The life of Samuel Johnson. LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great BritainÉ The third edition, revised and augmented, in four volumes
by BOSWELL, JAMES
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London: printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly, 1799. First Malone edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 452; [2], 490; [2], 475; [2], 514; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds, folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting, folding engraved Round Robin plate; labels gone on all but the last volume, but generally a very good, sound copy in contemporary full calf. The second edition was something of a botched effort by Boswell and the result was a book "painfully at variance with his own standards of ordered arrangement," although much new important material was added. It was left to Malone to "shake together" Boswell's second, and the third "is now generally regarded as the definitive edition" (Pottle). Pottle 82.
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- The life of Samuel Johnson. LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great BritainÉ The third edition, revised and augmented, in four volumes
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- BOSWELL, JAMES
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- printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly
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- London
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- 1799
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