Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763 — James Boswell

Author: James Boswell

Publisher: Penguin Books

Format: Paperback

Edition: Penguin Books edition, 1966. Edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle. Cover design by David Jesson and Peter Butler, with illustration by Alan Aldridge.

ISBN: No ISBN 

Condition: Second-hand copy with visible rubbing, creasing, edge wear, light corner wear, marks to the cover, and general age-related handling wear. There is a small old price sticker on the front cover and another sticker mark on the back cover. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763 records James Boswell’s early months in London as a young man entering eighteenth-century society. Frank, lively, and often revealing, the journal captures Boswell’s encounters, ambitions, anxieties, social life, and observations before his later fame as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. This Penguin edition presents the journal edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle.