(viii), 524, [1] errata pp. Half title present. (8vo) 21x13 cm. (8¼x5¼") later full calf, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked, earlier spine label laid down. First Edition, mixed state.

Page 121 in the first, uncorrected, state; page 237 and 299 in the second state. Leaves E3, E4 and M4 are cancels, as usual. Boswell's classic account of his journey to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. The text of this book was largely completed in 1773, from the journal which Boswell kept while traveling in Scotland. The publication was held back until Johnson's death. Many have considered this Boswell's masterpiece, and at the very least it reveals that his unique gift for biography had fully flowered by the time he was in his early thirties.