This book is in very good condition and shows virtually no sign of shelf wear. It's contained within a hard slip case which is fine. With 20 illustrations. Original hardcover which is a quarter cloth-bound. A couple of very minor marks on the cloth. Inside, the front paste-down endpaper bears a previous owner's name and address sticker. Inside, the pages are bright and the binding is sound. With 20 black and white illustrations. Edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle. "In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London.