ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Samuel Johnson (from an engraving after the portrait by Reynolds) Frontispiece
TO FACE PAGE
Johnson's birthplace at Lichfield (from an engraving by Edward Finden after the drawing by C. Stanfield) 4
Title-page of The Gentleman's Magazine, March, 1738 22
Johnson's house in Gough Square 28
James Boswell (from an engraving by Finden after the sketch by G. Langton) 70
A Pit check, Goodman's Fields Theatre 88
Drury Lane Theatre 88
David Garrick (from the portrait by Robert Edge Pine) 92
Oliver Goldsmith (from an engraving after the portrait by Reynolds) 96
Johnson and Goldsmith outside Filby's shop (from a drawing by W. M. Thackeray in the North British Review, 1864) 110
Sir Joshua Reynolds (from an engraving after the portrait by himself) 104
Mrs Thrale (from an engraving after the portrait by Reynolds) 116
Mrs Thrale's Breakfast-table (from an engraving after I. Cruikshanks, 1791) 120
Fanny Burney (from an engraving after the portrait by E. F. Burney) 124
Johnson and Boswell arm-in-arm up the High Street (from the caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786) 128
Johnson under Boswell's roof (from the caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786) 128
Boswell standing firm to his post (from the caricatures by Rowlandson) 138
Whiggism terribly buffeted (from the caricatures by Rowlandson) 138
Fleet Street in Johnson's day (from a contemporary engraving) 150
The design on the cover is from one of the "copper pieces struck at Birmingham with his [Johnson's] head impressed on them." They passed current, as Boswell tells us, "as half-pence there, and in the neighbouring parts of the country."
Acknowledgment is made to Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd for supplying the block of the Boswell portrait; to Messrs George Routledge & Sons Ltd for permission to reproduce the pictures facing p. 88 from Doran's Annals of the English Stage (ed. Lowe, 1888); and to Messrs Emery Walker Ltd for permission to reproduce the portrait of Garrick facing p. 92.
