Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer Based Largely on New Material

266 pp. Brown boards with gilt title on spine and front board, top edge gilt, deckled edges. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. James Boswell, (born October 18 [October 29, New Style], 1740, Edinburgh, Scotland—died May 19, 1795, London, England), friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson (Life of Johnson, 2 vol., 1791). The 20th-century publication of his journals proved him to be also one of the world’s greatest diarists. - Britannica