1928 The Hypochondriack Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated Biographer, James Boswell, Appearing in the London Magazine, From November, 1777, to August, 1783, and Here First Reprinted.

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

In the publisher's original dark cloth binding, house in the original slipcase.

These volumes are first editions. 

Both volumes are illustrated with four monochrome plates, including a frontispiece. The frontispiece to volume II is fully disbound, but present. Collated, complete. 

These volumes collect seventy essays originally published in The London Magazine from November 1777 to August 1783, in which Boswell used "The Hypochondriack" persona to write on themes ranging from personal reflection to social commentary. This is the first time these essays were gathered and reprinted in book form.

James Boswell (1740–1795) was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author best known for his monumental biography The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), often considered the greatest biography in English literature.