BOSWELL, James. [The Private Papers], edited by Frederick A. Pottle and others, London: William Heinemann, 1951-60, 6 volumes, large 8°, Yale editions, limited to between 350 and 1,050 copies in the de luxe issue, plates, original quarter vellum with morocco labels (upper cover of the first vol. bumped, label to the same vol. a little stained), t.e.g., others uncut. With volumes II-IX of the Yale edition of Johnson's Works (New Haven and London, 1963-71), The Letters of Samuel Johnson edited by R. W. Chapman (3 vols., Oxford, 1952) and Letters of James Boswell edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker (2 vols., Oxford, 1924). (19)

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BOSWELL, James. [The Private Papers], edited by Frederick A. Pottle and others, London: William Heinemann, 1951-60, 6 volumes, large 8°, Yale editions, limited to between 350 and 1,050 copies in the de luxe issue, plates, original quarter vellum with morocco labels (upper cover of the first vol. bumped, label to the same vol. a little stained), t.e.g., others uncut. With volumes II-IX of the Yale edition of Johnson's Works (New Haven and London, 1963-71), The Letters of Samuel Johnson edited by R. W. Chapman (3 vols., Oxford, 1952) and Letters of James Boswell edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker (2 vols., Oxford, 1924). (19)

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The titles in the Yale Boswell series are Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (1951), Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (1952), Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764 (1953), Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica and France 1765-1766 (1955), Boswell in Search of a Wife (1957), Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774 (1960).

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