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A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W. Walker, 1848, after J.E. Doyle.

Writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795 / edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady.

Boswell's presumptuous task / Adam Sisman.

Boswell and Hyde / Karl Miller.

Johnson and Boswell : "vile melancholy" and "The hypochondriack" / William B. Ober.

The life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order : a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons and various original pieces of his composition, never before published / by James Boswell.

Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.

Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764 : including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen / edited by Frederick A. Pottle.

Boswell on the grand tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766 / edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle.

Life of Johnson / James Boswell ; edited by R. W. Chapman ; introduced by Pat Rogers.

[James Boswell correspondence].

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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795 / edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady.

Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764 : including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen / edited by Frederick A. Pottle.

Boswell on the grand tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766 / edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle.

Life of Johnson / James Boswell ; edited by R. W. Chapman ; introduced by Pat Rogers.

[James Boswell correspondence].