First edition. The text of the Journal was largely completed in 1773 from the diary Boswell kept while travelling in Scotland; publication was, however, delayed until after Johnson’s death. The advertisement for Boswell’s Life of Johnson on the errata leaf announces that the book is ‘preparing for the press’; it would not in fact be published for another six years. This copy is in Pottle’s second state, with the corrections to I5, Q7, and U6; E4, M4, and presumably E3 are cancels as usual.

Pottle 57; Rothschild 456.

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