Boswell's London Journal, 1762-63 (Heritage) - Softcover

Boswell, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708821804 ISBN 13: 9780708821800

Publisher: Futura Publications, 1982

Synopsis

The complete reading/ trade edition of The Private Papers of James Boswellwith modern spelling and annotations, as issued separately between 1950 and 1989: Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 1950 , Boswell in Holland 1952 , Portraitsby Sir Joshua Reynolds 1952 , Boswell on the Grand Tour, Germany and Switzerland 1764 1953 , Boswell on the Grand Tour, Italy, Corsica and France, 1765-1766 1955 , Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766-1769 1957 , Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774 1960 , Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, 1773 1963 , Boswell, the Ominous Years, 1774-76 1963 , Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 1971 , Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782 1977 , Boswell, the Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 1982 , Boswell, the English Experiment, 1785-1789 1986 , and Boswell the Great Biographer, 1789-1795 1989 . Each volume illustrated with historical prints and manuscript facsimiles. Some wear and spotting to a few dust jackets, else a bright, clean set. The Yale Editions of James Boswell's autobiographical works is ...one of the most impressive and interesting monuments of its kind in the whole of English literature Peter Quennell, author of Samuel Johnson, His Friends and Enemies .

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book."-Peter Ackroyd, from the introduction; Praise for the earlier edition: "The journal is admirably edited and annotated."-W. H. Auden, New Yorker

About the Author

The late Frederick Pottle, Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University, was editor, bibliographer, and biographer of James Boswell. Peter Ackroyd is the author of London: The Biography, The Life of Thomas More, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and many other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Futura Publications
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708821804
• ISBN 13: 9780708821800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416