The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D
First Edition (1791 Baldwin for Charles Dilly, London)
- 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £4250
First Edition (1791 Dilly)
- later issue
First Dublin Edition (1792 R Cross, Dublin)
- 3 vols
Second Edition (1793 Charles Dilly)
- 3 vols
Offered for £595 in 1998
Third (Edited by Edmond Malone)
Edition (Dilly 1799)
- 4 vols
Fourth (Malone)
Edition (1804 T Cadell & W Davies)
- 4 vols
Fifth (Malone)
Edition (1807 Cadell & Davies)
- 4 vols
First American Edition (1807 W Andrews, Boston)
- 3 vols
Sixth (Malone)
Edition (1811 Cadell & Davies)
- 4 vols
(1826 Talboys & Wheeler & Wm Pickering)
- 4 vols
Eleventh (Edited by J W Croker)
Edition (1831 John Murray £3)
- 5 vols
Twelfth (Croker)
Edition (1835 Murray)
- 10 vols
Offered in 1998 for £560
Fitzgerald Edition (Edited by Percy Fitzgerald)
(1874 Bickers)
- 3 vols
Napier Edition (Edited by Alexander Napier)
(1884 Bell)
- 5 vols
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1884 George Bell)
- 6 vols
Joshua Reynolds Edition (Edited by Henry Morley)
(1885 Routledge)
- 5 vols. Sir Joshua Reynolds
1st Birkbeck Hill edition (1887 Clarendon Press)
- 6 vols
Herbert Railton Edition (Edited by Arnold Glover)
(1901 Dent)
- 7 vols. Herbert Railton
Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed by Austine Birrell)
(1901 Westminster)
- 6 vols
Everyman's Library Edition (1906 Dent)
- 2 vols
Bicentenary Edition of Pitman's Extra Illustrated Boswell's Johnson (1909 Pitman)
Temple Bar Edition (Edited by Clement Shorter)
(1922 Gabriel Wells / Doubleday Page US)
- 785. 10 vols
(1924 PP for the Navarre Society, London)
- 3 vols
Birkbeck Hill / Powell Edition (Edited by George Birkbeck Hill)
(1934-50 Clarendon Press)
- 6 vols
(1938 Ltd Eds Club, London at the Curwen Press)
- 1500. 3 vols
(1963 Heritage Press, NY)
- 3 vols
(1968
Folio Society)
- 2 vols
Chapman Edition (Edited by R W Chapman)
(1970 OUP)
Life of Johnson : Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
(1975-9 Clarendon Press)
- 6 vols. Edited by L F Powell
OTHER WORKS
1761-1763
Observations ... On Squire Foote's Dramatic Entertainment (1761 J Wilkie)
- pamphlet
Ode to Tragedy (1761
Edinburgh)
- pamphlet
Elegy Upon the Death of an Amiable Young Lady (1761 Alex Donaldson,
Edinburgh)
- anon pamphlet
The Cub at Newmarket : A Tale (1762 London)
- anon pamphlet
London Journal 1762-3
Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira by David Mr David Malloch
(1763 W Flexney)
- pamphlet with Andrew Erskine & George Dempster
Letters Between the Honourable Andrew Erskine and James Boswell Esq (1763 Flexney)
1764-1770
Disputatio Juridica (1766 Alexander Kincaid,
Edinburgh)
The Douglas Cause (1767 PP)
- single sheet of verse
Dorando : A Spanish Tale (1767 Wilkie)
- anon
The Essence of the Douglas Cause (1767 for J Wilkie, London)
Letters of the Rt Honourable Lady Jane Douglas (1767 Wilkie)
- pamphlet
An Account of Corsica : The Journal of a Tour to that island & the Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
(1768 A Foulis, Glasgow, C Dilly, London)
(1768 Dilly. 2nd Ed)
British Essays in Favour of the Brave Corsicans (1769 Dilly)
1771-1790
A Letter to Robert MacQueen, Lord Braxfield (1780
Edinburgh)
- anon
Letter to the People of Scotland (1783
Edinburgh)
- pamphlet
Ode by Dr Johnson to Mrs Thrale (1784 London)
- anon pamphlet
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LL. D
(1785 Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly)
(1785 Baldwin for Dilly. 2nd Ed)
(1785 White, Byrne & Cash, Dublin)
(1812 London. 5th Ed)
A Letter to the People of Scotland (1785 Dilly)
A Conversation Between His Most Sacred Majesty George III and Samuel Johnson (1790 Dilly)
1791-1800
No Abolition of Slavery : A Poem (1791 R Faulder)
- Anon
1801-1900
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1813 Cadell. 6th Ed Rev & Corrected)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1852 National Illustrated Library, London)
Letters ... addressed to the Rev W J Temple (from the original MSS)
(1857 Bentley)
1901-1930
Letters (1908 Sidgwick & Jackson)
The Letters (Ed by Chauncey B Tinker)
(1924 Clarendon Press)
- 2 vols
Boswell's Note-Book 1776-1777 : Recording Particulars of Boswell's Early Life (1925 OUP)
The Hypochondriak .. Being the 70 Essays by (1928 Stanford UP)
- 2 vols (1951 Wm Kimber)
Dorando : A Spanish Tale (1930 Elkin Mathews)
- 600
Everybody's Boswell (1930 Bell)
- 350 signed by Ernest H Shepard
1931 Onwards
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1936 Heinemann)
The Private Papers Now First published (1950 Heinemann)
- 7 vols
The Journal of a Tour to Corsica & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (1951 Williams & Norgate)
Boswell's Column, being his 70 contributions to the London Magazine (1951 Wm Kimber, London)
(Ed)
Frederick A Pottle : Boswell in Holland 1763-4 (1952 Heinemann 25/-)
- 1050 (1952 Yale UP)
- 1050
The London Journal & The Journal of My Jaunt (1952 Heinemann)
- de Luxe Ed 1050
Boswell on the Grand Tour 1764 (1953 Yale UP)
- 1000
Boswell on the Grand Tour 1765-6 (1955 Yale UP)
- 400
Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-9 (1957 Yale UP)
- 400
Boswell for the Defence (ed William K Wimsatt & Frederick A Pottle)
(1959 Yale)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
(1964 Ltd Editions Club, NY)
- Ltd Ed 2000. Rowlandson
The Heart of Boswell : Highlights from the Journals (1981 McGraw-Hill, NY)
READING
George Mallory : Boswell the Biographer (1912 Smith Elder)
Chauncey Brewster Timperley : Young Boswell - Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer
(1922 London)
Chauncey Brewster Timperley : A New Portrait of James Boswell
(1927 Harvard UP)
- 425. with F A Pottle
F A Pottle : The Literary Career of Boswell, being the Bibliographical
Materials for a Life (1929 OUP)
Frank Pottle : James Boswell - The Early Years (1966 Heinemann)
Mary Hyde : The Impossible Friendship - Boswell and Mrs Thrale (1972 Harvard UP)
(1973 London)
Virginia Maclean : Much Entertainment, a Visual and Culinary Record of Johnson & Boswell's
Tour of Scotland in 1773 (1973 Liveright, NY)
Frank Brady : James Boswell - The Later Years (1984)
(Eds)
Marlies K Danziger & Frank Brady : Boswell, the Great Biographer 1789-1795
I Finlayson : The Moth and the Candle - A Life of James Boswell (1984)