This is a wonderful old book. This book was published in 1946 by Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. The book measures 6 inches by 8 ½ inches and contains 631 pages. This is a copy of the Book Club Edition. The dust jacket is tattered and soiled and is in poor condition. The blue cloth cover of the book has a facsimile of Samuel Johnson’s signature in gilt on the front and the title in gilt on the spine. The cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. Bits of the dust jacket have stuck to the cover around the edges. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is good plus.

Note: The table of contents include the year(s) of the chapter which I am omitting from this list.

Contents:

1. Parentage and Early Days
2. Oxford
3. Matrimony and Authorship
4. First Years in London
5. The Gentleman’s Magazine
6. Richard Savage
7. The “Rambler”
8. Johnson’s Circle of Friends
9. The Dictionary
10. Dr. Burney
11. The “Idler”
12. Johnson’s Pension
13. Enter Boswell
14. Oliver Goldsmith
15. The Literary Club
16. Table Talk
17. Johnson and the King
18. Baretti’s Trial
19. “The False Alarm” and “Falkland Islands”
20. Samuel Foote
21. General Oglethorpe
22. “She Stoops to Conquer”
23. Johnson and Goldsmith
24. The Tour to the Hebrides
25. Johnson and Macpherson
26. Mrs. Abington
27. Dinner at Mr. Cambridge’s
28. The Tour to France
29. French Impressions
30. Bolt Court
31. A Tour in the Midlands
32. Johnson Returns to London
33. A Visit to Bath
34. The Dinner at Dilly’s
35. The Lives of the Poets
36. Dr. Dodd
37. Derby
38. Ashbourne
39. Talk at the Club
40. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Percy
41. Johnson and Edwards
42. Dinner at Allan Ramsay’s
43. Dr. Johnson and Lord Marchmont
44. Death of Garrick
45. The Gordon Riots
46. Death of Beauclerk
47. Langton’s Johnsoniana
48. “Lives of the Poets”
49. Death of Thrale
50. Mrs. Garrick’s Dinner
51. Death of Robert Levett
52. Table Talk
53. Death of Mrs. Williams
54. Johnson’s Illness
55. Dr. William Adams
56. Boswell’s Farewell to Johnson
57. Johnson’s Last Visit to Lichfield
58. Last Days
59. Johnson’s Last Illness and Death

Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
Among the monumental biographies, The Life of Samuel Johnson ranks high. None has been written more in friendship and admiration. Yet his admiration never prevented James Boswell from seeing Johnson as a complete personality, a three-dimensional figure. If Johnson blusters, we have it here, or if he loses his temper, or cajoles, or gets the worst of an evil bargain. Here, it may be accurately stated, is “the spitting image,” here is the man strutting into your life and sinking heavily into your biggest chair to regale and revile you.

In this volume, printed from the original plates of the Doubleday Limited Editions, there are the same color illustrations-sixteen of them, and the same black and white illustrations-twenty-four of them, that appeared in the earlier, high-priced edition. They are by Gordon Ross, a tall, sensitive Anglo-Saxon who uses pastel like an angel. He manages to recapture the soft colors of the English scene and the bright, rich colors of its costumes. We see in his work the same scholarship, mixed with the same whimsical touch that Boswell himself caught in the life of his friend, Johnson.
End excerpt

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