The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol III

Condition: Includes slipcover in good condition. Boards in excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean, original owners name written inside front cover. Description: Marginal comments by Mrs. Piozzi. often considered to be one of the finest pieces of biographical writing in the English language. Samuel Johnson was an English poet, essayist, and lexicographer who produced a pioneering and influential Dictionary of the English Language. However, he is less well-known today for his writings than as the biographical subject for Boswell, a lawyer from Scotland who first met Johnson in 1763. During their 21-year friendship, Boswell recorded many of Johnson’s sayings and activities using a self-invented form of shorthand. He eventually worked these notes into the massive biography which he published seven years after Johnson’s death.