A Collection of Works on the Life, Times, and Contemporaries of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell

A collection of twenty-three volumes exploring the life, times, work, and contemporaries of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Twenty-three volumes. A collection surrounding the lives and relationship between Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Often called Dr Johnson, Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". James Boswell was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. Boswell's diaries, letters, and private papers were recovered and published by Yale University, transforming his reputation. These volumes explore the lives of two great men, the historical time in which they lived and key events from this period, the great writers and thinkers working alongside them, as well as their own writings and contributions. This set contains: Portraits, 1952. First edition. Written by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an English painter who specialised in portraits. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. Young Samuel Johnson, 1957. Readers Union edition. Written by James Lowry Clifford, a British author and historian. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates, with mapped endpapers. Collated complete. James Boswell: The Earlier Years 1740-1769, 1966. First edition. Written by Frederick Albert Pottle, an American scholar and editor. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Boswell in Extremes: 1776-1778, 1971. First UK edition. Edited by Charles McCullough Weis, an American professor of English, and Frederick Albert Pottle. Illustrated with six plates and a double-page plan. Collated complete. The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Theatre, 1973. First edition. Written by Mary Hyde, founder of the Hyde Collection. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated complete. Boswell's Book of Bad Verse, 1974. First edition. Edited by Jack Werner, a Scottish scholar and researcher. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one plate. Collated complete. Samuel Johnson, 1974. First edition. Written by John Wain, an English poet, novelist, and critic. Illustrated with thirty-six images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers, 1975. First edition. Written by David Buchanan, a Scottish writer. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-five images. Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782, 1977. First edition. Edited by Joseph W. Reed, an American professor of English and film, and Frederick Albert Pottle. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Samuel Johnson, 1978. First edition. Written by Walter Jackson Bate, an American literary critic and biographer. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-five images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years, 1979. First edition. Written by James Lowry Clifford. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen images. Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers, 1982. First edition. Written by Frederick Albert Pottle. James Boswell: The Later Years 1769-1795, 1984. First edition. Written by Frank Brady, an American writer, editor, biographer, and educator. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. The Journals of James Boswell 1760-1795, 1991. First edition. Selected and introduced by John Wain. Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, 1993. First edition. Written by Richard Holmes, a British author, biographer, and academic. A Life of James Boswell, 1999. First edition. Written by Peter Martin, an English literature scholar, biographer, and eighteenth century garden historian. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated comp.