Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774 (The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell)

xxxii, 424 pp. 8vo. Map of London on endpapers, fold-out map of Edinburgh precedes text, frontispiece and five plates. An account of the legal career of James Boswell, most well-known for his exhaustive biography of Samuel Johnson. This volume focuses mainly on Boswell's defense of a man accused of stealing sheep (a hanging offense in 18th century Scotland), a charge against which Boswell vehemently argued.