The lives of the most eminent English poets
Subtitle: with critical observations on their works
By: by Samuel Johnson ; in four volumes
Edition: A new edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed for J. Rivington & Sons ... [and 39 others
Published: 1790
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English Poets; Biography; English poetry; History and criticism
Work titles: Lives of the English poets
Notes: Portrait engraved by S. Thompson after Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Fleeman, J.D. ^Johnson, 79.4LP/9

ESTC T116667

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ575.

Bookplates of Sir John Shaw and Sir Edward Cholm. Dering; from the library of R.B. Adam; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Bound in contemporary full sprinkled calf, covers and spines stamped in gilt.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. Walsh; title: v. 2. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield; title: v. 3. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome; title: v. 4. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton.