1775 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Description

Leather Binding

An unauthorised Dublin edition of this work, published in the same year as the first London edition, in a half calf binding.

ESTC citation number T147766.

Complete as two volumes bound in one. Each volume has its own title page. Error in pagination to Volume II, with the second page of text numbered page 26, and numbered page 121 misnumbered 289. The pagination then continues from 289 to 384; however, the text is continuous. Collated, complete.

Ink inscriptions to the title page, the verso of the title page and page 1. 

Samuel Johnson's vivid account of his 1773 expedition to Scotland with his friend James Boswell, an important early travel work.

Boswell encouraged Johnson on this tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland, setting out from Edinburgh in 1773. They travelled for 83 days from the late summer to autumn and saw the wildness of the Highlands.

Boswell and Johnson met in 1763 when Johnson was fifty-four, and they became fast friends. Their friendship resulted in the influential biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'. Boswell later published his own account of this trip in 1785.