Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was published in 1785 and reached a sixth edition in 1813.
Many of the later editors of Boswell have included the Tour in their editions of the Life.
It is published as a separate volume in Dent's Temple Classics, with a few notes by Arnold Glover (1898) and is contained in a volume of Dent's Everyman's Library.
The Life appeared in two quarto volumes in 1791 and went through ten editions before the much-criticised edition of J. W. Croker in 1831. The sixth edition, 1811, edited by Malone, is the safest of the early editions. It is not disfigured by the liberties which Croker took with Boswell's text.
Later editions are almost innumerable.
Napier's edition of 1884 included some valuable new material, but the incomparable edition for students is that of George Birkbeck Hill, published by the Oxford University Press in 1887. It is in six volumes, of which four contain the Life, one the Tour, and one the monumental index to which every student of Johnson must pay his debt of gratitude.
Among modern editions the following may be noted:
Arnold Glover: 6 volumes (text of 1811), annotated. Dent. 1901.
Roger Ingpen: 2 volumes, illustrated. Pitman. 1907.
Among the cheapest and handiest modern reprints are: