The lives of the most eminent English poets
Subtitle: with critical observations on their works
By: by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. ; in four volumes
Contributors: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, ill; Mitchell, Edward, active 1819-1879, engraver; Chapman, Robert, -1838, printer; Smith, S. Green, former owner; Adam, R. B. (Robert Borthwick), 1863-1940, former owner; Sharpe and Son; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Publisher: Printed by J. [sic] Chapman, for Sharpe and Son ... [and 3 others
Published: 1819
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English Poets; Biography; English poetry; History and criticism
Other titles: Johnson's Lives of the poets
Work titles: Lives of the English poets
Notes: Portrait engraved by E. Mitchell after Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Colophon: R. Chapman, printer.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [3]-4 at end of v. 4.

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Life of Dr. Johnson. Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Phillips. Walsh; title: v. 2. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield. Prior. Congreve; title: v. 3. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Young. Collins; title: v. 4. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton. Johnson's poetical works.