The lives of the most eminent English poets
Subtitle: with critical observations on their works
By: by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. ; in three volumes
Edition: A new edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed by J. Nichols and Son ... for J. Johnson [and 40 others
Published: 1806
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English Poets; Biography; English poetry; History and criticism
Work titles: Lives of the English poets
Notes: With notes by Alexander Chalmers.

Fleeman, J.D. ^Johnson, 79.4LP/19

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-SJ582.

Ownership inscription (1806) and armorial bookplate of Henry Stephen Fox; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Imperfect: wanting the portrait.

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