James Boswell and His World

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 7.25" wide by 9.5" tall. Very Good condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Well illustrated with 99 old prints, portraits, document and manuscript facsimiles, etc. Chronology. Bibliographical note. List of Illustrations. Index. First printing, with complete row (with 1 present) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "He was an extraordinary bundle of paradoxes, and perhaps it is this that makes him so perennially interesting. Loving husband and father, dissipated whore chaser; conscientious lawyer, drunken buffoon; writer of tedious doggerel, and of one of the finest biographies in the English-language: what is one to make a man like this? His copious journals illuminate the paradox, showing us the narcissistic dreamer of glory (Guards officer? politician? fashionable wit?) and the extrovert diarist whose relentless human curiosity drove him on to observe and record, with flashes of insight and vivid descriptive touches, the people he met and the life they lived." Keywords: Life of Samuel Johnson. Temple Bar. David Garrick. Lord Auchinleck. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's brown cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (8.95). 128pp.. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.