The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works
Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds (Illustrator), Thomas Trotter (Engraver), Charles Bathurst (Publisher), R. B. Adam (Former owner), E. Miller (Binder), Amy Lowell (Former owner), Lucas Pepys, Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century
Manuscript, English, 1783
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Printed for C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], London, 1783
Biography
4 volumes : portrait ; 23 cm (8vo)
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V. 1. Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. 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
Portrait engraved by T. Trotter after Sir Joshua Reynolds