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London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, 1793. First Edition Thus (Second Revised and Augmented Edition). Hardcover. Very Good [Textblock Near Fine]. No DJ as Issued.. First Edition Thus (Second Revised and Augmented Edition). Hardcover. Engraved portrait frontispiece, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (by J. Baker). Includes the fold-out 'Round Robin' plate (Vol. II) and a fold-out plate containing facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's handwriting (Vol. III). The last edition published in Boswell's lifetime, it contains additional material including "Additions to Dr. Johnson's Life Recollected, and Received after the Second Edition was Printed" (pp. *i-*xxii); "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D" [noted as the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography] (pp. *xxiii-*xxxi); and "Corrections" (pp. *xxxiii-*xxxvi) but not the leaf of Additional Corrections (*c3 in Volume I), which has been tipped into some copies. It is worth noting that this tipped in leave…

James Boswell's 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' is regarded as one of the greatest biographies written in the English language. It provides an in-depth and vivid recounting of the life of Samuel Johnson, a writer and critic who was a towering figure in 18th-century British literature.