The works of the English poets.
By: With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Samuel Johnson.
Publisher: Printed by H. Hughs, for C. Bathurst [etc.] 1779-81.
Published: 1779
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: English poetry
Notes: Vols. [59-68] have title: Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the English poets.  By Samuel Johnson.  Volume the first[-tenth]  London, Printed by J. Nichols, for C. Bathurst [etc.] 1779-81.  Cf. W.P. Courtney.  A bibl. of Samuel Johnson (Oxford, 1915) p. 140.

Vols. 9-12, 25, 29, Printed by E. Cox; v. 13-16, 43, 46, by R. Hett; v. 17-18, by J.D. Cornish; v. 19, 44, 53-56, by J. Rivington; v. 20, 24, 30-31, 39-42, 57-58, by J. Nichols; v. 22, 45, by H. Goldney; v. 23, 26-28, 37-38, 50-52, by H. Baldwin; v. 32-34 by W. and A. Strahan; v. 47-49, by G. Bigg.

Vols. 15 and [59-68] wanting.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-2.  Cowley.-  v. 3-5.  Milton.-  v. 6-7.  Butler.-  v. 8. Waller.-  v. 9.  Denham and Spratt.-  v. 10.  Rochester, Roscommon, and Yalden.-  v. 11.  Otway, Duke, and Dorset.-  v. 12.  Halifax, Stepney, and Walsh.-  v. 13-19.  Dryden.-  v. 20.  Garth and King.-  v. 21.  J. Philips, Smith, and Pomfret.-  v. 22.  Hughes.-  v. 23.  Addison.-  v. 24. Blackmore's Creation.-  v. 25.  Buckingham and Landsdowne.-  v. 26.  Rowe and Tickell.-  v. 27-28.  Rowe's Lucan.-  v. 29.  Congreve and Fenton.- v. 30-31.  Prior.-  v. 32-38. Pope.-  v. 39-40.  Swift.-  v. 41-42. Gay.-  v. 43.  Broome and Pitt.-  v. 44.  Parnell and A. Philips.-  v. 45.  Savage.-  v. 46.  Watts.-  v. 47.  Somerville.-  v. 48.  Thomson.- v. 49.  Thomson, Hammond, and Collins.-  v. 50-52.  Young.-  v. 53.  Dyer and Mallet.-  v. 54.  Shenstone.-  v. 55.  Akenside.-  v. 56.  Lyttelton, West, and Gray.-  v. 57-58.  Index to the English poets.