Notes on Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

Notes on Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

A typo appears in the first printing (Fall, 1931) on the verso of the title page: "... An unabridged [sic] edition was unthinkable...". The word "unabridged" was corrected to "abridged" in the next printing.


First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     G1

First inverse DJ number:      200

Dates in print:     1931 - 1970

Toledano number:   002.1


Confirmed DJ back styles:          Ga, Gb, Gd, Ge

Confirmed binding styles:           G1, G3, G5, G6

Confirmed buckram sighting?      no


Intro author:     Herbert Askwith

Genre:     Biography

Curriculum:     Eighteenth Century

Original language:      English


Thanks to:

Henry Toledano Barry Neavill John Peterson

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