The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the time of Dean Swift
By: compiled from ample materials scattered in a variety of books, and especially from the ms. notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter and others, collected for ts design, by Mr. Cibber.
Contributors: Shiells, Robert, d. 1753.; Coxeter, Thomas, 1689-1747.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 22046-48.
Publisher: Printed for R. Griffiths
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Poets, English; Poets, Irish
Notes: Vol. 4, p. 26, 189 and 251 misnumbered "62," "891," and "151" respectively.

Title vignettes; decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.

On t.-p. of v. 1: ... In four volumes.

Title varies slightly; v. 2-5 "by Mr. Cibber and other hands."

"Dr. Johnson told Boswell that Cibber ... accepted ten guineas from the booksellers for allowing them to prefix his name to the lives, ad that he had no hand in the authorship of the book, which was mainly written by Robert Shiels (Johnson's amanuensis); but the truth is that Cibber revised and improved the whole work and wrote some of the lives himself, receiving from the booksellers an honorarium of twenty guineas."--Dictionary of national biography.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 3 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 22046-48)

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