num_pages: 560
description: The original manuscript of James Boswell`s Life of Johnson-a composite of his basic draft and innumerable revisions-served as printer`s copy despite its maze-like appearance. This book is the first of four volumes to be devoted to that original manuscript, an edition that will make this complex document accessible for the first time. The specially designed text, supplemented by textual and explanatory notes, enables the reader to trace all the substantive changes Boswell made in the process of composition.
language: English
title: James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 1: 1709-1765
titlecomplete: James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 1: 1709-1765 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers Jame)
characters: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
genres: Biography, Classics, English Literature, History, 18th Century, British Literature, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature
ratings_count: 5170
publisher: Yale University Press