OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. TOGETHER WITH A JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES, BY JAMES BOSWELL. A REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION. TO WHICH ARE ADDED MR. BOSWELL'S CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS, ISSUED IN 1792 ; THE VARIATIONS OF THE SECOND EDITION, WITH SOME EDITED, WITH NEW NOTES, BY PERCY FITZGERALD, M.A., F.S.A. IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL I. SECOND EDITION WITH A PREFACE BY THE EDITOR, AND A BOSWELL BIBLIOGRAPHY BY Librarian to the Athenaum Club. LONDON : SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, LOWREY & CO., PATERNOSTER SQUARE. TO THOMAS CARLYLE, Esq. DEAR MR. CARLYLE, You were kind enough to encourage me to undertake the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Biography: and, in addition, have allowed me to inscribe the work, now completed, to you. That my humble labour will be found worthy of such encourage ment, I will not venture to affirm : but it has, at least, been directed by a reverential feeling, and, above all, is conceived in the spirit of that admirable view of Boswell's work and character which you gave to the world many years ago. PERCY FITZGERALD. |