FOOTSTEPS OF DR. JOHNSON
Footsteps of Dr. Johnson
(SCOTLAND)
BY
GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LANCELOT SPEED
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON
(LIMITED)
St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane
1890.
CHISWICK PRESS:—C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
TO
The Prior and Members
OF
The Johnson Club,
(MOST CLUBABLE OF MEN)
IN MEMORY OF
PLEASANT EVENINGS SPENT WITH THEM IN
FLEET STREET, LICHFIELD, AND OXFORD,
This Work is Dedicated.{vii}
PREFACE.
t the beginning of last year, at the request of Messrs.Sampson Low and Co., I began to prepare a work inwhich, under the title of Footsteps of Dr. Johnson, Iwas to describe the various places that he had eitherinhabited or visited. It was to be copiously illustrated with views.I had made considerable progress with my task when I saw thatits extent required that it should be divided into two separateworks. Scotland in itself afforded ample materials for at least asingle volume. In this opinion I was confirmed by my friendMr. Lancelot Speed, the artist who was to prepare the illustrations.My publishers yielded to our advice and allowed us to confineourselves entirely to that country. The materials which I had gottogether for England and Wales I have put on one side, in thehope that the present venture will prove sufficiently successful toencourage author, artist, and publishers alike to follow it up with acompanion work.
Of Johnson’s journey through Scotland