Item #25409 The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. together with A journal of a tour to the Hebrides … a reprint of the first edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and additions, issued in 1791; the variations of the second edition, with some of the author's notes prepared for the third; the whole edited, with new notes, by Percy Fitzgerald … Second edition with a preface by the editor, and a Boswell bibliography by H. R. Tedder, librarian to the Athenaeum Club. JAMES BOSWELL.
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. together with A journal of a tour to the Hebrides … a reprint of the first edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and additions, issued in 1791; the variations of the second edition, with some of the author's notes prepared for the third; the whole edited, with new notes, by Percy Fitzgerald … Second edition with a preface by the editor, and a Boswell bibliography by H. R. Tedder, librarian to the Athenaeum Club.

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. together with A journal of a tour to the Hebrides … a reprint of the first edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and additions, issued in 1791; the variations of the second edition, with some of the author's notes prepared for the third; the whole edited, with new notes, by Percy Fitzgerald … Second edition with a preface by the editor, and a Boswell bibliography by H. R. Tedder, librarian to the Athenaeum Club.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888. 3 vols., 8vo, frontispiece portrait, facsimile of the 1791 title-p.; very good, bright set in orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines, t.e.g. See Pottle 95: "This edition represents the first scholarly reaction against the tradition of the 'edited' Boswell … Fitzgerald maintained that … Boswell's work should not be regarded as miscellaneous encyclopaedia of Johnsoniana, but as an artistic whole." Item #25409

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