London : Printed by J. Nichols, for C. Bathurst [etc.], 1779-81.
Contents:
V. 1. Prefaces to Cowley and Waller.
v. 2. Prefaces to Milton and Butler.
v. 3. Preface to Dryden.
v. 4. Prefaces to Denham, Sprat, Roscommon, Rochester, Yalden, Otway, Duke, Dorset, Halifax, Stepney, Walsh, Garth, King, J. Philips, Smith, Pomfret, Hughes.
v. 5. Prefaces to Addison, Blackmore, and Sheffield.
v. 6. Prefaces to Granville, Rowe, Tickell, Congreve, Fenton, and Prior.
v. 7. Preface to Pope.
v. 8. Prefaces to Swift, Gay, Broome, Pitt, Parnell, A. Philips, and Watts.
v. 9. Prefaces to Savage, Somervile, Thomson, Hammond, and Collins.
v. 10. Prefaces to Young, Dyer, Mallet, Shenstone, Akenside, Lyttelton, West, and Gray.
Notes:
Later published under title: The lives of the most eminent English poets.
Spine title: Johnson's prefaces.
Local Notes:
HSP copies on deposit in the Library Company of Philadlephia.
OCLC:
3216602
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