Autograph letters of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. 1776, 1780.

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Autograph letters of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. 1776, 1780.

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Holograph letters by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, dating 1776 and 1780, bound with four engravings by various artists.

11, [3] p., bound : ill. ; 26 cm.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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James Boswell (1740-1795) was the author of one of the most influential biographies in the English language, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He also wrote two successful travel books: An Account of Corsica, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. He worked intermittently as a lawyer, and in 1782 succeeded his father as Laird of Auchinleck in Scotland. From the description of James Boswell letters, 1762-1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612839330 Boswell wa...

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. to Mrs Thrale.

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