Author: BOSWELL, JAMES; POTTLE, FREDERICK A. (EDITOR)
Title: Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
Description: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1950. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition. A diary kept by James Boswell in which the 22-year-old Scotsman recorded events over a period of 9 months during his visit to London. Though written in the 18th Century, the journal wasn't published until this 1950 edition. An entry in the publisher's series "The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell." With maps of central London and the Thames waterfront at endpapers, and two additional plates with facsimiles of the journal's leaves. Edited, and with an introduction by Frederick A. Pottle. Preface by Christopher Morley. --- In light blue paper-covered boards backed in darker blue cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling; Boswell family crest to front cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With a small area of soiling to front cover, otherwise a tightly-bound, intact copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxix, 370 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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