BOSWELL, James | Foulis, Robert | Foulis, Andrew | Account of Corsica, An Boswellís Account of CorsicaBOSWELL, James. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica. Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768.First edition. In this copy, the table of contents (b2) follows the Preface (a1-b1); D2 recto is in Rothschildís first state, with the words ìJohn Homeî incorrectly placed following the first quotation on p. 51; E2 is a cancellans, with lines 11 and 12 on p. 69 reading: ìenjoying the noble fief of/Istriaî (not recorded by Rothschild); Z3 is a cancellans, with ìMarianaî corrected to ìMarianiî on p. 357. The map is in the second state, as per Rothschild, with the imprint, and is bound between the half-title and title. In addition, this copy has the following misprints recorded by Pottle: ì141î for ì241î in the table of contents (corrected in this copy by over-stamping); broken ìEî in ìEtruscansî on p. 70, line 17 (with the lower bar showing faintly); ìfeelirgî on p. 137, line 11; ìtha theî on p. 172, line 9; ìMontgomerÿî on p. 184, line 4; ìspeculati-ionsî on p. 327, lines 9-10. Pages 93 and 296 are correctly printed. Octavo (8 1/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm.). xxi, [1, blank], [1, table of contents], [1, blank], 382 pp. Bound without the final blank leaf (Aa8). Large folding engraved frontispiece map of Corsica by Thomas Phinn. Engraved coat-of-arms on title-page. Contemporary sheep. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. Board edges decoratively tooled in gilt. Binding rubbed and worn, head and tail of spine chipped, front joint starting. Tiny tear to upper blank margin of M1 (pp. 177/178). Short tear to map, just affecting one letter. Front pastedown with early ink signature (partially erased), pencil signature of D. Cecil Gibbs, armorial bookplate of Thomas Havers (with his name crossed out in pencil), pencilled note: ìJ. Josephís copy,î and pencilled booksellerís note. Pencilled annotations at foot of p. 71 and 72.ìThe first edition was sold out within six weeks, and a new edition (also of 3500 copies) was advertised for 1 April 1768ÖThis second edition supplied the public demand for a year. The third edition was advertised for 1 May 1769, with the announcement that ëMr. Boswellís Account of Corsica has been so well received by the Public that two numerous Editions of 3500 Copies have been sold within the Space of a few Months; and the Book is so highly esteemed abroad that it has been translated into the French and Dutch languages, and printed at Amsterdam and LausanneíÖAs Boswell proudly recorded laterÖit was ëtranslated into Dutch, German Italian, and twice into Frenchíóall within a year of its publication. Besides this, there were, as listed above, at least three editions printed in Ireland. The Account of Corsica was a book of the hour. Many more copies of its were sold in Boswellís lifetime than of either of his great works in the biography of Johnson, and it achieved abroad a much more remarkable successî (Pottle, p. 62).Cox I, pp. 138-139. Gaskell 473. Lowndes I, p. 242. Pottle 24. Rothschild 442-445. 1768 first edition Price: USD 2,000.00 other currencies   order no. 00044    inquire

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