James Boswell's publisher, Edward Dilly, was hot off the mark: the day after news of Johnson's death reached Boswell in December 1784, he received 'a letter from Mr. Dilly mentioning it, and in the true spirit of the trade wanting to know if I could have an octavo volume of 400 pages of [Johnson's] conversations ready' within two months.'
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Designing the Life of Johnson
by Bruce Redford
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History and criticism, English Authors, Biography as a literary form, Authors, English, Biography, Boswell, james, 1740-1795, Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784, Authors, english, The life of Johnson (Boswell), Biographies, Literarische Technik, Literaire biografie, Histoire et critique, Biographie (Genre littéraire), Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell, James), Écrivains anglais| Edition | Availability |
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Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, 2001-2 (Lyell Lectures in Bibliography)
August 6, 2005, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-172) and index.
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