An edition of Everybody's Boswell (1798)

Everybody's Boswell

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Everybody's Boswell
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An edition of Everybody's Boswell (1798)

Everybody's Boswell

New Ed edition

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Boswell draws on his journals to create an affectionate portrait of the great lexicographer.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Language
English
Pages
688

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Subjects

Biography, Critics, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, English Authors, Intellectual life, Intellectuals, Interviews, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Lexicographers, Travel

People

Johnson, samuel (1709-1784), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Places

England, Great Britain, Hebrides (Scotland), North Wales, Scotland

Times

18th century

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Cover of: Everybody's Boswell
Everybody's Boswell
November 6, 1989, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Hardcover in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Everybody's Boswell
Everybody's Boswell: being The life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text
1930, Harcourt, Brace & company
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: Everybody's Boswell
Everybody's Boswell: being The life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete text, and from the "Tour to the Hebrides".
1930, G. Bell and Sons
in English
Cover of: Johnson's table talk
Johnson's table talk: a selection of his main topics and opinions taken from Boswell's Life and arranged by W.A. Lewis Bettany.
1904, Blackie
in English
Cover of: The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
1819, R Edwards
in English

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Hardcover
Number of pages
688

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL11961625M
ISBN 10
1853269417
ISBN 13
9781853269417
LibraryThing
126105
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7334952

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OL2487850W

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A Publisher's Note on This Edition

BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON belongs so obviously on the list of Modern Library books that the editors have cast about for a long time for a plan whereby its inclusion could be made possible. The text was much too long for the usual Modern Library format. An unabridged edition was unthinkable, and a two volume edition was entirely against the Modern Library's policy.

The editors feel that this new Modern Library format is an ideal solution to the problem. From time to time, other famous books hitherto available only in two or three expensive volumes, will be published in the same manner.
Page iv, added by Susan Vaughn.

Published in 1931 during the Great Depression, The Life of Samuel Johnson's editors were surely very concerned about affordability. I am curious as to whether this venture was a success and whether it influenced their future publishing decisions.

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