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James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769
by Pottle, Frederick A
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0070505780
- ISBN 13
- 9780070505780
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New York, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1984. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing of 1984 Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. James Boswell is most known as the renowned biographer of Samuel Johnson and the greatest diarist in the English language, but Professor Pottle's portrait shows him to be much underestimated. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, Boswell's own writings, and many other sources, he presents Boswell as a brilliant, complex, human and endearing man, also as shrewd, vain, foolish and disarmingly honest, warm and charming, a man you can feel you know today. Dr. Pottle is the leading authority on James Boswell. The book is bound in navy half cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on spine, blue boards. Very clean and unmarked, no edgewear, tight, solid, and square. Internals as new. Jacket is clean, bright, no edgewear, lightly rubbed. 606 pages Including Chapter Notes; Appendix: Boswell's Conversion to Roman Catholicism; Index. 9.6 x 1.8 x 6.75 inches, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, USA
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- Title
- James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769
- Author
- Pottle, Frederick A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0070505780
- ISBN 13
- 9780070505780
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- BOSWELL, JAMES, 1740-1795 AUTHORS, SCOTTISH, 18TH CENTURY SCOTLAND LONDON JOHNSON, SAMUEL ZUYLEN, BELLE DE WALPOLE, HORACE VOLTAIRE ROUSSEAU TEMPLE, REV. WILLIAM MOUNTSTUART MARISCHAL, GEORGE
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- Biography. Autobiography;
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