts, documents, and correspondence, plates, maps and plans, endpaper maps. Pottle edited the first 12 volumes, the first three by himself, the next nine with an associate from the list of editors above; the final volume was edited by Danziger and Frank Brady. Another volume, "Portraits, by Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ed. by Frederick W. Hiles, 1952), was issued as a part of the series, but is not present here. Gift inscription on the front endpaper of "Applause," two volumes with bookplates on the front pastedown, otherwise all very good to fine. All cloth and boards, color pictorial dust jackets (a little edgewear to several volumes, two price-clipped, several with small prices in ink). (9734). Item #62874
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