The London Journal itself has been reprinted (and republished) several times, and is very easy to find. A paperback edition with forewords by Peter Ackroyd was published by Yale in 2004. The numbered deluxe edition (with the Journal of my Jaunt) has, of course, not been republished, but is still fairly easy to come. Several copies are usually available from online used books search engines such as, with prices ranging from £40 to £160. Search for Journal of my Jaunt to exclude all the ordinary copies of the London Journal.
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Also, be aware that only the.numbered. deluxe edition contains the Journal of the Jaunt, whereas the un-numbered deluxe edition is really just a finer version of the standard edition. The most authoritative edition of the London Journal, as of the end of 2012, is that edited by Gordon Turnbull for Penguin Classics. The Journal itself (presented for the first time almost completely un-modernized in its spellings and punctuation), is a newly-prepared and carefully checked text, which corrects some flaws in the 1950 transcription which had been reprinted 1950-1954, almost always with no modification and usually just from camera-copies of the 1950 text. In addition, Turnbull includes the Memoranda, the 'Minc'd Pye' journal-letter, the 'History' of the publication of Boswell's letters with Erskine, and the 'Scheme of Living' Boswell wrote as his budget for London.
The edition is one of the most lavishly-annotated Penguin Classics, and it is the best edition for assignment in university courses studying the.Journal., or for scholars wishing to cite the text in books or articles.