Samuel Johnson: His Friends and Enemies (1973)

You can also find this book on Amazon. Just click here. Format: Hardcover ISBN: 0070510407 Condition: Very Good The edges of the dust jacket are scuffed and wrinkled. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Contents Description: Into his survey of Johnson's private life Peter Quennell introduces a brilliant array of Johnson's contemporaries, the people he supported or denounced with equal eloquence and vigor - his eminent friends: Reynolds, Garrick, Goldsmith and Burke; his eminent adversaries: Gibbon, Sterne and Hume; and a number of intelligent and gifted women  in whose company Johnson took particular pleasure. - from the inside flap