Author: James Boswell, Esq.
Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D
Description: London , Macmillan and Co, 1900. Fine Binding. "The most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature", the biography of Samuel Johnson by his contemporary Boswell. In three volumes complete. With a bibliographical note to front with a copy of the title of the original quarto edition, a dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds and advertisment to the first edition. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740 - 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which contemporary Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language. Bound by Bickers and Son, with binder's stamp to verso of front free endpaper. Handsomely bound in calf. Externally, smart but with minor wear to extremities and slight marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and generally clean throughout but with slight foxing to endpapers and with the odd slight closed tear. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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