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Synopsis

Including his correspondence with belle de zuylen (zelide). edited by frederick a. pottle sterling professor of english yale university. (the yale editions of the private papers of james boswell).

Item Description

FIRST TRADE EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 X 6.5 inches. xix + [iii] + 428 pp. Bound in original navy cloth, gilt, with gilt block of the seal on front board, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has damp stains on rear wrapper; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 5 plates, including frontispiece. Map endpapers Decorated by vignette of Boswell seal on title page. Boswell travelled to Holland in order to study law at Utrecht as was common for aspiring Scots lawyers as both systems partly depended on Roman law. A handsome illustrated limited edition with introduction, notes, appendices and a full analytical index. It includes some hundred pages of correspondence, including with Belle de Zuylen, to whom he was romantically attached, and to her father, with further letters, some in French, in the appendices.