Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763; 1950; 1st ed.; Yale Univ./McGraw-Hill

Description: Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763; James Boswell; 1950; First Edition; Yale Univ./McGraw-Hill Hard cover book with no dust jacket. Front cover board is loose but still firmly attached. Back board is more firmly attached. Worn around the spine, edges and especially corners. Spine and corners bumped. Cover faded with scuff marks. Binding tight but brittle mid-book. Gold imprinting on spine in VG condition. Outer page edges deckled. Top page edges dyed blue. Inside: No markings. Pages are clean but yellowed. Page edges also yellowed. Map of London on end pages. 6.5" x 9.5". 370 pages with index and B&W illustrations. In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell’s life and achievement.“Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book.”—Peter Ackroyd, from the introduction. “Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book.”—Peter Ackroyd, from the Introduction. Praise for the earlier "[The journal is] more perceptive and uninhibited and magically alive than one could have hoped. . . . Boswell transforms the most trifling occurrences into adventures, and imparts to the reader his own surpassing lust for experience and his keen sense of the fascination of life."—Austin Wright, Virginia Quarterly Review "The journal is admirably edited and annotated.”—W. H. Auden, New Yorker The late Frederick Pottle, Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University, was editor, bibliographer, and biographer of James Boswell. Peter Ackroyd is the author of The Biography, The Life of Thomas More, The Origins of the English Imagination, and many other books.

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