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Boswell the Biographer

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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[This is a list of books bearing directly upon Boswell which have been used for this volume.]

Birrell, A., Introduction to his edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson London, 1906

Boswell, James:

Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady 1761

Ode to Tragedy 1761

Collection of Original Poems, contributions to 1762

The Cub at Newmarket 1762

Critical Strictures on Mallet's Elvira, by A. Erskine and J. Boswell 1763

Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine 1763

Dorando, a Spanish Tale 1767

Essence of the Douglas Cause 1767

Account of Corsica, &c., 2nd edition 1768

(1st edition was published 1768)

British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans 1769

The Hypochondriack in the London Magazine, Oct. 1777 to Dec. 1779

Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation 1783

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Ed. G. Birkbeck Hill 1887

(1st edition 1785)

Letter to the People of Scotland against the attempt to diminish the number of the Lords of Session 1785

No Abolition of Slavery, or the Universal Empire of Love 1791

Life of Johnson. Ed. Right Hon. John Wilson Croker 1866

Life of Samuel Johnson. Ed. G. Birkbeck Hill. 6 vols. Oxford, 18871

(1st edition 1791)

Letters to Temple, reprint London, 19081

—— Life of, see Rogers, Fitzgerald, and Leask.

Boswelliana, the Commonplace Book of James Boswell, London, Grampian Club, 1876

Burke, Edmund, Correspondence London, 1824

Burney, Miss, see D'Arblay.

Campbell, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Diary London, 1854

Carlyle, Miscellanies London, 1872

Chatham, Earl of, Correspondence. 4 vols. London, 1838

Collection of Original Poems Edinburgh, 1763

Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, Correspondence and Diaries. 3 vols. London, 1884

D'Arblay, Diary of Madame. Ed. Austin Dobson. 6 vols. London, 1904

—— Memoirs of Dr. Burney. 3 vols. London, 1832

Edinburgh, Traditions of 1869

Eldon, Lord Chancellor, Life of, by Horace Twiss. 3 vols. London, 1844

Fitzgerald, Percy, Life of Boswell London, 1891

Forbes, Sir William, Life of James Beattie London, 1806

Gentleman's Magazine

Goldsmith, Life by James Prior. 2 vols. London, 1837

Gray, Life by Mason. 2 vols. London, 1807

Hawkins, Sir John, Life of Johnson London, 1787

—— Lætitia Matilda, Memoirs. 2 vols. London, 1824

Henley, W. E., Views and Reviews London, 1902

Hill, Dr. George Birkbeck, Life of Johnson. 6 vols. Oxford, 1887

—— Dr. Johnson, his Friends and Critics London, 1878

See also Johnson Club Papers.

Holcroft, Thomas, Memoirs. 3 vols. London, 1816

Hume, David, Correspondence London, 1846

Ireland, S. W. H., The Confessions of W. H. Ireland London, 1805

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, Dictionary London, 1755

—— Lives of the Poets London, 1781

—— Journey to the Western Islands London, 1775

Johnson, Lionel, Post Liminium, Critical Essays London, 1911

Johnson Club Papers, by various hands London, 1899

Leask, W. K., James Boswell, Famous Scots Series. Edinburgh, 1896

London Magazine

Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays. 3 vols. London, 1843

Malone, Life of, Prior London, 1860

More, Hannah, Memoirs of. 4 vols. London, 1834

Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century. 9 vols. London, 1812-15

—— Literary History of the XVIIIth Century. 8 vols. London, 1817-58

Piozzi, Mrs., Autobiography. 2 vols. London, 1861

—— Johnson's Letters to. 2 vols. London, 1788

—— Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, 2nd edition London, 1789

Raleigh, Sir Walter, Six Essays on Johnson Oxford, 1910

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Life by Leslie and Taylor. 2 vols. London, 1865

Rogers, Rev. Charles, Memoir of Boswell, in Boswelliana

Taylor, John, Records of My Life London, 1832

Trevelyan, Sir G. O., Life of Fox London, 1912

Walpole, Horace, Letters. 9 vols. London, 1861

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