Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.
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- Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.
- Lives of the English poets
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London: printed by J. Nichols; for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, E. and C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, T. Becket, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Davis, J. Nichols, F. Newbery, T. Evans, J. Ridley, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, J. Murray, W. Fox, J. Bowen, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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- 1779-1779
- ESTC No.
- T44190
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- 272650
- Description
- 10v.,plate : port. ; 16⁰
- Note
- Later editions are entitled 'Lives of the English poets'.
Vols. 1-4 are dated 1779, vols. 5-10: 1781; vols. 5-10 list 28 additional booksellers in the imprint.
One British Library copy contains 'Directions to the binder'(vol. 1, pp. ix-x) for the first four volumes, showing that the lives were originally issued in parts.
Each life has a separate pagination and register.
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- Part of Johnson in vol.5