Prefaces, biographical and critical [electronic resource] : to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.

Prefaces, biographical and critical [electronic resource] : to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.

Lives of the English poets

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]

10v.,plate : port. ; 16mo.

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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.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

Part of Johnson in vol.5

English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T44190

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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