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Books about Samuel Johnson:

• The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (8th edition; London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1792), by Samuel Johnson, contrib. by Hester Lynch Piozzi and James Boswell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Age of Johnson (1748-1798) (London: George Bell and Sons, 1902), by Thomas Seccombe (page images at Google; US access only)
• Boswell's Life of Johnson, Abridged and Edited, by James Boswell, ed. by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (Gutenberg text)
• Boswell's Life of Johnson, Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales, by James Boswell, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
  • Volume IV: Gutenberg text
  • Volume V: Gutenberg text
  • Volume VI: Gutenberg text
• Johnsonian Miscellanies (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1897), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill, contrib. by Samuel Johnson
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Samuel Johnson, by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
• Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (New York: Harper and Bros., 1878), by Thomas Macaulay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Six Essays on Johnson (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1910), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Doctor Johnson: Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1919), by S. C. Roberts, contrib. by James Boswell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Immortal Memories, by Clement King Shorter (Gutenberg text)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life (London, etc.: Cassell and Company, 1901), by Hester Lynch Piozzi, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life (London, etc.: Cassell and Company, 1887), by Hester Lynch Piozzi, ed. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson (Oxford Historical and Literary Studies v4; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1915), by William Prideaux Courtney, ed. by David Nichol Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Letters To and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., To Which Are Added, Some Poems Never Before Printed (2 volumes; London: Printed for A. Strahan, 1788), by Samuel Johnson and Hester Lynch Piozzi
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Passionate Intelligence: Imagination and Reason in the Work of Samuel Johnson (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arieh Sachs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (London: Printed for R. Jennings, 1816), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Richard Duppa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1967), by Paul K. Alkon (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Doctor Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Including Mrs Thrale's Unpublished Journal of the Welsh Tour Made in 1774 and Much Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of the Streatham Coterie (London and New York: J. Lane, 1910), by Alexander Meyrick Broadley, contrib. by Hester Lynch Piozzi and Thomas Seccombe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dr. Johnson & Fanny Burney, by Fanny Burney (HTML at Virginia)
• Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861), by Hester Lynch Piozzi, ed. by A. Hayward
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale: Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis, 1910), by Hester Lynch Piozzi, ed. by A. Hayward and J. H. Lobban (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Doctor Johnson in Cambridge: Essays in Boswellian Imitation (London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1922), by S. C. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., by James Boswell (Gutenberg text)

• A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (London: Printed for R. Jennings, 1816), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Richard Duppa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1779), by Donald MacNicol
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dinarbas: A Tale, Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (second edition; London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1792), by Ellis Cornelia Knight, contrib. by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Samuel Johnson:

• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (8th edition; London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1792), contrib. by Hester Lynch Piozzi and James Boswell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: Classic Tales, Serious and Lively; With Critical Essays on the Merits and Reputation of the Authors (5 volumes; London: J. Hunt and C. Raynell, 1806-1807), ed. by Leigh Hunt, also contrib. by Henry Mackenzie, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Brooke, Voltaire, Jean-François Marmontel, John Hawkesworth, and Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author (New York: G. F. Cooledge and Brother; London: Scott, Webster, and Geary, ca. 1847), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William Harness
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (London: Printed for R. Jennings, 1816), ed. by Richard Duppa (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785)
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: Dinarbas: A Tale, Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (second edition; London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1792), by Ellis Cornelia Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed.: The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, From the Text of Johnson and Steevens (with a life of the author; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1847), by William Shakespeare, also ed. by George Steevens, contrib. by Nicholas Rowe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed.: The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, From the Text of Johnson, Steevens and Reed; With a Biographical Memoir, Summary Remarks on each Play, Copious Glossary, and Variorum Notes (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855), by William Shakespeare, also ed. by George Steevens and Isaac Reed
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: Essayists Past and Present: A Selection of English Essays (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1925), ed. by J. B. Priestley, also contrib. by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alexander Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, E. V. Lucas, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, and Robert Lynd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (with illustrations) (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes (London: H. Frowde, 1908), ed. by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: Johnsonian Miscellanies (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1897), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: Johnsonian Miscellanies (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1897), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775) (page images in Germany)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (based on the 1775 edition with corrections from the 1785 errata) (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Letters To and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., To Which Are Added, Some Poems Never Before Printed (2 volumes; London: Printed for A. Strahan, 1788), also by Hester Lynch Piozzi
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Life of Milton (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers, The Fourth Edition; To Which Are Added the Lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake (London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Life of Pope (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Life of Savage (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Life of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D., With Notes, Containing Animadversions and Additions (London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, and J. Buckland, 1785), ed. by Samuel Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Lives of the Poets (Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, Etc.) (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, Swift (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: London; and The Vanity of Human Wishes: With Notes, Historical and Biographical, and a Glossary (sixth edition (uses the 1755 Vanity text); London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), ed. by I. P. Fleming (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: A Memoir of Roger Ascham (with a memoir of Thomas Arnold; New York: Chautauqua Press, 1890), also by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, ed. by James Henry Carlisle
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Corrected From the Latest and Best London Editions, With Notes (first American edition, 8 volumes; Philadelphia: Bioren and Madan, 1795-1796), by William Shakespeare, illust. by Robert Field
  • Volume 1 (Preface by the American editors; Life of the author; Glossary; The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; The Comedy of Errors): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labours Lost; Midsummer-Night's Dream; Merchant of Venice; As You Like It): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Winter's Tale; Macbeth): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (King John; Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Richard III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (King Henry VIII; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Timon of Athens; Troilus and Cressida; Titus Andronicus; Cymbeline; King Lear): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello; The Poems of Shakspeare): multiple formats at archive.org
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed.: The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed From the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed Notes (12 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, et al., 1807), by William Shakespeare, also ed. by George Steevens and Isaac Reed (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes, With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which Are Added Notes by Sam. Johnson (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson et al., 1765), by William Shakespeare, illust. by George Vertue
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1 (The Tempest; A Midsummer-Night's Dream; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Measure for Measure; The Merchant of Venice): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (As You Like It; Love's Labour's Lost; The Winter's Tale; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; The Merry Wives of Windsor): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado About Nothing; All's Well That Ends Well; The Life and Death of King John): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (The Life and Death of King Richard the Second; The First Part of King Henry the Fourth; The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth; The Life of King Henry the Fifth; The First Part of King Henry the Sixth): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Life and Death of King Richard the Third; The Life of King Henry the Eighth): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (The Life and Death of King Lear; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; The Tragedy of Macbeth; Caius Marcius Coriolanus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Troilus and Cressida): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Othello, the Moor of Venice): multiple formats at archive.org
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: The Plays of William Shakspeare, in Twenty-One Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, To Which Are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens (fifth edition revised and augmented by Reed; London: Printed for J. Johnson et al., 1803), by William Shakespeare, also contrib. by George Steevens and Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett: With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, also by Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and T. Smollett, ed. by George Gilfillan (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: A Preface to Shakespeare (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, With Introductions and Notes (Harvard Classics v39; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, and Hippolyte Taine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (with additional links and information), ed. by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer (HTML at 18thcenturyarchive.org)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: Selected works and commentary (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, contrib.: The Universal Visiter (reprint edited by Eddy of this 1756 periodical; New York: Garland, 1979), ed. by Donald D. Eddy, also contrib. by Christopher Smart and Richard Rolt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784: The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749); and Two Rambler Papers (1750) (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1950), contrib. by Bertrand Harris Bronson (Gutenberg text)
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, trans.: A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Jerónimo Lobo, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)

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