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Genre/Form: | Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Early works Integral errata lists (Printing) Binding errors (Binding) Contemporary bindings (Binding) Calf bindings (Binding) Gold tooled bindings (Binding) Biography Early works to 1800 Early works to 1800 |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Johnson; John Nichols; Charles Bathurst; James Buckland; William Strahan; New York Society Library.; New York Society Library. Trustees. |
OCLC Number: | 3216602 |
Notes: | Later editions are entitled 'Lives of the English poets' and 'The lives of the most eminent English poets'. One British Library copy and NYSL copy contain 'Directions to the binder' (vol. 1, pp. ix-x)--for the first four volumes, showing that the lives were originally issued in parts. Vols. 1-4 are dated 1779, vols. 5-10: 1781; vols. 5-10 list 28 additional booksellers in the imprint. Errata: v. 1, p. xi. Each part has a separate pagination. Pagination, v. 1: xi, [1], 165, [1], 128 p.; v. 2: [4], 223, [1], 39 p.; v. 3: [4], 349, [1] (last p. blank); v. 4: [4], 31, [1], 15, [1], 27, [1], 20, 12, 12, 4, 9, [1], 12, 6, 5, [3], 13, [3], 11, [1], 42, [2], 64, 4, 13, [1] p. Library has v. 1-4; marked as vols. 57-60 of the Works of the English poets: with prefaces, biographical and critical. Does not contain portraits, as indicated in the ESTC T44190. Binder's error in v. 1: p. v-vii bound after p. [xii]. Vol. 2-4 bear Library's ex-libris by P.R. Maverick on front, and Notice by Trustees on the back paste-down; in v. 1 the Notice is on the front paste-down. Binding: calf, some volumes sprinkled; gold-tooled; trimmed to 14 cm. |
Description: | 10 volumes : portraits ; 16 cm (8vo) |
Contents: | Vol. 1. Cowley. Waller -- v. 2. Milton. Butler -- v. 3. Dryden -- v. 4. Denham. Sprat. Roscommon. Rochester. Yalden. Otway. Duke. Dorset. Halifax. Stepney. Walsh. Garth. King. J. Philips. Smith. Pomfret. Hughes -- v. 5. Addison. Blackmore. Sheffield -- v. 6. Granville. Rowe. Tickell. Congreve. Fenton. Prior -- v. 7. Pope -- v. 8. Swift. Gay. Broome. Pitt. Parnell. A. Philips. Watts -- v. 9. Savage. Somervile. Thomson. Hammond. Collins -- v. 10. Young. Dyer. Mallet. Shenstone. Akenside. Lyttelton. West. Gray. |
Other Titles: | Lives of the English poets Johnson's Prefaces Lives of the most eminent English poets First Ledger (New York Society Library) |
Responsibility: | by Samuel Johnson. |
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