Boswell's Life

"Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both."

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

In this section

Photograph James Boswell. Letter to Samuel Johnson. March 3, 1772. Manuscript.

James Boswell. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: Charles Dilly, 1785. Photograph
       
Photograph James Boswell. Notes on the life of Johnson. 1776-1777. Manuscript.

James Heath, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Portrait of Samuel Johnson, 1st and 2nd states. 1791. Engravings. Photograph
       
Photograph James Boswell. Cancel leaf from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: Charles Dilly, 1791. James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: C. Dilly, 1791. John Wilkes’s copy. Photograph
       
Photograph James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: John Murray, 1831.

 Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976). Title page illustration for Everybody’s Boswell. 1930. Ink on board. Photograph
       
Photograph James Boswell. Book of Company at Auchinleck Since the Succession of James Boswell, Esq. in 1782. James Boswell. Diary, February 6, 1785. Manuscript.


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