Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.

All titles

• Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.
• Lives of the English poets

People / Organizations

• Samuel Johnson (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by J. Nichols; for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, E. and C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, T. Becket, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Davis, J. Nichols, F. Newbery, T. Evans, J. Ridley, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, J. Murray, W. Fox, J. Bowen, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

Publication year

1779-1779

ESTC No.

T44190

Grub Street ID

272650

Description

10v.,plate : port. ; 16⁰

Note

Later editions are entitled 'Lives of the English poets'.

Vols. 1-4 are dated 1779, vols. 5-10: 1781; vols. 5-10 list 28 additional booksellers in the imprint.

One British Library copy contains 'Directions to the binder'(vol. 1, pp. ix-x) for the first four volumes, showing that the lives were originally issued in parts.

Each life has a separate pagination and register.

Uncontrolled note

Part of Johnson in vol.5