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Bibliographic information
| Title | Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. The Barnes English texts |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | Stella Stewart Center |
| Publisher | A. S. Barnes Company, 1916 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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