THE AMEN CORNER EDITION
Boswell's Johnson
Pitman's "Extra Illustrated" Edition
Newly edited with notes, etc., by
Roger Ingpen
In two vols., crown 4to, 1,152 pages, half morocco, 21s. net, handsome cloth gilt, 18s. net. With about 550 Illustrations and twelve Photogravure Plates.
"The raison d'etre of this edition, well printed in quarto form, is its illustrations. Of these there are to be, besides twelve photogravure plates, about 400—portraits from authentic originals, views from old prints, autographs, facsimile title pages, etc.; and a series of views of Johnson's haunts, drawn specially for the book, which so far as we can at present judge from the pen and ink drawings now issued, are of a pleasing kind. Mr. Ingpen's literary contribution consists of short notes to the pictures; and his industry in collecting illustrative material seems likely to deserve much gratitude from modern readers of Boswell."—Times.
"Includes a wealth of carefully annotated pictures of various kinds.... We congratulate publisher and author on the excellent idea of illustrating the greatest of biographies on an ample scale. The part before us contains a happy choice of pictures of places as well as persons, and may well appeal even to those who have already, like the present reviewer, some five editions of Boswell among their books."—Athenæum.
"No library, great or small, which makes any pretension to completeness, can afford to be without it. The astonishing thing is that the world has so long taken its Boswell unadorned; we mean without illustrations.... It is as nearly as possible, a reproduction of the England and the English Society, the actual faces and places, Johnson and Boswell knew.... It is not an exaggeration to say that Mr. Ingpen has done more than any editor or annotator to make Boswell's Life of Johnson a trustworthy and enjoyable biography."—Yorkshire Weekly Post.
LONDON: SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, LTD.,
No. 1 AMEN CORNER, E.C.
BY FRANCES M. BROOKFIELD
My Lord of Essex