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Boswell's life of Johnson, complete in two volumes and illustrated with frontispieces and a double page illustration of a facsimile of the round robin addressed to Dr Johnson , 1776.

Life of Johnson (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English.

Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject was only from 1763, when Johnson was in his 54th year, until 1784, the year of Johnson's death. Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research, but the most admired and best remembered portions of the book are Boswell's first-hand accounts of Johnson.

Samuel Johnson (September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1709 – 13 December 1784), who was regularly referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is among England's best known literary figures. Dr Johnson was an essayist, poet, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English Literature. Also considered to be a great wit and prose stylist, he was well known for his aphorisms. The single most quoted English writer after Shakespeare, Dr Johnson has been described as being among the most outstanding figures of 18th-century England.

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