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| 100 | 1 | # | $a Johnson, Samuel |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | $a The Lives Of The Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations On Their Works. By Samuel Johnson. In Four Volumes. Volume I. (-IV.) |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed 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, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, J. Ridley, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh And Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, And J. Bowen. $c M DCC LXXXI. $c [1781] |
| 300 | # | # | $a 4 vols.; $c 213 mm. (Small quarto). |
| 500 | # | # | $a Vol. I: vii, [i], 480 p., frontis. (port.) - Vol. II: iii, [i], 471, [1] p. - Vol. III: iii, [i], 462 p. (p.186 misnumbered 168). - Vol. IV: iii, [i], 505, [1]p. In some copies (incl. that of the Royal Academy) the 1-page advertisement by J. Nichols is followed by a 16-page advertisement, 'Books Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand'. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a Vol. I: [Frontis., t.p.] - Advertisement - Contents Of The First Volume - [Text]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - Contents Of The Second Volume - [Text]. - Vol. III: [T.p.] - Contents Of The Third Volume - [Text]. - Vol. IV: [T.p.] - Contents Of The Fourth Volume - [Text] - [Advertisement, 'Lately published, in Sixty-eight Volumes, An Elegant Edition of The English Poets ...'] - [Advertisement, 'Books Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand']. |
| 508 | # | # | $a The frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume I is signed as engraved by T. Trotter after the painting by Sir Josh. Reynolds. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T146734 |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a J.D. Fleeman, A bibliography of the works of Samuel Johnson (2 v., 2000). |
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$a These critical biographies were originally printed as Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English poets (London 1779-1781). Volume I contains biographies of Cowley, Denham, Milton, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Waller, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, Philips and Walsh; Volume II, those of Dryden, Edmund Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison, Hughes and Sheffield; Volume III, those of Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay, Granville, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somervile, Savage, Swift and Broome; Volume IV, those of Pope, Pitt, Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young, Mallet [incorrectly listed in the table of contents as Waller], Akenside, Gray and Lyttelton. |
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$a A copy of volumes 2-4 in the collection of the University of Michigan have been digitised and are made available via the Hathi Trust. Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 |
| 561 | # | # | $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802. |
| 562 | # | # | $a This copy includes Strahan & Cadell's 16-page advertisement in Volume IV. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century tree calf, rebacked in 2000 retaining earlier spine-pieces, red and black morocco labels, lettered, 'Johnson's Lives Eng. Poets' and 'I (-IV)'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Poets - English poetry - Great Britain - History |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Biography - Criticism - Reference books - Catalogs, Booksellers' - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bathurst, Charles $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Trotter, Thomas $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Reynolds, Joshua $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Baldwin, Robert $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bew, John $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bowen, Joseph $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Buckland, James $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Cadell, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Caslon, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Conant, Nathaniel $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Crowder, Stanley $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Davies, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Davis, Lockyer $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Dilly, Charles $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Dodsley, James $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Elmsley, Peter $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Evans, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Fox, William $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Hayes, Samuel $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Johnson, Joseph $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Law, Bedwell $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Longman, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Lowndes, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Murray, John $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Newbery, Elizabeth $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Nichols, John $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Nicol, George $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Nicoll, William $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Owen, William $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Payne, Thomas $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Ridley, John $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Robinson $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Robson, James $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Strahan, William $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a White, Benjamin $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Wilkie, John $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Rivington, J. $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Leigh, George $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Sotheby, John $e publisher |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1802: A-2-11; 1821: F-3-02. |