Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life of Johnson, Vol. 1 of 6: Edited by Augustine Birrell
The merit of these volumes is all or nearly all Boswell's and the printers', a race of men whose services in the cause of letters Dr. Johnson, who knew The Trade from top to bottom, never forgot. Who does not remember the famous occasion when he apologised to a compositor? 'mr. Compositor, I ask your pardon. Mr. Compositor, I ask your pardon, again and again.' Any merit that is not Boswell's or the printers' belongs to Mr. Edmund Malone, whose Life, by Sir James Prior, is well worth the two or three shillings which is all the second-hand booksellers are in the habit of asking for it.
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