James Boswell and his World

Well-known litterateur David Daiches, who's also written about Robert Bums, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson among many others, turns his talents to a pictorial biography of "Bozzy," that "clubbable man" (quoth Dr. Johnson), and incidentally evokes the atmospheres of 18th century Edinburgh and London. The approximately 100 illustrations include caricatures, pen-and-wash drawings, etchings, engravings, oil portraits, maps and manuscript reproductions.