JAMES BOSWELL 70
(from an engraving by Finden after
the sketch by G. Langton)
A PIT CHECK, GOODMAN'S FIELDS THEATRE}
} 88
DRURY LANE THEATRE }
DAVID GARRICK 92
(from the portrait by Robert Edge Pine)
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 96
(from an engraving after the
portrait by Reynolds)
JOHNSON AND GOLDSMITH OUTSIDE FILBY'S SHOP 100
(from a drawing by W. M. Thackeray in the
_North British Review_, 1864)
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 104
(from an engraving after the
portrait by himself)
MRS THRALE 116
(from an engraving after the
portrait by Reynolds)
MRS THRALE'S BREAKFAST-TABLE 120
(from an engraving after
I. Cruikshanks, 1791)
FANNY BURNEY 124
(from an engraving after the
portrait by E. F. Burney)
JOHNSON AND BOSWELL ARM-IN-ARM UP THE
HIGH STREET }
} 128
JOHNSON UNDER BOSWELL'S ROOF }
}
(from the caricatures by }
Thomas Rowlandson, 1786) }
BOSWELL STANDING FIRM TO HIS POST }
} 138
WHIGGISM TERRIBLY BUFFETED }
}
(from the caricatures by Rowlandson) }
FLEET STREET IN JOHNSON'S DAY 150
(from a contemporary engraving)
The design on the cover is from one of the "copper pieces struck
at Birmingham with his [Johnson's] head impressed on them." They
passed current, as Boswell tells us, "as half-pence there, and in the
neighbouring parts of the country."
Acknowledgment is made to Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd for supplying
the block of the Boswell portrait; to Messrs George Routledge & Sons
Ltd for permission to reproduce the pictures facing p. 88 from Doran's
_Annals of the English Stage_ (ed. Lowe, 1888); and to Messrs Emery
Walker Ltd for permission to reproduce the portrait of Garrick facing
p. 92.