JOHNSON, Samuel. A Diary of a Journey into North Wales in the year 1774, London, for Robert Jennings, 1816, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 2 lithographed facsimile plates of Johnson's handwriting (these spotted, title offset), with errata slip, mid 19th-century half calf, spine gilt. [Courtney & Smith p. 174]

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JOHNSON, Samuel. A Diary of a Journey into North Wales in the year 1774, London, for Robert Jennings, 1816, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 2 lithographed facsimile plates of Johnson's handwriting (these spotted, title offset), with errata slip, mid 19th-century half calf, spine gilt. [Courtney & Smith p. 174]

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The Boswellian view was that Johnson's "tour to Wales, which was made in company with Mr and Mrs Thrale, though it no doubt contributed to his health and amusement, did not give an occasion to such a discursive exercise of his mind as our tour to the Hebrides." Boswell did not believe Johnson to have "kept any journal or notes of what he saw there" (Life I, p. 505)

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