Boswell's Life of Johnson

Edited from the two-volume Oxford edition of 1904 by Jack Lynch. (Full notes coming soon.)

The rest is coming -- be patient.

A Note on the Text

The text of this edition of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. is taken from the two-volume Oxford edition of 1904; in a few places I've corrected errors by comparing the text with that of G. B. Hill and L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-64), and with the second London edition (1793).

I have introduced the following changes:

The text is broken into separate files by year, using the running heads on the Oxford edition as a guide. In a few cases in the early part of the Life, several years are run together.
Boswell uses an asterisk to indicate the works Johnson acknowledged as his own, and a dagger to indicate those he attributed to Johnson on internal evidence. Since HTML does not define the dagger character, I've replaced it with a plus sign (+).
Nor does HTML define the pound symbol; I've used an italic L.
The footnotes -- including both those by early editors (the Boswells, Malone, Croker, &c.) and the Oxford editors -- are numbered sequentially through each file (i.e., each year), and placed at the end of that file.
I have not respected centered and right-justified text, and have instead moved everything to the left margin -- again, standard HTML (excluding Netscape's extensions) is the limiting factor.
Paragraph spacing is determined by the HTML browser.
I've set verse in HTML's <pre> ("preformatted") tags, which causes it to appear in a monospaced typeface in most HTML browsers. Prose extracts are set in <blockquote> tags, which may reduce the font size.