NMLP P-045616 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · Charles Dilly (London); printed by Henry Baldwin · 1791

The mechanism is documented — the proof was correct, but when Boswell directed the removal of an exclamation point in the first line, the "i" dropped out and the compositor filled the line by spacing "gve us"; the error was caught and corrected in the press after a considerable part of the edition had been printed

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045616 for "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045616, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).