Boswell, J and Napier, A (ed)Biblio.com
James BoswellBiblio.com
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson LL.D.
1936883P5New York; London: The Viking Press; William Heinemann LTD 1936. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". None. A limited edition copy of James Boswell's important journal recounting his 1773 tour with his friend Samuel Johnson. A limited edition limited to seven hundred and ninety copies of which this is numbered three-hundred and fourteen.Without the original slipcase.Illustrated with one folding map and four plates. Collated all illustrations are present.'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' is an important early travel journal by James Boswell recounting his travels with his friend Samuel Johnson who was then in his mid-sixties. Boswell encouraged Johnson on this tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland setting out from Edinburgh in 1773. This work was penned from the diary that Boswell kept during the tour and was published after Johnson's death in 1784.Boswell and Johnson met in 1763 when Johnson was fifty-four and they became fast friends. Their friendship resulted in the influential biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'.This limited edition was edited with a preface and notes by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennet. In the original publisher' quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally smart. Spine is a little faded. Minor bumping to the extremities. A small amount of loss to the top edge of the front board. A few light marks and rubbing to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good The Viking Press; William Heinemann, LTD hardcover
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