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Garden City, NY: Literary Guild of America Inc, Nov 1936. 1st Ed. Hardbound. 8vo. 61 Pgs.. Nr Fine. Boswells' Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell. Published by Literary Guild of America Inc, Garden City, NY, Nov 1936. 1st Edition. Hardbound. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine. 435 Pgs. Now First Published from the Original Manuscript. Prepared for the Press, with Preface and Notes by Frederick A Pottle and Charles H Bennett. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 8889.

Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1887. First Edition Edited by George Birkbeck Hill of the most famous biography in the English language. "The definitive edition with copious annotations and a model index." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) “This has so long held the field as the one edition for scholarly use that it is most unlikely it will every be superseded…’Hill’s] purpose was…to surround Boswell’s book with as rich a mass of illustrative comment concerning ‘the literature and literary men in Great Britain’ during the latter half of the eighteenth century as he could find reasonable connexion for in the allusions of the text…[His] references to parallel passages in Johnson’s own works constitute one of the most valuable features of the edition, as the index to the Life serves in some measure as a concordance to the Works. The mass of pertinent illustrative material from other books shows Hill to have been easily the best-read of all the editors… Read More