The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Subtitle: 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 ...
By: by James Boswell ... ; in four volumes
Edition: The eighth edition, revised and augmented.
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand
Published: 1816
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English Authors; Biography
Work titles: Life of Samuel Johnson
Notes: Page for page reprint of the 6th ed. (1811), edited by Edmond Malone. Cf. Pottle.

"C. Baldwin, printer"--Printer's colophon.

Engraved frontispiece by W.T. Fry after Sir Joshua Reynolds; facsimiles engraved by H. Shepherd.

Errata: v. 1, p. [xxviii].

"A chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.": v.1, p. [xxix]-xxxvii.

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Pottle, F.A. Boswell, 88

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-JBL29.

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-JBL26.

From the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

"This copy belonged to ... 'Diamond' Martin"--Ms. note on flyleaf to v. 1.

Bookplates of John Naylor and John Denham Austin; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Bound in full contemporary tan calf (rebacked), stamped in blind and gilt, edges marbled

Imperfect: half-titles wanting.

Bound in contemporary full burgundy morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, edges gilt; extra-illustrated copy, with engraved portraits of Boswell, Johnson, and their contemporaries, as well as other illustrations, inserted.