Samuel Johnson : a biography / Peter Martin
2008, First Edition. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very good cloth copy in a very good dust-wrapper; both copy and wrapper have a small but deep scuff to lower front spine. Binding entirely unaffected, and copy remains very well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #449124
ISBN: 0297607197
Physical description; xviii, 522 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. Contents; pt. I. Staffordshire Youth -- 1. Anecdotes of Beggary -- 2. Stepping on the Duckling -- 3. Leaping over the Rail -- 4. Two Benefactors -- pt. II. Despondency and Hope -- 5. Oxford: Wielding a Scholar's Weapon -- 6. Horrible Imaginings -- 7. Stirrings in Birmingham -- 8. Taking a Wife -- pt. III. Slow Rises Worth -- 9. Stranger in London -- 10. Sons ofMisery: Finding Richard Savage -- 11. 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd' -- 12. Wandering in the Midlands -- pt. IV. 'Triumph: The Dictionary Years -- 13. London Revived: A Lion in Harness -- 14. A Lifeline: the Dictionary -- 15. Poetic Interludes -- 16. Terry and 'Amorous propensities' -- 17. The Triumph of the Moralist -- 18. Darkness Falls -- 19. Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary -- pt. V. Depression, Shakespeare, Travel and Anger -- 20. Stalled -- 21. 'Suffering Chimeras' -- 22. 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations' -- 23. Boswell and Mrs Thrale -- 24. Shakespeare and the Living World -- 25. Coliseum of Beasts -- 26. Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary -- 27. The Road to the Hebrides -- 28. Politics and Travel -- pt. VI. Biography and 'The Race With Death' -- 29. 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth' -- 30. Biographical Straitjacket -- 31. Losing Ground -- 32. The Last Days. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784). Authors, English 18th century Biography. Lexicographers Great Britain Biography. Critics Great Britain Biography.
Price: €12.95