Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. ...
Johnson, Samuel,1709-1784.
London : printed by J. Nichols; for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and sons, T. Davies [and 31 others in London],
1779-81.
Each life has a separate pagination and register.
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.
Later editions are entitled 'Lives of the English poets'.
Vols. 1-4 are dated 1779, vols. 5-10: 1781; vols. 5-10 list 33 additional booksellers in the imprint.
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England London
Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1985. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 964, no. 2.