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The lives of the most eminent English poets, &c.

Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 18543 Available online

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Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, author.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18543.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Poets, English.
English poetry--History and criticism.
English poetry.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (145 pages, 1 unnumbered page)
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1784]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Title taken from caption title.
Half-title: Cowley.
Apparently the publication of this edition of Johnson's Lives of the poets was left unfinished. The unique copy, at the New York Public Library, lacks a title page and begins at signature B of volume 1.
Ascribed to a Philadelphia press by Evans, whose title derives from an advertisement.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 18543).
Cited in:
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Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4498
Access Restriction:
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