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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Imprint
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]
Publication year
1779-1779
ESTC No.
T44190
Grub Street ID
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.
Uncontrolled note
Part of Johnson in vol.5