The lives of the most eminent English poets
Subtitle: with critical observations on their works
By: by Samuel Johnson. In four volumes
Contributors: Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library)
Edition: A new edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed for C. Bathurst ...
Published: 1783
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author on verso facing t.p., v. 1.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate, v. 1-4: John Adams Libertatem amicitiam retinebis et fidem.

John Adams Library copy inscribed, v. 1, first leaf: [light pencil drawing of man].

Publisher's advertisments, v. 4, p. 485-[486].

John Adams Library copy: slight water damge, v. 2.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams' signature on title page, v. 3: "John Adams."

ESTC, T4514

Also available on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1028, no. 01, 06).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.