1981 Boswell: The Applause of the Jury 1782-1785

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

First edition. From the Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine images across eight plates. Collated complete. A unique collection of the journals of James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. This volume is part of a great mass of Boswell's diaries, letters, and private papers that were recovered and published by Yale University, ultimately transforming his reputation. Presenting the roles of Boswell's middle years, as a Scots laid, family man, advocate, political aspirant, and pamphleteer. Edited by Irma S. Lustig, an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature, and Frederick Albert Pottle, an American scholar noted as the foremost scholar of James Boswell.