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The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the time of Dean Swift. / Complied from ample materials scattered in a variety of books, and especially from the MS. notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter and others, collected for this design, by Mr. Cibber.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR501 .C5 5v. (v.1-5)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, English.
- Poets, Irish.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for R. Griffiths, 1753.
- Notes:
- On t. p. of v. 1.: In four volumes.
- Title varies. Vol. 2-5, "by Mr. Cibber and other hands."
- Complied mainly by Robert Shiels, with revisions and additions by T. Cibber. Cf. DNB; W. A. Raleigh, Six essays on Johnson, 1910, p. 120-125 (note).
- Issued in 25 weekly parts, Feb. 3-21 Dec., 1753.
- Vol. 1, no. 1: "The second edition."
- OCLC:
- 2177540
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