Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (The Folio Society)

London: The Folio Society, 1985. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 0x0x0. 2006 second Folio Society edition (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1302). Includes publisher's slipcase. Minimal wear to corners, embossed owner stamp on title page. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1985 Hard Cover. xiv, 365 pp. Edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle, foreword by Stella Tillyard, color frontispiece and several sections of color and black-and-white plates reproducing various historical illustrations (21 plates total, comprising 34 illustrations). "James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. Boswell is also known for the detailed and frank journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered until the 1920s. These included voluminous notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young man and, subsequently, of his tour of Scotland with Johnson. His journals also record meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to The Club, including Lord Monboddo, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. His written works focus chiefly on others, but he was admitted as a good companion and accomplished conversationalist in his own right.