Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, Antique Circa 1848 Book

Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell printed in London circa 1848.

Up for sale is this antique edition of The Life of Samuel Johnson . This book is about 8 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches and 1 1/2 inches thick. Book is sold in as found condition. The cover and spine has some tearing/wear (please see photos.)

Book Description:
"Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.

Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.

The result is a masterpiece that brims over with wit, anecdote and originality. Hailed by Macaulay as the best biography ever written and by Carlyle as a book 'beyond any other product of the eighteenth century', The Life of Samuel Johnson today continues to enjoy its status as a classic of the language."

-Goodreads

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