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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Autographs (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Lives of the most eminent English poets. London : Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley ... [etc.], 1794 (OCoLC)566265052 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Johnson; Thomas Longman; B Law; James Dodsley; T Cadell |
OCLC Number: | 8463200 |
Notes: | "Drawback" below imprint date on t.p. of each volume. Signatures: Vol. 1: A⁴ B-2E⁸ 2F² ; v. 2: A⁴ B-2E⁸ ; v. 3: [A]² B-2C⁸ 2D⁶ ; v. 4: [A]² B-2F⁸ 2G². First and second volumes have half-title (A1r in vol. 1; A2r in vol. 2, leaf A1 blank). Frontispiece, vol. 1: engraved portrait of Johnson published by T. Cadell, dated 24 August 1791. |
Description: | 4 v. ([2], iii, [1], 3-4, 436, [1] leaf of plates; [2], v, [1], 431, [1]; [4], 409, [3]; [4], 452 p.) : 1 port. (engraving) ; 21 cm (8vo) |
Contents: | v. 1. Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh --v. 2. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield --v. 3. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome --v. 4. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton. |
Other Titles: | Lives of the English poets |
Responsibility: | By Samuel Johnson. |
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